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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 326 372
Rank change year-on-year +42 +46 +175
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 98 118 105
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.64% 0.68% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.47% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 73 89 86
10th Percentile £51,100 £86,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £98,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +45.76% -1.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £150,000 - £86,875
UK median annual salary £77,500 £107,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -27.91% +48.28% -9.38%

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 5,603 8,011 9,393
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.58% 46.15% 47.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,071 5,249 8,058
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £36,270
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%

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 December 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 (6.12%) Tomcat
1 6 (6.12%) WebSphere
1 6 (6.12%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (3.06%) Apache
2 3 (3.06%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 95 (96.94%) AWS
2 32 (32.65%) AWS CloudFormation
3 29 (29.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 28 (28.57%) GitHub
5 27 (27.55%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (27.55%) Serverless
6 23 (23.47%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (23.47%) Azure
7 21 (21.43%) Azure AKS
7 21 (21.43%) GCP
8 18 (18.37%) SaaS
9 17 (17.35%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (17.35%) Amazon S3
10 16 (16.33%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (16.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (12.24%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (10.20%) Route 53
14 9 (9.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (9.18%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) SSL
2 5 (5.10%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.10%) VPN
3 3 (3.06%) BGP
3 3 (3.06%) DNS
3 3 (3.06%) Firewall
3 3 (3.06%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.39%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (17.35%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.20%) Flink
4 6 (6.12%) DB2
4 6 (6.12%) DynamoDB
4 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (3.06%) Apache Ignite
5 3 (3.06%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (29.59%) Jenkins
2 17 (17.35%) TeamCity
3 5 (5.10%) Cypress.io
3 5 (5.10%) Git
4 4 (4.08%) GitLab
5 2 (2.04%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (39.80%) Finance
2 36 (36.73%) Banking
3 24 (24.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (21.43%) Financial Institution
4 21 (21.43%) Law
5 20 (20.41%) Retail
6 18 (18.37%) Back Office
7 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
8 10 (10.20%) Front Office
9 5 (5.10%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (27.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (25.51%) Software Engineer
3 24 (24.49%) Senior
4 22 (22.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (19.39%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (14.29%) Lead
7 11 (11.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 10 (10.20%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (10.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (10.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 8 (8.16%) Applications Engineer
9 8 (8.16%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (7.14%) Developer
10 7 (7.14%) Java Engineer
10 7 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (7.14%) Principal Software Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) Java Developer
11 6 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (25.51%) Kafka
2 18 (18.37%) React
3 16 (16.33%) Spring
4 14 (14.29%) Node.js
4 14 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 8 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (8.16%) RESTful
6 6 (6.12%) LAPP Stack
6 6 (6.12%) LDAP
6 6 (6.12%) WebSphere MQ
7 5 (5.10%) Jest
7 5 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.10%) Redux
7 5 (5.10%) REST
8 4 (4.08%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.08%) ARM Templates
8 4 (4.08%) AWS CDK
9 3 (3.06%) Loki
9 3 (3.06%) Web Services
10 2 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (34.69%) Cloud Native
2 17 (17.35%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.12%) Fixed Income
3 6 (6.12%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.10%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.04%) Blog
6 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.51%) Linux
2 15 (15.31%) Windows
3 9 (9.18%) Unix
4 8 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.04%) CentOS
5 2 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (80.61%) CI/CD
2 64 (65.31%) DevOps
3 39 (39.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (32.65%) Software Engineering
5 31 (31.63%) Agile
6 27 (27.55%) Microservices
7 22 (22.45%) Deployment Automation
8 21 (21.43%) Observability
9 20 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (20.41%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (19.39%) Mentoring
10 19 (19.39%) Test Automation
11 17 (17.35%) Clean Code
11 17 (17.35%) Continuous Deployment
12 15 (15.31%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (14.29%) Cloud Security
13 14 (14.29%) RBAC
13 14 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (50.00%) Python
2 47 (47.96%) Java
3 22 (22.45%) Bash
4 15 (15.31%) PowerShell
5 14 (14.29%) Bicep
6 11 (11.22%) TypeScript
7 10 (10.20%) Go
8 9 (9.18%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.02%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (25.51%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.47%) SC Cleared
3 22 (22.45%) AWS Certification
4 9 (9.18%) Azure Certification
4 9 (9.18%) Degree
5 6 (6.12%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.02%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.12%) SLA
3 5 (5.10%) PCI DSS
3 5 (5.10%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.04%) GDPR
4 2 (2.04%) QA
5 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (18.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 68 (69.39%) Kubernetes
1 68 (69.39%) Terraform
2 44 (44.90%) Grafana
3 20 (20.41%) Ansible
4 17 (17.35%) Argo
5 14 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.10%) Kibana
7 1 (1.02%) Cilium
7 1 (1.02%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 6 (6.12%) IBM
1 6 (6.12%) Microsoft
1 6 (6.12%) Red Hat
2 5 (5.10%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (4.08%) PagerDuty
3 4 (4.08%) SolarWinds
4 3 (3.06%) Google
4 3 (3.06%) Solace
5 2 (2.04%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.04%) Splunk
6 1 (1.02%) Mercator
6 1 (1.02%) Pega
6 1 (1.02%) WSO2