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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 324 357
Rank change year-on-year +32 +33 +17
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 103 33 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.20% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 0.67% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 25 46
10th Percentile £358 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £409 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.98% -12.60%
75th Percentile £601 £615 £588
90th Percentile £644 £665 £639
UK median daily rate £550 £640 £558
% change year-on-year -14.06% +14.66% -10.69%

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 5,644 4,936 6,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.75% 29.93% 31.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,883 3,173 4,780
10th Percentile £226 £252 £219
25th Percentile £375 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 120 220
10th Percentile £13.21 £18.09 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.13 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.94 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.12% +37.50% +18.73%
75th Percentile £43.68 £59.66 £49.06
90th Percentile £69.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £32.00
% change year-on-year -24.41% +3.97% +46.19%

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 November 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 17 November 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 -10 32 £550 -10.20% 26
Scotland +11 28 £500 +22.25% 1
South East +6 17 £600 -3.23% 14
Midlands -16 15 £550 +8.91% 10
Yorkshire -22 14 £475 -17.39% 6
North West -12 13 £550 -4.35% 19
West Midlands -17 13 £563 +11.39% 9
North East -3 5 £575 -11.54% 1
South West - 4 £613 - 12
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
East of England - 3 £788 - 7
East Midlands - 2 £349 - 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 8 (7.77%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.83%) Apache
3 4 (3.88%) Confluence
3 4 (3.88%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.94%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.97%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 92 (89.32%) AWS
2 44 (42.72%) Serverless
3 43 (41.75%) Amazon ECS
4 41 (39.81%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (38.83%) Azure
6 36 (34.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (29.13%) Amazon S3
8 25 (24.27%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (19.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (17.48%) GCP
10 18 (17.48%) OpenShift
11 17 (16.50%) Azure AKS
11 17 (16.50%) GitHub
11 17 (16.50%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (15.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (13.59%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (13.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 13 (12.62%) Entra ID
15 12 (11.65%) Amazon MSK
16 10 (9.71%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.71%) Firewall
2 3 (2.91%) HTTP
3 1 (0.97%) DNS
3 1 (0.97%) Network Security
3 1 (0.97%) SSL
3 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.39%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (11.65%) DynamoDB
3 9 (8.74%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.77%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.88%) DocumentDB
7 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.94%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.94%) Power BI
8 1 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (34.95%) Jenkins
2 32 (31.07%) GitLab
3 29 (28.16%) Git
4 14 (13.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (12.62%) Bitbucket
5 13 (12.62%) JIRA
6 5 (4.85%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.88%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.88%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.88%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.88%) Gradle
7 4 (3.88%) JUnit
7 4 (3.88%) Maven
7 4 (3.88%) Postman
7 4 (3.88%) Selenium
7 4 (3.88%) Snyk
7 4 (3.88%) Terragrunt
7 4 (3.88%) webpack
8 2 (1.94%) MLflow
General
1 21 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.48%) Public Sector
3 15 (14.56%) Finance
4 10 (9.71%) Banking
5 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.97%) Aeronautics
7 1 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (33.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (21.36%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (12.62%) Senior
4 12 (11.65%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (10.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 11 (10.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 11 (10.68%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (8.74%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Business Analyst
9 6 (5.83%) Architect
9 6 (5.83%) Lead
9 6 (5.83%) Security Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Site Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 3 (2.91%) Digital Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.50%) Node.js
2 14 (13.59%) OAuth
2 14 (13.59%) REST
3 12 (11.65%) JSON
3 12 (11.65%) Middleware
3 12 (11.65%) React
4 10 (9.71%) AWS CDK
4 10 (9.71%) FastAPI
5 9 (8.74%) Pandas
6 8 (7.77%) .NET
6 8 (7.77%) OpenCV
6 8 (7.77%) PyTorch
6 8 (7.77%) SAML
6 8 (7.77%) SQLAlchemy
7 7 (6.80%) Hugging Face
7 7 (6.80%) NumPy
7 7 (6.80%) OpenID
8 6 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (5.83%) Kafka
8 6 (5.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.39%) Cloud Native
2 15 (14.56%) Private Cloud
3 9 (8.74%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.85%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.88%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.94%) Life Science
8 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.36%) Linux
2 4 (3.88%) Unix
3 3 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.91%) Windows
3 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.94%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (68.93%) CI/CD
2 67 (65.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (60.19%) DevOps
4 53 (51.46%) Containerisation
5 36 (34.95%) Agile
6 27 (26.21%) Microservices
7 23 (22.33%) Configuration Management
8 19 (18.45%) AI
9 18 (17.48%) Migration
9 18 (17.48%) Software Engineering
10 15 (14.56%) Mentoring
10 15 (14.56%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (13.59%) LLM
11 14 (13.59%) TDD
12 13 (12.62%) API Development
12 13 (12.62%) DevSecOps
12 13 (12.62%) Machine Learning
13 12 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (10.68%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 55 (53.40%) Python
2 32 (31.07%) Java
3 21 (20.39%) PowerShell
4 18 (17.48%) SQL
5 15 (14.56%) JavaScript
6 13 (12.62%) Bash
7 11 (10.68%) Perl
8 10 (9.71%) C#
9 9 (8.74%) Ruby
10 4 (3.88%) Go
11 3 (2.91%) C
11 3 (2.91%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.91%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.94%) AWK
12 2 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.97%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 33 (32.04%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.33%) SC Cleared
3 20 (19.42%) AWS Certification
4 10 (9.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.80%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.91%) Degree
9 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.97%) CISSP
10 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.88%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.88%) GDPR
1 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.94%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.94%) NIST
3 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.97%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (53.40%) Docker
2 10 (9.71%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.83%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.91%) KVM
Systems Management
1 72 (69.90%) Kubernetes
2 54 (52.43%) Terraform
3 32 (31.07%) Ansible
4 19 (18.45%) Grafana
5 17 (16.50%) Prometheus
6 10 (9.71%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (8.74%) Argo
8 8 (7.77%) Puppet
9 5 (4.85%) Progress Chef
10 4 (3.88%) Istio
10 4 (3.88%) Podman
11 3 (2.91%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.94%) Fluentd
12 2 (1.94%) HAProxy
12 2 (1.94%) Nagios
13 1 (0.97%) Karpenter
13 1 (0.97%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.97%) linkerd
13 1 (0.97%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.59%) Red Hat
3 11 (10.68%) Oracle
4 7 (6.80%) Alibaba
4 7 (6.80%) Splunk
5 4 (3.88%) Ping Identity
6 3 (2.91%) Commvault
6 3 (2.91%) Google
7 2 (1.94%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.94%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.97%) JDA
8 1 (0.97%) PagerDuty