Amazon EKS Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 179 196
Rank change year-on-year +50 +17 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 42 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.20% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.54% 0.74% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 11 8
10th Percentile £406 £444 £501
25th Percentile £458 £453 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £519 £694 £575
90th Percentile £578 - £609
England median daily rate £575 £575 £625
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +2.04%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,187 1,481 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.83% 30.46% 35.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 1,032 1,430
10th Percentile £300 £268 £288
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £486 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -5.12% +2.50%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £594
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.24% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 76 43
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.13 £16.04
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £17.06
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -28.72% +12.65%
75th Percentile £46.19 £26.50 £41.63
90th Percentile £82.50 £46.18 £61.68
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £32.30
% change year-on-year +15.63% -32.66% +53.81%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the North of England

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the North of England

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the North of England

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
North West +18 24 £500 -24.53% 22
Yorkshire +22 17 £463 -5.13% 13
North East - 1 £425 - 2
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 40 (95.24%) AWS
2 18 (42.86%) GitHub
3 15 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (26.19%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (26.19%) Azure
5 11 (26.19%) GCP
5 11 (26.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 10 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (23.81%) Azure AKS
6 10 (23.81%) Entra ID
7 9 (21.43%) Amazon S3
7 9 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (21.43%) Serverless
8 8 (19.05%) SaaS
9 7 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (9.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) DNS
2 3 (7.14%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.14%) VPN
3 2 (4.76%) Network Security
3 2 (4.76%) SSL
4 1 (2.38%) DHCP
4 1 (2.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 5 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.76%) BigQuery
5 2 (4.76%) DocumentDB
5 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.38%) MySQL
6 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.90%) GitLab
3 4 (9.52%) Git
4 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Data Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 6 (14.29%) Architect
4 6 (14.29%) Senior
5 5 (11.90%) Lead
6 4 (9.52%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Data Architect
6 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Python Data Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Python Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Analyst
7 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) SAML
2 12 (28.57%) OAuth
2 12 (28.57%) OpenID
3 11 (26.19%) OAuth2
4 7 (16.67%) JSON
5 6 (14.29%) Kafka
6 3 (7.14%) .NET
6 3 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (7.14%) Node.js
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Amplify
7 1 (2.38%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.38%) LDAP
7 1 (2.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.38%) PKI
5 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) DevOps
2 23 (54.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (52.38%) Containerisation
4 21 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 16 (38.10%) RBAC
6 14 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (26.19%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (21.43%) Cost Optimisation
9 8 (19.05%) Agile
9 8 (19.05%) GAP Analysis
9 8 (19.05%) Workshop Facilitation
10 7 (16.67%) Analytics
10 7 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
10 7 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (16.67%) Digital Twin
10 7 (16.67%) Identity Management
10 7 (16.67%) Load Balancing
10 7 (16.67%) Privileged Identity Management
10 7 (16.67%) Visualisation
11 6 (14.29%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) Python
2 5 (11.90%) Shell Script
3 4 (9.52%) Java
4 3 (7.14%) Bash
4 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.14%) SQL
5 2 (4.76%) Groovy
5 2 (4.76%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.14%) NIST
2 2 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (42.86%) Docker
2 9 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (78.57%) Kubernetes
2 24 (57.14%) Terraform
3 10 (23.81%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (11.90%) Grafana
4 5 (11.90%) Kustomize
4 5 (11.90%) Prometheus
5 4 (9.52%) Ansible
6 3 (7.14%) Istio
7 2 (4.76%) Puppet
8 1 (2.38%) Packer
8 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Alibaba
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) Google
3 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.76%) Splunk
3 2 (4.76%) Veeam
3 2 (4.76%) VMware