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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 339 420
Rank change year-on-year +83 +81 +85
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 136 79 129
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 0.54% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 1.15% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 73 49 105
10th Percentile £59,000 £69,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £86,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £107,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.65% +38.71% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £147,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +35.48% -3.13%

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 6,269 6,843 13,058
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.42% 47.12% 45.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,279 4,683 11,390
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,264 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.16% +10.02% -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 6 March 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 (2.21%) Apache
1 3 (2.21%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.21%) OpenStack
1 3 (2.21%) Tomcat
1 3 (2.21%) WebSphere
1 3 (2.21%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 133 (97.79%) AWS
2 55 (40.44%) GCP
3 40 (29.41%) SaaS
4 34 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 29 (21.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (20.59%) GitHub
7 27 (19.85%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (16.91%) Serverless
9 21 (15.44%) Azure
10 20 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (14.71%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (13.97%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (13.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (13.24%) Amazon S3
13 14 (10.29%) Azure AKS
14 13 (9.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (7.35%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (6.62%) Route 53
17 8 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (5.88%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.82%) VPN
2 9 (6.62%) Firewall
3 7 (5.15%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.41%) BGP
4 6 (4.41%) VLAN
5 3 (2.21%) SSL
6 1 (0.74%) AMQP
6 1 (0.74%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.18%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (13.97%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.35%) Flink
4 7 (5.15%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.21%) DB2
5 3 (2.21%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.47%) Apache Ignite
6 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.74%) Big Data
7 1 (0.74%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 48 (35.29%) TeamCity
2 21 (15.44%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.41%) GitLab
4 5 (3.68%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.68%) Git
5 3 (2.21%) SonarQube
General
1 70 (51.47%) Banking
2 64 (47.06%) Finance
3 61 (44.85%) Retail
4 59 (43.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (40.44%) Law
6 42 (30.88%) Financial Institution
7 40 (29.41%) Back Office
8 20 (14.71%) Social Skills
9 10 (7.35%) Front Office
10 6 (4.41%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 34 (25.00%) Senior
3 30 (22.06%) AWS Engineer
4 26 (19.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (16.91%) Lead
6 20 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (11.76%) Java Engineer
7 16 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (11.03%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (10.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 14 (10.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 14 (10.29%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (8.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (8.09%) Lead Software Engineer
11 11 (8.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (7.35%) Customer Engineer
12 10 (7.35%) Customer Service Engineer
12 10 (7.35%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (5.88%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.65%) Kafka
2 23 (16.91%) React
3 17 (12.50%) Spring
4 14 (10.29%) Node.js
4 14 (10.29%) Spring Boot
5 11 (8.09%) RESTful
6 7 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (5.15%) Loki
6 7 (5.15%) Sass
7 6 (4.41%) REST
8 5 (3.68%) Jest
8 5 (3.68%) Redux
9 4 (2.94%) AWS CDK
10 3 (2.21%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.21%) LAPP Stack
10 3 (2.21%) LDAP
10 3 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.21%) Web Services
10 3 (2.21%) WebSphere MQ
11 2 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (50.74%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.24%) Blog
2 18 (13.24%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (10.29%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.41%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.41%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.47%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.32%) Linux
2 8 (5.88%) Windows
3 7 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.68%) Unix
5 4 (2.94%) CentOS
5 4 (2.94%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.74%) Android
6 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.74%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (86.76%) CI/CD
2 80 (58.82%) DevOps
3 57 (41.91%) Deployment Automation
3 57 (41.91%) Software Engineering
4 54 (39.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 48 (35.29%) Clean Code
6 48 (35.29%) Continuous Deployment
7 44 (32.35%) Microservices
8 36 (26.47%) Observability
9 33 (24.26%) Mentoring
10 32 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
11 31 (22.79%) Agile
11 31 (22.79%) Fintech
12 24 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (16.18%) Cloud Security
13 22 (16.18%) Coaching
13 22 (16.18%) Disruptive Innovation
14 21 (15.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 19 (13.97%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 83 (61.03%) Java
2 54 (39.71%) Python
3 24 (17.65%) Bash
4 23 (16.91%) Go
5 17 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 14 (10.29%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.88%) Bicep
7 8 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (16.91%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.35%) Degree
5 5 (3.68%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.15%) SOC 2
2 6 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.41%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.21%) SLA
4 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.74%) NIST
5 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 21 (15.44%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (83.09%) Terraform
2 108 (79.41%) Kubernetes
3 81 (59.56%) Grafana
4 23 (16.91%) Prometheus
5 22 (16.18%) Ansible
6 16 (11.76%) Argo
7 6 (4.41%) Proxmox
8 5 (3.68%) Kibana
9 2 (1.47%) Istio
10 1 (0.74%) Cilium
10 1 (0.74%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (4.41%) VMware
2 4 (2.94%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.94%) PagerDuty
2 4 (2.94%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.21%) Google
3 3 (2.21%) IBM
3 3 (2.21%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (2.21%) Splunk
4 2 (1.47%) Confluent
4 2 (1.47%) Solace
4 2 (1.47%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.74%) Mercator
5 1 (0.74%) Pega
5 1 (0.74%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.74%) WSO2