Amazon EKS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 355 425
Rank change year-on-year -8 +70 +64
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 112 230 192
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.70% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 1.66% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 44 147 166
10th Percentile £41,638 £61,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,313 £81,250 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +23.53% +13.33%
75th Percentile £118,125 £142,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £135,375 £165,000 -
UK median annual salary £91,000 £98,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year -7.85% +16.18% +13.33%

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 6,834 13,836 16,762
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.49% 41.98% 47.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,561 10,963 13,040
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £84,136
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -

Amazon EKS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EKS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon EKS.

Amazon EKS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Amazon EKS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (9.82%) Apache
1 11 (9.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.79%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 112 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (56.25%) Azure
3 60 (53.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 31 (27.68%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (24.11%) Serverless
6 26 (23.21%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (19.64%) Amazon S3
8 21 (18.75%) GCP
9 19 (16.96%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (14.29%) Datadog
11 11 (9.82%) Dagster
11 11 (9.82%) dbt
11 11 (9.82%) Snowflake
12 10 (8.93%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (7.14%) GitHub
13 8 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (5.36%) OpenShift
14 6 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 3 (2.68%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.89%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (44.64%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (10.71%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (9.82%) Apache Arrow
3 11 (9.82%) Apache Iceberg
3 11 (9.82%) Apache Ignite
3 11 (9.82%) Data Lake
3 11 (9.82%) Dremio
4 10 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.46%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.68%) MySQL
6 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.79%) Redis
8 1 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.89%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.89%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.89%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 17 (15.18%) GitLab
3 15 (13.39%) Git
4 13 (11.61%) Cucumber
5 10 (8.93%) IntelliJ
5 10 (8.93%) JUnit
5 10 (8.93%) Maven
5 10 (8.93%) Mockito
6 5 (4.46%) JIRA
7 4 (3.57%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.68%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.89%) TestRail
General
1 52 (46.43%) Analytical Skills
1 52 (46.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 29 (25.89%) Finance
3 19 (16.96%) Banking
4 11 (9.82%) Front Office
4 11 (9.82%) Investment Banking
5 6 (5.36%) Social Skills
6 2 (1.79%) Games
7 1 (0.89%) Electronics
7 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 64 (57.14%) Developer
2 49 (43.75%) Software Developer
3 26 (23.21%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (22.32%) Senior
5 24 (21.43%) AWS DevOps
6 18 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 14 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (12.50%) Software Engineer
8 13 (11.61%) Java Developer
9 11 (9.82%) AWS Software Engineer
9 11 (9.82%) Java Engineer
9 11 (9.82%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (9.82%) Senior Developer
10 10 (8.93%) AWS Developer
10 10 (8.93%) DevOps Developer
10 10 (8.93%) Java Pricing Developer
10 10 (8.93%) Pricing Developer
10 10 (8.93%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (53.57%) Pandas
2 51 (45.54%) .NET
2 51 (45.54%) Node.js
3 17 (15.18%) Spring
4 14 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 12 (10.71%) PySpark
6 11 (9.82%) gRPC
6 11 (9.82%) NumPy
6 11 (9.82%) Protocol Buffers
6 11 (9.82%) SciPy
7 10 (8.93%) ActiveMQ
7 10 (8.93%) JMS
7 10 (8.93%) Kafka
8 5 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.68%) JSON
9 3 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.68%) REST
10 2 (1.79%) Lambda Expressions
11 1 (0.89%) Flask
11 1 (0.89%) React
Miscellaneous
1 49 (43.75%) Cyberattack
2 11 (9.82%) Derivative
2 11 (9.82%) Equities
2 11 (9.82%) Fixed Income
2 11 (9.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (9.82%) Hedge funds
3 10 (8.93%) Credit Derivative
3 10 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (8.93%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.68%) BBC
5 3 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.68%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.89%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.89%) Molecular Biology
7 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (63.39%) Linux
2 49 (43.75%) Android
3 4 (3.57%) Windows
4 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 80 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 77 (68.75%) Agile
3 68 (60.71%) Containerisation
4 52 (46.43%) Collaborative Working
5 50 (44.64%) Kanban
5 50 (44.64%) Mathematics
6 49 (43.75%) Android Development
6 49 (43.75%) Design Patterns
6 49 (43.75%) Line Management
6 49 (43.75%) OO
6 49 (43.75%) OOP
6 49 (43.75%) OWASP
6 49 (43.75%) Secure Coding
6 49 (43.75%) Statistics
7 40 (35.71%) DevOps
8 30 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (16.07%) Deployment Automation
10 16 (14.29%) Analytics
11 14 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 91 (81.25%) Python
2 85 (75.89%) Java
3 63 (56.25%) JavaScript
4 59 (52.68%) C++
5 55 (49.11%) Go
6 49 (43.75%) Rust
7 15 (13.39%) TypeScript
8 9 (8.04%) Bash
8 9 (8.04%) SQL
9 4 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.68%) Groovy
10 3 (2.68%) Perl
10 3 (2.68%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.89%) Bicep
11 1 (0.89%) C#
Qualifications
1 56 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 49 (43.75%) DV Cleared
3 5 (4.46%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.89%) Degree
6 1 (0.89%) MCSA
6 1 (0.89%) MCSE
6 1 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.82%) QA
2 5 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (61.61%) Docker
2 6 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 91 (81.25%) Terraform
2 81 (72.32%) Kubernetes
3 66 (58.93%) Ansible
4 15 (13.39%) Prometheus
5 12 (10.71%) Grafana
6 8 (7.14%) Argo
7 6 (5.36%) Istio
8 3 (2.68%) Packer
9 2 (1.79%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.89%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.89%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.89%) Kibana
10 1 (0.89%) logstash
10 1 (0.89%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (11.61%) IBM
2 6 (5.36%) Confluent
3 4 (3.57%) AppDynamics
3 4 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.79%) PagerDuty
5 1 (0.89%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (0.89%) Imperva
5 1 (0.89%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.89%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.89%) Okta
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle
5 1 (0.89%) Sawtooth Software
5 1 (0.89%) SolarWinds