Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 72 92
Rank change year-on-year +20 +20 +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 16 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.53% 0.61% 0.096%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.13% 1.66% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 1
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £475 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +0.92%
75th Percentile £534 £525 £575
90th Percentile £546 £555 -
Scotland median daily rate £513 £400 £565
% change year-on-year +28.13% -29.20% -8.50%

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 261 302 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.30% 36.65% 38.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 182 280
10th Percentile £413 £191 £250
25th Percentile £450 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £474
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.11% -3.02%
75th Percentile £548 £537 £532
90th Percentile £619 £593 £588
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
Median hourly rate £60.00 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +172.73% +24.15% -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £17.72
% change year-on-year +77.58% +19.31% -

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Amazon EKS

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 5 (31.25%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon S3
2 11 (68.75%) Serverless
3 8 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (43.75%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (31.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (18.75%) Azure
8 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
9 2 (12.50%) Dagster
10 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (6.25%) CloudFront
10 1 (6.25%) GCP
10 1 (6.25%) GitHub
10 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
2 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (12.50%) InfluxDB
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
3 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) MLflow
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Site Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) AWS CDK
2 7 (43.75%) FastAPI
2 7 (43.75%) OpenCV
2 7 (43.75%) Pandas
2 7 (43.75%) PyTorch
2 7 (43.75%) SQLAlchemy
3 6 (37.50%) Hugging Face
3 6 (37.50%) NumPy
4 4 (25.00%) boto
4 4 (25.00%) JWT
4 4 (25.00%) OAuth
5 3 (18.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Unix
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (75.00%) Agile
3 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 8 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (43.75%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (43.75%) LLM
5 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
6 6 (37.50%) DevOps
6 6 (37.50%) Kanban
6 6 (37.50%) OCR
6 6 (37.50%) OOP
6 6 (37.50%) Scrum
6 6 (37.50%) TDD
7 5 (31.25%) Async-Await
7 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (31.25%) Pair Programming
8 4 (25.00%) API Development
8 4 (25.00%) API Integration
8 4 (25.00%) Computer Vision
8 4 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) Perl
4 2 (12.50%) Go
4 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) KVM
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
2 10 (62.50%) Grafana
3 8 (50.00%) Terraform
4 7 (43.75%) Ansible
5 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (18.75%) HAProxy
6 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (12.50%) Fluentd
7 2 (12.50%) linkerd
7 2 (12.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Commvault
1 3 (18.75%) Dynatrace
1 3 (18.75%) ForgeRock
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
1 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Informatica
2 1 (6.25%) Ping Identity
2 1 (6.25%) StreamSets