Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 1.86% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £310 - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £365 - -
90th Percentile £374 - -
South West median daily rate £425 £625 -
% change year-on-year -32.00% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 56 35 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 20.82% 33.98% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 25 10
10th Percentile £370 £205 £175
25th Percentile £411 £270 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £450 £365
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% +23.29% -30.48%
75th Percentile £688 £550 £460
90th Percentile £810 £558 £604
South West median daily rate £538 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +13.16% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.62% - -
75th Percentile £23.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £19.37 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.62% -73.04% +112.12%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in Dorset

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Bournemouth - 5 £350 - 6
Amazon EKS
South West

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (40.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Datadog
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Flink
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Spinnaker
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) EDI
2 2 (40.00%) EDIFACT
2 2 (40.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) CSS3
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Chaos Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) GitOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (40.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Argo
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Istio
2 2 (40.00%) Kustomize
2 2 (40.00%) linkerd
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
1 2 (40.00%) webMethods
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle