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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 263 426
Rank change year-on-year -5 +163 +44
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 128 137 149
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 1.02% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 2.33% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66 59 113
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £85,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £107,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.56% +38.71% -3.13%
75th Percentile £103,063 £138,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £111,500
UK median annual salary £78,750 £105,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +35.48% -3.13%

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 6,824 5,873 14,008
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.62% 43.65% 43.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,621 4,633 12,019
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,728
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -11.54%

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 1 May 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 (2.34%) Apache
1 3 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.34%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.34%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.78%) Confluence
2 1 (0.78%) Drupal
2 1 (0.78%) IIS
2 1 (0.78%) JBoss
2 1 (0.78%) nginx
2 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 121 (94.53%) AWS
2 60 (46.88%) GCP
3 38 (29.69%) SaaS
4 27 (21.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (18.75%) GitHub
6 23 (17.97%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (17.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (14.84%) Azure
10 18 (14.06%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (13.28%) Amazon S3
11 17 (13.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (12.50%) Serverless
13 12 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (8.59%) Azure AKS
15 9 (7.03%) OpenShift
16 8 (6.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 8 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
16 8 (6.25%) Amazon MSK
16 8 (6.25%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.59%) VPN
2 10 (7.81%) Firewall
3 6 (4.69%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.13%) BGP
4 4 (3.13%) VLAN
5 2 (1.56%) DNS
6 1 (0.78%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.25%) Flink
4 7 (5.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.78%) Big Data
6 1 (0.78%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.78%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.78%) Redis
6 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (36.72%) TeamCity
2 14 (10.94%) GitLab
3 10 (7.81%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.47%) Git
5 3 (2.34%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.78%) Gatling
6 1 (0.78%) JIRA
6 1 (0.78%) JMeter
6 1 (0.78%) JUnit
6 1 (0.78%) MLflow
6 1 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.78%) Vagrant
General
1 70 (54.69%) Banking
2 61 (47.66%) Retail
3 60 (46.88%) Finance
4 56 (43.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (42.19%) Law
6 38 (29.69%) Back Office
6 38 (29.69%) Financial Institution
7 23 (17.97%) Social Skills
8 10 (7.81%) Public Sector
9 8 (6.25%) Front Office
10 2 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (34.38%) Software Engineer
2 32 (25.00%) Senior
3 31 (24.22%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (24.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (17.97%) Lead
5 16 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
5 16 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 15 (11.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (11.72%) Java Software Engineer
6 15 (11.72%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (10.94%) Lead Software Engineer
8 13 (10.16%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 13 (10.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (9.38%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (8.59%) Customer Engineer
10 11 (8.59%) Customer Service Engineer
11 10 (7.81%) Software Team Leader
11 10 (7.81%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.41%) Kafka
2 18 (14.06%) React
3 10 (7.81%) Node.js
4 9 (7.03%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (7.03%) Spring
5 7 (5.47%) Loki
5 7 (5.47%) REST
5 7 (5.47%) Sass
6 6 (4.69%) RESTful
6 6 (4.69%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.91%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.13%) Web Services
8 4 (3.13%) YAML
9 3 (2.34%) AWS CDK
9 3 (2.34%) JSON
9 3 (2.34%) Mustache
10 2 (1.56%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.56%) XML
11 1 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 62 (48.44%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.84%) Blog
3 16 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 14 (10.94%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.47%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (3.13%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.34%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.34%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.97%) Linux
2 3 (2.34%) Android
2 3 (2.34%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.34%) CentOS
2 3 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.34%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.78%) Debian
3 1 (0.78%) Unix
3 1 (0.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (84.38%) CI/CD
2 75 (58.59%) DevOps
3 55 (42.97%) Deployment Automation
4 52 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (39.84%) Software Engineering
6 50 (39.06%) Test Automation
7 49 (38.28%) Clean Code
8 48 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
9 39 (30.47%) Microservices
10 33 (25.78%) Fintech
11 32 (25.00%) Observability
11 32 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
11 32 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 31 (24.22%) Agile
12 31 (24.22%) Mentoring
13 26 (20.31%) Disruptive Innovation
14 22 (17.19%) Cloud Security
14 22 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (15.63%) Coaching
16 19 (14.84%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (55.47%) Java
2 53 (41.41%) Python
3 29 (22.66%) Go
4 20 (15.63%) Bash
5 12 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.81%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.34%) SQL
8 2 (1.56%) Bicep
8 2 (1.56%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.78%) Groovy
9 1 (0.78%) Perl
9 1 (0.78%) PHP
9 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (11.72%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.81%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.47%) Degree
5 3 (2.34%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.34%) OSCP
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.47%) SOC 2
2 4 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) NCSC
4 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 31 (24.22%) Docker
2 8 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 116 (90.63%) Terraform
2 113 (88.28%) Kubernetes
3 71 (55.47%) Grafana
4 26 (20.31%) Ansible
5 21 (16.41%) Prometheus
6 13 (10.16%) Argo
7 8 (6.25%) Istio
8 7 (5.47%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.56%) Puppet
10 1 (0.78%) Consul
10 1 (0.78%) Kibana
10 1 (0.78%) Packer
10 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (6.25%) Confluent
2 7 (5.47%) VMware
3 4 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.56%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.56%) Google
4 2 (1.56%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (1.56%) PagerDuty
4 2 (1.56%) Splunk
5 1 (0.78%) IBM
5 1 (0.78%) Mercator
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle
5 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.78%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.78%) TOWER Software