Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.66% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 - -
South West median daily rate £513 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -27.93%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 196 50 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 43.17% 29.24% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 40 28
10th Percentile £281 £160 £221
25th Percentile £413 £225 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £419 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% -14.10% -7.14%
75th Percentile £656 £527 £600
90th Percentile £750 £675 £669
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 1 3
10th Percentile £14.50 - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £57.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +400.00% -52.55%
75th Percentile £58.75 £72.50 £13.50
90th Percentile £98.82 - -
South West median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +85.48% -73.04% +100.00%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in Somerset

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 10 August 2026. 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
Taunton - 2 - -
Bath - 1 £655 -
Amazon EKS
South West

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Architect
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Technical Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Loki
2 1 (33.33%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle