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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 325 378
Rank change year-on-year +7 +53 +35
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 122 111 186
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 0.68% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.82% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 54 44 146
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,275 £62,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,313 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -21.43% +23.53%
75th Percentile £87,500 £118,125 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £135,375 £165,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £90,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -14.36% -9.50% +17.65%

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 8,386 6,086 12,740
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.02% 37.04% 41.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,964 4,492 10,449
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,510 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 18 July 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 (1.64%) Apache
1 2 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.82%) Drupal
2 1 (0.82%) IIS
2 1 (0.82%) JBoss
2 1 (0.82%) nginx
2 1 (0.82%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.82%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 114 (93.44%) AWS
2 69 (56.56%) GCP
3 54 (44.26%) SaaS
4 22 (18.03%) Amazon S3
5 20 (16.39%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (16.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (14.75%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (13.93%) Azure
8 14 (11.48%) GitHub
8 14 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (11.48%) Serverless
9 13 (10.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (9.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (6.56%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (6.56%) OpenShift
12 5 (4.10%) Route 53
13 4 (3.28%) AWS Control Tower
13 4 (3.28%) Azure AKS
13 4 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.38%) VPN
2 8 (6.56%) Firewall
3 5 (4.10%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.28%) Broadband
4 4 (3.28%) DNS
5 3 (2.46%) BGP
5 3 (2.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.20%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.10%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.28%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.28%) MySQL
5 3 (2.46%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.64%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.82%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.82%) Redis
7 1 (0.82%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 57 (46.72%) TeamCity
2 16 (13.11%) GitLab
3 11 (9.02%) Git
4 7 (5.74%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.92%) JIRA
6 2 (1.64%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.82%) Gatling
7 1 (0.82%) JMeter
7 1 (0.82%) JUnit
7 1 (0.82%) MLflow
7 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.82%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (58.20%) Banking
2 69 (56.56%) Retail
3 65 (53.28%) Finance
4 63 (51.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 63 (51.64%) Law
5 48 (39.34%) Back Office
5 48 (39.34%) Financial Institution
6 17 (13.93%) Social Skills
7 9 (7.38%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.28%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (48.36%) Software Engineer
2 43 (35.25%) Senior
3 24 (19.67%) AWS Engineer
4 22 (18.03%) Senior Software Engineer
5 19 (15.57%) Lead
6 18 (14.75%) Lead Software Engineer
7 16 (13.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (13.11%) Java Engineer
8 15 (12.30%) Java Software Engineer
9 14 (11.48%) Software Team Leader
9 14 (11.48%) Team Leader
10 11 (9.02%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (9.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (8.20%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (7.38%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (7.38%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (6.56%) Customer Engineer
13 8 (6.56%) Customer Service Engineer
13 8 (6.56%) Developer
13 8 (6.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.02%) React
2 9 (7.38%) RESTful
3 8 (6.56%) Kafka
4 5 (4.10%) .NET
4 5 (4.10%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.28%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.28%) AWS CDK
5 4 (3.28%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.28%) Node.js
5 4 (3.28%) PySpark
5 4 (3.28%) REST
5 4 (3.28%) Sass
5 4 (3.28%) Spring
5 4 (3.28%) YAML
6 3 (2.46%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.46%) Flask
6 3 (2.46%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.46%) Vue
7 2 (1.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 74 (60.66%) Cloud Native
2 27 (22.13%) Product Ownership
3 18 (14.75%) Blog
4 16 (13.11%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (13.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.92%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (3.28%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.46%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.75%) Linux
2 3 (2.46%) Android
2 3 (2.46%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.82%) Windows
3 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (85.25%) CI/CD
2 70 (57.38%) DevOps
3 65 (53.28%) Software Engineering
4 61 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
5 59 (48.36%) Clean Code
5 59 (48.36%) Test Automation
6 58 (47.54%) Continuous Deployment
6 58 (47.54%) Microservices
7 41 (33.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (32.79%) Mentoring
9 36 (29.51%) Fintech
10 30 (24.59%) Coaching
11 29 (23.77%) Disruptive Innovation
12 26 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (18.03%) Observability
14 21 (17.21%) Platform Engineering
15 20 (16.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 19 (15.57%) Agile
16 19 (15.57%) AI
17 17 (13.93%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 68 (55.74%) Java
2 40 (32.79%) Python
3 22 (18.03%) Go
4 11 (9.02%) Bash
5 10 (8.20%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.56%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.74%) SQL
8 4 (3.28%) C#
9 3 (2.46%) PHP
10 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.82%) Groovy
11 1 (0.82%) Perl
11 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (8.20%) AWS Certification
2 9 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.74%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.10%) Degree
5 3 (2.46%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.46%) OSCP
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.92%) SOC 2
2 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.46%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.82%) NCSC
3 1 (0.82%) QA
3 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (20.49%) Docker
2 10 (8.20%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 109 (89.34%) Terraform
2 103 (84.43%) Kubernetes
3 70 (57.38%) Grafana
4 20 (16.39%) Ansible
5 12 (9.84%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.56%) Istio
7 6 (4.92%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.46%) Argo
9 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.82%) Consul
10 1 (0.82%) Kibana
10 1 (0.82%) Packer
10 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (6.56%) Confluent
2 6 (4.92%) VMware
3 4 (3.28%) Databricks
4 3 (2.46%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.46%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.82%) Google
5 1 (0.82%) IBM
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle
5 1 (0.82%) TOWER Software