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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 334 358
Rank change year-on-year +40 +24 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 82 35 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 0.71% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 20 48
10th Percentile £413 £350 £463
25th Percentile £463 £406 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -10.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £689
90th Percentile £638 - £700
UK median daily rate £558 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.08% - -4.00%

All Cloud 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 4,904 4,949 6,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.70% 27.62% 31.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,294 3,261 4,869
10th Percentile £250 £243 £225
25th Percentile £380 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £644 £664 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 139 236
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.16 £14.14
25th Percentile £16.30 £18.17 £16.45
Median hourly rate £18.94 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.88% +14.29% +36.36%
75th Percentile £36.00 £66.74 £62.03
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
North of England +13 28 £475 - 16
Scotland +5 22 £513 +28.13% 11
South East +22 16 £613 -5.77% 20
Yorkshire - 16 £466 - 2
North West -5 11 £475 - 13
Midlands -9 10 £550 +6.90% 3
West Midlands -3 9 £550 +6.90% 3
East of England +6 2 £788 +31.25%
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 4
South West - 2 £625 - 2
East Midlands -2 1 £375 -
North East - 1 £425 - 1
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (12.20%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.88%) Confluence
2 4 (4.88%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (2.44%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 69 (84.15%) AWS
2 33 (40.24%) Azure
3 28 (34.15%) Amazon S3
4 27 (32.93%) Serverless
5 24 (29.27%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (25.61%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (25.61%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (24.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (21.95%) OpenShift
9 17 (20.73%) GCP
10 15 (18.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (18.29%) GitHub
10 15 (18.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 14 (17.07%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (17.07%) Azure AKS
12 13 (15.85%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (9.76%) Entra ID
13 8 (9.76%) SaaS
13 8 (9.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.66%) HTTP
2 2 (2.44%) DNS
2 2 (2.44%) Firewall
2 2 (2.44%) Network Security
2 2 (2.44%) SSL
2 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.98%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (8.54%) DynamoDB
2 7 (8.54%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.32%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.88%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.44%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.44%) InfluxDB
6 2 (2.44%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.22%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 31 (37.80%) Jenkins
2 20 (24.39%) GitLab
3 19 (23.17%) Git
4 5 (6.10%) JIRA
4 5 (6.10%) JUnit
5 4 (4.88%) Selenium
5 4 (4.88%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (4.88%) Terragrunt
6 3 (3.66%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.66%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.66%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.66%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.66%) Gradle
6 3 (3.66%) Maven
6 3 (3.66%) Postman
6 3 (3.66%) Snyk
6 3 (3.66%) webpack
7 2 (2.44%) JMeter
7 2 (2.44%) Mockito
General
1 18 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.73%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.32%) Finance
4 3 (3.66%) Banking
5 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (31.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (24.39%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (14.63%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) AWS DevOps
4 11 (13.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) Senior
5 10 (12.20%) Data Engineer
5 10 (12.20%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 8 (9.76%) Python Engineer
7 7 (8.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 7 (8.54%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) AWS Data Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Lead
8 4 (4.88%) Python Data Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.85%) JSON
2 12 (14.63%) OAuth
2 12 (14.63%) React
3 11 (13.41%) Middleware
3 11 (13.41%) REST
4 10 (12.20%) AWS CDK
5 9 (10.98%) FastAPI
6 8 (9.76%) OpenCV
6 8 (9.76%) Pandas
6 8 (9.76%) PyTorch
6 8 (9.76%) SAML
6 8 (9.76%) SQLAlchemy
7 7 (8.54%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (8.54%) Hugging Face
7 7 (8.54%) NumPy
7 7 (8.54%) OpenID
8 6 (7.32%) OAuth2
9 5 (6.10%) boto
9 5 (6.10%) JWT
9 5 (6.10%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Cloud Native
2 15 (18.29%) Private Cloud
3 7 (8.54%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.66%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.44%) Life Science
7 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.41%) Linux
2 4 (4.88%) Unix
3 3 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.66%) Windows
3 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (69.51%) CI/CD
2 55 (67.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (52.44%) Containerisation
4 40 (48.78%) DevOps
5 33 (40.24%) Agile
6 21 (25.61%) Configuration Management
7 20 (24.39%) Migration
8 17 (20.73%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (18.29%) TDD
10 13 (15.85%) Artificial Intelligence
11 12 (14.63%) Scrum
12 11 (13.41%) LLM
12 11 (13.41%) Mentoring
12 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (12.20%) Machine Learning
13 10 (12.20%) RBAC
13 10 (12.20%) Software Engineering
14 9 (10.98%) Microservices
15 8 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (9.76%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 49 (59.76%) Python
2 24 (29.27%) Java
3 17 (20.73%) JavaScript
4 16 (19.51%) SQL
5 14 (17.07%) PowerShell
6 11 (13.41%) C#
7 9 (10.98%) Bash
8 8 (9.76%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.66%) Go
9 3 (3.66%) Perl
10 2 (2.44%) C
10 2 (2.44%) Groovy
10 2 (2.44%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.41%) AWS Certification
4 7 (8.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.88%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (2.44%) GDPR
1 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.44%) NIST
1 2 (2.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (51.22%) Docker
2 10 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.66%) KVM
Systems Management
1 67 (81.71%) Kubernetes
2 39 (47.56%) Terraform
3 30 (36.59%) Ansible
4 20 (24.39%) Grafana
5 14 (17.07%) Prometheus
6 8 (9.76%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (7.32%) Argo
8 5 (6.10%) Puppet
9 4 (4.88%) Istio
10 3 (3.66%) HAProxy
10 3 (3.66%) Podman
10 3 (3.66%) Progress Chef
10 3 (3.66%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (2.44%) Fluentd
11 2 (2.44%) Kibana
11 2 (2.44%) Kustomize
11 2 (2.44%) linkerd
11 2 (2.44%) Nagios
12 1 (1.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (18.29%) Red Hat
2 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.54%) Alibaba
3 7 (8.54%) Splunk
4 5 (6.10%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.66%) Commvault
5 3 (3.66%) ForgeRock
5 3 (3.66%) Google
5 3 (3.66%) Oracle
6 1 (1.22%) IBM
6 1 (1.22%) Informatica
6 1 (1.22%) JDA
6 1 (1.22%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.22%) StreamSets