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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 93 128
Rank change year-on-year -49 +35 +3
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 4 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.13% 0.42% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.46% 1.21% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -13.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £638 - £613
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £531 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +6.25% -23.08% -6.47%

All Cloud Computing 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 861 495 730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.51% 34.30% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 327 501
10th Percentile £306 £269 £281
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.83%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £608
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 16 32
10th Percentile £18.23 £14.25 £16.03
25th Percentile £29.07 £26.49 £20.50
Median hourly rate £64.65 £38.53 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +67.81% -23.33% +101.00%
75th Percentile £98.34 £47.63 £60.72
90th Percentile £110.48 £76.35 £61.60
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £24.43
% change year-on-year +69.64% +14.61% +4.85%

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 27 May 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
Berkshire -32 3 £625 +25.00%
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Mustache
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft