Amazon EKS Contracts in the South East

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 184 193
Rank change year-on-year +48 +9 +57
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 10 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.34% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 0.98% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 13
10th Percentile - £538 £607
25th Percentile - £569 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £695
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -6.47% +15.83%
75th Percentile - £675 £715
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £563 £625
% change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% +4.08%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 869 1,321 1,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.80% 24.14% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 904 1,228
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £381 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £631
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 53 51
10th Percentile £15.76 £16.54 £15.21
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £24.43 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.66% +1.79% +14.15%
75th Percentile £47.20 £59.95 £68.13
90th Percentile £74.63 £61.58 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.37 £34.00
% change year-on-year +19.33% -37.15% +58.14%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the South East

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the South East

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 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
Thames Valley +36 6 £500 -13.04% 106
Berkshire +34 6 £500 - 63
Hampshire - 3 - - 39
East Sussex -3 1 - - 12
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Akamai
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) Datadog
5 1 (10.00%) Route 53
5 1 (10.00%) SonarCloud
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JMeter
2 2 (20.00%) JUnit
2 2 (20.00%) Mockito
3 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
1 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 3 (30.00%) Middleware
1 3 (30.00%) React
1 3 (30.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Camel
2 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) jQuery
2 2 (20.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (20.00%) Web Services
2 2 (20.00%) WireMock
2 2 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Process Management
5 2 (20.00%) Product Management
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) TDD
5 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Terraform
3 4 (40.00%) Ansible
4 2 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) New Relic