Amazon EKS Contracts in England

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 313 410 448
Rank change year-on-year +97 +38 -14
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 176 132 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.35% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 1.11% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 90 162
10th Percentile £463 £384 £500
25th Percentile £500 £466 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £561 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -10.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £674 £825
90th Percentile £875 £741 £863
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in England

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in England

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in England

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +76 133 £625 +11.11% 103
North of England +31 29 £500 -17.53% 28
North West +26 23 £500 -24.53% 24
South East +37 7 £500 -20.00% 30
Yorkshire +9 4 £463 -5.13% 4
South West +46 3 £625 +25.00% 13
Midlands +22 2 £488 +8.33% 10
North East - 2 £613 -
West Midlands +14 1 £475 +5.56% 7
East Midlands +10 1 £500 - 3
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 30 (17.05%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (11.93%) Apache
3 6 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.84%) Confluence
5 2 (1.14%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 169 (96.02%) AWS
2 72 (40.91%) Amazon EC2
3 59 (33.52%) Amazon S3
4 51 (28.98%) Serverless
5 46 (26.14%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (24.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (23.86%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (20.45%) GitHub
9 28 (15.91%) GCP
10 19 (10.80%) Snowflake
11 18 (10.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (10.23%) Dagster
11 18 (10.23%) dbt
11 18 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (8.52%) Route 53
13 12 (6.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 12 (6.82%) Azure AKS
13 12 (6.82%) CloudFront
14 11 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (5.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.52%) DNS
2 10 (5.68%) TCP/IP
3 9 (5.11%) HTTP
4 7 (3.98%) Internet
5 5 (2.84%) Firewall
5 5 (2.84%) VPN
6 3 (1.70%) DHCP
7 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.57%) SSL
7 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.30%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (13.07%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (10.23%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (10.23%) Data Lake
4 17 (9.66%) Apache Arrow
4 17 (9.66%) Apache Iceberg
4 17 (9.66%) Apache Ignite
4 17 (9.66%) Dremio
5 15 (8.52%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.95%) DocumentDB
7 12 (6.82%) Redis
8 8 (4.55%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (3.98%) DynamoDB
10 6 (3.41%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (2.27%) Big Data
12 4 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (19.32%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.52%) GitLab
3 8 (4.55%) Git
4 7 (3.98%) JIRA
5 3 (1.70%) JMeter
6 2 (1.14%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.14%) JUnit
6 2 (1.14%) Mockito
7 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.57%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.57%) JProfiler
7 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.57%) Snyk
7 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.57%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.57%) Toad
7 1 (0.57%) Vagrant
General
1 45 (25.57%) Finance
2 34 (19.32%) Banking
2 34 (19.32%) Public Sector
3 33 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 24 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (11.36%) Front Office
6 18 (10.23%) Investment Banking
7 12 (6.82%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Marketing
9 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (31.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (27.84%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (22.16%) Architect
4 31 (17.61%) Senior
5 27 (15.34%) AWS Architect
6 25 (14.20%) Software Engineer
7 24 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 19 (10.80%) Developer
9 17 (9.66%) AWS Software Engineer
10 13 (7.39%) Data Engineer
10 13 (7.39%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (6.25%) Java Engineer
11 11 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (6.25%) Python Engineer
11 11 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (3.98%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.66%) .NET
1 17 (9.66%) gRPC
1 17 (9.66%) NumPy
1 17 (9.66%) Pandas
1 17 (9.66%) Protocol Buffers
1 17 (9.66%) PySpark
1 17 (9.66%) SciPy
2 15 (8.52%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (8.52%) GraphQL
3 14 (7.95%) RESTful
4 11 (6.25%) REST
5 10 (5.68%) Node.js
6 8 (4.55%) Spring
7 7 (3.98%) Kafka
7 7 (3.98%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.41%) OAuth
8 6 (3.41%) OpenID
8 6 (3.41%) SAML
9 5 (2.84%) OAuth2
9 5 (2.84%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.48%) Derivative
2 17 (9.66%) Equities
2 17 (9.66%) Fixed Income
2 17 (9.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (9.66%) Hedge funds
3 12 (6.82%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.84%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.14%) PKI
10 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.93%) Linux
2 6 (3.41%) Unix
3 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.14%) Windows
3 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.57%) SUSE
4 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (40.91%) DevOps
2 71 (40.34%) CI/CD
3 67 (38.07%) Containerisation
4 56 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (30.68%) Agile
6 34 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 29 (16.48%) Asset Management
9 26 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (13.07%) Migration
11 22 (12.50%) High Availability
12 20 (11.36%) Open Source
13 18 (10.23%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (9.66%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (9.09%) Microservices
16 15 (8.52%) Configuration Management
17 13 (7.39%) Analytics
17 13 (7.39%) Cost Management
17 13 (7.39%) Platform Engineering
18 12 (6.82%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 73 (41.48%) Python
2 41 (23.30%) Java
3 30 (17.05%) JavaScript
4 20 (11.36%) TypeScript
5 18 (10.23%) SQL
6 16 (9.09%) C#
7 14 (7.95%) Go
8 13 (7.39%) Bash
9 10 (5.68%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.98%) PowerShell
11 6 (3.41%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.70%) Perl
13 2 (1.14%) Groovy
13 2 (1.14%) Rust
14 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (34.66%) Security Cleared
2 49 (27.84%) SC Cleared
3 29 (16.48%) AWS Certification
4 26 (14.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (2.84%) Degree
5 5 (2.84%) OCP
5 5 (2.84%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.70%) NCSC
2 3 (1.70%) QA
3 2 (1.14%) GDPR
3 2 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
System Software
1 49 (27.84%) Docker
2 3 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 95 (53.98%) Kubernetes
2 69 (39.20%) Terraform
3 24 (13.64%) Ansible
4 16 (9.09%) Grafana
4 16 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.98%) Progress Chef
5 7 (3.98%) Puppet
6 5 (2.84%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.70%) Argo
7 3 (1.70%) Istio
7 3 (1.70%) Kibana
7 3 (1.70%) Packer
8 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.57%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.57%) Consul
9 1 (0.57%) logstash
9 1 (0.57%) Rancher
9 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (5.68%) Red Hat
2 6 (3.41%) Splunk
3 5 (2.84%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.27%) VMware
5 3 (1.70%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.14%) Google
6 2 (1.14%) Veeam
7 1 (0.57%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.57%) Databricks
7 1 (0.57%) New Relic
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle
7 1 (0.57%) Pega
7 1 (0.57%) Trayport
7 1 (0.57%) Virgin Media