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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 331 329
Rank change year-on-year -25 -2 +58
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 99 99 170
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.44% 0.60% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.66% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 52 38 133
10th Percentile £52,605 £46,845 £65,500
25th Percentile £60,938 £54,500 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £67,500 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% -37.21% +30.30%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,125 £127,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £73,500 £85,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% -19.05% +31.25%

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 8,638 5,955 10,188
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.03% 35.86% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,255 4,370 7,956
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,125 £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 £81,250 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 14 August 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 (2.02%) Apache
1 2 (2.02%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.01%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.01%) Drupal
2 1 (1.01%) IIS
2 1 (1.01%) JBoss
2 1 (1.01%) nginx
2 1 (1.01%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (1.01%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 86 (86.87%) AWS
2 53 (53.54%) GCP
3 44 (44.44%) SaaS
4 18 (18.18%) Amazon S3
5 17 (17.17%) Azure
6 16 (16.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (13.13%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (12.12%) Serverless
10 10 (10.10%) Amazon MSK
11 9 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (9.09%) Azure AKS
12 8 (8.08%) OpenShift
13 7 (7.07%) GitHub
13 7 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (4.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 3 (3.03%) AWS Control Tower
16 3 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) Broadband
2 3 (3.03%) DNS
2 3 (3.03%) Firewall
3 2 (2.02%) VPN
4 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.13%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.08%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.04%) Delta Lake
4 4 (4.04%) MySQL
5 3 (3.03%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.02%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.01%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.01%) Redis
7 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (42.42%) TeamCity
2 14 (14.14%) GitLab
3 11 (11.11%) Git
4 6 (6.06%) JIRA
5 5 (5.05%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.02%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.01%) Gatling
7 1 (1.01%) JMeter
7 1 (1.01%) JUnit
7 1 (1.01%) MLflow
7 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.01%) Vagrant
General
1 52 (52.53%) Banking
2 51 (51.52%) Finance
3 46 (46.46%) Retail
4 44 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (44.44%) Law
5 38 (38.38%) Back Office
5 38 (38.38%) Financial Institution
6 14 (14.14%) Social Skills
7 13 (13.13%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (4.04%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (48.48%) Software Engineer
2 38 (38.38%) Senior
3 18 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 16 (16.16%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (16.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (14.14%) Lead
6 13 (13.13%) Lead Software Engineer
6 13 (13.13%) Software Team Leader
6 13 (13.13%) Team Leader
7 12 (12.12%) Java Engineer
8 11 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (8.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (8.08%) Developer
10 8 (8.08%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 6 (6.06%) Senior Java Engineer
11 6 (6.06%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.08%) Kafka
2 7 (7.07%) React
3 6 (6.06%) RESTful
4 5 (5.05%) .NET
4 5 (5.05%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.04%) ASP.NET
5 4 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (4.04%) FastAPI
5 4 (4.04%) Node.js
5 4 (4.04%) PySpark
5 4 (4.04%) REST
5 4 (4.04%) Spring
5 4 (4.04%) YAML
6 3 (3.03%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.03%) Flask
6 3 (3.03%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.03%) Vue
7 2 (2.02%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.02%) Jakarta EE
7 2 (2.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (52.53%) Cloud Native
2 28 (28.28%) Product Ownership
3 12 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.06%) Blog
5 5 (5.05%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (4.04%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.03%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.02%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.19%) Linux
2 6 (6.06%) Windows
2 6 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.05%) Unix
4 2 (2.02%) Android
4 2 (2.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 64 (64.65%) DevOps
3 52 (52.53%) Microservices
3 52 (52.53%) Software Engineering
4 45 (45.45%) Deployment Automation
5 44 (44.44%) Clean Code
5 44 (44.44%) Test Automation
6 43 (43.43%) Continuous Deployment
7 39 (39.39%) Mentoring
8 35 (35.35%) Coaching
9 33 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (23.23%) Fintech
12 19 (19.19%) Agile
12 19 (19.19%) Disruptive Innovation
13 18 (18.18%) AI
13 18 (18.18%) Containerisation
14 17 (17.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 14 (14.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 49 (49.49%) Java
2 29 (29.29%) Python
3 15 (15.15%) Go
4 7 (7.07%) Bash
4 7 (7.07%) SQL
5 6 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.04%) C#
6 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.03%) PHP
8 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.01%) Groovy
9 1 (1.01%) Perl
9 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (8.08%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.07%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.04%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.04%) Degree
4 2 (2.02%) CREST Certified
4 2 (2.02%) OSCP
5 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.02%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.01%) NCSC
2 1 (1.01%) QA
2 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (22.22%) Docker
2 10 (10.10%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 81 (81.82%) Terraform
2 79 (79.80%) Kubernetes
3 50 (50.51%) Grafana
4 16 (16.16%) Ansible
5 10 (10.10%) Istio
6 5 (5.05%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.02%) Argo
7 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.02%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.01%) Consul
8 1 (1.01%) Kibana
8 1 (1.01%) Packer
8 1 (1.01%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.01%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (8.08%) Confluent
1 8 (8.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.04%) Databricks
3 3 (3.03%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.02%) VMware
5 1 (1.01%) Google
5 1 (1.01%) IBM
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle
5 1 (1.01%) TOWER Software