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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 338 344
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +36
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 105 100 172
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.46% 0.60% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 1.68% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 54 39 135
10th Percentile £52,816 £48,147 £66,000
25th Percentile £60,313 £55,500 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £67,500 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% -37.21% +30.30%
75th Percentile £86,875 £112,500 £145,000
90th Percentile £111,375 £127,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year -12.12% -21.43% +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 8,648 5,948 10,060
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.72% 35.92% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,292 4,361 7,767
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,489 £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 £81,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 20 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 (1.90%) Apache
1 2 (1.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.95%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.95%) Drupal
2 1 (0.95%) IIS
2 1 (0.95%) JBoss
2 1 (0.95%) nginx
2 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.95%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 91 (86.67%) AWS
2 57 (54.29%) GCP
3 48 (45.71%) SaaS
4 18 (17.14%) Amazon S3
5 17 (16.19%) Azure
6 16 (15.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (12.38%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (11.43%) Serverless
10 10 (9.52%) Amazon MSK
10 10 (9.52%) Azure AKS
11 9 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (7.62%) GitHub
12 8 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (7.62%) OpenShift
13 6 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (3.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 3 (2.86%) AWS Control Tower
15 3 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) Broadband
2 3 (2.86%) DNS
2 3 (2.86%) Firewall
3 2 (1.90%) VPN
4 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.38%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.62%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.81%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.81%) MySQL
5 3 (2.86%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.90%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.90%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.95%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.95%) Redis
7 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (43.81%) TeamCity
2 14 (13.33%) GitLab
3 11 (10.48%) Git
4 6 (5.71%) JIRA
5 5 (4.76%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.90%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.95%) Gatling
7 1 (0.95%) JMeter
7 1 (0.95%) JUnit
7 1 (0.95%) MLflow
7 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.95%) Vagrant
General
1 56 (53.33%) Banking
1 56 (53.33%) Finance
2 50 (47.62%) Retail
3 49 (46.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (45.71%) Law
5 42 (40.00%) Back Office
5 42 (40.00%) Financial Institution
6 15 (14.29%) Public Sector
7 14 (13.33%) Social Skills
8 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.81%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (50.48%) Software Engineer
2 40 (38.10%) Senior
3 19 (18.10%) Senior Software Engineer
4 16 (15.24%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (15.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (15.24%) Lead
5 15 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
5 15 (14.29%) Software Team Leader
5 15 (14.29%) Team Leader
6 13 (12.38%) Java Engineer
7 12 (11.43%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (8.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (7.62%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (7.62%) Developer
10 8 (7.62%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 7 (6.67%) Senior Java Engineer
11 7 (6.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (81.90%) Terraform
2 8 (7.62%) Kafka
3 7 (6.67%) React
4 6 (5.71%) RESTful
5 5 (4.76%) .NET
5 5 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.81%) ASP.NET
6 4 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.81%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.81%) Node.js
6 4 (3.81%) PySpark
6 4 (3.81%) REST
6 4 (3.81%) Spring
6 4 (3.81%) YAML
7 3 (2.86%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.86%) Flask
7 3 (2.86%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.86%) Vue
8 2 (1.90%) Jakarta EE
8 2 (1.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (53.33%) Cloud Native
2 31 (29.52%) Product Ownership
3 12 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.67%) Blog
5 6 (5.71%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (3.81%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.86%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.90%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.05%) Linux
2 7 (6.67%) Windows
2 7 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.71%) Unix
4 2 (1.90%) Android
4 2 (1.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (78.10%) CI/CD
2 67 (63.81%) DevOps
3 57 (54.29%) Software Engineering
4 56 (53.33%) Microservices
5 49 (46.67%) Clean Code
5 49 (46.67%) Deployment Automation
6 48 (45.71%) Continuous Deployment
6 48 (45.71%) Test Automation
7 43 (40.95%) Mentoring
8 39 (37.14%) Coaching
9 34 (32.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (23.81%) Fintech
12 21 (20.00%) Disruptive Innovation
13 20 (19.05%) Agile
14 19 (18.10%) AI
14 19 (18.10%) Containerisation
15 17 (16.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 15 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 53 (50.48%) Java
2 29 (27.62%) Python
3 15 (14.29%) Go
4 7 (6.67%) Bash
4 7 (6.67%) SQL
5 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.81%) C#
6 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.86%) PHP
8 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.95%) Groovy
9 1 (0.95%) Perl
9 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.95%) Scala
9 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.81%) Degree
4 2 (1.90%) CREST Certified
4 2 (1.90%) OSCP
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.90%) SOC 2
2 1 (0.95%) NCSC
2 1 (0.95%) QA
2 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (20.95%) Docker
2 10 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 84 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 55 (52.38%) Grafana
3 16 (15.24%) Ansible
4 10 (9.52%) Istio
5 5 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.90%) Argo
6 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.90%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.95%) Consul
7 1 (0.95%) Kibana
7 1 (0.95%) Packer
7 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.95%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.62%) Confluent
3 4 (3.81%) Databricks
4 3 (2.86%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.90%) VMware
6 1 (0.95%) Google
6 1 (0.95%) IBM
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle
6 1 (0.95%) Splunk
6 1 (0.95%) TOWER Software