Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 50 61
Rank change year-on-year -32 +11 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.19% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.72% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -12.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 322 139 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.64% 26.78% 27.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 101 156
10th Percentile £190 £233 £166
25th Percentile £352 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +2.86% -1.69%
75th Percentile £543 £525 £538
90th Percentile £613 £563 £675
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.07% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 14
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £13.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £14.48 £15.09 £17.17
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% -12.11% -8.96%
75th Percentile £23.50 £19.50 £27.25
90th Percentile £26.27 £21.60 £31.53
England median hourly rate £46.00 £26.48 £20.87
% change year-on-year +73.75% +26.86% -29.25%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £500 -
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Rust
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft