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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 352 418
Rank change year-on-year +97 +66 +102
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 125 79 122
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 1.06% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 76 52 98
10th Percentile £57,500 £80,125 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £97,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,750 £107,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.95% +38.71% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £150,000 - £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £107,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -30.23% +38.71% -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 5,915 7,433 12,716
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.94% 46.80% 45.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,094 4,773 11,111
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 8 February 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 4 (3.20%) Apache
1 4 (3.20%) Tomcat
1 4 (3.20%) WebSphere
1 4 (3.20%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.40%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 122 (97.60%) AWS
2 40 (32.00%) GCP
3 36 (28.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 33 (26.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 31 (24.80%) SaaS
6 30 (24.00%) GitHub
7 29 (23.20%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (20.80%) Serverless
9 24 (19.20%) Azure
10 22 (17.60%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (16.80%) Azure AKS
12 20 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (15.20%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (15.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (14.40%) Amazon S3
15 13 (10.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 13 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (9.60%) Amazon Kinesis
17 10 (8.00%) Route 53
18 9 (7.20%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.00%) VPN
2 6 (4.80%) BGP
2 6 (4.80%) Firewall
2 6 (4.80%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.80%) VLAN
3 4 (3.20%) SSL
4 1 (0.80%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
1 20 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.00%) Flink
3 7 (5.60%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (3.20%) DB2
4 4 (3.20%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.40%) Apache Ignite
5 3 (2.40%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.80%) Big Data
7 1 (0.80%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 35 (28.00%) TeamCity
2 26 (20.80%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.80%) GitLab
4 5 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.00%) Git
5 3 (2.40%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (44.00%) Banking
2 53 (42.40%) Finance
3 45 (36.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 45 (36.00%) Retail
4 41 (32.80%) Law
5 34 (27.20%) Financial Institution
6 31 (24.80%) Back Office
7 19 (15.20%) Social Skills
8 10 (8.00%) Front Office
9 6 (4.80%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (33.60%) Software Engineer
2 30 (24.00%) Senior
3 29 (23.20%) AWS Engineer
4 26 (20.80%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (16.00%) Lead
7 14 (11.20%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 14 (11.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (11.20%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (10.40%) Java Engineer
8 13 (10.40%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (8.80%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (8.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (7.20%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (6.40%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (6.40%) Python Engineer
13 7 (5.60%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.00%) Kafka
2 23 (18.40%) React
3 18 (14.40%) Spring
4 16 (12.80%) Node.js
5 15 (12.00%) Spring Boot
6 11 (8.80%) RESTful
7 7 (5.60%) Loki
8 6 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (4.80%) REST
9 5 (4.00%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.00%) Jest
9 5 (4.00%) Redux
9 5 (4.00%) Sass
10 4 (3.20%) AWS CDK
10 4 (3.20%) LAPP Stack
10 4 (3.20%) LDAP
10 4 (3.20%) WebSphere MQ
11 3 (2.40%) ARM Templates
11 3 (2.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 58 (46.40%) Cloud Native
2 20 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.40%) Blog
4 10 (8.00%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.80%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.20%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.80%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (24.80%) Linux
2 13 (10.40%) Windows
3 8 (6.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.80%) Unix
5 4 (3.20%) CentOS
5 4 (3.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.80%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (86.40%) CI/CD
2 76 (60.80%) DevOps
3 53 (42.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (38.40%) Software Engineering
5 44 (35.20%) Deployment Automation
6 38 (30.40%) Microservices
6 38 (30.40%) Test Automation
7 35 (28.00%) Clean Code
7 35 (28.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 35 (28.00%) Observability
8 31 (24.80%) Agile
8 31 (24.80%) Platform Engineering
9 27 (21.60%) Mentoring
10 26 (20.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (18.40%) Fintech
12 22 (17.60%) Cloud Security
13 21 (16.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
15 18 (14.40%) Coaching
16 17 (13.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (56.00%) Java
2 56 (44.80%) Python
3 26 (20.80%) Bash
4 18 (14.40%) Go
5 15 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 13 (10.40%) Bicep
6 13 (10.40%) PowerShell
7 12 (9.60%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 27 (21.60%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.20%) SC Cleared
3 21 (16.80%) AWS Certification
4 11 (8.80%) Degree
5 9 (7.20%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.20%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) PCI DSS
1 8 (6.40%) SOC 2
2 7 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.20%) SLA
4 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.80%) NIST
5 1 (0.80%) QA
System Software
1 18 (14.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 98 (78.40%) Terraform
2 96 (76.80%) Kubernetes
3 70 (56.00%) Grafana
4 24 (19.20%) Ansible
5 21 (16.80%) Prometheus
6 15 (12.00%) Argo
7 5 (4.00%) Kibana
8 4 (3.20%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.80%) Cilium
9 1 (0.80%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.80%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (4.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.20%) Google
2 4 (3.20%) IBM
2 4 (3.20%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (3.20%) PagerDuty
2 4 (3.20%) VMware
3 3 (2.40%) Solace
3 3 (2.40%) SolarWinds
3 3 (2.40%) Splunk
4 2 (1.60%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.80%) Mercator
5 1 (0.80%) Pega
5 1 (0.80%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.80%) WSO2