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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 326 389
Rank change year-on-year +9 +63 +30
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 129 112 187
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.60% 0.68% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 1.81% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 57 44 147
10th Percentile £57,500 £41,638 £61,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,313 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% -21.43% +23.53%
75th Percentile £87,500 £118,125 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £135,375 £165,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £91,000 £98,750
% change year-on-year -14.84% -7.85% +16.18%

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 8,333 6,181 13,321
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.98% 37.38% 41.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,957 4,558 10,963
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 12 July 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 (2.33%) Apache
2 2 (1.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.78%) Drupal
3 1 (0.78%) IIS
3 1 (0.78%) JBoss
3 1 (0.78%) nginx
3 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 121 (93.80%) AWS
2 72 (55.81%) GCP
3 54 (41.86%) SaaS
4 22 (17.05%) Amazon S3
4 22 (17.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (16.28%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (15.50%) Azure
7 18 (13.95%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (13.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (12.40%) GitHub
9 16 (12.40%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (11.63%) Serverless
11 12 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (6.98%) OpenShift
13 8 (6.20%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (4.65%) Azure AKS
15 5 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (3.88%) Route 53
16 4 (3.10%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.75%) VPN
2 9 (6.98%) Firewall
3 5 (3.88%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.10%) Broadband
4 4 (3.10%) DNS
5 3 (2.33%) BGP
5 3 (2.33%) VLAN
6 1 (0.78%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.73%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.53%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.88%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.10%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.10%) MySQL
5 3 (2.33%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.78%) Big Data
7 1 (0.78%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.78%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.78%) Redis
7 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (45.74%) TeamCity
2 17 (13.18%) GitLab
3 11 (8.53%) Git
4 8 (6.20%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.65%) JIRA
6 2 (1.55%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.55%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.78%) Gatling
7 1 (0.78%) JMeter
7 1 (0.78%) JUnit
7 1 (0.78%) MLflow
7 1 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.78%) Vagrant
General
1 73 (56.59%) Banking
2 72 (55.81%) Retail
3 65 (50.39%) Finance
3 65 (50.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 65 (50.39%) Law
4 48 (37.21%) Back Office
4 48 (37.21%) Financial Institution
5 18 (13.95%) Social Skills
6 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.10%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (47.29%) Software Engineer
2 44 (34.11%) Senior
3 26 (20.16%) AWS Engineer
4 22 (17.05%) Senior Software Engineer
5 20 (15.50%) Lead
6 19 (14.73%) Lead Software Engineer
7 18 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (13.18%) Java Engineer
9 16 (12.40%) Java Software Engineer
10 15 (11.63%) Software Team Leader
10 15 (11.63%) Team Leader
11 12 (9.30%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (9.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (8.53%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (7.75%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (7.75%) Customer Engineer
13 10 (7.75%) Customer Service Engineer
13 10 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (6.20%) Developer
14 8 (6.20%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.08%) React
2 9 (6.98%) RESTful
3 8 (6.20%) Kafka
4 6 (4.65%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.88%) .NET
5 5 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (3.88%) Node.js
5 5 (3.88%) REST
5 5 (3.88%) Sass
5 5 (3.88%) Spring
6 4 (3.10%) ASP.NET
6 4 (3.10%) AWS CDK
6 4 (3.10%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.10%) PySpark
6 4 (3.10%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.10%) YAML
7 3 (2.33%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.33%) Flask
7 3 (2.33%) Vue
8 2 (1.55%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 77 (59.69%) Cloud Native
2 27 (20.93%) Product Ownership
3 20 (15.50%) Blog
4 17 (13.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (12.40%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.43%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (3.10%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.33%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.33%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.05%) Linux
2 3 (2.33%) Android
2 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.55%) CentOS
3 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.55%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.78%) Debian
4 1 (0.78%) Windows
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (85.27%) CI/CD
2 74 (57.36%) DevOps
3 67 (51.94%) Software Engineering
4 64 (49.61%) Deployment Automation
5 61 (47.29%) Clean Code
5 61 (47.29%) Test Automation
6 60 (46.51%) Continuous Deployment
7 59 (45.74%) Microservices
8 45 (34.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 40 (31.01%) Mentoring
10 39 (30.23%) Fintech
11 32 (24.81%) Disruptive Innovation
12 30 (23.26%) Coaching
13 28 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (19.38%) Observability
15 22 (17.05%) Platform Engineering
16 21 (16.28%) Agile
16 21 (16.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 20 (15.50%) AI
17 20 (15.50%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 71 (55.04%) Java
2 44 (34.11%) Python
3 23 (17.83%) Go
4 14 (10.85%) Bash
5 11 (8.53%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.75%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.43%) SQL
8 4 (3.10%) C#
9 3 (2.33%) PHP
9 3 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) Groovy
10 1 (0.78%) Perl
10 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (8.53%) AWS Certification
2 10 (7.75%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.20%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.65%) Degree
5 3 (2.33%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.33%) OSCP
6 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.65%) SOC 2
2 3 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) NCSC
3 1 (0.78%) QA
3 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (20.16%) Docker
2 10 (7.75%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 116 (89.92%) Terraform
2 109 (84.50%) Kubernetes
3 76 (58.91%) Grafana
4 22 (17.05%) Ansible
5 15 (11.63%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.20%) Istio
7 7 (5.43%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.33%) Argo
9 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.55%) Puppet
10 1 (0.78%) Consul
10 1 (0.78%) Kibana
10 1 (0.78%) Packer
10 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (6.20%) Confluent
2 7 (5.43%) VMware
3 4 (3.10%) Databricks
3 4 (3.10%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.33%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.55%) Google
6 1 (0.78%) IBM
6 1 (0.78%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.78%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.78%) Splunk
6 1 (0.78%) TOWER Software