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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 321 318
Rank change year-on-year -31 -3 +82
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 120 100 167
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.62% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.74% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43 44 127
10th Percentile £53,000 £52,500 £81,250
25th Percentile £61,505 £61,250 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £68,750 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -36.05% +32.31%
75th Percentile £79,750 £100,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £127,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £81,250 £107,500
% change year-on-year -16.92% -24.42% +34.38%

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 8,761 5,740 9,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.62% 35.52% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,440 4,121 6,329
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 23 September 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 1 (0.83%) Camunda
1 1 (0.83%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (0.83%) Confluence
1 1 (0.83%) JBoss
1 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
1 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 106 (88.33%) AWS
2 74 (61.67%) GCP
3 69 (57.50%) SaaS
4 17 (14.17%) Amazon S3
5 13 (10.83%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (10.83%) Serverless
6 12 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (8.33%) Azure AKS
8 9 (7.50%) Azure
9 7 (5.83%) GitHub
9 7 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.17%) VPN
2 4 (3.33%) Broadband
3 3 (2.50%) BGP
3 3 (2.50%) Firewall
3 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.67%) DNS
4 2 (1.67%) VLAN
5 1 (0.83%) Network Security
5 1 (0.83%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.17%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.33%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.33%) MySQL
5 3 (2.50%) DocumentDB
5 3 (2.50%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.67%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 72 (60.00%) TeamCity
2 11 (9.17%) GitLab
3 10 (8.33%) Git
4 5 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (1.67%) JUnit
5 2 (1.67%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.83%) Mockito
6 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 75 (62.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 74 (61.67%) Retail
3 73 (60.83%) Banking
3 73 (60.83%) Law
4 71 (59.17%) Finance
5 63 (52.50%) Back Office
5 63 (52.50%) Financial Institution
6 22 (18.33%) Social Skills
7 17 (14.17%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.33%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.83%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 72 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 41 (34.17%) Senior
3 21 (17.50%) Lead
3 21 (17.50%) Lead Software Engineer
3 21 (17.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 21 (17.50%) Software Team Leader
3 21 (17.50%) Team Leader
4 19 (15.83%) Java Engineer
5 17 (14.17%) Java Software Engineer
6 12 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Developer
9 6 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Project Manager
9 6 (5.00%) Technical Manager
9 6 (5.00%) Technical Project Manager
10 5 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (83.33%) Terraform
2 7 (5.83%) React
2 7 (5.83%) RESTful
3 6 (5.00%) Spring
4 5 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.17%) REST
4 5 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.33%) .NET
5 4 (3.33%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.33%) Node.js
5 4 (3.33%) PySpark
6 3 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.50%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.50%) Flask
6 3 (2.50%) Vue
7 2 (1.67%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.67%) Jakarta EE
7 2 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.67%) Play Framework
7 2 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 74 (61.67%) Cloud Native
2 44 (36.67%) Product Ownership
3 16 (13.33%) Blog
4 14 (11.67%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (5.00%) Public Cloud
7 5 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (3.33%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.50%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.50%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.67%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.83%) Linux
2 6 (5.00%) Unix
2 6 (5.00%) Windows
2 6 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.67%) Android
3 2 (1.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (89.17%) CI/CD
2 75 (62.50%) Microservices
3 74 (61.67%) Software Engineering
4 69 (57.50%) Clean Code
5 68 (56.67%) DevOps
6 66 (55.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 66 (55.00%) Deployment Automation
6 66 (55.00%) Test Automation
7 57 (47.50%) Mentoring
8 53 (44.17%) Coaching
9 43 (35.83%) Fintech
10 41 (34.17%) Disruptive Innovation
11 33 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (19.17%) AI
14 17 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (13.33%) Agile
15 16 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 14 (11.67%) Observability
17 13 (10.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 81 (67.50%) Java
2 23 (19.17%) Python
3 10 (8.33%) Bash
3 10 (8.33%) Go
4 9 (7.50%) SQL
5 6 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.33%) C#
6 4 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.67%) PHP
7 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.67%) Scala
8 1 (0.83%) Groovy
8 1 (0.83%) Perl
8 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.33%) Degree
4 3 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.67%) CREST Certified
5 2 (1.67%) OSCP
6 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.83%) CCSP
6 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.83%) CISM
6 1 (0.83%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.33%) SOC 2
2 3 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) NCSC
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
4 1 (0.83%) QA
4 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 99 (82.50%) Kubernetes
2 81 (67.50%) Grafana
3 12 (10.00%) Ansible
4 7 (5.83%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.67%) Istio
5 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.67%) Proxmox
5 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.83%) Argo
6 1 (0.83%) Cilium
6 1 (0.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.33%) Databricks
3 3 (2.50%) AppDynamics
3 3 (2.50%) Google
4 2 (1.67%) Splunk
4 2 (1.67%) VMware
5 1 (0.83%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.83%) IBM
5 1 (0.83%) Okta
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle
5 1 (0.83%) Ping Identity