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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 302 349
Rank change year-on-year -6 +47 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 120 47 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.36% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 1.09% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 41 48
10th Percentile £350 £350 £407
25th Percentile £400 £409 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.25% -5.66% -11.67%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £634
90th Percentile £651 £625 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -13.58% +10.45% -10.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 6,575 4,317 5,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.59% 33.23% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,565 2,972 4,186
10th Percentile £255 £232 £213
25th Percentile £381 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +0.05% -1.98%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £666 £669 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 113 260
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £18.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.10% +34.33% -15.53%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £33.69
90th Percentile £80.10 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.62% +26.93% -14.52%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -31 47 £550 +4.76% 19
North West -19 31 £575 +9.52% 13
Scotland +16 23 £425 +3.79% 1
South East -20 16 £530 -2.75% 14
Midlands -41 16 £535 +25.88%
West Midlands -37 15 £550 +57.14%
South West -7 12 £400 -36.00% 13
North East -5 9 £538 -12.24% 3
Yorkshire -58 7 £500 - 3
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
East of England - 2 - - 2
East Midlands -30 1 £322 -35.60%
Wales - 1 £475 - 1
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 9 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.83%) Apache
4 4 (3.33%) Confluence
5 3 (2.50%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.67%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (1.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 116 (96.67%) AWS
2 56 (46.67%) Serverless
3 55 (45.83%) Amazon ECS
4 51 (42.50%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (31.67%) Amazon S3
6 34 (28.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (23.33%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (23.33%) GitHub
8 27 (22.50%) Azure
8 27 (22.50%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (19.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (15.83%) Azure AKS
12 14 (11.67%) Datadog
13 13 (10.83%) Amazon MSK
13 13 (10.83%) GCP
14 12 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (7.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 7 (5.83%) AWS Fargate
16 7 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.83%) Firewall
2 5 (4.17%) HTTP
3 3 (2.50%) VPN
4 1 (0.83%) BGP
4 1 (0.83%) DNS
4 1 (0.83%) Internet
4 1 (0.83%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.83%) SSL
4 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 15 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.67%) DocumentDB
4 8 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.00%) Flink
7 5 (4.17%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.50%) OLTP
9 2 (1.67%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.67%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.67%) Power BI
9 2 (1.67%) Redis
9 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.83%) Big Data
10 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.83%) Impala
Development Applications
1 45 (37.50%) GitLab
2 38 (31.67%) Jenkins
3 25 (20.83%) Git
4 16 (13.33%) JIRA
5 13 (10.83%) Bitbucket
5 13 (10.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.33%) MLflow
7 3 (2.50%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.50%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.50%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.50%) Gradle
7 3 (2.50%) JUnit
7 3 (2.50%) Maven
7 3 (2.50%) Postman
7 3 (2.50%) Selenium
7 3 (2.50%) Snyk
7 3 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.50%) webpack
8 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.83%) GoCD
General
1 23 (19.17%) Public Sector
2 20 (16.67%) Finance
3 18 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.00%) Banking
5 5 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.67%) Aeronautics
7 2 (1.67%) Local Government
7 2 (1.67%) Military
8 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (36.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (15.00%) Senior
4 15 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (10.83%) AWS DevOps
6 12 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 12 (10.00%) Developer
7 10 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.50%) Architect
8 9 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.50%) Python Engineer
9 8 (6.67%) Software Engineer
10 7 (5.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (5.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.83%) Java Developer
10 7 (5.83%) Lead
11 5 (4.17%) AWS Architect
11 5 (4.17%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.83%) Kafka
2 18 (15.00%) Node.js
3 14 (11.67%) REST
4 12 (10.00%) Spring
4 12 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 11 (9.17%) AWS CDK
5 11 (9.17%) OAuth
6 10 (8.33%) FastAPI
6 10 (8.33%) Pandas
6 10 (8.33%) RESTful
7 9 (7.50%) .NET
7 9 (7.50%) OpenCV
7 9 (7.50%) PyTorch
7 9 (7.50%) SQLAlchemy
8 8 (6.67%) Hugging Face
8 8 (6.67%) NumPy
9 7 (5.83%) JWT
10 6 (5.00%) boto
10 6 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (4.17%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.17%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.33%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.50%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.50%) NHS
7 2 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.83%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (0.83%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (0.83%) EMV
8 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.67%) Linux
2 4 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.33%) Windows
3 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 78 (65.00%) DevOps
3 68 (56.67%) Containerisation
4 59 (49.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (35.00%) Microservices
6 36 (30.00%) Agile
7 30 (25.00%) Observability
8 22 (18.33%) AI
9 21 (17.50%) Software Engineering
10 20 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (14.17%) TDD
12 16 (13.33%) Event-Driven
12 16 (13.33%) Mentoring
13 15 (12.50%) Code Quality
13 15 (12.50%) Machine Learning
14 14 (11.67%) LLM
14 14 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
15 13 (10.83%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 62 (51.67%) Python
2 25 (20.83%) Java
3 17 (14.17%) SQL
4 16 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 14 (11.67%) Bash
6 11 (9.17%) Ruby
7 9 (7.50%) Perl
8 8 (6.67%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.33%) Bicep
9 4 (3.33%) Go
9 4 (3.33%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.50%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.50%) ProC
10 3 (2.50%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.67%) AWK
11 2 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.83%) C
12 1 (0.83%) C#
Qualifications
1 33 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 22 (18.33%) SC Cleared
4 12 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.83%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.50%) Degree
8 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.83%) CCNP
9 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.83%) CISSP
9 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.50%) GDPR
2 3 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.67%) QA
4 1 (0.83%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.83%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 65 (54.17%) Docker
2 6 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.83%) HDFS
4 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 84 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 63 (52.50%) Terraform
3 30 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 26 (21.67%) Grafana
5 25 (20.83%) Ansible
6 13 (10.83%) Argo
7 11 (9.17%) Puppet
8 6 (5.00%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.33%) Istio
9 4 (3.33%) linkerd
10 3 (2.50%) Podman
11 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.83%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.83%) Packer
12 1 (0.83%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (10.83%) Oracle
2 12 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.00%) Splunk
3 8 (6.67%) Databricks
4 4 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.50%) Google
5 3 (2.50%) Ping Identity
6 2 (1.67%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.67%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.67%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.83%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.83%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.83%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.83%) UiPath
7 1 (0.83%) VMware