Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 1.76% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £446 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 44 34 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 25.88% 19.21% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 27
10th Percentile £370 £247 £488
25th Percentile £402 £325 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -17.39% +21.05%
75th Percentile £650 £530 £650
90th Percentile £663 £583 £680
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £475 £575
% change year-on-year -5.26% -17.39% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 £21.50 -
Median hourly rate £26.50 £23.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% - -
75th Percentile £27.25 £24.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £26.50 £23.00 -
% change year-on-year +15.22% - -

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
Belfast - 3 £446 - 5
Amazon EKS
Northern Ireland

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google