Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.95% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.91% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £361 - -
25th Percentile £366 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 - -
75th Percentile £440 - -
90th Percentile £444 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £397 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 128 47 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 50.00% 43.52% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 39 34
10th Percentile £350 £320 £424
25th Percentile £358 £356 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £370 £495
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.25% -9.67%
75th Percentile £551 £493 £538
90th Percentile £630 £608 £582
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £411 £475
% change year-on-year +8.69% -13.42% -3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £19.86
% change year-on-year -33.83% +21.75% -53.54%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) IaaS
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) DocumentDB
1 3 (60.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) GitLab
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle