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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 315 335
Rank change year-on-year -23 +20 +66
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 117 100 169
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 0.61% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.72% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 45 44 128
10th Percentile £51,750 £52,500 £81,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £68,750 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -36.05% +32.31%
75th Percentile £79,500 £100,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £127,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £82,500 £107,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% -23.26% +34.38%

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 8,738 5,805 9,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.71% 35.68% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,410 4,185 6,564
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,659 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 20 September 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 (1.71%) Confluence
2 1 (0.85%) Apache
2 1 (0.85%) Camunda
2 1 (0.85%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.85%) Drupal
2 1 (0.85%) IIS
2 1 (0.85%) JBoss
2 1 (0.85%) nginx
2 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 103 (88.03%) AWS
2 70 (59.83%) GCP
3 64 (54.70%) SaaS
4 18 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 14 (11.97%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (11.11%) Serverless
7 12 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (8.55%) Azure
8 10 (8.55%) Azure AKS
9 8 (6.84%) GitHub
9 8 (6.84%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.42%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (3.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.56%) AWS Control Tower
12 3 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) Broadband
2 2 (1.71%) DNS
2 2 (1.71%) Firewall
2 2 (1.71%) VPN
3 1 (0.85%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.42%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.42%) MySQL
5 3 (2.56%) DocumentDB
5 3 (2.56%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.71%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.71%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.85%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.85%) Redis
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (57.26%) TeamCity
2 12 (10.26%) GitLab
3 10 (8.55%) Git
4 6 (5.13%) JIRA
5 5 (4.27%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.71%) JUnit
6 2 (1.71%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.85%) Gatling
7 1 (0.85%) JMeter
7 1 (0.85%) Mockito
7 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.85%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (60.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 70 (59.83%) Retail
3 69 (58.97%) Banking
3 69 (58.97%) Law
4 66 (56.41%) Finance
5 58 (49.57%) Back Office
5 58 (49.57%) Financial Institution
6 20 (17.09%) Social Skills
7 17 (14.53%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.85%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 71 (60.68%) Software Engineer
2 40 (34.19%) Senior
3 22 (18.80%) Senior Software Engineer
4 20 (17.09%) Lead
4 20 (17.09%) Lead Software Engineer
4 20 (17.09%) Software Team Leader
4 20 (17.09%) Team Leader
5 19 (16.24%) Java Engineer
6 17 (14.53%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (10.26%) Senior Java Engineer
8 11 (9.40%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 10 (8.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (8.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (5.98%) Developer
10 7 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Project Manager
11 5 (4.27%) Technical Manager
11 5 (4.27%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (82.91%) Terraform
2 7 (5.98%) React
3 6 (5.13%) Spring
4 5 (4.27%) .NET
4 5 (4.27%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.27%) REST
4 5 (4.27%) RESTful
4 5 (4.27%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.42%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.42%) Node.js
5 4 (3.42%) PySpark
6 3 (2.56%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.56%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.56%) Flask
6 3 (2.56%) Vue
7 2 (1.71%) Jakarta EE
7 2 (1.71%) Play Framework
7 2 (1.71%) Web Services
7 2 (1.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (59.83%) Cloud Native
2 42 (35.90%) Product Ownership
3 13 (11.11%) Blog
4 11 (9.40%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (8.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (5.13%) Public Cloud
7 5 (4.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (3.42%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.56%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.71%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.09%) Linux
2 7 (5.98%) Windows
2 7 (5.98%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.13%) Unix
4 2 (1.71%) Android
4 2 (1.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 74 (63.25%) Software Engineering
3 72 (61.54%) Microservices
4 68 (58.12%) DevOps
5 66 (56.41%) Clean Code
6 65 (55.56%) Continuous Deployment
6 65 (55.56%) Deployment Automation
6 65 (55.56%) Test Automation
7 56 (47.86%) Mentoring
8 51 (43.59%) Coaching
9 39 (33.33%) Fintech
10 36 (30.77%) Disruptive Innovation
11 33 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (27.35%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (18.80%) AI
14 17 (14.53%) Agile
15 15 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 13 (11.11%) Roadmaps
18 12 (10.26%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 76 (64.96%) Java
2 20 (17.09%) Python
3 8 (6.84%) Bash
4 7 (5.98%) Go
5 6 (5.13%) SQL
5 6 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.42%) C#
6 4 (3.42%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.56%) PHP
8 2 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.71%) Scala
9 1 (0.85%) Groovy
9 1 (0.85%) Perl
9 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (6.84%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.42%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.42%) Degree
4 2 (1.71%) CREST Certified
4 2 (1.71%) OSCP
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.71%) NCSC
2 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.85%) QA
2 1 (0.85%) SLA
2 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (11.11%) Docker
2 3 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (81.20%) Kubernetes
2 76 (64.96%) Grafana
3 14 (11.97%) Ansible
4 5 (4.27%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.71%) Istio
5 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.71%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.85%) Argo
6 1 (0.85%) Consul
6 1 (0.85%) Kibana
6 1 (0.85%) Packer
6 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.42%) Databricks
3 3 (2.56%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.71%) Splunk
4 2 (1.71%) VMware
5 1 (0.85%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.85%) Google
5 1 (0.85%) IBM
5 1 (0.85%) Okta
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle
5 1 (0.85%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.85%) TOWER Software