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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 340 413
Rank change year-on-year +102 +73 +95
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 139 83 125
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 0.54% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.27% 1.16% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 76 53 101
10th Percentile £56,875 £70,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £91,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,750 £107,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.95% +38.71% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £150,000 - £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year -28.57% +37.70% -4.69%

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 6,131 7,125 12,768
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.56% 46.64% 45.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,187 4,692 11,177
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,131
25th Percentile £43,375 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.12% +12.35% -11.54%

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 23 February 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 4 (2.88%) Apache
1 4 (2.88%) Tomcat
1 4 (2.88%) WebSphere
1 4 (2.88%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.16%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 136 (97.84%) AWS
2 54 (38.85%) GCP
3 40 (28.78%) SaaS
4 34 (24.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 32 (23.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (20.86%) GitHub
7 28 (20.14%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (18.71%) Serverless
9 22 (15.83%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (15.11%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (15.11%) Azure
11 20 (14.39%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (14.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (13.67%) Amazon S3
13 18 (12.95%) Azure AKS
14 13 (9.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 12 (8.63%) Amazon Kinesis
16 10 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (7.19%) Route 53
17 8 (5.76%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.91%) VPN
2 8 (5.76%) Firewall
3 7 (5.04%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.32%) BGP
4 6 (4.32%) VLAN
5 4 (2.88%) SSL
6 1 (0.72%) AMQP
6 1 (0.72%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (16.55%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (14.39%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.19%) Flink
4 7 (5.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.88%) DB2
5 4 (2.88%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.16%) Apache Ignite
6 3 (2.16%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.72%) Big Data
8 1 (0.72%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 48 (34.53%) TeamCity
2 23 (16.55%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.32%) GitLab
4 5 (3.60%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.60%) Git
5 3 (2.16%) SonarQube
General
1 69 (49.64%) Banking
2 64 (46.04%) Finance
3 60 (43.17%) Retail
4 59 (42.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (39.57%) Law
6 43 (30.94%) Financial Institution
7 40 (28.78%) Back Office
8 20 (14.39%) Social Skills
9 10 (7.19%) Front Office
10 6 (4.32%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (38.13%) Software Engineer
2 33 (23.74%) Senior
3 29 (20.86%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (17.99%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (17.27%) Lead
6 23 (16.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (11.51%) Java Engineer
7 16 (11.51%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (10.79%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (10.07%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 14 (10.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 14 (10.07%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (7.91%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (7.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (7.91%) Lead Software Engineer
10 11 (7.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (7.19%) Customer Engineer
11 10 (7.19%) Customer Service Engineer
12 9 (6.47%) Linux Engineer
13 8 (5.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.99%) Kafka
1 25 (17.99%) React
2 18 (12.95%) Spring
3 16 (11.51%) Node.js
4 15 (10.79%) Spring Boot
5 11 (7.91%) RESTful
6 7 (5.04%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (5.04%) Loki
6 7 (5.04%) Sass
7 6 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (4.32%) REST
8 5 (3.60%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.60%) Jest
8 5 (3.60%) Redux
9 4 (2.88%) AWS CDK
9 4 (2.88%) LAPP Stack
9 4 (2.88%) LDAP
9 4 (2.88%) WebSphere MQ
10 3 (2.16%) ARM Templates
10 3 (2.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 72 (51.80%) Cloud Native
2 21 (15.11%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (12.95%) Blog
4 14 (10.07%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.32%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.60%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.16%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.72%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.58%) Linux
2 10 (7.19%) Windows
3 8 (5.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.32%) Unix
5 4 (2.88%) CentOS
5 4 (2.88%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.72%) Android
6 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.72%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (87.05%) CI/CD
2 79 (56.83%) DevOps
3 59 (42.45%) Software Engineering
4 57 (41.01%) Deployment Automation
5 54 (38.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (36.69%) Test Automation
7 48 (34.53%) Clean Code
7 48 (34.53%) Continuous Deployment
8 46 (33.09%) Microservices
9 37 (26.62%) Observability
10 34 (24.46%) Mentoring
11 32 (23.02%) Fintech
11 32 (23.02%) Platform Engineering
12 31 (22.30%) Agile
13 25 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (15.83%) Cloud Security
14 22 (15.83%) Coaching
14 22 (15.83%) Disruptive Innovation
15 20 (14.39%) Disaster Recovery
15 20 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (60.43%) Java
2 56 (40.29%) Python
3 25 (17.99%) Bash
4 20 (14.39%) Go
5 17 (12.23%) TypeScript
6 14 (10.07%) JavaScript
7 10 (7.19%) Bicep
7 10 (7.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.11%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.67%) AWS Certification
4 11 (7.91%) Degree
5 6 (4.32%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.88%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.72%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.47%) SOC 2
2 8 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (5.76%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.88%) SLA
4 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.72%) NIST
5 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 19 (13.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 112 (80.58%) Terraform
2 109 (78.42%) Kubernetes
3 81 (58.27%) Grafana
4 22 (15.83%) Ansible
4 22 (15.83%) Prometheus
5 16 (11.51%) Argo
6 5 (3.60%) Kibana
6 5 (3.60%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.72%) Cilium
7 1 (0.72%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (3.60%) Microsoft
1 5 (3.60%) Red Hat
1 5 (3.60%) VMware
2 4 (2.88%) Google
2 4 (2.88%) IBM
2 4 (2.88%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (2.88%) PagerDuty
3 3 (2.16%) Solace
3 3 (2.16%) SolarWinds
3 3 (2.16%) Splunk
4 2 (1.44%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.72%) Mercator
5 1 (0.72%) Pega
5 1 (0.72%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.72%) WSO2