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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 67 68
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.13% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.48% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.91%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £650 £610
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.56% -2.40%

All Cloud 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 229 210 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.02% 26.45% 36.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 121 232
10th Percentile £334 £189 £213
25th Percentile £375 £356 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £454
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -0.92% +0.93%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £530
90th Percentile £573 £645 £624
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 24
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.76 £12.23
25th Percentile £19.38 £16.63 £13.12
Median hourly rate £21.39 £18.32 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% +11.03% -20.96%
75th Percentile - £39.68 £40.00
90th Percentile - £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS 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 18 September 2025. 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 -12 1 £375 -
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google