Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 120 146
Rank change year-on-year -9 +26 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.17% 0.045% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.15% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £536 £384 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £392 £500
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -21.60% -18.37%
75th Percentile £638 £401 £588
90th Percentile - - £655
England median daily rate £550 £650 £560
% change year-on-year -15.38% +16.04% -10.37%

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 680 654 920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.66% 29.54% 29.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 426 703
10th Percentile £225 £263 £250
25th Percentile £404 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £648
90th Percentile £700 £734 £701
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 39
10th Percentile - £14.60 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.26 £14.36
Median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% -65.37%
75th Percentile £35.69 £70.00 £33.00
90th Percentile £76.20 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the South West

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Amazon EKS

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 10 December 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 10 December 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
Gloucestershire - 3 £625 - 2
Bristol - 1 £438 -
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes