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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 331 381
Rank change year-on-year +41 +50 +157
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 83 145 110
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.72% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.62% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 62 117 93
10th Percentile £50,925 £97,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £98,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £135,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.52% +80.00% -
75th Percentile £91,563 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £165,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £112,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -31.11% +60.71% -8.20%

All Cloud 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 5,606 8,975 10,250
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.66% 44.49% 47.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,182 5,884 8,784
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,438 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 22 November 2025.

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 6 (7.23%) Tomcat
1 6 (7.23%) WebSphere
1 6 (7.23%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (3.61%) Apache
3 2 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 80 (96.39%) AWS
2 32 (38.55%) AWS CloudFormation
3 26 (31.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 24 (28.92%) Serverless
5 23 (27.71%) Azure
6 22 (26.51%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (25.30%) Azure AKS
7 21 (25.30%) GitHub
7 21 (25.30%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (21.69%) GCP
9 17 (20.48%) SaaS
10 15 (18.07%) Amazon S3
11 13 (15.66%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (15.66%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (15.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (14.46%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (12.05%) Route 53
14 9 (10.84%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (8.43%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (8.43%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) SSL
2 5 (6.02%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.02%) VPN
3 4 (4.82%) Firewall
4 3 (3.61%) BGP
4 3 (3.61%) DNS
4 3 (3.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.07%) Amazon RDS
1 15 (18.07%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.43%) DynamoDB
3 6 (7.23%) DB2
3 6 (7.23%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.02%) Flink
5 3 (3.61%) Apache Ignite
5 3 (3.61%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (30.12%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.87%) TeamCity
3 5 (6.02%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.61%) Git
4 3 (3.61%) GitLab
5 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (38.55%) Finance
2 28 (33.73%) Banking
3 22 (26.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (24.10%) Financial Institution
5 18 (21.69%) Law
6 17 (20.48%) Back Office
6 17 (20.48%) Retail
7 9 (10.84%) Social Skills
8 5 (6.02%) Front Office
9 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Games
Job Titles
1 24 (28.92%) Senior
2 22 (26.51%) Software Engineer
3 21 (25.30%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (22.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (18.07%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) AWS DevOps
7 9 (10.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) Lead
8 8 (9.64%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (8.43%) Java Engineer
9 7 (8.43%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (8.43%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (8.43%) Principal Software Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Applications Support
10 6 (7.23%) Applications Support Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Developer
10 6 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (22.89%) Kafka
2 13 (15.66%) Spring
3 12 (14.46%) Spring Boot
4 11 (13.25%) Node.js
5 9 (10.84%) React
6 8 (9.64%) RESTful
7 6 (7.23%) LAPP Stack
7 6 (7.23%) LDAP
7 6 (7.23%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (6.02%) Jest
8 5 (6.02%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (6.02%) Redux
9 4 (4.82%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.82%) AWS CDK
10 3 (3.61%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.61%) REST
11 2 (2.41%) AWS SAM
11 2 (2.41%) Nuxt
11 2 (2.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 31 (37.35%) Cloud Native
2 14 (16.87%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.23%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (6.02%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.20%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.51%) Linux
2 16 (19.28%) Windows
3 9 (10.84%) Unix
4 8 (9.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.41%) CentOS
5 2 (2.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (77.11%) CI/CD
2 50 (60.24%) DevOps
3 35 (42.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (34.94%) Software Engineering
5 25 (30.12%) Agile
6 24 (28.92%) Microservices
7 20 (24.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (20.48%) Mentoring
9 16 (19.28%) Deployment Automation
9 16 (19.28%) Observability
10 15 (18.07%) Test Automation
11 14 (16.87%) Clean Code
11 14 (16.87%) Continuous Deployment
11 14 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (15.66%) RBAC
13 12 (14.46%) Cloud Security
13 12 (14.46%) Containerisation
13 12 (14.46%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (14.46%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.78%) Python
2 36 (43.37%) Java
3 18 (21.69%) Bash
4 14 (16.87%) PowerShell
5 13 (15.66%) Bicep
6 7 (8.43%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.23%) Go
8 5 (6.02%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.20%) C#
9 1 (1.20%) PHP
9 1 (1.20%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 23 (27.71%) AWS Certification
2 23 (27.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.84%) Azure Certification
4 7 (8.43%) Degree
5 6 (7.23%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (1.20%) MCSA
9 1 (1.20%) MCSE
9 1 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (7.23%) PCI DSS
2 6 (7.23%) SLA
3 5 (6.02%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.41%) GDPR
4 2 (2.41%) QA
5 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.20%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (15.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (67.47%) Terraform
2 54 (65.06%) Kubernetes
3 37 (44.58%) Grafana
4 17 (20.48%) Ansible
5 13 (15.66%) Argo
6 10 (12.05%) Prometheus
7 5 (6.02%) Kibana
8 1 (1.20%) Cilium
8 1 (1.20%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 6 (7.23%) IBM
1 6 (7.23%) Red Hat
2 5 (6.02%) PagerDuty
3 4 (4.82%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.61%) Google
4 3 (3.61%) Solace
4 3 (3.61%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.41%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.41%) Splunk
6 1 (1.20%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle
6 1 (1.20%) Pega
6 1 (1.20%) WSO2