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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 328 425
Rank change year-on-year +76 +97 +67
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 135 85 133
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 0.61% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.19% 1.28% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 72 55 110
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £80,625 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,750 £107,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.95% +38.71% +3.33%
75th Percentile £104,688 £138,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £147,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £76,250 £105,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -27.38% +35.48% +1.64%

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 6,177 6,623 13,571
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.15% 47.47% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,201 4,754 11,803
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 11 March 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 3 (2.22%) Apache
1 3 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.22%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.48%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.48%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.48%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 132 (97.78%) AWS
2 55 (40.74%) GCP
3 40 (29.63%) SaaS
4 32 (23.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 28 (20.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (20.00%) GitHub
7 26 (19.26%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (16.30%) Serverless
9 20 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (14.81%) Azure
10 19 (14.07%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (12.59%) Amazon S3
13 13 (9.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (9.63%) Azure AKS
14 10 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (5.93%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (5.93%) CloudFront
15 8 (5.93%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.89%) VPN
2 9 (6.67%) Firewall
3 7 (5.19%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.44%) BGP
4 6 (4.44%) VLAN
5 2 (1.48%) SSL
6 1 (0.74%) AMQP
6 1 (0.74%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.41%) Flink
4 7 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.48%) Apache Ignite
5 2 (1.48%) DB2
5 2 (1.48%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.48%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.48%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.74%) Big Data
6 1 (0.74%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 48 (35.56%) TeamCity
2 20 (14.81%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.19%) GitLab
4 5 (3.70%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.70%) Git
5 3 (2.22%) SonarQube
General
1 69 (51.11%) Banking
2 63 (46.67%) Finance
3 61 (45.19%) Retail
4 59 (43.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (40.74%) Law
6 42 (31.11%) Financial Institution
7 40 (29.63%) Back Office
8 20 (14.81%) Social Skills
9 10 (7.41%) Front Office
10 6 (4.44%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (37.78%) Software Engineer
2 32 (23.70%) Senior
3 30 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
4 26 (19.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (17.78%) Lead
6 20 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (11.85%) Java Engineer
7 16 (11.85%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (11.85%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (10.37%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 14 (10.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 14 (10.37%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (8.89%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (8.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (8.15%) Lead Software Engineer
10 11 (8.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (7.41%) Customer Engineer
11 10 (7.41%) Customer Service Engineer
12 9 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (5.93%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.78%) Kafka
2 23 (17.04%) React
3 17 (12.59%) Spring
4 14 (10.37%) Node.js
4 14 (10.37%) Spring Boot
5 11 (8.15%) RESTful
6 7 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (5.19%) Loki
6 7 (5.19%) Sass
7 6 (4.44%) REST
8 5 (3.70%) Jest
8 5 (3.70%) Redux
9 4 (2.96%) AWS CDK
10 3 (2.22%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.22%) Web Services
11 2 (1.48%) JSON
11 2 (1.48%) LDAP
11 2 (1.48%) WebSphere MQ
11 2 (1.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (51.85%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.33%) Blog
2 18 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 10 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.44%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.44%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.00%) Linux
2 6 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (4.44%) Windows
3 4 (2.96%) CentOS
3 4 (2.96%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.96%) Unix
4 1 (0.74%) Android
4 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.74%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 79 (58.52%) DevOps
3 58 (42.96%) Software Engineering
4 56 (41.48%) Deployment Automation
5 53 (39.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (37.78%) Test Automation
7 48 (35.56%) Clean Code
7 48 (35.56%) Continuous Deployment
8 44 (32.59%) Microservices
9 35 (25.93%) Observability
10 34 (25.19%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (24.44%) Agile
12 32 (23.70%) Mentoring
13 31 (22.96%) Fintech
14 24 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (16.30%) Coaching
15 22 (16.30%) Disruptive Innovation
16 21 (15.56%) Cloud Security
16 21 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 19 (14.07%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 83 (61.48%) Java
2 53 (39.26%) Python
3 24 (17.78%) Go
4 23 (17.04%) Bash
5 17 (12.59%) TypeScript
6 14 (10.37%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.19%) Bicep
7 7 (5.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (17.04%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.37%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.67%) Degree
5 4 (2.96%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.74%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) SOC 2
2 6 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.48%) SLA
4 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.74%) NIST
4 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 20 (14.81%) Docker
2 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 112 (82.96%) Terraform
2 108 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 79 (58.52%) Grafana
4 23 (17.04%) Prometheus
5 22 (16.30%) Ansible
6 16 (11.85%) Argo
7 6 (4.44%) Proxmox
8 5 (3.70%) Kibana
9 2 (1.48%) Istio
10 1 (0.74%) Cilium
10 1 (0.74%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (4.44%) VMware
2 4 (2.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.96%) PagerDuty
3 3 (2.22%) Google
3 3 (2.22%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (2.22%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.22%) Splunk
4 2 (1.48%) Confluent
4 2 (1.48%) IBM
4 2 (1.48%) Solace
4 2 (1.48%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.74%) Mercator
5 1 (0.74%) Pega
5 1 (0.74%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.74%) WSO2