Amazon EKS Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 108 154 157
Rank change year-on-year +46 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 3 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.18% 0.094% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.37% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £432 - £535
25th Percentile £504 £475 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -13.04% -6.12%
75th Percentile £647 £525 £631
90th Percentile £660 - £694
England median daily rate £600 £561 £625
% change year-on-year +6.90% -10.20% +4.17%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 491 816 1,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.26% 25.51% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 616 1,019
10th Percentile £235 £205 £287
25th Percentile £406 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £594 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 29 57
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%
75th Percentile £34.50 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £53.13 £70.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the South West

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the South West

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the South West

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Bristol +20 2 £644 - 6
Dorset - 1 £392 -
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Boundary Protection
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) OWASP
1 1 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) RBAC
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform