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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 322 337
Rank change year-on-year -25 +15 +63
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 109 98 171
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.46% 0.61% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.25% 1.70% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 53 39 133
10th Percentile £52,711 £52,500 £78,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £67,500 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% -37.21% +26.47%
75th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £106,650 £127,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £81,250 £106,250
% change year-on-year -16.92% -23.53% +32.81%

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 8,687 5,761 9,531
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.96% 35.72% 40.62%
Number of salaries quoted 6,365 4,171 6,953
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,500
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -1.60%

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 5 September 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 (1.83%) Apache
1 2 (1.83%) Confluence
2 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.92%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.92%) Drupal
2 1 (0.92%) IIS
2 1 (0.92%) JBoss
2 1 (0.92%) nginx
2 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.92%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 95 (87.16%) AWS
2 60 (55.05%) GCP
3 52 (47.71%) SaaS
4 19 (17.43%) Amazon S3
5 16 (14.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (13.76%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (13.76%) Azure
7 14 (12.84%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (11.93%) Serverless
9 10 (9.17%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (9.17%) Azure AKS
10 9 (8.26%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (7.34%) GitHub
11 8 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (5.50%) OpenShift
13 5 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (3.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 3 (2.75%) AWS Control Tower
15 3 (2.75%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) Broadband
2 3 (2.75%) DNS
3 2 (1.83%) Firewall
4 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.34%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.67%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.67%) MySQL
5 3 (2.75%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.83%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.83%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.92%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.92%) Redis
7 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (46.79%) TeamCity
2 14 (12.84%) GitLab
3 11 (10.09%) Git
4 6 (5.50%) JIRA
5 5 (4.59%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.83%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.92%) Gatling
7 1 (0.92%) JMeter
7 1 (0.92%) JUnit
7 1 (0.92%) MLflow
7 1 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.92%) Vagrant
General
1 59 (54.13%) Banking
1 59 (54.13%) Finance
2 55 (50.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 54 (49.54%) Retail
4 53 (48.62%) Law
5 46 (42.20%) Back Office
5 46 (42.20%) Financial Institution
6 16 (14.68%) Public Sector
7 14 (12.84%) Social Skills
8 5 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.67%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.92%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 59 (54.13%) Software Engineer
2 40 (36.70%) Senior
3 20 (18.35%) Senior Software Engineer
4 18 (16.51%) Lead
5 17 (15.60%) Lead Software Engineer
5 17 (15.60%) Software Team Leader
5 17 (15.60%) Team Leader
6 15 (13.76%) Java Engineer
7 14 (12.84%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (12.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (11.93%) Java Software Engineer
9 10 (9.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (9.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (8.26%) Senior Java Engineer
11 8 (7.34%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (7.34%) Developer
11 8 (7.34%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 7 (6.42%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (6.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (5.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (81.65%) Terraform
2 7 (6.42%) Kafka
2 7 (6.42%) React
3 6 (5.50%) RESTful
4 5 (4.59%) .NET
4 5 (4.59%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.59%) REST
4 5 (4.59%) Spring
5 4 (3.67%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.67%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.67%) Node.js
5 4 (3.67%) PySpark
5 4 (3.67%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.67%) YAML
6 3 (2.75%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.75%) Flask
6 3 (2.75%) Vue
7 2 (1.83%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.83%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 61 (55.96%) Cloud Native
2 35 (32.11%) Product Ownership
3 12 (11.01%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (10.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (8.26%) Blog
6 6 (5.50%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (3.67%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.43%) Linux
2 7 (6.42%) Windows
2 7 (6.42%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.50%) Unix
4 2 (1.83%) Android
4 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (80.73%) CI/CD
2 68 (62.39%) DevOps
3 64 (58.72%) Software Engineering
4 60 (55.05%) Microservices
5 55 (50.46%) Clean Code
6 54 (49.54%) Continuous Deployment
6 54 (49.54%) Deployment Automation
7 53 (48.62%) Test Automation
8 47 (43.12%) Mentoring
9 43 (39.45%) Coaching
10 34 (31.19%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (29.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (25.69%) Fintech
13 24 (22.02%) Disruptive Innovation
14 21 (19.27%) Agile
15 19 (17.43%) AI
16 17 (15.60%) Containerisation
17 15 (13.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 15 (13.76%) Roadmaps
17 15 (13.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 59 (54.13%) Java
2 26 (23.85%) Python
3 12 (11.01%) Go
4 7 (6.42%) SQL
5 6 (5.50%) Bash
5 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.67%) C#
6 4 (3.67%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.75%) PHP
8 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.83%) Scala
9 1 (0.92%) Groovy
9 1 (0.92%) Perl
9 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.34%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.67%) Degree
4 3 (2.75%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.83%) CREST Certified
5 2 (1.83%) OSCP
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.83%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.92%) NCSC
3 1 (0.92%) QA
3 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (18.35%) Docker
2 8 (7.34%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 87 (79.82%) Kubernetes
2 60 (55.05%) Grafana
3 15 (13.76%) Ansible
4 8 (7.34%) Istio
5 4 (3.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.83%) Argo
6 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.92%) Consul
7 1 (0.92%) Kibana
7 1 (0.92%) Packer
7 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.92%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (8.26%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) Confluent
3 4 (3.67%) Databricks
4 3 (2.75%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.83%) Splunk
6 1 (0.92%) Google
6 1 (0.92%) IBM
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle
6 1 (0.92%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.92%) VMware