Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 127 121 131
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 19 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.76% 0.093% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.19% 0.30% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 6
10th Percentile £413 - £466
25th Percentile £525 £563 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -2.17% -9.58%
75th Percentile £647 £588 £686
90th Percentile £658 - £694
England median daily rate £550 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -8.00%

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 866 668 965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.50% 31.01% 36.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 433 724
10th Percentile £219 £250 £265
25th Percentile £360 £375 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £539 £565 £575
90th Percentile £638 £645 £650
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 14 52
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.52 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £28.31
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +5.99% -19.13%
75th Percentile £69.25 £55.05 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.37 £75.18 £51.42
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 West

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the North West

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 20 December 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 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
Manchester +1 16 £613 +6.52% 5
Cheshire - 2 £363 - 1
Merseyside - 1 £575 -
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Apache
1 3 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (10.53%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (57.89%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (52.63%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (52.63%) Serverless
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon MSK
5 5 (26.32%) GitHub
5 5 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (21.05%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (21.05%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (10.53%) Datadog
8 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (5.26%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (26.32%) DynamoDB
1 5 (26.32%) NoSQL
2 4 (21.05%) DocumentDB
2 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (15.79%) OLTP
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) GitLab
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
3 2 (10.53%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Security Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Node.js
2 4 (21.05%) .NET
2 4 (21.05%) Kafka
3 3 (15.79%) NestJS
3 3 (15.79%) REST
4 2 (10.53%) Middleware
4 2 (10.53%) RESTful
4 2 (10.53%) Web Services
5 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.79%) Legacy Code
2 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) DevOps
2 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 9 (47.37%) Microservices
4 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
5 6 (31.58%) Agile
6 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
7 4 (21.05%) Code Quality
7 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
7 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (21.05%) TDD
8 3 (15.79%) API Development
8 3 (15.79%) Batch Processing
8 3 (15.79%) Key Management
8 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
8 3 (15.79%) Observability
8 3 (15.79%) Performance Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) PL/SQL
3 3 (15.79%) ProC
3 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.53%) AWK
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
4 2 (10.53%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) Perl
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) Ruby
4 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.26%) Go
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Terraform
2 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Dynatrace
2 3 (15.79%) Ping Identity