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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 321 330
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +66
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 134 99 146
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.60% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.73% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 40 47 115
10th Percentile £52,375 £52,500 £81,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £67,500 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -40.00% +40.63%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £91,875 £106,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -30.23% +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 8,617 5,738 9,176
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.64% 34.53% 42.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,308 4,067 6,006
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,619
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 £58,400 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.02% -10.15% +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 11 October 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 (1.49%) Camunda
1 2 (1.49%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) JBoss
2 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 124 (92.54%) AWS
2 90 (67.16%) GCP
3 82 (61.19%) SaaS
4 16 (11.94%) Amazon S3
5 15 (11.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 14 (10.45%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (10.45%) Google Compute Engine
6 14 (10.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 13 (9.70%) Serverless
8 10 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.72%) GitHub
10 8 (5.97%) Azure
10 8 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.97%) Google Workspace
11 7 (5.22%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.48%) Amazon MSK
13 5 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (3.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 3 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.94%) VPN
2 14 (10.45%) BGP
2 14 (10.45%) TCP/IP
3 8 (5.97%) Firewall
3 8 (5.97%) VLAN
4 6 (4.48%) Network Security
5 4 (2.99%) Broadband
6 3 (2.24%) DNS
7 2 (1.49%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (27.61%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (17.91%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.48%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.99%) Delta Lake
4 4 (2.99%) DocumentDB
4 4 (2.99%) MySQL
5 3 (2.24%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.49%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.49%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 90 (67.16%) TeamCity
2 8 (5.97%) Git
3 7 (5.22%) GitLab
4 6 (4.48%) JIRA
5 4 (2.99%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.24%) JUnit
7 2 (1.49%) Mockito
7 2 (1.49%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
General
1 87 (64.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 85 (63.43%) Finance
3 84 (62.69%) Banking
3 84 (62.69%) Law
3 84 (62.69%) Retail
4 76 (56.72%) Back Office
4 76 (56.72%) Financial Institution
5 24 (17.91%) Social Skills
6 15 (11.19%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 79 (58.96%) Software Engineer
2 52 (38.81%) Senior
3 28 (20.90%) Senior Software Engineer
4 24 (17.91%) Java Engineer
5 22 (16.42%) Java Software Engineer
5 22 (16.42%) Lead
6 21 (15.67%) Lead Software Engineer
6 21 (15.67%) Software Team Leader
6 21 (15.67%) Team Leader
7 19 (14.18%) Senior Java Engineer
8 18 (13.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 14 (10.45%) GCP Engineer
9 14 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (8.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (7.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (5.22%) Developer
12 7 (5.22%) Project Manager
12 7 (5.22%) Technical Manager
12 7 (5.22%) Technical Project Manager
13 6 (4.48%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (84.33%) Terraform
2 13 (9.70%) RESTful
3 8 (5.97%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (5.22%) Spring
4 7 (5.22%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.73%) React
6 4 (2.99%) .NET
6 4 (2.99%) ASP.NET
6 4 (2.99%) Node.js
6 4 (2.99%) PySpark
7 3 (2.24%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.24%) Flask
7 3 (2.24%) REST
7 3 (2.24%) Vue
8 2 (1.49%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.49%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.49%) Next.js
8 2 (1.49%) Play Framework
8 2 (1.49%) React Native
8 2 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 88 (65.67%) Cloud Native
2 45 (33.58%) Product Ownership
3 31 (23.13%) Blog
4 24 (17.91%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 6 (4.48%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.48%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.48%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.99%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.24%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.49%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.18%) Linux
2 6 (4.48%) Unix
2 6 (4.48%) Windows
2 6 (4.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (91.79%) CI/CD
2 82 (61.19%) Microservices
3 81 (60.45%) Software Engineering
4 80 (59.70%) Clean Code
5 73 (54.48%) Test Automation
6 72 (53.73%) Continuous Deployment
6 72 (53.73%) Deployment Automation
7 68 (50.75%) DevOps
8 58 (43.28%) Fintech
8 58 (43.28%) Mentoring
9 56 (41.79%) Disruptive Innovation
10 52 (38.81%) Coaching
11 35 (26.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (23.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (17.16%) AI
14 22 (16.42%) Observability
15 21 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 14 (10.45%) Identity Access Management
17 14 (10.45%) Immutable Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 98 (73.13%) Java
2 34 (25.37%) Python
3 21 (15.67%) Go
4 19 (14.18%) Bash
5 18 (13.43%) SQL
6 6 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.99%) C#
8 3 (2.24%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.49%) PHP
9 2 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (6.72%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.97%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 6 (4.48%) CCSP
3 6 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (4.48%) CISM
3 6 (4.48%) CISSP
4 4 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.99%) Degree
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 14 (10.45%) PCI DSS
1 14 (10.45%) SOC 2
2 6 (4.48%) NIST
3 3 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) NCSC
4 1 (0.75%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (8.21%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 113 (84.33%) Kubernetes
2 102 (76.12%) Grafana
3 13 (9.70%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.97%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (5.22%) Ansible
6 6 (4.48%) Cilium
7 2 (1.49%) Istio
7 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.49%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.75%) Argo
8 1 (0.75%) Opsview
Vendors
1 14 (10.45%) Google
2 8 (5.97%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.99%) Databricks
4 3 (2.24%) Splunk
5 2 (1.49%) VMware
6 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.75%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.75%) Okta
6 1 (0.75%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.75%) YouTube