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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 315 442
Rank change year-on-year +19 +127 -13
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 125 112 150
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.64% 0.75% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 1.93% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 59 42 112
10th Percentile £57,500 £39,210 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,438 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £90,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.41% +9.70% -4.35%
75th Percentile £92,500 £124,375 £107,500
90th Percentile £121,500 £137,625 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £95,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -23.68% +15.15% -5.71%

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 7,333 5,815 14,401
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.77% 38.83% 42.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,037 4,231 12,102
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,104 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.35%

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 7 June 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 (2.40%) Apache
1 3 (2.40%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.80%) Confluence
2 1 (0.80%) Drupal
2 1 (0.80%) IIS
2 1 (0.80%) JBoss
2 1 (0.80%) nginx
2 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.80%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 121 (96.80%) AWS
2 67 (53.60%) GCP
3 43 (34.40%) SaaS
4 23 (18.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (17.60%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (17.60%) Amazon S3
6 20 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (15.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (15.20%) Azure
8 18 (14.40%) GitHub
8 18 (14.40%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (12.80%) Serverless
10 14 (11.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (8.80%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (7.20%) OpenShift
13 8 (6.40%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (5.60%) Azure AKS
15 6 (4.80%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 5 (4.00%) CloudFront
16 5 (4.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.00%) VPN
2 9 (7.20%) Firewall
3 5 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.20%) DNS
5 3 (2.40%) BGP
5 3 (2.40%) VLAN
6 1 (0.80%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.40%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (3.20%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.60%) Flink
4 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.60%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.80%) Big Data
5 1 (0.80%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (0.80%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.80%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.80%) Redis
5 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (43.20%) TeamCity
2 13 (10.40%) GitLab
3 11 (8.80%) Jenkins
4 9 (7.20%) Git
5 2 (1.60%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.60%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.80%) Gatling
6 1 (0.80%) JIRA
6 1 (0.80%) JMeter
6 1 (0.80%) JUnit
6 1 (0.80%) MLflow
6 1 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.80%) Vagrant
General
1 70 (56.00%) Banking
2 67 (53.60%) Retail
3 61 (48.80%) Finance
4 60 (48.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 60 (48.00%) Law
5 42 (33.60%) Back Office
5 42 (33.60%) Financial Institution
6 17 (13.60%) Social Skills
7 9 (7.20%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Front Office
9 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (40.80%) Software Engineer
2 37 (29.60%) Senior
3 28 (22.40%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (16.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (15.20%) Lead
6 17 (13.60%) Java Engineer
7 16 (12.80%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (12.80%) Lead Software Engineer
7 16 (12.80%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (9.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Customer Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Customer Service Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Software Team Leader
8 12 (9.60%) Team Leader
9 11 (8.80%) Senior DevOps
10 10 (8.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.20%) React
2 11 (8.80%) Kafka
3 9 (7.20%) Spring
4 8 (6.40%) Node.js
5 7 (5.60%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (5.60%) REST
5 7 (5.60%) Sass
6 6 (4.80%) AngularJS
6 6 (4.80%) Spring Boot
7 5 (4.00%) RESTful
8 4 (3.20%) ARM Templates
8 4 (3.20%) AWS CDK
8 4 (3.20%) Loki
8 4 (3.20%) Web Services
8 4 (3.20%) YAML
9 3 (2.40%) FastAPI
9 3 (2.40%) JSON
9 3 (2.40%) Mustache
10 2 (1.60%) Flask
10 2 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 70 (56.00%) Cloud Native
2 21 (16.80%) Blog
3 20 (16.00%) Product Ownership
4 17 (13.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (9.60%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.60%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.40%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.40%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.60%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.00%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Android
2 3 (2.40%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.60%) CentOS
3 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.60%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.80%) Debian
4 1 (0.80%) Windows
4 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (85.60%) CI/CD
2 71 (56.80%) DevOps
3 60 (48.00%) Deployment Automation
4 57 (45.60%) Test Automation
5 56 (44.80%) Clean Code
5 56 (44.80%) Software Engineering
6 55 (44.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 48 (38.40%) Microservices
8 47 (37.60%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (29.60%) Fintech
10 35 (28.00%) Mentoring
11 30 (24.00%) Disruptive Innovation
12 26 (20.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (20.00%) Observability
14 24 (19.20%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (19.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (18.40%) Coaching
16 22 (17.60%) Cloud Security
17 20 (16.00%) Agile
18 17 (13.60%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 72 (57.60%) Java
2 44 (35.20%) Python
3 25 (20.00%) Go
4 17 (13.60%) Bash
5 13 (10.40%) JavaScript
5 13 (10.40%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.40%) SQL
8 2 (1.60%) Bicep
8 2 (1.60%) PHP
9 1 (0.80%) Groovy
9 1 (0.80%) Perl
9 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (8.80%) AWS Certification
2 10 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.40%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.20%) Degree
5 3 (2.40%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.40%) OSCP
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.80%) SOC 2
2 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.40%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.80%) NCSC
3 1 (0.80%) QA
3 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (20.80%) Docker
2 10 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 116 (92.80%) Terraform
2 108 (86.40%) Kubernetes
3 73 (58.40%) Grafana
4 24 (19.20%) Ansible
5 17 (13.60%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.40%) Istio
7 7 (5.60%) Proxmox
8 5 (4.00%) Argo
9 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.60%) Puppet
10 1 (0.80%) Consul
10 1 (0.80%) Kibana
10 1 (0.80%) Packer
10 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (6.40%) Confluent
2 7 (5.60%) VMware
3 5 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.40%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.60%) Google
5 2 (1.60%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.80%) IBM
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle
6 1 (0.80%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.80%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.80%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.80%) Splunk
6 1 (0.80%) TOWER Software