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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 326 340
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 +61
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 128 101 159
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.61% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 1.77% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 47 45 121
10th Percentile £54,000 £52,500 £81,250
25th Percentile £61,505 £61,250 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £67,500 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% -37.21% +34.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £124,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £78,750 £107,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% -26.74% +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 8,723 5,708 9,368
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.12% 34.47% 41.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,394 4,052 6,208
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
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 29 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 (1.56%) Camunda
2 1 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.78%) Confluence
2 1 (0.78%) JBoss
2 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 114 (89.06%) AWS
2 77 (60.16%) GCP
3 70 (54.69%) SaaS
4 19 (14.84%) Amazon S3
5 15 (11.72%) Serverless
6 14 (10.94%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (10.16%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (7.81%) Azure AKS
10 9 (7.03%) Azure
10 9 (7.03%) GitHub
11 8 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.91%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (3.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.34%) Google Compute Engine
13 3 (2.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.91%) VPN
2 4 (3.13%) Broadband
3 3 (2.34%) BGP
3 3 (2.34%) Firewall
3 3 (2.34%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.56%) DNS
4 2 (1.56%) VLAN
5 1 (0.78%) Network Security
5 1 (0.78%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.16%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.69%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.13%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.13%) DocumentDB
4 4 (3.13%) MySQL
5 3 (2.34%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.56%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 75 (58.59%) TeamCity
2 12 (9.38%) GitLab
3 11 (8.59%) Git
4 6 (4.69%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.91%) JIRA
6 3 (2.34%) JUnit
7 2 (1.56%) Mockito
7 2 (1.56%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 78 (60.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 77 (60.16%) Retail
3 76 (59.38%) Banking
3 76 (59.38%) Law
4 72 (56.25%) Finance
5 64 (50.00%) Back Office
5 64 (50.00%) Financial Institution
6 25 (19.53%) Social Skills
7 19 (14.84%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.13%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.78%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 75 (58.59%) Software Engineer
2 44 (34.38%) Senior
3 23 (17.97%) Senior Software Engineer
4 21 (16.41%) Java Engineer
4 21 (16.41%) Lead
4 21 (16.41%) Lead Software Engineer
4 21 (16.41%) Software Team Leader
4 21 (16.41%) Team Leader
5 19 (14.84%) Java Software Engineer
6 14 (10.94%) Senior Java Engineer
7 13 (10.16%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 12 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (8.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Developer
11 7 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) Project Manager
11 7 (5.47%) Technical Manager
11 7 (5.47%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (82.81%) Terraform
2 8 (6.25%) RESTful
2 8 (6.25%) Spring
3 7 (5.47%) React
3 7 (5.47%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.91%) AngularJS
4 5 (3.91%) REST
5 4 (3.13%) .NET
5 4 (3.13%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.13%) Node.js
5 4 (3.13%) PySpark
6 3 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.34%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.34%) Flask
6 3 (2.34%) Vue
6 3 (2.34%) Web Services
7 2 (1.56%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.56%) Next.js
7 2 (1.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.56%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 76 (59.38%) Cloud Native
2 44 (34.38%) Product Ownership
3 18 (14.06%) Blog
4 14 (10.94%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (7.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.69%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (3.13%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.34%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.34%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.56%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.63%) Linux
2 6 (4.69%) Unix
2 6 (4.69%) Windows
2 6 (4.69%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.56%) Android
3 2 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (89.84%) CI/CD
2 77 (60.16%) Microservices
2 77 (60.16%) Software Engineering
3 71 (55.47%) Clean Code
3 71 (55.47%) DevOps
4 70 (54.69%) Test Automation
5 69 (53.91%) Deployment Automation
6 68 (53.13%) Continuous Deployment
7 58 (45.31%) Mentoring
8 53 (41.41%) Coaching
9 46 (35.94%) Fintech
10 44 (34.38%) Disruptive Innovation
11 36 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (27.34%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (17.97%) AI
14 20 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (14.06%) Agile
16 17 (13.28%) Observability
17 16 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 13 (10.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 86 (67.19%) Java
2 27 (21.09%) Python
3 13 (10.16%) Bash
4 11 (8.59%) Go
5 9 (7.03%) SQL
6 6 (4.69%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.13%) C#
7 4 (3.13%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.34%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.56%) PHP
9 2 (1.56%) Scala
10 1 (0.78%) Groovy
10 1 (0.78%) Perl
10 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (7.81%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.13%) Degree
4 2 (1.56%) CREST Certified
4 2 (1.56%) OSCP
5 1 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.78%) CCSP
5 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.78%) CISM
5 1 (0.78%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.13%) SOC 2
2 3 (2.34%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) NCSC
4 1 (0.78%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) QA
4 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (11.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 106 (82.81%) Kubernetes
2 86 (67.19%) Grafana
3 13 (10.16%) Ansible
4 7 (5.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.56%) Argo
5 2 (1.56%) Istio
5 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.56%) Proxmox
5 2 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.78%) Cilium
6 1 (0.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.13%) Databricks
3 3 (2.34%) AppDynamics
3 3 (2.34%) Google
4 2 (1.56%) Splunk
4 2 (1.56%) VMware
5 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.78%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.78%) IBM
5 1 (0.78%) Okta
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle
5 1 (0.78%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow