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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 312 349
Rank change year-on-year -36 +37 +46
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 106 107 173
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 0.65% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 1.77% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 51 42 135
10th Percentile £53,555 £50,925 £62,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £58,438 £90,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £75,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% -28.57% +23.53%
75th Percentile £87,500 £124,375 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £137,625 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £92,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year -18.92% -11.90% +31.25%

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 8,567 6,039 10,969
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.89% 36.69% 41.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,169 4,456 8,816
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,549 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 30 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 2 (1.89%) Apache
1 2 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.94%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.94%) Drupal
2 1 (0.94%) IIS
2 1 (0.94%) JBoss
2 1 (0.94%) nginx
2 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.94%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 98 (92.45%) AWS
2 60 (56.60%) GCP
3 47 (44.34%) SaaS
4 19 (17.92%) Amazon S3
5 18 (16.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (16.04%) Azure
7 16 (15.09%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (12.26%) Serverless
10 12 (11.32%) GitHub
10 12 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (9.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (8.49%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (7.55%) OpenShift
14 6 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (3.77%) Azure AKS
15 4 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
16 3 (2.83%) AWS Control Tower
16 3 (2.83%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.60%) Firewall
2 5 (4.72%) VPN
3 4 (3.77%) Broadband
3 4 (3.77%) DNS
4 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.15%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.60%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.72%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.77%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.77%) MySQL
5 3 (2.83%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.94%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.94%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.94%) Redis
7 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (45.28%) TeamCity
2 15 (14.15%) GitLab
3 11 (10.38%) Git
4 6 (5.66%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.66%) JIRA
5 2 (1.89%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.94%) Gatling
6 1 (0.94%) JMeter
6 1 (0.94%) JUnit
6 1 (0.94%) MLflow
6 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.94%) Vagrant
General
1 59 (55.66%) Banking
2 56 (52.83%) Finance
2 56 (52.83%) Retail
3 51 (48.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 51 (48.11%) Law
4 41 (38.68%) Back Office
4 41 (38.68%) Financial Institution
5 14 (13.21%) Social Skills
6 8 (7.55%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.77%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (49.06%) Software Engineer
2 39 (36.79%) Senior
3 20 (18.87%) Senior Software Engineer
4 17 (16.04%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (16.04%) Lead
5 16 (15.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (15.09%) Lead Software Engineer
6 14 (13.21%) Software Team Leader
6 14 (13.21%) Team Leader
7 13 (12.26%) Java Engineer
8 12 (11.32%) Java Software Engineer
9 10 (9.43%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (9.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (8.49%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (7.55%) Developer
11 8 (7.55%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 6 (5.66%) Integration Engineer
12 6 (5.66%) Senior Java Engineer
12 6 (5.66%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.49%) React
2 8 (7.55%) Kafka
3 6 (5.66%) RESTful
4 5 (4.72%) .NET
4 5 (4.72%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.77%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.77%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.77%) Node.js
5 4 (3.77%) PySpark
5 4 (3.77%) REST
5 4 (3.77%) Spring
5 4 (3.77%) YAML
6 3 (2.83%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.83%) Flask
6 3 (2.83%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.83%) Vue
7 2 (1.89%) Jakarta EE
7 2 (1.89%) Sass
7 2 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (56.60%) Cloud Native
2 27 (25.47%) Product Ownership
3 15 (14.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (12.26%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (9.43%) Blog
6 5 (4.72%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (3.77%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.83%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.83%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.04%) Linux
2 3 (2.83%) Android
2 3 (2.83%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (83.02%) CI/CD
2 67 (63.21%) DevOps
3 57 (53.77%) Software Engineering
4 54 (50.94%) Microservices
5 51 (48.11%) Deployment Automation
6 50 (47.17%) Clean Code
6 50 (47.17%) Test Automation
7 49 (46.23%) Continuous Deployment
8 36 (33.96%) Mentoring
9 34 (32.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (28.30%) Fintech
11 29 (27.36%) Coaching
12 24 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (22.64%) Disruptive Innovation
13 19 (17.92%) Agile
13 19 (17.92%) AI
13 19 (17.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 16 (15.09%) Observability
15 15 (14.15%) Cloud Security
16 14 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (52.83%) Java
2 34 (32.08%) Python
3 18 (16.98%) Go
4 10 (9.43%) Bash
5 8 (7.55%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.60%) SQL
7 6 (5.66%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.77%) C#
9 3 (2.83%) PHP
10 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.94%) Groovy
11 1 (0.94%) Perl
11 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.55%) AWS Certification
1 8 (7.55%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.77%) Degree
4 3 (2.83%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.83%) OSCP
5 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.83%) SOC 2
2 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.94%) NCSC
2 1 (0.94%) QA
2 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (22.64%) Docker
2 10 (9.43%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 93 (87.74%) Terraform
2 90 (84.91%) Kubernetes
3 59 (55.66%) Grafana
4 19 (17.92%) Ansible
5 9 (8.49%) Istio
5 9 (8.49%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.72%) Proxmox
7 3 (2.83%) Argo
8 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.94%) Consul
9 1 (0.94%) Kibana
9 1 (0.94%) Packer
9 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (7.55%) Confluent
2 5 (4.72%) VMware
3 4 (3.77%) Databricks
4 3 (2.83%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.83%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.94%) Google
5 1 (0.94%) IBM
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle
5 1 (0.94%) TOWER Software