Amazon EKS Contracts in the Midlands

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 134 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 7 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.29% 0.14% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 0.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £444 £460 -
25th Percentile £472 £474 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% - -
75th Percentile £575 £518 -
90th Percentile - £522 -
England median daily rate £575 £575 £625
% change year-on-year - -8.00% -

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 729 716 1,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.45% 24.86% 34.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 510 808
10th Percentile £263 £200 £210
25th Percentile £380 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -4.21% -0.73%
75th Percentile £552 £595 £575
90th Percentile £669 £681 £691
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 25
10th Percentile £15.19 £13.99 £13.20
25th Percentile £17.96 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.39 £19.57 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -13.04% +16.88%
75th Percentile £25.72 £26.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £38.48 £35.73 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.50 £34.90
% change year-on-year +16.98% -38.39% +60.23%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the Midlands

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend 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 17 July 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 +2 6 £550 +8.91% 11
East Midlands +1 1 £500 - 2
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) SonarCloud
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) GitLab
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) Snyk
4 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Mustache
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (42.86%) Change Control
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1 (14.29%) Product Management
6 1 (14.29%) SDLC
6 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
6 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 4 (57.14%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat