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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 329 338
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 +48
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 140 92 144
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.56% 0.56% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 1.61% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 41 48 113
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £81,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £130,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -48.08% +62.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £104,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -30.23% +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 8,696 5,724 9,018
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.69% 34.63% 42.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6,359 4,055 5,895
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,350
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 £87,348
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.84% -10.00% +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 14 October 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 2 (1.43%) Camunda
1 2 (1.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.71%) Apache
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.71%) JBoss
2 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 130 (92.86%) AWS
2 94 (67.14%) GCP
3 86 (61.43%) SaaS
4 18 (12.86%) Amazon S3
4 18 (12.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 17 (12.14%) Google Compute Engine
5 17 (12.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 15 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (10.00%) Serverless
8 11 (7.86%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (7.14%) GitHub
10 9 (6.43%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (6.43%) Google Workspace
11 8 (5.71%) Azure
12 7 (5.00%) Azure AKS
13 6 (4.29%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (4.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.57%) VPN
2 17 (12.14%) BGP
2 17 (12.14%) TCP/IP
3 10 (7.14%) Firewall
4 9 (6.43%) VLAN
5 8 (5.71%) Network Security
6 4 (2.86%) Broadband
7 3 (2.14%) DNS
8 2 (1.43%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (19.29%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.29%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.86%) Delta Lake
5 4 (2.86%) DocumentDB
5 4 (2.86%) MySQL
6 3 (2.14%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.43%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.71%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 94 (67.14%) TeamCity
2 8 (5.71%) Git
3 7 (5.00%) GitLab
4 6 (4.29%) JIRA
5 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.14%) JUnit
7 2 (1.43%) Mockito
7 2 (1.43%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.71%) CircleCI
General
1 89 (63.57%) Finance
1 89 (63.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 86 (61.43%) Banking
2 86 (61.43%) Law
2 86 (61.43%) Retail
3 80 (57.14%) Back Office
3 80 (57.14%) Financial Institution
4 26 (18.57%) Social Skills
5 16 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.86%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 80 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 54 (38.57%) Senior
3 28 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 24 (17.14%) Java Engineer
5 22 (15.71%) Java Software Engineer
5 22 (15.71%) Lead
6 21 (15.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 21 (15.00%) Software Team Leader
6 21 (15.00%) Team Leader
7 19 (13.57%) Senior Java Engineer
8 18 (12.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 17 (12.14%) GCP Engineer
10 15 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (7.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (5.71%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 8 (5.71%) Security Engineer
14 7 (5.00%) Developer
14 7 (5.00%) Project Manager
14 7 (5.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (85.00%) Terraform
2 14 (10.00%) RESTful
3 9 (6.43%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (5.00%) Spring
4 7 (5.00%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.57%) PySpark
5 5 (3.57%) React
6 4 (2.86%) .NET
6 4 (2.86%) ASP.NET
6 4 (2.86%) Node.js
7 3 (2.14%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.14%) Flask
7 3 (2.14%) REST
7 3 (2.14%) Vue
8 2 (1.43%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.43%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.43%) Loki
8 2 (1.43%) Next.js
8 2 (1.43%) Play Framework
8 2 (1.43%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 92 (65.71%) Cloud Native
2 46 (32.86%) Product Ownership
3 34 (24.29%) Blog
4 27 (19.29%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.71%) Security Posture
6 7 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (4.29%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.86%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.43%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.57%) Linux
2 6 (4.29%) Unix
2 6 (4.29%) Windows
2 6 (4.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (92.14%) CI/CD
2 85 (60.71%) Microservices
3 82 (58.57%) Clean Code
3 82 (58.57%) Software Engineering
4 74 (52.86%) Test Automation
5 73 (52.14%) Continuous Deployment
5 73 (52.14%) Deployment Automation
6 69 (49.29%) DevOps
7 61 (43.57%) Fintech
8 59 (42.14%) Disruptive Innovation
8 59 (42.14%) Mentoring
9 53 (37.86%) Coaching
10 36 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (17.14%) AI
11 24 (17.14%) Observability
12 23 (16.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 23 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (12.14%) Identity Access Management
13 17 (12.14%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 102 (72.86%) Java
2 39 (27.86%) Python
3 24 (17.14%) Go
4 22 (15.71%) SQL
5 21 (15.00%) Bash
6 6 (4.29%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.86%) C#
8 3 (2.14%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.43%) PHP
9 2 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.43%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 8 (5.71%) CCSP
3 8 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (5.71%) CISM
3 8 (5.71%) CISSP
4 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.86%) Degree
5 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (12.14%) PCI DSS
1 17 (12.14%) SOC 2
2 8 (5.71%) NIST
3 3 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.71%) NCSC
4 1 (0.71%) QA
4 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (8.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 117 (83.57%) Kubernetes
2 107 (76.43%) Grafana
3 14 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.43%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (5.71%) Cilium
6 7 (5.00%) Ansible
7 2 (1.43%) Argo
7 2 (1.43%) Istio
7 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.43%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.71%) Opsview
Vendors
1 17 (12.14%) Google
2 8 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.86%) Databricks
4 3 (2.14%) Splunk
5 2 (1.43%) VMware
6 1 (0.71%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.71%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.71%) Okta
6 1 (0.71%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.71%) YouTube