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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 362 407
Rank change year-on-year +8 +45 -4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Amazon EKS 165 157 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.47% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 1.40% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 109 171
10th Percentile £413 £475 £425
25th Percentile £494 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £875 £723
90th Percentile £698 £888 £863
UK median daily rate £575 £594 £610
% change year-on-year -3.16% -2.66% -2.40%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,259 11,225 15,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.23% 33.79% 36.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,950 7,877 11,645
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £644 £660
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 193 304
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.16 £15.06
25th Percentile £18.51 £17.69 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £27.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -18.18% +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £79.06
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.13
% change year-on-year +1.85% -23.13% +66.17%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in England over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in England

Amazon EKS
DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -2 105 £600 -14.29% 91
North of England +8 30 £475 - 20
Yorkshire - 17 £464 - 3
South East +22 16 £613 -5.77% 28
North West +4 12 £475 - 14
West Midlands +4 7 £550 +8.91% 6
Midlands -8 7 £550 +8.91% 6
South West +22 2 £625 +25.00% 7
East of England +6 2 £788 +31.25% 10
North East - 1 £425 - 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 8 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.03%) CMS
2 5 (3.03%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.21%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.21%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) CICS
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) JBoss
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 146 (88.48%) AWS
2 57 (34.55%) AWS CloudFormation
3 56 (33.94%) Serverless
4 53 (32.12%) Amazon S3
5 51 (30.91%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (24.85%) Amazon EC2
6 41 (24.85%) Amazon ECS
7 30 (18.18%) Azure
8 29 (17.58%) GitHub
9 25 (15.15%) GCP
10 22 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 21 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (10.30%) Azure AKS
12 17 (10.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (9.09%) OpenShift
14 14 (8.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (6.67%) SaaS
16 10 (6.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 9 (5.45%) AWS KMS
17 9 (5.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.52%) DNS
2 12 (7.27%) TCP/IP
3 9 (5.45%) HTTP
4 8 (4.85%) Firewall
4 8 (4.85%) Internet
5 6 (3.64%) VPN
6 3 (1.82%) DHCP
6 3 (1.82%) Network Security
7 2 (1.21%) SSL
8 1 (0.61%) NAS
8 1 (0.61%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (29.09%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (10.30%) DynamoDB
3 15 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (4.24%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.82%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.21%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.21%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.21%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.61%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.61%) Redis
10 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (30.91%) Jenkins
2 20 (12.12%) GitLab
3 13 (7.88%) Git
4 4 (2.42%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.82%) JIRA
5 3 (1.82%) JUnit
5 3 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.21%) JMeter
6 2 (1.21%) Mockito
6 2 (1.21%) Snyk
7 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.61%) Gradle
7 1 (0.61%) Maven
7 1 (0.61%) Selenium
7 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.61%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 40 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.39%) Public Sector
3 21 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.30%) Finance
5 8 (4.85%) Banking
6 5 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.21%) Publishing
8 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Front Office
8 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Police
8 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (27.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (23.64%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (17.58%) Architect
4 27 (16.36%) Senior
5 26 (15.76%) AWS Architect
6 25 (15.15%) Platform Engineer
7 19 (11.52%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (10.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (9.09%) Developer
10 13 (7.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (7.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (7.27%) Data Engineer
12 11 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 11 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 10 (6.06%) Java Developer
13 10 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 8 (4.85%) Lead
15 7 (4.24%) Business Analyst
15 7 (4.24%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (8.48%) React
2 14 (8.48%) SAML
3 13 (7.88%) OAuth
3 13 (7.88%) OpenID
4 12 (7.27%) Kafka
4 12 (7.27%) Middleware
5 11 (6.67%) JSON
5 11 (6.67%) Node.js
5 11 (6.67%) OAuth2
6 10 (6.06%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.45%) .NET
8 6 (3.64%) AWS CDK
8 6 (3.64%) REST
9 5 (3.03%) Spring
10 4 (2.42%) GraphQL
11 3 (1.82%) Web Services
11 3 (1.82%) YAML
12 2 (1.21%) Apache Camel
12 2 (1.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.94%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.70%) Private Cloud
3 10 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.82%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.21%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.21%) Life Science
8 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.61%) PKI
8 1 (0.61%) Replication
8 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.61%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.12%) Linux
2 5 (3.03%) Unix
2 5 (3.03%) Windows
3 4 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.61%) AIX
5 1 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Android
5 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.61%) Solaris
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (49.70%) CI/CD
2 78 (47.27%) Containerisation
3 71 (43.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (41.21%) DevOps
5 36 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (18.18%) High Availability
6 30 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (16.97%) Platform Engineering
8 26 (15.76%) Configuration Management
8 26 (15.76%) Migration
9 24 (14.55%) Agile
9 24 (14.55%) Microservices
10 23 (13.94%) Open Source
11 15 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
12 14 (8.48%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (7.88%) Cloud Security
13 13 (7.88%) RBAC
14 12 (7.27%) Mentoring
14 12 (7.27%) Observability
15 11 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (41.21%) Python
2 32 (19.39%) Java
3 21 (12.73%) JavaScript
4 19 (11.52%) SQL
5 17 (10.30%) Bash
6 16 (9.70%) Go
7 13 (7.88%) PowerShell
8 12 (7.27%) Shell Script
9 11 (6.67%) C#
10 4 (2.42%) Groovy
10 4 (2.42%) Rust
11 2 (1.21%) C
11 2 (1.21%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.21%) Perl
11 2 (1.21%) PromQL
11 2 (1.21%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.61%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 68 (41.21%) Security Cleared
2 56 (33.94%) SC Cleared
3 39 (23.64%) AWS Certification
4 32 (19.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (3.64%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.03%) GDPR
2 4 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.42%) NIST
3 3 (1.82%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.82%) QA
4 2 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.21%) NCSC
4 2 (1.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (35.15%) Docker
2 11 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) iptables
3 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 107 (64.85%) Kubernetes
2 72 (43.64%) Terraform
3 37 (22.42%) Ansible
4 26 (15.76%) Grafana
5 21 (12.73%) Prometheus
6 14 (8.48%) Puppet
7 11 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 11 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.42%) Argo
9 2 (1.21%) Kibana
9 2 (1.21%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.21%) Podman
10 1 (0.61%) Istio
10 1 (0.61%) Packer
10 1 (0.61%) Rancher
10 1 (0.61%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 11 (6.67%) Splunk
3 10 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.24%) Alibaba
5 4 (2.42%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.42%) Google
6 2 (1.21%) Confluent
7 1 (0.61%) JDA
7 1 (0.61%) NetApp
7 1 (0.61%) Pega
7 1 (0.61%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.61%) Tenable
7 1 (0.61%) Trayport
7 1 (0.61%) Veeam
7 1 (0.61%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.61%) VMware