Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 129 133
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +57
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 18 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.58% 0.12% 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 0.39% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 1
10th Percentile £349 £380 -
25th Percentile £503 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +6.32% -20.17%
75th Percentile £588 £518 £488
90th Percentile £678 £522 -
England median daily rate £550 £650 £560
% change year-on-year -15.38% +16.04% -10.37%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,023 763 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.10% 30.41% 35.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 721 490 730
10th Percentile £290 £210 £212
25th Percentile £406 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £568
90th Percentile £688 £685 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 29
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.05 £12.60
25th Percentile £19.28 £16.94 £13.25
Median hourly rate £26.31 £25.56 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% +38.15% +13.08%
75th Percentile £31.50 £35.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £64.13 £41.21 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the Midlands

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West Midlands -13 16 £550 +8.91% 9
East Midlands - 2 £349 - 1
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (22.22%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) AWS
2 15 (83.33%) Azure
3 8 (44.44%) GitHub
4 7 (38.89%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (33.33%) Azure AKS
6 5 (27.78%) Datadog
7 4 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (22.22%) GCP
7 4 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (22.22%) npm
7 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
7 4 (22.22%) Pulumi
8 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
8 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
8 3 (16.67%) SaaS
8 3 (16.67%) Serverless
9 2 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.56%) DocumentDB
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Git
2 9 (50.00%) GitLab
3 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
4 4 (22.22%) Artifactory
4 4 (22.22%) Bitbucket
4 4 (22.22%) CircleCI
4 4 (22.22%) Cypress.io
4 4 (22.22%) Gradle
4 4 (22.22%) JUnit
4 4 (22.22%) Maven
4 4 (22.22%) Postman
4 4 (22.22%) Selenium
4 4 (22.22%) Snyk
4 4 (22.22%) SonarQube
4 4 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (22.22%) webpack
5 3 (16.67%) JIRA
6 1 (5.56%) GoCD
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Aeronautics
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Gen AI Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Architect
5 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) REST
2 4 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (22.22%) JSON
2 4 (22.22%) YAML
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) FastAPI
3 2 (11.11%) Flask
3 2 (11.11%) OAuth
4 1 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) SignalR
4 1 (5.56%) Spring
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Private Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
1 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (50.00%) DevOps
4 7 (38.89%) Agile
4 7 (38.89%) Cloud Security
5 6 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 6 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (33.33%) Task Automation
6 5 (27.78%) Change Control
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (27.78%) Incident Response
6 5 (27.78%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
7 4 (22.22%) AI
7 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
7 4 (22.22%) Microservices
7 4 (22.22%) Software Delivery
7 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Go
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 6 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) CISSP
5 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 10 (55.56%) Ansible
3 9 (50.00%) Terraform
4 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
5 4 (22.22%) Grafana
5 4 (22.22%) Podman
5 4 (22.22%) Progress Chef
5 4 (22.22%) Puppet
6 2 (11.11%) Argo
6 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle