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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 330 407
Rank change year-on-year +26 +77 +14
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 129 111 169
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 0.71% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.87% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 59 43 128
10th Percentile £57,500 £40,686 £57,275
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,625 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £90,000 £121,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £136,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £95,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +11.76% -

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 7,761 5,933 14,498
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.02% 38.11% 42.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5,496 4,327 12,051
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,438 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

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 24 June 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 (2.33%) Apache
2 2 (1.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.78%) Drupal
3 1 (0.78%) IIS
3 1 (0.78%) JBoss
3 1 (0.78%) nginx
3 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 121 (93.80%) AWS
2 70 (54.26%) GCP
3 52 (40.31%) SaaS
4 23 (17.83%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (17.05%) Amazon S3
5 22 (17.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (15.50%) Azure
7 19 (14.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (14.73%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (12.40%) Serverless
9 15 (11.63%) GitHub
9 15 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (10.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (10.08%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (6.98%) OpenShift
13 8 (6.20%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (4.65%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 6 (4.65%) Azure AKS
15 5 (3.88%) CloudFront
15 5 (3.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.75%) VPN
2 9 (6.98%) Firewall
3 5 (3.88%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.10%) Broadband
4 4 (3.10%) DNS
5 3 (2.33%) BGP
5 3 (2.33%) VLAN
6 1 (0.78%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.73%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.08%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.88%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.10%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.10%) MySQL
5 3 (2.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.78%) Big Data
6 1 (0.78%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.78%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.78%) Redis
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 57 (44.19%) TeamCity
2 17 (13.18%) GitLab
3 11 (8.53%) Git
4 8 (6.20%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.65%) JIRA
6 2 (1.55%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.55%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.78%) Gatling
7 1 (0.78%) JMeter
7 1 (0.78%) JUnit
7 1 (0.78%) MLflow
7 1 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.78%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (55.04%) Banking
2 70 (54.26%) Retail
3 64 (49.61%) Finance
4 63 (48.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 63 (48.84%) Law
5 46 (35.66%) Back Office
5 46 (35.66%) Financial Institution
6 21 (16.28%) Social Skills
7 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.10%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (45.74%) Software Engineer
2 43 (33.33%) Senior
3 28 (21.71%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (16.28%) Senior Software Engineer
5 19 (14.73%) Lead
6 18 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (13.95%) Lead Software Engineer
7 17 (13.18%) Java Engineer
8 16 (12.40%) Java Software Engineer
9 14 (10.85%) Software Team Leader
9 14 (10.85%) Team Leader
10 12 (9.30%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (9.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (8.53%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (7.75%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 10 (7.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 10 (7.75%) Customer Engineer
12 10 (7.75%) Customer Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.08%) React
2 9 (6.98%) RESTful
3 8 (6.20%) Kafka
4 6 (4.65%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.65%) Spring
5 5 (3.88%) .NET
5 5 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (3.88%) Node.js
5 5 (3.88%) REST
5 5 (3.88%) Sass
6 4 (3.10%) ASP.NET
6 4 (3.10%) AWS CDK
6 4 (3.10%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.10%) Loki
6 4 (3.10%) PySpark
6 4 (3.10%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.10%) YAML
7 3 (2.33%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.33%) Flask
7 3 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 74 (57.36%) Cloud Native
2 25 (19.38%) Product Ownership
3 20 (15.50%) Blog
4 17 (13.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (12.40%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.43%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (3.10%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.33%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.33%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.60%) Linux
2 3 (2.33%) Android
2 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.55%) CentOS
3 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.55%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.78%) Debian
4 1 (0.78%) Windows
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (85.27%) CI/CD
2 75 (58.14%) DevOps
3 65 (50.39%) Software Engineering
4 64 (49.61%) Deployment Automation
5 60 (46.51%) Test Automation
6 59 (45.74%) Clean Code
7 58 (44.96%) Continuous Deployment
8 57 (44.19%) Microservices
9 47 (36.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (30.23%) Mentoring
11 38 (29.46%) Fintech
12 31 (24.03%) Disruptive Innovation
13 28 (21.71%) Coaching
13 28 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (20.93%) Observability
15 24 (18.60%) Platform Engineering
16 23 (17.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 22 (17.05%) Cloud Security
18 21 (16.28%) Agile
19 18 (13.95%) AI
Programming Languages
1 70 (54.26%) Java
2 46 (35.66%) Python
3 23 (17.83%) Go
4 16 (12.40%) Bash
5 11 (8.53%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.98%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.43%) SQL
8 4 (3.10%) C#
9 3 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.55%) PHP
11 1 (0.78%) Bicep
11 1 (0.78%) Groovy
11 1 (0.78%) Perl
11 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (8.53%) AWS Certification
2 10 (7.75%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.20%) Degree
3 8 (6.20%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.33%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.33%) OSCP
5 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.65%) SOC 2
2 3 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) NCSC
3 1 (0.78%) QA
3 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (20.16%) Docker
2 10 (7.75%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 116 (89.92%) Terraform
2 110 (85.27%) Kubernetes
3 76 (58.91%) Grafana
4 22 (17.05%) Ansible
5 17 (13.18%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.20%) Istio
7 7 (5.43%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.33%) Argo
9 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.55%) Puppet
10 1 (0.78%) Consul
10 1 (0.78%) Kibana
10 1 (0.78%) Packer
10 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (6.20%) Confluent
2 7 (5.43%) VMware
3 4 (3.10%) Databricks
3 4 (3.10%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.33%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.55%) Google
6 1 (0.78%) IBM
6 1 (0.78%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.78%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.78%) Splunk
6 1 (0.78%) TOWER Software