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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 289 333
Rank change year-on-year -35 +44 +43
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 142 73 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.47% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.52% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 53 19
10th Percentile £400 £410 £425
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £675
90th Percentile £652 £657 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.16% -3.06%

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 8,118 4,795 4,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.38% 31.09% 26.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,219 3,212 3,309
10th Percentile £275 £250 £240
25th Percentile £403 £380 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £569 £600
90th Percentile £675 £643 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 190 167
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.04
25th Percentile £17.75 £16.95 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% -12.60% -20.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £84.13 £67.03 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -55 41 £500 +5.26% 14
Midlands -21 32 £488 -11.36% 1
West Midlands -26 27 £477 -13.27% 1
Scotland -7 26 £463 -7.50% 6
North West -35 23 £630 +29.27% 5
South East -63 20 £538 -12.24% 9
North East -24 16 £425 - 3
South West -34 11 £600 -4.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 6 £446 - 1
East Midlands - 5 £500 -
East of England -22 4 £345 -56.19%
Wales - 3 £600 - 1
Yorkshire -52 2 £500 +7.70% 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 17 (11.97%) Confluence
2 4 (2.82%) Apache
2 4 (2.82%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.41%) nginx
4 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 140 (98.59%) AWS
2 67 (47.18%) Serverless
3 64 (45.07%) Amazon ECS
4 60 (42.25%) AWS Lambda
5 57 (40.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 53 (37.32%) GitHub
7 49 (34.51%) GitHub Actions
8 48 (33.80%) Amazon S3
9 39 (27.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 39 (27.46%) Azure
10 36 (25.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 34 (23.94%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (20.42%) GCP
13 27 (19.01%) Azure AKS
14 22 (15.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 18 (12.68%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
17 15 (10.56%) Kong
18 13 (9.15%) AWS CodePipeline
19 10 (7.04%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.27%) Firewall
2 15 (10.56%) DNS
3 7 (4.93%) HTTP
3 7 (4.93%) VPN
4 3 (2.11%) Network Security
5 2 (1.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.41%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.70%) BGP
6 1 (0.70%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (17.61%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.56%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (10.56%) DynamoDB
3 10 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (6.34%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.34%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.93%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.23%) Redis
7 4 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.11%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.11%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.11%) MySQL
9 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.41%) Flink
10 1 (0.70%) Big Data
10 1 (0.70%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 50 (35.21%) Jenkins
2 39 (27.46%) GitLab
3 19 (13.38%) Bitbucket
4 18 (12.68%) Git
5 15 (10.56%) JIRA
6 4 (2.82%) JUnit
6 4 (2.82%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.11%) Mockito
8 2 (1.41%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.41%) MLflow
8 2 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.41%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.41%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.70%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.70%) Gradle
9 1 (0.70%) Postman
9 1 (0.70%) Snyk
9 1 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 34 (23.94%) Public Sector
2 30 (21.13%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.20%) Finance
4 11 (7.75%) Banking
4 11 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.70%) International Banking
7 1 (0.70%) Local Government
7 1 (0.70%) Military
7 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (23.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (16.90%) AWS Engineer
3 20 (14.08%) Developer
4 19 (13.38%) Scrum Master
5 18 (12.68%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (10.56%) Architect
7 14 (9.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (9.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (9.15%) Lead
9 12 (8.45%) Senior
10 11 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (7.04%) Software Developer
12 9 (6.34%) AWS Architect
13 6 (4.23%) Java Developer
13 6 (4.23%) Security Engineer
13 6 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
13 6 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 6 (4.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 6 (4.23%) Technical Architect
14 5 (3.52%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (64.08%) Terraform
2 34 (23.94%) Kafka
3 24 (16.90%) Spring Boot
4 23 (16.20%) RESTful
4 23 (16.20%) Spring
5 14 (9.86%) AWS CDK
5 14 (9.86%) OAuth
5 14 (9.86%) REST
6 13 (9.15%) React
7 11 (7.75%) OAuth2
8 9 (6.34%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (6.34%) Node.js
8 9 (6.34%) OpenID
9 8 (5.63%) .NET
10 7 (4.93%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (4.93%) SAML
11 6 (4.23%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.23%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.23%) gRPC
11 6 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 57 (40.14%) Cloud Native
2 27 (19.01%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (16.90%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.93%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.23%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (4.23%) Security Posture
7 5 (3.52%) Blog
8 4 (2.82%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (2.82%) Replication
9 3 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.41%) NHS
10 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.41%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.41%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.79%) Linux
2 6 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (4.23%) Windows
3 2 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (85.21%) CI/CD
2 90 (63.38%) DevOps
3 81 (57.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (46.48%) Agile
5 65 (45.77%) Containerisation
6 50 (35.21%) Observability
7 47 (33.10%) Microservices
8 44 (30.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (30.28%) Platform Engineering
10 40 (28.17%) Test Automation
11 37 (26.06%) Scrum
12 34 (23.94%) DevSecOps
13 25 (17.61%) Event-Driven
14 22 (15.49%) Code Quality
14 22 (15.49%) Configuration Management
15 21 (14.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 21 (14.79%) GitOps
15 21 (14.79%) Secrets Management
15 21 (14.79%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (14.08%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (29.58%) Java
1 42 (29.58%) Python
2 30 (21.13%) Bash
3 22 (15.49%) PowerShell
4 17 (11.97%) TypeScript
5 15 (10.56%) Go
6 12 (8.45%) Bicep
7 11 (7.75%) SQL
8 9 (6.34%) JavaScript
9 8 (5.63%) C#
9 8 (5.63%) Scala
10 3 (2.11%) Groovy
10 3 (2.11%) Lua
10 3 (2.11%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 50 (35.21%) Security Cleared
2 45 (31.69%) SC Cleared
3 32 (22.54%) AWS Certification
4 15 (10.56%) Azure Certification
5 11 (7.75%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (6.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (5.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.93%) Degree
9 6 (4.23%) CISSP
10 5 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
13 2 (1.41%) CCNP
13 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.70%) CCIE
14 1 (0.70%) CCSP
14 1 (0.70%) CISM
14 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.45%) QA
2 8 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.82%) NCSC
4 3 (2.11%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.41%) SLA
5 2 (1.41%) WCAG
6 1 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 85 (59.86%) Docker
2 4 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.70%) KVM
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (71.13%) Kubernetes
2 40 (28.17%) Grafana
3 28 (19.72%) Prometheus
4 21 (14.79%) Argo
5 18 (12.68%) Ansible
6 14 (9.86%) Istio
7 10 (7.04%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.93%) linkerd
9 5 (3.52%) Rancher
10 4 (2.82%) Puppet
11 3 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.41%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.70%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.70%) Packer
13 1 (0.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 24 (16.90%) Splunk
2 23 (16.20%) Dynatrace
3 18 (12.68%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.63%) Google
5 6 (4.23%) ForgeRock
5 6 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.82%) VMware
7 3 (2.11%) Confluent
7 3 (2.11%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.11%) Oracle
7 3 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.41%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.41%) Databricks
8 2 (1.41%) IBM
8 2 (1.41%) Okta
8 2 (1.41%) SAP
9 1 (0.70%) Informatica
9 1 (0.70%) Talend
9 1 (0.70%) Trend Micro