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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 315 444
Rank change year-on-year +35 +129 -6
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 131 113 140
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.68% 0.76% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.93% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 64 42 104
10th Percentile £57,500 £39,210 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,438 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £90,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.65% +9.70% -4.35%
75th Percentile £92,500 £124,375 £99,375
90th Percentile £125,250 £137,625 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -23.68% +18.75% -8.57%

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 7,345 5,859 14,213
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.28% 39.22% 42.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,055 4,237 12,027
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £35,968
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 31 May 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 (2.29%) Apache
1 3 (2.29%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.76%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) Drupal
2 1 (0.76%) IIS
2 1 (0.76%) JBoss
2 1 (0.76%) nginx
2 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 127 (96.95%) AWS
2 68 (51.91%) GCP
3 44 (33.59%) SaaS
4 25 (19.08%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (17.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (16.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (16.03%) Amazon S3
8 20 (15.27%) Amazon ECS
8 20 (15.27%) GitHub
8 20 (15.27%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (14.50%) Azure
10 17 (12.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (11.45%) Serverless
12 10 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (6.87%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 9 (6.87%) OpenShift
14 8 (6.11%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (6.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (6.11%) CloudFront
15 7 (5.34%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.63%) VPN
2 9 (6.87%) Firewall
3 5 (3.82%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.05%) DNS
5 3 (2.29%) BGP
5 3 (2.29%) VLAN
6 1 (0.76%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.21%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (12.21%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.34%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (3.05%) Flink
4 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.53%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Big Data
6 1 (0.76%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.76%) Redis
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (41.98%) TeamCity
2 13 (9.92%) GitLab
3 11 (8.40%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.87%) Git
5 2 (1.53%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.53%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.76%) Gatling
6 1 (0.76%) JIRA
6 1 (0.76%) JMeter
6 1 (0.76%) JUnit
6 1 (0.76%) MLflow
6 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.76%) Vagrant
General
1 73 (55.73%) Banking
2 68 (51.91%) Retail
3 64 (48.85%) Finance
4 61 (46.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 61 (46.56%) Law
5 43 (32.82%) Back Office
5 43 (32.82%) Financial Institution
6 21 (16.03%) Social Skills
7 9 (6.87%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.05%) Front Office
9 3 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (40.46%) Software Engineer
2 36 (27.48%) Senior
3 31 (23.66%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (17.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (16.79%) Lead
6 17 (12.98%) Java Engineer
6 17 (12.98%) Lead Software Engineer
7 16 (12.21%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (12.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (11.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (11.45%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (9.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 13 (9.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 13 (9.92%) Software Team Leader
9 13 (9.92%) Team Leader
10 12 (9.16%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (9.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (9.16%) Customer Engineer
10 12 (9.16%) Customer Service Engineer
11 11 (8.40%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.27%) React
2 13 (9.92%) Kafka
3 9 (6.87%) Node.js
3 9 (6.87%) Spring
4 7 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (5.34%) Loki
4 7 (5.34%) REST
4 7 (5.34%) Sass
5 6 (4.58%) AngularJS
5 6 (4.58%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.82%) RESTful
7 4 (3.05%) ARM Templates
7 4 (3.05%) AWS CDK
7 4 (3.05%) Web Services
7 4 (3.05%) YAML
8 3 (2.29%) JSON
8 3 (2.29%) Mustache
9 2 (1.53%) FastAPI
9 2 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (53.44%) Cloud Native
2 21 (16.03%) Blog
2 21 (16.03%) Product Ownership
3 17 (12.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (9.16%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.34%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.29%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.29%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.56%) Linux
2 3 (2.29%) Android
2 3 (2.29%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.53%) CentOS
3 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.53%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.76%) Debian
4 1 (0.76%) Windows
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (85.50%) CI/CD
2 76 (58.02%) DevOps
3 64 (48.85%) Deployment Automation
4 58 (44.27%) Software Engineering
4 58 (44.27%) Test Automation
5 57 (43.51%) Clean Code
6 56 (42.75%) Continuous Deployment
7 50 (38.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (36.64%) Microservices
9 38 (29.01%) Fintech
10 36 (27.48%) Mentoring
11 31 (23.66%) Disruptive Innovation
12 30 (22.90%) Platform Engineering
13 29 (22.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 28 (21.37%) Observability
15 27 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (19.08%) Cloud Security
17 24 (18.32%) Coaching
18 22 (16.79%) Agile
19 18 (13.74%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (57.25%) Java
2 49 (37.40%) Python
3 27 (20.61%) Go
4 20 (15.27%) Bash
5 13 (9.92%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.92%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.29%) SQL
8 2 (1.53%) Bicep
8 2 (1.53%) PHP
9 1 (0.76%) Groovy
9 1 (0.76%) Perl
9 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (8.40%) AWS Certification
2 10 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.34%) Degree
5 3 (2.29%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.29%) OSCP
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.58%) SOC 2
2 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.29%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) NCSC
3 1 (0.76%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (21.37%) Docker
2 10 (7.63%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 121 (92.37%) Terraform
2 114 (87.02%) Kubernetes
3 77 (58.78%) Grafana
4 24 (18.32%) Ansible
5 20 (15.27%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.11%) Istio
7 7 (5.34%) Argo
7 7 (5.34%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.53%) Puppet
9 1 (0.76%) Consul
9 1 (0.76%) Kibana
9 1 (0.76%) Packer
9 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (6.11%) Confluent
2 7 (5.34%) VMware
3 5 (3.82%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.29%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.53%) Google
5 2 (1.53%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.76%) IBM
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.76%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.76%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.76%) Splunk
6 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software