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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 325 336
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +59
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 132 101 161
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.60% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 1.75% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 46 45 123
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £78,250
25th Percentile £61,378 £61,250 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £67,500 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% -37.21% +32.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £124,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £77,500 £107,500
% change year-on-year -12.90% -27.91% +34.38%

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 8,736 5,780 9,422
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.04% 34.26% 41.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,413 4,093 6,246
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 2 October 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 (1.52%) Camunda
1 2 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.76%) JBoss
2 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 118 (89.39%) AWS
2 81 (61.36%) GCP
3 74 (56.06%) SaaS
4 18 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 15 (11.36%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (11.36%) Serverless
6 12 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (8.33%) Azure AKS
8 10 (7.58%) Azure
9 9 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (6.82%) GitHub
10 8 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (5.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (4.55%) Google Compute Engine
12 6 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (3.79%) Amazon MSK
13 5 (3.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 3 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.82%) VPN
2 6 (4.55%) BGP
2 6 (4.55%) Firewall
2 6 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.03%) Broadband
4 3 (2.27%) DNS
4 3 (2.27%) Network Security
4 3 (2.27%) VLAN
5 2 (1.52%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.45%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.03%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.03%) DocumentDB
4 4 (3.03%) MySQL
5 3 (2.27%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.52%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 79 (59.85%) TeamCity
2 12 (9.09%) GitLab
3 11 (8.33%) Git
4 6 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.55%) JIRA
5 3 (2.27%) JUnit
6 2 (1.52%) Mockito
6 2 (1.52%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 80 (60.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 79 (59.85%) Retail
3 78 (59.09%) Banking
3 78 (59.09%) Law
4 76 (57.58%) Finance
5 68 (51.52%) Back Office
5 68 (51.52%) Financial Institution
6 27 (20.45%) Social Skills
7 20 (15.15%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.03%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.76%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 76 (57.58%) Software Engineer
2 48 (36.36%) Senior
3 23 (17.42%) Senior Software Engineer
4 22 (16.67%) Lead
4 22 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 22 (16.67%) Software Team Leader
4 22 (16.67%) Team Leader
5 21 (15.91%) Java Engineer
6 19 (14.39%) Java Software Engineer
7 14 (10.61%) Senior Java Engineer
8 13 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (9.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 12 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (6.06%) Developer
12 7 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) Project Manager
12 7 (5.30%) Technical Manager
12 7 (5.30%) Technical Project Manager
13 6 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (83.33%) Terraform
2 9 (6.82%) RESTful
3 8 (6.06%) Spring
4 7 (5.30%) React
4 7 (5.30%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.79%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.79%) REST
6 4 (3.03%) .NET
6 4 (3.03%) ASP.NET
6 4 (3.03%) Node.js
6 4 (3.03%) PySpark
7 3 (2.27%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.27%) Flask
7 3 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (2.27%) Vue
7 3 (2.27%) Web Services
8 2 (1.52%) Jakarta EE
8 2 (1.52%) JSON
8 2 (1.52%) Play Framework
8 2 (1.52%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 80 (60.61%) Cloud Native
2 46 (34.85%) Product Ownership
3 21 (15.91%) Blog
4 17 (12.88%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.55%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (3.79%) Security Posture
8 4 (3.03%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.27%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.27%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.52%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.91%) Linux
2 6 (4.55%) Unix
2 6 (4.55%) Windows
2 6 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.52%) Android
3 2 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (90.15%) CI/CD
2 80 (60.61%) Microservices
3 78 (59.09%) Software Engineering
4 73 (55.30%) Clean Code
5 72 (54.55%) DevOps
6 71 (53.79%) Test Automation
7 70 (53.03%) Deployment Automation
8 69 (52.27%) Continuous Deployment
9 61 (46.21%) Mentoring
10 55 (41.67%) Coaching
11 50 (37.88%) Fintech
12 48 (36.36%) Disruptive Innovation
13 37 (28.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (18.18%) AI
16 22 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (13.64%) Agile
17 18 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 17 (12.88%) Observability
19 13 (9.85%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 90 (68.18%) Java
2 31 (23.48%) Python
3 16 (12.12%) Go
4 15 (11.36%) Bash
5 12 (9.09%) SQL
6 6 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.03%) C#
7 4 (3.03%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.52%) PHP
9 2 (1.52%) Scala
10 1 (0.76%) Groovy
10 1 (0.76%) Perl
10 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (7.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.82%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.79%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.03%) Degree
5 3 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (2.27%) CCSP
5 3 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.27%) CISM
5 3 (2.27%) CISSP
6 2 (1.52%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.52%) OSCP
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (4.55%) PCI DSS
1 6 (4.55%) SOC 2
2 3 (2.27%) NIST
3 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) NCSC
4 1 (0.76%) QA
4 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (10.61%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 110 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 91 (68.94%) Grafana
3 14 (10.61%) Ansible
4 9 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.27%) Cilium
5 3 (2.27%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.52%) Istio
6 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.76%) Argo
7 1 (0.76%) Kibana
7 1 (0.76%) Opsview
Vendors
1 8 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.55%) Google
3 4 (3.03%) Databricks
4 3 (2.27%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.27%) VMware
5 2 (1.52%) Splunk
6 1 (0.76%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.76%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.76%) IBM
6 1 (0.76%) Okta
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle
6 1 (0.76%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.76%) YouTube