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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 321 346
Rank change year-on-year -37 +25 +33
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 100 107 168
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.44% 0.65% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.79% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 49 44 131
10th Percentile £52,250 £51,275 £65,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,500 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,750 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -36.05% +30.30%
75th Percentile £87,500 £113,125 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £127,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -19.05% +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 8,680 5,973 10,241
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.25% 36.33% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,287 4,408 8,008
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 11 August 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 (2.00%) Apache
1 2 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.00%) Drupal
2 1 (1.00%) IIS
2 1 (1.00%) JBoss
2 1 (1.00%) nginx
2 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (1.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 92 (92.00%) AWS
2 57 (57.00%) GCP
3 47 (47.00%) SaaS
4 18 (18.00%) Amazon S3
4 18 (18.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (17.00%) Azure
6 15 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (14.00%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (12.00%) Serverless
9 10 (10.00%) Amazon MSK
10 9 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (8.00%) GitHub
11 8 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (8.00%) OpenShift
12 7 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (4.00%) Azure AKS
13 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (3.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 3 (3.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) Firewall
2 4 (4.00%) Broadband
2 4 (4.00%) DNS
3 3 (3.00%) VPN
4 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.00%) Delta Lake
4 4 (4.00%) MySQL
5 3 (3.00%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.00%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.00%) Redis
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (45.00%) TeamCity
2 14 (14.00%) GitLab
3 11 (11.00%) Git
4 6 (6.00%) JIRA
5 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.00%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.00%) Gatling
7 1 (1.00%) JMeter
7 1 (1.00%) JUnit
7 1 (1.00%) MLflow
7 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.00%) Vagrant
General
1 56 (56.00%) Banking
2 55 (55.00%) Finance
3 51 (51.00%) Retail
4 48 (48.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (48.00%) Law
5 41 (41.00%) Back Office
5 41 (41.00%) Financial Institution
6 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
7 8 (8.00%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 35 (35.00%) Senior
3 19 (19.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) Lead
5 16 (16.00%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (16.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 15 (15.00%) Software Team Leader
6 15 (15.00%) Team Leader
7 12 (12.00%) Java Engineer
8 11 (11.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (9.00%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (9.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (8.00%) Developer
10 8 (8.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 7 (7.00%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (6.00%) Senior Java Engineer
12 6 (6.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 5 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.00%) Kafka
1 8 (8.00%) React
2 6 (6.00%) RESTful
3 5 (5.00%) .NET
3 5 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.00%) ASP.NET
4 4 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.00%) FastAPI
4 4 (4.00%) Node.js
4 4 (4.00%) PySpark
4 4 (4.00%) REST
4 4 (4.00%) Spring
4 4 (4.00%) YAML
5 3 (3.00%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.00%) Flask
5 3 (3.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (3.00%) Vue
6 2 (2.00%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.00%) Jakarta EE
6 2 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (56.00%) Cloud Native
2 28 (28.00%) Product Ownership
3 13 (13.00%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (13.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (7.00%) Blog
5 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (4.00%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.00%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.00%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.00%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.00%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.00%) Android
2 3 (3.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (82.00%) CI/CD
2 65 (65.00%) DevOps
3 54 (54.00%) Microservices
3 54 (54.00%) Software Engineering
4 48 (48.00%) Deployment Automation
5 47 (47.00%) Clean Code
5 47 (47.00%) Test Automation
6 46 (46.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 36 (36.00%) Mentoring
8 31 (31.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (30.00%) Coaching
10 27 (27.00%) Fintech
11 24 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (22.00%) Disruptive Innovation
13 19 (19.00%) Agile
14 18 (18.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 17 (17.00%) AI
16 13 (13.00%) Containerisation
16 13 (13.00%) Observability
17 12 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (53.00%) Java
2 31 (31.00%) Python
3 17 (17.00%) Go
4 8 (8.00%) Bash
5 7 (7.00%) SQL
5 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.00%) C#
8 3 (3.00%) PHP
9 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.00%) Groovy
10 1 (1.00%) Perl
10 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.00%) Degree
5 3 (3.00%) CREST Certified
5 3 (3.00%) OSCP
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.00%) NCSC
2 1 (1.00%) QA
2 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (22.00%) Docker
2 10 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 87 (87.00%) Terraform
2 84 (84.00%) Kubernetes
3 54 (54.00%) Grafana
4 17 (17.00%) Ansible
5 10 (10.00%) Istio
6 6 (6.00%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.00%) Proxmox
8 2 (2.00%) Argo
8 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.00%) Consul
9 1 (1.00%) Kibana
9 1 (1.00%) Packer
9 1 (1.00%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (8.00%) Confluent
2 4 (4.00%) Databricks
3 3 (3.00%) AppDynamics
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.00%) VMware
4 1 (1.00%) Google
4 1 (1.00%) IBM
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle
4 1 (1.00%) TOWER Software