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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 301 346
Rank change year-on-year -49 +45 +35
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 118 72 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.48% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 1.54% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 49 34
10th Percentile £381 £408 £438
25th Percentile £413 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -7.02%
75th Percentile £574 £575 £634
90th Percentile £650 £627 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
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 8,024 4,690 5,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.78% 31.56% 26.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,192 3,162 3,757
10th Percentile £291 £250 £231
25th Percentile £402 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £518 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 194 268
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.88
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.94 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.05% -9.83% -20.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £27.76 £22.30
% change year-on-year +33.50% +24.48% -36.29%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -79 31 £500 +5.26% 19
Scotland -7 21 £525 +2.44% 4
Midlands -35 21 £488 -7.14% 9
North West -50 18 £632 +26.45% 6
South West -17 17 £400 -37.86% 14
West Midlands -54 17 £477 -13.27% 4
South East -75 17 £533 -0.70% 9
North East -28 7 £425 - 7
Yorkshire -63 6 £500 +8.11% 6
Northern Ireland - 6 £446 -
East Midlands -11 4 £500 - 5
Wales - 3 £600 -
East of England - 3 - - 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 20 (16.95%) Confluence
2 7 (5.93%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.08%) Apache
4 5 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.69%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.69%) nginx
5 2 (1.69%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 117 (99.15%) AWS
2 57 (48.31%) Serverless
3 48 (40.68%) Amazon S3
3 48 (40.68%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (39.83%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (32.20%) GitHub
6 37 (31.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 37 (31.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 35 (29.66%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (24.58%) Amazon EC2
8 29 (24.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (20.34%) Azure
10 23 (19.49%) Azure AKS
11 18 (15.25%) GCP
12 15 (12.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 13 (11.02%) AWS CodePipeline
14 11 (9.32%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (5.93%) Route 53
16 6 (5.08%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.08%) Firewall
2 5 (4.24%) HTTP
3 4 (3.39%) DNS
3 4 (3.39%) VPN
4 1 (0.85%) BGP
4 1 (0.85%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.71%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (11.02%) DynamoDB
3 13 (11.02%) NoSQL
4 11 (9.32%) Relational Database
5 10 (8.47%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (5.93%) Flink
7 6 (5.08%) Redis
8 4 (3.39%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.69%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (38.14%) Jenkins
2 35 (29.66%) GitLab
3 18 (15.25%) JIRA
4 13 (11.02%) Bitbucket
5 10 (8.47%) Git
6 4 (3.39%) MLflow
7 3 (2.54%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.69%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.69%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.19%) Public Sector
3 15 (12.71%) Finance
4 6 (5.08%) Banking
5 4 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.69%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.85%) International Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Military
7 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (29.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (17.80%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (16.10%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (13.56%) Developer
5 14 (11.86%) Architect
5 14 (11.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.86%) Scrum Master
6 12 (10.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (8.47%) AWS Architect
7 10 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Java Developer
9 8 (6.78%) Senior
10 6 (5.08%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (5.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.24%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.24%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (23.73%) Kafka
2 17 (14.41%) Spring
2 17 (14.41%) Spring Boot
3 15 (12.71%) AWS CDK
4 13 (11.02%) RESTful
5 12 (10.17%) OAuth
6 8 (6.78%) .NET
6 8 (6.78%) Node.js
7 7 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (5.93%) OAuth2
7 7 (5.93%) REST
8 6 (5.08%) JWT
8 6 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.24%) boto
9 5 (4.24%) GraphQL
9 5 (4.24%) Java Concurrency
9 5 (4.24%) Keycloak
9 5 (4.24%) React
10 4 (3.39%) FastAPI
10 4 (3.39%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 38 (32.20%) Cloud Native
2 20 (16.95%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (15.25%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.93%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.24%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.24%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.24%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.39%) Replication
7 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.54%) NHS
7 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.69%) Wiki
9 1 (0.85%) EMV
9 1 (0.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.25%) Linux
2 3 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.69%) Windows
4 1 (0.85%) Android
4 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (80.51%) CI/CD
2 74 (62.71%) DevOps
3 67 (56.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (55.08%) Containerisation
5 44 (37.29%) Agile
6 40 (33.90%) Microservices
7 37 (31.36%) Observability
7 37 (31.36%) Platform Engineering
8 31 (26.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (19.49%) Scrum
9 23 (19.49%) Test Automation
10 22 (18.64%) DevSecOps
11 19 (16.10%) Code Quality
11 19 (16.10%) Event-Driven
11 19 (16.10%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (13.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 16 (13.56%) Secrets Management
13 15 (12.71%) Backlog Refinement
13 15 (12.71%) GitOps
13 15 (12.71%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 46 (38.98%) Python
2 29 (24.58%) Java
3 21 (17.80%) Bash
4 12 (10.17%) PowerShell
4 12 (10.17%) SQL
5 9 (7.63%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.78%) C#
6 8 (6.78%) Go
7 7 (5.93%) Bicep
8 6 (5.08%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.54%) Groovy
9 3 (2.54%) Scala
10 1 (0.85%) Rust
10 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (31.36%) Security Cleared
2 35 (29.66%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.71%) AWS Certification
4 11 (9.32%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (7.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.54%) Degree
10 2 (1.69%) CCNP
10 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.69%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.85%) CCSK
11 1 (0.85%) CISM
11 1 (0.85%) CISSP
11 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.24%) QA
2 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.54%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.69%) NCSC
3 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.85%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.85%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 67 (56.78%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.85%) KVM
3 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (69.49%) Kubernetes
2 72 (61.02%) Terraform
3 30 (25.42%) Prometheus
4 29 (24.58%) Grafana
5 16 (13.56%) Argo
6 14 (11.86%) Ansible
7 13 (11.02%) Istio
8 8 (6.78%) linkerd
9 5 (4.24%) Rancher
10 3 (2.54%) Puppet
11 2 (1.69%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.69%) Packer
12 1 (0.85%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.32%) Dynatrace
2 11 (9.32%) Splunk
3 9 (7.63%) Databricks
4 4 (3.39%) VMware
5 3 (2.54%) Google
5 3 (2.54%) Oracle
5 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.69%) IBM
6 2 (1.69%) Okta
7 1 (0.85%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.85%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.85%) Confluent
7 1 (0.85%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.85%) New Relic
7 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.85%) Tanium
7 1 (0.85%) Tenable
7 1 (0.85%) Trend Micro