Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 85 106
Rank change year-on-year -13 +21 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 2 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.14% 0.076% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% 0.36% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £745 - -
25th Percentile £756 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £788 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% +41.18% -15.00%
75th Percentile £819 - £475
90th Percentile £830 - £529
England median daily rate £575 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -8.00%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 406 279 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.41% 21.28% 22.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 163 283
10th Percentile £213 £214 £188
25th Percentile £368 £303 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -11.58% -7.32%
75th Percentile £588 £565 £575
90th Percentile £681 £648 £675
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 9 29
10th Percentile £6.00 £19.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 - £15.33
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.74% +7.30% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.88 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £60.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the East of England

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Cambridgeshire - 2 £788 - 1
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker