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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 299 418
Rank change year-on-year +49 +119 +49
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 149 100 154
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 0.76% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 1.68% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 75 61 115
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £82,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +38.71% +1.64%
75th Percentile £102,875 £138,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £141,000 £147,500 £110,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £105,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +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 6,765 5,937 14,025
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.18% 44.92% 43.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,549 4,667 12,073
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,230 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,700 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 18 April 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 (2.01%) Apache
1 3 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.01%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.67%) Drupal
2 1 (0.67%) IIS
2 1 (0.67%) JBoss
2 1 (0.67%) nginx
2 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 142 (95.30%) AWS
2 70 (46.98%) GCP
3 49 (32.89%) SaaS
4 31 (20.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 26 (17.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 26 (17.45%) GitHub
6 25 (16.78%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (15.44%) Azure
8 22 (14.77%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (14.77%) Serverless
9 21 (14.09%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (14.09%) Amazon S3
10 19 (12.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 18 (12.08%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (8.05%) Azure AKS
13 10 (6.71%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (6.04%) Amazon MSK
14 9 (6.04%) CloudFront
14 9 (6.04%) OpenShift
15 8 (5.37%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.72%) VPN
2 11 (7.38%) Firewall
3 8 (5.37%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.03%) BGP
4 6 (4.03%) VLAN
5 2 (1.34%) DNS
6 1 (0.67%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.75%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.71%) Flink
4 7 (4.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.34%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.67%) Big Data
6 1 (0.67%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.67%) Redis
6 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (37.58%) TeamCity
2 15 (10.07%) GitLab
3 11 (7.38%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.37%) Git
5 4 (2.68%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.67%) Gatling
6 1 (0.67%) JIRA
6 1 (0.67%) JMeter
6 1 (0.67%) JUnit
6 1 (0.67%) MLflow
6 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.67%) Vagrant
General
1 83 (55.70%) Banking
2 74 (49.66%) Finance
3 72 (48.32%) Retail
4 69 (46.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (43.62%) Law
6 49 (32.89%) Back Office
6 49 (32.89%) Financial Institution
7 26 (17.45%) Social Skills
8 11 (7.38%) Public Sector
9 10 (6.71%) Front Office
10 3 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (36.91%) Software Engineer
2 38 (25.50%) Senior
3 36 (24.16%) AWS Engineer
4 35 (23.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (16.11%) Lead
6 20 (13.42%) Java Engineer
7 19 (12.75%) Java Software Engineer
8 18 (12.08%) AWS DevOps
8 18 (12.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 18 (12.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (10.74%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (10.74%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (9.40%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 14 (9.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 14 (9.40%) Lead Software Engineer
11 13 (8.72%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (7.38%) Customer Engineer
12 11 (7.38%) Customer Service Engineer
12 11 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (7.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.11%) Kafka
2 20 (13.42%) React
3 13 (8.72%) Node.js
4 12 (8.05%) Spring
5 10 (6.71%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (6.04%) RESTful
7 8 (5.37%) Spring Boot
8 7 (4.70%) Loki
8 7 (4.70%) REST
8 7 (4.70%) Sass
9 5 (3.36%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.68%) Web Services
10 4 (2.68%) YAML
11 3 (2.01%) AWS CDK
11 3 (2.01%) JSON
11 3 (2.01%) Mustache
12 2 (1.34%) ARM Templates
12 2 (1.34%) AWS SAM
12 2 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (1.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (50.34%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.75%) Blog
2 19 (12.75%) Product Ownership
3 18 (12.08%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (12.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.70%) Private Cloud
5 6 (4.03%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.01%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.01%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.01%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.78%) Linux
2 4 (2.68%) CentOS
2 4 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.68%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.01%) Android
3 3 (2.01%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.34%) Unix
5 1 (0.67%) Debian
5 1 (0.67%) Windows
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (85.23%) CI/CD
2 87 (58.39%) DevOps
3 65 (43.62%) Deployment Automation
4 64 (42.95%) Software Engineering
5 61 (40.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 60 (40.27%) Test Automation
7 58 (38.93%) Clean Code
8 57 (38.26%) Continuous Deployment
9 49 (32.89%) Microservices
10 38 (25.50%) Agile
10 38 (25.50%) Mentoring
11 37 (24.83%) Observability
11 37 (24.83%) Platform Engineering
12 35 (23.49%) Fintech
13 34 (22.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (17.45%) Disruptive Innovation
16 25 (16.78%) Coaching
17 23 (15.44%) Cloud Security
18 21 (14.09%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 87 (58.39%) Java
2 59 (39.60%) Python
3 32 (21.48%) Go
4 21 (14.09%) Bash
5 13 (8.72%) JavaScript
6 12 (8.05%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.01%) SQL
8 2 (1.34%) Bicep
8 2 (1.34%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.67%) Groovy
9 1 (0.67%) Perl
9 1 (0.67%) PHP
9 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (12.08%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.71%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.70%) Degree
5 3 (2.01%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.01%) OSCP
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.04%) SOC 2
2 8 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.03%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.34%) QA
5 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.67%) NCSC
5 1 (0.67%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (22.15%) Docker
2 8 (5.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 134 (89.93%) Terraform
2 128 (85.91%) Kubernetes
3 83 (55.70%) Grafana
4 27 (18.12%) Ansible
5 23 (15.44%) Prometheus
6 17 (11.41%) Argo
7 8 (5.37%) Istio
8 7 (4.70%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.34%) Kibana
9 2 (1.34%) Puppet
10 1 (0.67%) Consul
10 1 (0.67%) Packer
10 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (5.37%) Confluent
2 7 (4.70%) VMware
3 4 (2.68%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.68%) PagerDuty
4 3 (2.01%) Splunk
5 2 (1.34%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.34%) Google
5 2 (1.34%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.67%) IBM
6 1 (0.67%) Mercator
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle
6 1 (0.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.67%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.67%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.67%) TOWER Software