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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 329 338
Rank change year-on-year -20 +9 +47
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 112 97 169
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.47% 0.60% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.67% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 52 39 130
10th Percentile £52,605 £52,500 £80,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,375 £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 £84,063 £97,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £103,175 £127,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £82,500 £107,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% -23.26% +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 8,775 5,812 9,567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.60% 35.78% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,435 4,193 6,772
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,770
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 £86,000
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 11 September 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 (1.79%) Apache
1 2 (1.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.89%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.89%) Drupal
2 1 (0.89%) IIS
2 1 (0.89%) JBoss
2 1 (0.89%) nginx
2 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.89%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 98 (87.50%) AWS
2 64 (57.14%) GCP
3 54 (48.21%) SaaS
4 19 (16.96%) Amazon S3
5 16 (14.29%) Azure
6 15 (13.39%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (13.39%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (13.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (11.61%) Serverless
8 10 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (8.93%) Azure AKS
9 9 (8.04%) Amazon MSK
10 8 (7.14%) GitHub
10 8 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (5.36%) OpenShift
12 5 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (2.68%) AWS Control Tower
14 3 (2.68%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.57%) Broadband
2 3 (2.68%) DNS
3 2 (1.79%) Firewall
4 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.46%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.57%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.57%) MySQL
5 3 (2.68%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.79%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.79%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.89%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.89%) Redis
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (49.11%) TeamCity
2 13 (11.61%) GitLab
3 11 (9.82%) Git
4 6 (5.36%) JIRA
5 5 (4.46%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.79%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.89%) Gatling
7 1 (0.89%) JMeter
7 1 (0.89%) JUnit
7 1 (0.89%) MLflow
7 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.89%) Vagrant
General
1 63 (56.25%) Banking
2 62 (55.36%) Finance
3 59 (52.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 58 (51.79%) Retail
5 57 (50.89%) Law
6 48 (42.86%) Back Office
6 48 (42.86%) Financial Institution
7 17 (15.18%) Public Sector
8 15 (13.39%) Social Skills
9 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (3.57%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.89%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 62 (55.36%) Software Engineer
2 42 (37.50%) Senior
3 21 (18.75%) Senior Software Engineer
4 17 (15.18%) Java Engineer
4 17 (15.18%) Lead
4 17 (15.18%) Lead Software Engineer
4 17 (15.18%) Software Team Leader
4 17 (15.18%) Team Leader
5 15 (13.39%) Java Software Engineer
6 14 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (8.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (8.93%) Senior Java Engineer
9 9 (8.04%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 8 (7.14%) Developer
11 7 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (5.36%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (83.04%) Terraform
2 7 (6.25%) Kafka
2 7 (6.25%) React
3 6 (5.36%) RESTful
4 5 (4.46%) .NET
4 5 (4.46%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.46%) REST
4 5 (4.46%) Spring
5 4 (3.57%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.57%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.57%) Node.js
5 4 (3.57%) PySpark
5 4 (3.57%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.68%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.68%) Flask
6 3 (2.68%) Vue
6 3 (2.68%) YAML
7 2 (1.79%) Play Framework
7 2 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 63 (56.25%) Cloud Native
2 35 (31.25%) Product Ownership
3 12 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (9.82%) Blog
5 10 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (5.36%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (3.57%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.68%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.96%) Linux
2 7 (6.25%) Windows
2 7 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.36%) Unix
4 2 (1.79%) Android
4 2 (1.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (82.14%) CI/CD
2 68 (60.71%) DevOps
3 66 (58.93%) Software Engineering
4 62 (55.36%) Microservices
5 58 (51.79%) Clean Code
6 57 (50.89%) Continuous Deployment
6 57 (50.89%) Deployment Automation
7 56 (50.00%) Test Automation
8 49 (43.75%) Mentoring
9 44 (39.29%) Coaching
10 34 (30.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (27.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (27.68%) Fintech
12 27 (24.11%) Disruptive Innovation
13 19 (16.96%) Agile
13 19 (16.96%) AI
14 17 (15.18%) Containerisation
15 15 (13.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 15 (13.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 14 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 63 (56.25%) Java
2 26 (23.21%) Python
3 11 (9.82%) Go
4 7 (6.25%) Bash
4 7 (6.25%) SQL
5 6 (5.36%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.57%) C#
6 4 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.68%) PHP
8 2 (1.79%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.79%) Scala
9 1 (0.89%) Groovy
9 1 (0.89%) Perl
9 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.57%) Degree
4 3 (2.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.79%) CREST Certified
5 2 (1.79%) OSCP
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.79%) NCSC
2 2 (1.79%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.89%) QA
3 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (17.86%) Docker
2 8 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 90 (80.36%) Kubernetes
2 64 (57.14%) Grafana
3 14 (12.50%) Ansible
4 8 (7.14%) Istio
5 4 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.79%) Argo
6 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.89%) Consul
7 1 (0.89%) Kibana
7 1 (0.89%) Packer
7 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.89%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (8.04%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.36%) Confluent
3 4 (3.57%) Databricks
4 3 (2.68%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.79%) Splunk
6 1 (0.89%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.89%) Google
6 1 (0.89%) IBM
6 1 (0.89%) Okta
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle
6 1 (0.89%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.89%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.89%) VMware