Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.53% 1.01% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.60% 2.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £440 £571 -
25th Percentile - £584 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% - -
75th Percentile - £634 -
90th Percentile £695 £644 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £575 £613 -
% change year-on-year -6.12% - -

All Cloud Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 139 87 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 42.64% 43.94% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 46 36
10th Percentile £260 £305 £163
25th Percentile £388 £357 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £407
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% +10.57% -29.22%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £543
90th Percentile £700 £625 £610
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £454 £407
% change year-on-year -0.88% +11.55% -29.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £39.40 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.89%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.50 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -28.89%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in Newcastle upon Tyne

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Java Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) API Development
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) Functional Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) AI
4 2 (40.00%) API Design
4 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (20.00%) UiPath