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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 310 426
Rank change year-on-year +11 +116 +1
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 121 112 158
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.73% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 1.91% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 56 43 118
10th Percentile £57,500 £40,686 £56,600
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,625 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,538 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.07% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £88,750 £121,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £136,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £95,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -23.68% +15.15% -4.35%

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 7,499 5,867 14,604
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.76% 38.32% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,237 4,261 12,141
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +1.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 15 June 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 (2.48%) Apache
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.83%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.83%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) Drupal
2 1 (0.83%) IIS
2 1 (0.83%) JBoss
2 1 (0.83%) nginx
2 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.83%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 116 (95.87%) AWS
2 66 (54.55%) GCP
3 44 (36.36%) SaaS
4 23 (19.01%) Amazon S3
5 22 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (15.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (15.70%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (14.88%) Azure
8 15 (12.40%) GitHub
8 15 (12.40%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (12.40%) Serverless
9 14 (11.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (7.44%) OpenShift
12 8 (6.61%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (4.96%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 6 (4.96%) Azure AKS
14 5 (4.13%) CloudFront
14 5 (4.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.26%) VPN
2 9 (7.44%) Firewall
3 5 (4.13%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.31%) DNS
5 3 (2.48%) BGP
5 3 (2.48%) VLAN
6 1 (0.83%) AMQP
6 1 (0.83%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.40%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.74%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.13%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.48%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.83%) Big Data
6 1 (0.83%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.83%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.83%) MySQL
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.83%) Redis
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (43.80%) TeamCity
2 14 (11.57%) GitLab
3 8 (6.61%) Git
3 8 (6.61%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.65%) JIRA
4 2 (1.65%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.65%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.83%) Gatling
5 1 (0.83%) JMeter
5 1 (0.83%) JUnit
5 1 (0.83%) MLflow
5 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.83%) Vagrant
General
1 67 (55.37%) Banking
2 66 (54.55%) Retail
3 59 (48.76%) Finance
3 59 (48.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 59 (48.76%) Law
4 42 (34.71%) Back Office
4 42 (34.71%) Financial Institution
5 18 (14.88%) Social Skills
6 9 (7.44%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (42.98%) Software Engineer
2 39 (32.23%) Senior
3 28 (23.14%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (14.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (14.05%) Java Engineer
5 17 (14.05%) Lead
5 17 (14.05%) Senior Software Engineer
6 16 (13.22%) Java Software Engineer
6 16 (13.22%) Lead Software Engineer
7 12 (9.92%) AWS DevOps
7 12 (9.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 12 (9.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (9.92%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (9.92%) Software Team Leader
7 12 (9.92%) Team Leader
8 11 (9.09%) Customer Engineer
8 11 (9.09%) Customer Service Engineer
8 11 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (8.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 10 (8.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.40%) React
2 8 (6.61%) Kafka
3 7 (5.79%) Spring
4 6 (4.96%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.96%) Node.js
4 6 (4.96%) RESTful
4 6 (4.96%) Sass
5 5 (4.13%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.13%) REST
6 4 (3.31%) AWS CDK
6 4 (3.31%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.31%) Loki
6 4 (3.31%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.31%) YAML
7 3 (2.48%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.48%) Flask
7 3 (2.48%) Vue
8 2 (1.65%) .NET
8 2 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 70 (57.85%) Cloud Native
2 20 (16.53%) Blog
2 20 (16.53%) Product Ownership
3 17 (14.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.79%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.48%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.48%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.65%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.36%) Linux
2 3 (2.48%) Android
2 3 (2.48%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.65%) CentOS
3 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.65%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.83%) Debian
4 1 (0.83%) Windows
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (85.12%) CI/CD
2 68 (56.20%) DevOps
3 59 (48.76%) Deployment Automation
4 57 (47.11%) Software Engineering
5 56 (46.28%) Test Automation
6 55 (45.45%) Clean Code
7 54 (44.63%) Continuous Deployment
8 48 (39.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (39.67%) Microservices
9 36 (29.75%) Fintech
10 35 (28.93%) Mentoring
11 29 (23.97%) Disruptive Innovation
12 26 (21.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (21.49%) Observability
13 23 (19.01%) Coaching
14 22 (18.18%) Cloud Security
14 22 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 17 (14.05%) Agile
15 17 (14.05%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (55.37%) Java
2 43 (35.54%) Python
3 23 (19.01%) Go
4 16 (13.22%) Bash
5 13 (10.74%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.26%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.31%) SQL
8 3 (2.48%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.65%) PHP
10 1 (0.83%) Bicep
10 1 (0.83%) C#
10 1 (0.83%) Groovy
10 1 (0.83%) Perl
10 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 10 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.61%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.13%) Degree
5 3 (2.48%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.48%) OSCP
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.96%) SOC 2
2 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.48%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) NCSC
3 1 (0.83%) QA
3 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (19.01%) Docker
2 10 (8.26%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 113 (93.39%) Terraform
2 104 (85.95%) Kubernetes
3 72 (59.50%) Grafana
4 22 (18.18%) Ansible
5 17 (14.05%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.61%) Istio
7 7 (5.79%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.48%) Argo
9 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.65%) Puppet
10 1 (0.83%) Consul
10 1 (0.83%) Kibana
10 1 (0.83%) Packer
10 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (6.61%) Confluent
2 7 (5.79%) VMware
3 4 (3.31%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.48%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.65%) Google
6 1 (0.83%) Databricks
6 1 (0.83%) IBM
6 1 (0.83%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.83%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.83%) Splunk
6 1 (0.83%) TOWER Software