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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 50 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.29% 0.20% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 0.72% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -13.58% +10.45% -10.20%

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 321 138 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.98% 27.44% 28.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 102 163
10th Percentile £190 £209 £166
25th Percentile £333 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £539 £525 £538
90th Percentile £600 £562 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 14
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.17 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £13.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate £14.48 £14.80 £17.17
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -13.83% +10.77%
75th Percentile £23.50 £17.19 £27.25
90th Percentile £26.27 £20.68 £31.53
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.87
% change year-on-year +61.08% +26.98% -21.19%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the East Midlands

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 9 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 - 3 £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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (33.33%) Flask
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Rust
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft