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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 353 416
Rank change year-on-year +104 +63 +111
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 128 78 120
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 0.48% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 1.03% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 79 52 94
10th Percentile £54,500 £80,125 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £98,750 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £107,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.65% +38.71% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £150,000 - £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £107,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -30.23% +43.33% -6.25%

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 5,818 7,543 12,447
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.86% 46.73% 46.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,037 4,795 10,878
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £36,206
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% -9.23%

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 1 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 5 (3.91%) Tomcat
1 5 (3.91%) WebSphere
1 5 (3.91%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (3.13%) Apache
3 3 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.34%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 125 (97.66%) AWS
2 40 (31.25%) GCP
3 37 (28.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 35 (27.34%) AWS CloudFormation
5 31 (24.22%) GitHub
5 31 (24.22%) SaaS
6 30 (23.44%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (22.66%) Serverless
8 25 (19.53%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (18.75%) Azure
10 23 (17.97%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (17.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (16.41%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (16.41%) Amazon S3
12 21 (16.41%) Azure AKS
13 13 (10.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (9.38%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (8.59%) Route 53
16 9 (7.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.59%) VPN
2 8 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.69%) BGP
3 6 (4.69%) VLAN
4 5 (3.91%) Firewall
4 5 (3.91%) SSL
5 2 (1.56%) DNS
6 1 (0.78%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.97%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (16.41%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.81%) Flink
4 7 (5.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (4.69%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.91%) DB2
6 5 (3.91%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.34%) Apache Ignite
7 3 (2.34%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.56%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.78%) Big Data
9 1 (0.78%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 35 (27.34%) TeamCity
2 29 (22.66%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.69%) GitLab
4 5 (3.91%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.91%) Git
5 3 (2.34%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (43.75%) Banking
2 54 (42.19%) Finance
3 45 (35.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (34.38%) Retail
5 42 (32.81%) Law
6 34 (26.56%) Financial Institution
7 31 (24.22%) Back Office
8 21 (16.41%) Social Skills
9 10 (7.81%) Front Office
10 6 (4.69%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.34%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (32.81%) Software Engineer
2 31 (24.22%) Senior
3 29 (22.66%) AWS Engineer
4 28 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (20.31%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (15.63%) Lead
7 14 (10.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 14 (10.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (10.94%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (10.16%) Java Engineer
8 13 (10.16%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (8.59%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (8.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (7.81%) Linux Engineer
10 10 (7.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 10 (7.81%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (7.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 8 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (6.25%) Python Engineer
11 8 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.53%) Kafka
2 23 (17.97%) React
3 18 (14.06%) Spring
4 16 (12.50%) Node.js
5 15 (11.72%) Spring Boot
6 11 (8.59%) RESTful
7 8 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (5.47%) Loki
9 6 (4.69%) AWS CDK
9 6 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (4.69%) REST
10 5 (3.91%) AngularJS
10 5 (3.91%) Jest
10 5 (3.91%) LAPP Stack
10 5 (3.91%) LDAP
10 5 (3.91%) Redux
10 5 (3.91%) Sass
10 5 (3.91%) WebSphere MQ
11 3 (2.34%) ARM Templates
11 3 (2.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 58 (45.31%) Cloud Native
2 20 (15.63%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.16%) Blog
4 10 (7.81%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.69%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.34%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.34%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (25.00%) Linux
2 14 (10.94%) Windows
3 9 (7.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (6.25%) Unix
5 4 (3.13%) CentOS
5 4 (3.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.78%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (85.94%) CI/CD
2 78 (60.94%) DevOps
3 54 (42.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (39.06%) Software Engineering
5 44 (34.38%) Deployment Automation
6 38 (29.69%) Microservices
6 38 (29.69%) Test Automation
7 35 (27.34%) Clean Code
7 35 (27.34%) Continuous Deployment
8 34 (26.56%) Observability
9 33 (25.78%) Agile
10 31 (24.22%) Platform Engineering
11 29 (22.66%) Mentoring
12 27 (21.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (17.97%) Fintech
14 22 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 21 (16.41%) Cloud Security
15 21 (16.41%) Disaster Recovery
16 20 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (14.06%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 70 (54.69%) Java
2 59 (46.09%) Python
3 27 (21.09%) Bash
4 17 (13.28%) Go
5 15 (11.72%) TypeScript
6 13 (10.16%) Bicep
6 13 (10.16%) JavaScript
6 13 (10.16%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 24 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.38%) Degree
4 9 (7.03%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.91%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) PCI DSS
1 8 (6.25%) SOC 2
2 7 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.91%) SLA
4 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.78%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 20 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 100 (78.13%) Terraform
2 98 (76.56%) Kubernetes
3 71 (55.47%) Grafana
4 23 (17.97%) Ansible
5 22 (17.19%) Prometheus
6 16 (12.50%) Argo
7 5 (3.91%) Kibana
8 3 (2.34%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.78%) Cilium
9 1 (0.78%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (4.69%) Red Hat
2 5 (3.91%) IBM
2 5 (3.91%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.13%) Google
3 4 (3.13%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (3.13%) PagerDuty
4 3 (2.34%) Solace
4 3 (2.34%) SolarWinds
4 3 (2.34%) Splunk
4 3 (2.34%) VMware
5 2 (1.56%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.78%) Mercator
6 1 (0.78%) Pega
6 1 (0.78%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.78%) WSO2