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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 328 412
Rank change year-on-year +82 +84 +82
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 138 87 130
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 0.63% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.18% 1.33% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 73 57 108
10th Percentile £59,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £81,250 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +38.71% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £147,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +35.48% +3.33%

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 6,334 6,560 13,565
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.66% 47.42% 45.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,297 4,726 11,815
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% +7.92% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
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 14 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 (2.17%) Apache
1 3 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.17%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.45%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.45%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 135 (97.83%) AWS
2 56 (40.58%) GCP
3 42 (30.43%) SaaS
4 33 (23.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 30 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (20.29%) GitHub
7 27 (19.57%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (16.67%) Serverless
9 21 (15.22%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (14.49%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (14.49%) Azure
11 19 (13.77%) Amazon S3
11 19 (13.77%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (13.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (9.42%) Azure AKS
13 12 (8.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 10 (7.25%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (5.80%) CloudFront
15 8 (5.80%) Route 53
16 7 (5.07%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.70%) VPN
2 10 (7.25%) Firewall
3 8 (5.80%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.35%) BGP
4 6 (4.35%) VLAN
5 2 (1.45%) DNS
5 2 (1.45%) SSL
6 1 (0.72%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (13.77%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.25%) Flink
4 7 (5.07%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.45%) DB2
5 2 (1.45%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.72%) Apache Ignite
6 1 (0.72%) Big Data
6 1 (0.72%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (36.23%) TeamCity
2 19 (13.77%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.80%) GitLab
4 6 (4.35%) Git
5 5 (3.62%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.17%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.72%) MLflow
General
1 71 (51.45%) Banking
2 64 (46.38%) Finance
3 63 (45.65%) Retail
4 61 (44.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (41.30%) Law
6 43 (31.16%) Financial Institution
7 42 (30.43%) Back Office
8 20 (14.49%) Social Skills
9 10 (7.25%) Front Office
10 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (38.41%) Software Engineer
2 33 (23.91%) Senior
3 30 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (16.67%) Lead
6 21 (15.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (11.59%) Java Engineer
7 16 (11.59%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (11.59%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (10.87%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (10.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 14 (10.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (8.70%) Lead Software Engineer
11 11 (7.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (7.25%) Customer Engineer
12 10 (7.25%) Customer Service Engineer
13 9 (6.52%) Senior DevOps
14 8 (5.80%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.67%) Kafka
2 22 (15.94%) React
3 16 (11.59%) Spring
4 14 (10.14%) Node.js
5 13 (9.42%) Spring Boot
6 12 (8.70%) RESTful
7 8 (5.80%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (5.07%) Loki
8 7 (5.07%) Sass
9 6 (4.35%) REST
10 5 (3.62%) Jest
10 5 (3.62%) Redux
11 4 (2.90%) AWS CDK
12 3 (2.17%) AngularJS
12 3 (2.17%) Web Services
13 2 (1.45%) JSON
13 2 (1.45%) LDAP
13 2 (1.45%) WebSphere MQ
13 2 (1.45%) XML
13 2 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (51.45%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.04%) Blog
2 18 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (11.59%) Product Ownership
4 11 (7.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.35%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.35%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.45%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.29%) Linux
2 6 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (4.35%) Windows
3 4 (2.90%) CentOS
3 4 (2.90%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.90%) Unix
4 1 (0.72%) Android
4 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.72%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (86.96%) CI/CD
2 82 (59.42%) DevOps
3 61 (44.20%) Software Engineering
4 58 (42.03%) Deployment Automation
5 56 (40.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (38.41%) Test Automation
7 50 (36.23%) Clean Code
7 50 (36.23%) Continuous Deployment
8 46 (33.33%) Microservices
9 36 (26.09%) Observability
10 35 (25.36%) Platform Engineering
11 34 (24.64%) Agile
12 33 (23.91%) Mentoring
13 32 (23.19%) Fintech
14 26 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (16.67%) Coaching
15 23 (16.67%) Disruptive Innovation
15 23 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 22 (15.94%) Cloud Security
17 20 (14.49%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 83 (60.14%) Java
2 54 (39.13%) Python
3 24 (17.39%) Bash
4 23 (16.67%) Go
5 16 (11.59%) TypeScript
6 14 (10.14%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.07%) Bicep
7 7 (5.07%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.77%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.14%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.52%) Degree
5 4 (2.90%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.72%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.80%) SOC 2
2 7 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.35%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.45%) SLA
5 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.72%) NIST
5 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 22 (15.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 117 (84.78%) Terraform
2 112 (81.16%) Kubernetes
3 81 (58.70%) Grafana
4 23 (16.67%) Ansible
4 23 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 17 (12.32%) Argo
6 6 (4.35%) Proxmox
7 5 (3.62%) Kibana
8 2 (1.45%) Istio
9 1 (0.72%) Cilium
9 1 (0.72%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (4.35%) VMware
2 4 (2.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.90%) PagerDuty
3 3 (2.17%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (2.17%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.17%) Splunk
4 2 (1.45%) Confluent
4 2 (1.45%) Google
4 2 (1.45%) IBM
4 2 (1.45%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.72%) Mercator
5 1 (0.72%) Pega
5 1 (0.72%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.72%) Solace
5 1 (0.72%) WSO2