Amazon EKS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 103 115 135
Rank change year-on-year +12 +20 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 13 14 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 0.63% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 1.90% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 23
10th Percentile £350 £415 -
25th Percentile £380 £446 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £611 £650
Median % change year-on-year -33.09% -5.96% +16.85%
75th Percentile £531 £634 £676
90th Percentile £550 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in Scotland

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in Scotland

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in Scotland

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +8 9 £409 -31.83% 1
Edinburgh -1 4 £513 -17.67% 2
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (15.38%) Camunda
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Serverless
3 6 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (30.77%) Azure AKS
6 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (7.69%) Azure
8 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (7.69%) CloudFront
8 1 (7.69%) IaaS
8 1 (7.69%) PaaS
8 1 (7.69%) SaaS
8 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) FTP
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Artifactory
2 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
2 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Mockito
3 1 (7.69%) Selenium
3 1 (7.69%) Toad
3 1 (7.69%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (30.77%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Architect
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Spring
1 7 (53.85%) Spring Boot
2 2 (15.38%) LDAP
2 2 (15.38%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Camel
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
3 1 (7.69%) JWT
3 1 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) OpenID
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) SAML
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (23.08%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
3 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
5 2 (15.38%) BPMN
5 2 (15.38%) Change Data Capture
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Decision Table
5 2 (15.38%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) HAProxy
3 1 (7.69%) linkerd
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) ForgeRock
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Informatica
2 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.69%) Okta
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) StreamSets
2 1 (7.69%) Talend