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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 344 384
Rank change year-on-year +12 +40 +148
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 98 168 128
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.72% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 1.77% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 41 128 111
10th Percentile £52,500 £81,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £97,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £107,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.21% +34.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £147,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £165,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +34.38% +1.59%

All Cloud 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 5,778 9,504 11,931
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.57% 40.72% 48.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,172 6,575 10,321
10th Percentile £31,614 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

Amazon EKS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EKS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Amazon EKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Amazon EKS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.08%) Tomcat
1 4 (4.08%) WebSphere
1 4 (4.08%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.04%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 98 (100.00%) AWS
2 68 (69.39%) AWS CloudFormation
3 64 (65.31%) Azure
4 21 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 20 (20.41%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (20.41%) Serverless
6 17 (17.35%) Amazon S3
7 16 (16.33%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (15.31%) GitHub
8 15 (15.31%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (13.27%) Datadog
10 12 (12.24%) Azure AKS
11 11 (11.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (9.18%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (9.18%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (7.14%) GCP
15 5 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (5.10%) Route 53
16 4 (4.08%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.08%) SSL
2 3 (3.06%) DNS
3 2 (2.04%) Firewall
3 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (6.12%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.08%) DB2
4 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.04%) Apache Ignite
5 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.02%) Redis
6 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.02%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (23.47%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.18%) GitLab
3 5 (5.10%) Cucumber
3 5 (5.10%) Git
3 5 (5.10%) IntelliJ
3 5 (5.10%) JUnit
3 5 (5.10%) Maven
3 5 (5.10%) Mockito
4 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
General
1 50 (51.02%) Analytical Skills
1 50 (51.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (15.31%) Finance
3 9 (9.18%) Banking
4 4 (4.08%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.02%) Games
6 1 (1.02%) Law
6 1 (1.02%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.02%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (57.14%) Developer
2 49 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 19 (19.39%) Senior
4 17 (17.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (16.33%) AWS DevOps
6 13 (13.27%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (11.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 11 (11.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (10.20%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (6.12%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) AWS Developer
9 6 (6.12%) Java Developer
10 5 (5.10%) DevOps Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Java Pricing Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Pricing Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (53.06%) Node.js
2 50 (51.02%) .NET
3 49 (50.00%) Pandas
4 10 (10.20%) Kafka
5 9 (9.18%) Spring
5 9 (9.18%) Spring Boot
6 5 (5.10%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (5.10%) JMS
7 4 (4.08%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (4.08%) LDAP
7 4 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (4.08%) React
7 4 (4.08%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (3.06%) AWS CDK
8 3 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.04%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.04%) ARM Templates
9 2 (2.04%) Hugging Face
9 2 (2.04%) Nuxt
9 2 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (50.00%) Cyberattack
2 10 (10.20%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.10%) Credit Derivative
3 5 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.10%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (71.43%) Linux
2 49 (50.00%) Android
3 11 (11.22%) Windows
4 5 (5.10%) Unix
5 4 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (83.67%) CI/CD
2 66 (67.35%) Containerisation
3 64 (65.31%) Software Engineering
4 58 (59.18%) Agile
5 51 (52.04%) Kanban
6 50 (51.02%) Collaborative Working
6 50 (51.02%) Line Management
6 50 (51.02%) Mathematics
7 49 (50.00%) Android Development
7 49 (50.00%) Design Patterns
7 49 (50.00%) OO
7 49 (50.00%) OOP
7 49 (50.00%) OWASP
7 49 (50.00%) Secure Coding
7 49 (50.00%) Statistics
8 35 (35.71%) DevOps
9 24 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (9.18%) Analytics
10 9 (9.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (9.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 82 (83.67%) Python
2 61 (62.24%) Java
3 54 (55.10%) C++
3 54 (55.10%) Go
4 50 (51.02%) JavaScript
5 49 (50.00%) Rust
6 15 (15.31%) Bash
7 11 (11.22%) PowerShell
8 8 (8.16%) Bicep
9 3 (3.06%) SQL
9 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.02%) C#
10 1 (1.02%) PHP
Qualifications
1 58 (59.18%) Security Cleared
2 49 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 19 (19.39%) AWS Certification
4 9 (9.18%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.10%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.10%) Degree
6 4 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (1.02%) MCSA
9 1 (1.02%) MCSE
9 1 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) QA
2 4 (4.08%) SLA
3 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.06%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.04%) GDPR
4 2 (2.04%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
System Software
1 66 (67.35%) Docker
2 4 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (86.73%) Terraform
2 78 (79.59%) Kubernetes
3 62 (63.27%) Ansible
4 17 (17.35%) Grafana
5 12 (12.24%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.12%) Argo
7 4 (4.08%) Istio
8 1 (1.02%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (9.18%) IBM
2 4 (4.08%) Confluent
2 4 (4.08%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.06%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.04%) Google
4 2 (2.04%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.04%) Solace
4 2 (2.04%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.02%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle
5 1 (1.02%) PagerDuty