Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.40% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £555 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -4.00%

All Cloud Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 40 44 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 16.19% 23.53% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 15
10th Percentile £309 £336 £200
25th Percentile £409 £463 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £591 £622 £500
90th Percentile £638 £673 £685
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.50 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £17.50
75th Percentile £24.50 - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.26% -11.43% +62.79%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in Northern Ireland

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
County Antrim - 1 - - 4
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform