Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 314 355
Rank change year-on-year +13 +41 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 98 39 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 0.88% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 33 42
10th Percentile £358 £350 £400
25th Percentile £449 £384 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £609 £550 £588
90th Percentile £663 £615 £694
UK median daily rate £530 £619 £575
% change year-on-year -14.34% +7.61% -8.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,912 4,408 5,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.97% 31.69% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,137 2,928 4,226
10th Percentile £236 £243 £213
25th Percentile £375 £375 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -1.45% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £682
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 110 194
10th Percentile £12.95 £16.18 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.38 £20.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +26.19% +9.60%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.44 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.41 £68.75 £74.63
UK median hourly rate £29.11 £27.50 £24.02
% change year-on-year +5.85% +14.49% +6.76%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 January 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
North of England -41 33 £550 +4.76% 21
North West -13 22 £550 +4.76% 8
Scotland +7 21 £500 +31.75% 2
Midlands -21 18 £550 +57.14% 8
West Midlands -21 16 £575 +64.29% 7
South East -6 14 £600 +1.69% 36
North East -5 7 £575 -6.12% 3
South West -11 4 £613 +56.25% 14
Yorkshire -48 4 £500 -13.04% 10
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 2
East of England - 3 £788 - 13
East Midlands - 2 £349 - 1
Wales - 1 £475 - 6
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.12%) Apache
3 5 (5.10%) OpenStack
4 3 (3.06%) Confluence
5 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.04%) Jupyter
6 1 (1.02%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 93 (94.90%) AWS
2 46 (46.94%) Serverless
3 45 (45.92%) Amazon ECS
4 42 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
5 33 (33.67%) Amazon S3
6 31 (31.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (30.61%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (27.55%) Azure
9 24 (24.49%) GitHub
10 23 (23.47%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (22.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (20.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (13.27%) Amazon MSK
14 11 (11.22%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (11.22%) Azure AKS
14 11 (11.22%) OpenShift
15 10 (10.20%) Datadog
15 10 (10.20%) GCP
16 7 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
16 7 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.20%) Firewall
2 4 (4.08%) HTTP
3 2 (2.04%) VPN
4 1 (1.02%) DNS
4 1 (1.02%) Internet
4 1 (1.02%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.02%) SSL
4 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (24.49%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 11 (11.22%) NoSQL
4 10 (10.20%) MongoDB
5 8 (8.16%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (7.14%) DocumentDB
6 7 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.06%) OLTP
7 3 (3.06%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.04%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.04%) Power BI
8 2 (2.04%) Redis
8 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.02%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.02%) Impala
9 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (43.88%) GitLab
2 33 (33.67%) Jenkins
3 29 (29.59%) Git
4 15 (15.31%) Bitbucket
4 15 (15.31%) JIRA
4 15 (15.31%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (5.10%) Artifactory
5 5 (5.10%) CircleCI
5 5 (5.10%) Cypress.io
5 5 (5.10%) Gradle
5 5 (5.10%) JUnit
5 5 (5.10%) Maven
5 5 (5.10%) Postman
5 5 (5.10%) Selenium
5 5 (5.10%) Snyk
5 5 (5.10%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.10%) webpack
6 2 (2.04%) MLflow
7 1 (1.02%) GoCD
General
1 20 (20.41%) Public Sector
2 15 (15.31%) Finance
3 14 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 9 (9.18%) Banking
5 5 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.04%) Aeronautics
7 2 (2.04%) Local Government
7 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (36.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (20.41%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (13.27%) Senior
4 12 (12.24%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (11.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 11 (11.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Architect
8 7 (7.14%) Lead
9 6 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (6.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Site Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Python Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (3.06%) Java Engineer
12 3 (3.06%) Java Software Engineer
12 3 (3.06%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.37%) Node.js
2 16 (16.33%) REST
3 12 (12.24%) AWS CDK
4 10 (10.20%) .NET
4 10 (10.20%) FastAPI
5 9 (9.18%) Kafka
5 9 (9.18%) Pandas
6 8 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (8.16%) OpenCV
6 8 (8.16%) PyTorch
6 8 (8.16%) SQLAlchemy
7 7 (7.14%) Hugging Face
7 7 (7.14%) NumPy
7 7 (7.14%) OAuth
8 6 (6.12%) JSON
8 6 (6.12%) YAML
9 5 (5.10%) boto
9 5 (5.10%) JWT
9 5 (5.10%) Spring
9 5 (5.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.35%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 5 (5.10%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.08%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.06%) Legacy Code
5 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.04%) Life Science
7 1 (1.02%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.02%) NHS
7 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (28.57%) Linux
2 5 (5.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.08%) Unix
4 2 (2.04%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.04%) Windows
4 2 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (69.39%) CI/CD
2 60 (61.22%) DevOps
3 57 (58.16%) Containerisation
4 54 (55.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (35.71%) Agile
6 33 (33.67%) Microservices
7 23 (23.47%) Software Engineering
8 21 (21.43%) AI
9 20 (20.41%) Observability
10 16 (16.33%) Configuration Management
11 14 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (14.29%) Event-Driven
11 14 (14.29%) LLM
11 14 (14.29%) Machine Learning
11 14 (14.29%) TDD
12 13 (13.27%) API Development
12 13 (13.27%) DevSecOps
13 12 (12.24%) Mentoring
14 11 (11.22%) Test Automation
15 10 (10.20%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (50.00%) Python
2 21 (21.43%) Java
3 15 (15.31%) Bash
3 15 (15.31%) PowerShell
4 13 (13.27%) SQL
5 12 (12.24%) Perl
6 11 (11.22%) Ruby
7 9 (9.18%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.12%) Go
9 5 (5.10%) Shell Script
10 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
11 3 (3.06%) C
11 3 (3.06%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.06%) ProC
12 2 (2.04%) AWK
12 2 (2.04%) C#
12 2 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 33 (33.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.37%) AWS Certification
4 10 (10.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (9.18%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.06%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.06%) Degree
6 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.02%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.06%) GDPR
2 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.04%) QA
4 1 (1.02%) NIST
4 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 60 (61.22%) Docker
2 6 (6.12%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (3.06%) KVM
4 2 (2.04%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.02%) HDFS
5 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 54 (55.10%) Terraform
3 29 (29.59%) Ansible
4 27 (27.55%) Grafana
5 25 (25.51%) Prometheus
6 13 (13.27%) Puppet
7 10 (10.20%) Argo
8 8 (8.16%) Progress Chef
9 5 (5.10%) Podman
10 3 (3.06%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (2.04%) Fluentd
11 2 (2.04%) HAProxy
11 2 (2.04%) Nagios
11 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (1.02%) Karpenter
12 1 (1.02%) linkerd
12 1 (1.02%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (16.33%) Oracle
2 10 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.18%) Splunk
4 6 (6.12%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.08%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.08%) Ping Identity
6 3 (3.06%) Commvault
6 3 (3.06%) Google
7 2 (2.04%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.02%) Blue Prism
8 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.02%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.02%) UiPath
8 1 (1.02%) VMware