Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.78% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - £400
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cambridgeshire

Amazon EKS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 92 76 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 24.02% 28.46% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 38 26
10th Percentile £324 £338 £181
25th Percentile £372 £439 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £559
90th Percentile £652 £656 £675
East of England median daily rate £495 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -1.58% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 40
10th Percentile £16.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.56 £14.99 £14.40
Median hourly rate £27.00 £16.90 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +59.76% +3.68% +5.16%
75th Percentile £35.91 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £39.50 - £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £21.37 £18.00
% change year-on-year -1.73% +18.72% +2.86%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EKS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EKS within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 23 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 3 - - 1
Amazon EKS
East of England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft