Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 121 132
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 2 3 13
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.099% 0.14% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.42% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £493 £474
25th Percentile £625 £519 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -3.77% -8.08%
75th Percentile £675 £619 £695
90th Percentile - £638 -
South East median daily rate £600 £590 £575
% change year-on-year +1.69% +2.61% -4.17%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 777 717 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.41% 34.05% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 469 529
10th Percentile £255 £325 £200
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £485 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -6.29% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 18
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.50 £16.66
25th Percentile £16.37 £21.70 £19.25
Median hourly rate £40.44 £35.75 £33.66
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% +6.21% +60.29%
75th Percentile £84.75 £60.86 £70.13
90th Percentile £97.75 £64.73 £82.92
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £35.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year -46.85% +32.41% +32.61%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 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
Buckinghamshire +3 1 £650 -
Berkshire -2 1 - - 4
Amazon EKS
South East

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) JDA