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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 310 414
Rank change year-on-year +54 +104 +57
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 139 88 138
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 0.68% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.15% 1.45% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 73 60 113
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £80,938 £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 £103,250 £138,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £145,500 £147,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +35.48% +1.64%

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 6,468 6,088 13,832
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.85% 47.08% 44.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,379 4,743 11,978
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,950 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 30 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 (2.16%) Apache
1 3 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.16%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.44%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.44%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.44%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) Drupal
3 1 (0.72%) IIS
3 1 (0.72%) nginx
3 1 (0.72%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 136 (97.84%) AWS
2 63 (45.32%) GCP
3 43 (30.94%) SaaS
4 29 (20.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 28 (20.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (18.71%) GitHub
7 25 (17.99%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (17.27%) Azure
9 23 (16.55%) Serverless
10 21 (15.11%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (15.11%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (14.39%) Amazon S3
11 20 (14.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (13.67%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (7.91%) Amazon MSK
14 10 (7.19%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (7.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 10 (7.19%) Azure AKS
15 9 (6.47%) CloudFront
15 9 (6.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.63%) VPN
2 10 (7.19%) Firewall
3 8 (5.76%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.32%) BGP
4 6 (4.32%) VLAN
5 2 (1.44%) DNS
5 2 (1.44%) SSL
6 1 (0.72%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.39%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (13.67%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.19%) Flink
4 7 (5.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.16%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.44%) DB2
6 2 (1.44%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.72%) Big Data
7 1 (0.72%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.72%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (36.69%) TeamCity
2 14 (10.07%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.47%) GitLab
4 6 (4.32%) Git
5 3 (2.16%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.16%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.72%) Gatling
6 1 (0.72%) JIRA
6 1 (0.72%) JMeter
6 1 (0.72%) MLflow
6 1 (0.72%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (56.12%) Banking
2 70 (50.36%) Finance
3 64 (46.04%) Retail
4 62 (44.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (41.73%) Law
6 43 (30.94%) Back Office
6 43 (30.94%) Financial Institution
7 20 (14.39%) Social Skills
8 10 (7.19%) Front Office
9 6 (4.32%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (37.41%) Software Engineer
2 35 (25.18%) AWS Engineer
2 35 (25.18%) Senior
3 33 (23.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (15.83%) Lead
5 19 (13.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (12.95%) AWS DevOps
6 18 (12.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 16 (11.51%) Java Engineer
7 16 (11.51%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (11.51%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (10.79%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (9.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 13 (9.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (8.63%) Lead Software Engineer
10 12 (8.63%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (7.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (7.19%) Customer Engineer
12 10 (7.19%) Customer Service Engineer
13 8 (5.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.71%) Kafka
2 20 (14.39%) React
3 14 (10.07%) Node.js
4 13 (9.35%) Spring
5 10 (7.19%) RESTful
5 10 (7.19%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.76%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (5.04%) Loki
7 7 (5.04%) Sass
8 6 (4.32%) REST
9 3 (2.16%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.16%) AWS CDK
9 3 (2.16%) Jest
9 3 (2.16%) Redux
9 3 (2.16%) Web Services
9 3 (2.16%) YAML
10 2 (1.44%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.44%) AWS SAM
10 2 (1.44%) LAPP Stack
10 2 (1.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (49.64%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.95%) Blog
3 17 (12.23%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (11.51%) Product Ownership
5 12 (8.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.32%) Fixed Income
6 6 (4.32%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.42%) Linux
2 6 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.60%) Windows
4 4 (2.88%) CentOS
4 4 (2.88%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.88%) Unix
5 1 (0.72%) Android
5 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.72%) Debian
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (84.17%) CI/CD
2 84 (60.43%) DevOps
3 61 (43.88%) Software Engineering
4 59 (42.45%) Deployment Automation
5 54 (38.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (38.85%) Test Automation
6 51 (36.69%) Clean Code
6 51 (36.69%) Continuous Deployment
7 45 (32.37%) Microservices
8 35 (25.18%) Observability
8 35 (25.18%) Platform Engineering
9 33 (23.74%) Agile
9 33 (23.74%) Mentoring
10 32 (23.02%) Fintech
11 29 (20.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 25 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (16.55%) Disruptive Innovation
14 21 (15.11%) Cloud Security
14 21 (15.11%) Coaching
15 19 (13.67%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 81 (58.27%) Java
2 57 (41.01%) Python
3 29 (20.86%) Go
4 21 (15.11%) Bash
5 14 (10.07%) JavaScript
5 14 (10.07%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.88%) Bicep
6 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.72%) PHP
7 1 (0.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.51%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.35%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.47%) Degree
5 3 (2.16%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.72%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.76%) SOC 2
2 7 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.32%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.44%) SLA
5 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.72%) NCSC
5 1 (0.72%) NIST
5 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 29 (20.86%) Docker
2 8 (5.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 121 (87.05%) Terraform
2 115 (82.73%) Kubernetes
3 79 (56.83%) Grafana
4 22 (15.83%) Ansible
4 22 (15.83%) Prometheus
5 16 (11.51%) Argo
6 8 (5.76%) Istio
7 6 (4.32%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.16%) Kibana
9 2 (1.44%) Puppet
10 1 (0.72%) Consul
10 1 (0.72%) Packer
10 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (5.76%) Confluent
2 6 (4.32%) VMware
3 4 (2.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.88%) PagerDuty
4 3 (2.16%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.16%) Splunk
5 2 (1.44%) Google
5 2 (1.44%) IBM
5 2 (1.44%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.72%) Mercator
6 1 (0.72%) Pega
6 1 (0.72%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.72%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.72%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.72%) WSO2