Amazon EKS Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 62 111
Rank change year-on-year -1 +49 +16
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 4 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 1.23% 0.077%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 3.29% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £479 £430 -
25th Percentile £484 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £623 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.67% - -
75th Percentile £534 £634 -
90th Percentile £536 - -
Scotland median daily rate £409 £611 £650
% change year-on-year -33.09% -5.96% +16.85%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 280 304 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.80% 37.30% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 390
10th Percentile £250 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £679 £618
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £21.62 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -4.06% -39.93%
75th Percentile £26.28 £17.50 -
90th Percentile £28.38 £17.61 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in Edinburgh

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in Edinburgh

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Camunda
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (50.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) BPMN
3 2 (50.00%) Decision Table
3 2 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) linkerd
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (25.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) StreamSets