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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 308 420
Rank change year-on-year +62 +112 +34
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 148 92 150
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 0.70% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.21% 1.53% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 77 61 117
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £82,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £107,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.91% +38.71% +3.33%
75th Percentile £102,500 £138,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,500 £147,500 £109,500
UK median annual salary £76,250 £105,000 £78,750
% change year-on-year -27.38% +33.33% -1.56%

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 6,702 5,997 13,911
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.52% 45.92% 43.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,524 4,693 12,046
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £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 12 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 (2.03%) Apache
1 3 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.35%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) Drupal
3 1 (0.68%) IIS
3 1 (0.68%) nginx
3 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.68%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 141 (95.27%) AWS
2 68 (45.95%) GCP
3 47 (31.76%) SaaS
4 32 (21.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (18.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 26 (17.57%) GitHub
7 25 (16.89%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (15.54%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (15.54%) Azure
9 22 (14.86%) Amazon S3
9 22 (14.86%) Serverless
10 20 (13.51%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (13.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (12.84%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (8.11%) Azure AKS
13 10 (6.76%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (6.76%) Amazon MSK
14 9 (6.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (6.08%) CloudFront
14 9 (6.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.78%) VPN
2 11 (7.43%) Firewall
3 8 (5.41%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.05%) BGP
4 6 (4.05%) VLAN
5 2 (1.35%) DNS
6 1 (0.68%) AMQP
6 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.76%) Flink
4 7 (4.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.35%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.68%) Big Data
6 1 (0.68%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (0.68%) DB2
6 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.68%) Redis
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (36.49%) TeamCity
2 15 (10.14%) GitLab
3 11 (7.43%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.73%) Git
5 4 (2.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.68%) Gatling
7 1 (0.68%) JIRA
7 1 (0.68%) JMeter
7 1 (0.68%) MLflow
7 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.68%) Vagrant
General
1 82 (55.41%) Banking
2 73 (49.32%) Finance
3 70 (47.30%) Retail
4 67 (45.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (42.57%) Law
6 47 (31.76%) Back Office
6 47 (31.76%) Financial Institution
7 26 (17.57%) Social Skills
8 11 (7.43%) Public Sector
9 10 (6.76%) Front Office
10 3 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (36.49%) Software Engineer
2 38 (25.68%) Senior
3 36 (24.32%) AWS Engineer
4 35 (23.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (15.54%) Lead
6 18 (12.16%) AWS DevOps
6 18 (12.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 18 (12.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (12.16%) Java Engineer
6 18 (12.16%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (10.81%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (9.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 14 (9.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 13 (8.78%) Lead Software Engineer
9 13 (8.78%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (7.43%) Customer Engineer
10 11 (7.43%) Customer Service Engineer
10 11 (7.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (7.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.89%) Kafka
2 21 (14.19%) React
3 12 (8.11%) Node.js
3 12 (8.11%) Spring
4 10 (6.76%) RESTful
5 9 (6.08%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (5.41%) Spring Boot
7 7 (4.73%) Loki
7 7 (4.73%) Sass
8 6 (4.05%) REST
9 4 (2.70%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.70%) YAML
10 3 (2.03%) AWS CDK
10 3 (2.03%) JSON
10 3 (2.03%) Web Services
11 2 (1.35%) ARM Templates
11 2 (1.35%) AWS SAM
11 2 (1.35%) Jest
11 2 (1.35%) Redux
11 2 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.84%) Blog
3 18 (12.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (12.16%) Product Ownership
4 17 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.73%) Private Cloud
6 6 (4.05%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.03%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.03%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (17.57%) Linux
2 5 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.70%) CentOS
3 4 (2.70%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.03%) Android
4 3 (2.03%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.03%) Unix
5 2 (1.35%) Windows
6 1 (0.68%) Debian
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (84.46%) CI/CD
2 86 (58.11%) DevOps
3 63 (42.57%) Deployment Automation
3 63 (42.57%) Software Engineering
4 61 (41.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (39.19%) Test Automation
6 55 (37.16%) Clean Code
6 55 (37.16%) Continuous Deployment
7 47 (31.76%) Microservices
8 38 (25.68%) Agile
9 37 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 37 (25.00%) Observability
9 37 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
10 34 (22.97%) Fintech
10 34 (22.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 25 (16.89%) Coaching
11 25 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (16.89%) Disruptive Innovation
12 23 (15.54%) Cloud Security
13 21 (14.19%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 85 (57.43%) Java
2 60 (40.54%) Python
3 32 (21.62%) Go
4 21 (14.19%) Bash
5 13 (8.78%) JavaScript
5 13 (8.78%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.03%) SQL
7 2 (1.35%) Bicep
7 2 (1.35%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.68%) Groovy
8 1 (0.68%) Perl
8 1 (0.68%) PHP
8 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (12.84%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.14%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.43%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.41%) Degree
5 3 (2.03%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.03%) OSCP
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.08%) SOC 2
2 8 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.05%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
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
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (21.62%) Docker
2 8 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 132 (89.19%) Terraform
2 125 (84.46%) Kubernetes
3 81 (54.73%) Grafana
4 26 (17.57%) Ansible
5 23 (15.54%) Prometheus
6 17 (11.49%) Argo
7 8 (5.41%) Istio
8 7 (4.73%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.03%) Kibana
10 2 (1.35%) Puppet
11 1 (0.68%) Consul
11 1 (0.68%) Packer
11 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (5.41%) Confluent
2 7 (4.73%) VMware
3 4 (2.70%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.70%) PagerDuty
4 3 (2.03%) Splunk
5 2 (1.35%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.35%) Google
5 2 (1.35%) IBM
5 2 (1.35%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (1.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.68%) Mercator
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle
6 1 (0.68%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.68%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.68%) TOWER Software