Hybrid/Remote Amazon EKS Job Trends

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 302 428
Rank change year-on-year +56 +126 +47
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 146 86 140
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 0.67% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.23% 1.43% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 77 58 116
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £83,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +38.71% +3.33%
75th Percentile £102,500 £138,750 £86,875
90th Percentile £136,500 £147,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +31.25% +6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

Amazon EKS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,535 5,998 13,854
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.74% 46.74% 44.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,418 4,671 12,010
10th Percentile £33,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,711 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £78,584
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EKS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Amazon EKS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.05%) Apache
1 3 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.05%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.05%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.37%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.37%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.37%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) Drupal
3 1 (0.68%) IIS
3 1 (0.68%) nginx
3 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 142 (97.26%) AWS
2 66 (45.21%) GCP
3 45 (30.82%) SaaS
4 30 (20.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 28 (19.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 27 (18.49%) GitHub
7 26 (17.81%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (17.12%) Serverless
9 24 (16.44%) Azure
10 23 (15.75%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (15.07%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (15.07%) Amazon S3
12 21 (14.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 20 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (6.85%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (6.85%) Amazon MSK
14 10 (6.85%) Azure AKS
15 9 (6.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 9 (6.16%) CloudFront
15 9 (6.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.90%) VPN
2 11 (7.53%) Firewall
3 8 (5.48%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.11%) BGP
4 6 (4.11%) VLAN
5 2 (1.37%) DNS
5 2 (1.37%) SSL
6 1 (0.68%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.70%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.85%) Flink
4 7 (4.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.37%) DB2
6 2 (1.37%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.68%) Big Data
7 1 (0.68%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (36.30%) TeamCity
2 14 (9.59%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.22%) GitLab
4 8 (5.48%) Git
5 4 (2.74%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.37%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.68%) Gatling
7 1 (0.68%) JIRA
7 1 (0.68%) JMeter
7 1 (0.68%) MLflow
7 1 (0.68%) Vagrant
General
1 81 (55.48%) Banking
2 72 (49.32%) Finance
3 68 (46.58%) Retail
4 65 (44.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (41.78%) Law
6 45 (30.82%) Back Office
6 45 (30.82%) Financial Institution
7 22 (15.07%) Social Skills
8 10 (6.85%) Front Office
9 9 (6.16%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (36.30%) Software Engineer
2 36 (24.66%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (24.66%) Senior
3 35 (23.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (15.75%) Lead
5 19 (13.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (12.33%) AWS DevOps
6 18 (12.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 17 (11.64%) Java Engineer
7 17 (11.64%) Java Software Engineer
8 16 (10.96%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (10.96%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (9.59%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 14 (9.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 13 (8.90%) Lead Software Engineer
10 13 (8.90%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (7.53%) Customer Engineer
11 11 (7.53%) Customer Service Engineer
11 11 (7.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (6.16%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.12%) Kafka
2 21 (14.38%) React
3 14 (9.59%) Node.js
3 14 (9.59%) Spring
4 10 (6.85%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (6.85%) Spring Boot
5 9 (6.16%) RESTful
6 7 (4.79%) Loki
6 7 (4.79%) REST
6 7 (4.79%) Sass
7 5 (3.42%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.74%) Web Services
8 4 (2.74%) YAML
9 3 (2.05%) AWS CDK
10 2 (1.37%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.37%) AWS SAM
10 2 (1.37%) LAPP Stack
10 2 (1.37%) LDAP
10 2 (1.37%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (48.63%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.01%) Blog
3 18 (12.33%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (11.64%) Product Ownership
5 15 (10.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.79%) Private Cloud
7 6 (4.11%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.74%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.05%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.37%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.37%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.68%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.18%) Linux
2 6 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.74%) CentOS
3 4 (2.74%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.74%) Unix
3 4 (2.74%) Windows
4 2 (1.37%) Android
4 2 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.68%) Debian
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (83.56%) CI/CD
2 88 (60.27%) DevOps
3 62 (42.47%) Deployment Automation
3 62 (42.47%) Software Engineering
4 59 (40.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (39.04%) Test Automation
6 53 (36.30%) Clean Code
6 53 (36.30%) Continuous Deployment
7 47 (32.19%) Microservices
8 37 (25.34%) Observability
8 37 (25.34%) Platform Engineering
9 36 (24.66%) Agile
10 34 (23.29%) Fintech
10 34 (23.29%) Mentoring
11 31 (21.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 26 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (17.12%) Disruptive Innovation
14 23 (15.75%) Cloud Security
15 22 (15.07%) Coaching
16 20 (13.70%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 84 (57.53%) Java
2 60 (41.10%) Python
3 31 (21.23%) Go
4 22 (15.07%) Bash
5 14 (9.59%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.05%) Bicep
7 3 (2.05%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.37%) SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Groovy
9 1 (0.68%) Perl
9 1 (0.68%) PHP
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.64%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.90%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.16%) Degree
5 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.37%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.37%) OSCP
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.16%) SOC 2
2 8 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.11%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.37%) SLA
5 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.68%) NCSC
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 32 (21.92%) Docker
2 8 (5.48%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 129 (88.36%) Terraform
2 122 (83.56%) Kubernetes
3 81 (55.48%) Grafana
4 26 (17.81%) Ansible
5 23 (15.75%) Prometheus
6 17 (11.64%) Argo
7 8 (5.48%) Istio
8 7 (4.79%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.05%) Kibana
10 2 (1.37%) Puppet
11 1 (0.68%) Consul
11 1 (0.68%) Packer
11 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (5.48%) Confluent
2 7 (4.79%) VMware
3 4 (2.74%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.74%) PagerDuty
4 3 (2.05%) IBM
4 3 (2.05%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.05%) Splunk
5 2 (1.37%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.37%) Google
5 2 (1.37%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.68%) Mercator
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle
6 1 (0.68%) Pega
6 1 (0.68%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.68%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.68%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.68%) WSO2