Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 72 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.47% 0.13% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.31% 0.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £356 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £592 - -
90th Percentile £701 - -
South East median daily rate £530 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +6.00% -23.08% -6.47%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 346 181 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 20.40% 24.07% 16.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 133 162
10th Percentile £313 £281 £290
25th Percentile £461 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -7.08% +4.05%
75th Percentile £648 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £658 £671
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 7
10th Percentile £12.95 £17.20 -
25th Percentile £25.00 £19.24 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £55.00 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year -30.45% +210.91% -4.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £72.50 £26.35
90th Percentile £55.75 £74.25 £35.00
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year +87.50% +20.61% +1.49%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in Hampshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in Hampshire

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. 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
Portsmouth - 3 £513 - 1
Fleet - 2 £354 -
Basingstoke - 1 £650 - 1
Romsey - 1 £740 -
Southampton - 1 £513 -
Amazon EKS
South East

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
4 2 (25.00%) Apigee
4 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (25.00%) Kong
4 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (37.50%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Kafka
2 3 (37.50%) Keycloak
3 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (25.00%) OAuth
3 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (12.50%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (12.50%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Containerisation
2 7 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Observability
4 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) GitOps
5 3 (37.50%) High Availability
5 3 (37.50%) Microservices
5 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Proactive Management
6 2 (25.00%) Runbook
6 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 20022
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 7 (87.50%) Grafana
2 7 (87.50%) Prometheus
3 5 (62.50%) Ansible
4 4 (50.00%) Argo
5 3 (37.50%) Rancher
6 2 (25.00%) Istio
6 2 (25.00%) linkerd
6 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
6 2 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Splunk
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat