Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in the North East

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 40 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.26% 0.66% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.05% 1.89% -
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 -
England median daily rate £550 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -8.00%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 164 106 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 41.41% 34.87% 27.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 60 51
10th Percentile £232 £312 £163
25th Percentile £385 £361 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £405
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +18.83% -28.95%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £507
90th Percentile £700 £629 £580
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £39.40 - £21.64
25th Percentile £44.50 - £30.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% - +105.24%
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the North East

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the North East over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the North East

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Tyne and Wear -7 5 £575 -6.12%
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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