Amazon EKS Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 123 148
Rank change year-on-year +26 +25 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 23 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.17% 0.51% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.60% 1.58% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 3
10th Percentile - £444 £505
25th Percentile £463 £470 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £663 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +20.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £525 £694 £606
90th Percentile £600 - £625
England median daily rate £600 £561 £625
% change year-on-year +6.90% -10.20% +4.17%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the North West

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the North West

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the North West

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +27 23 £500 -24.53% 24
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (52.17%) GitHub
3 11 (47.83%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (47.83%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (39.13%) Amazon S3
5 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (21.74%) Serverless
6 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (4.35%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) HTTP
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
2 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.35%) DocumentDB
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Data Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Data Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Python Data Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Python Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Digital Transformation
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Kafka
1 5 (21.74%) OAuth
1 5 (21.74%) OAuth2
1 5 (21.74%) OpenID
1 5 (21.74%) SAML
2 2 (8.70%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) LDAP
3 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Containerisation
2 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 11 (47.83%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (39.13%) DevOps
6 7 (30.43%) Analytics
6 7 (30.43%) Continuous Deployment
6 7 (30.43%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (30.43%) Digital Twin
6 7 (30.43%) Visualisation
7 6 (26.09%) Load Balancing
7 6 (26.09%) RBAC
8 5 (21.74%) Cost Optimisation
8 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (17.39%) Agile
9 4 (17.39%) Architectural Design
9 4 (17.39%) Data Security
9 4 (17.39%) ETL
9 4 (17.39%) Feature Engineering
9 4 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) Bash
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) Perl
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) NCSC
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (82.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (43.48%) Terraform
3 3 (13.04%) Istio
3 3 (13.04%) Kustomize
4 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On