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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 282 342
Rank change year-on-year -44 +60 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 147 84 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.55% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 1.72% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 61 20
10th Percentile £363 £413 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.82% -10.52%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £675
90th Percentile £670 £638 -
UK median daily rate £550 £558 £600
% change year-on-year -1.35% -7.08% -

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 8,181 4,894 4,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.12% 31.90% 27.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,224 3,277 3,221
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £403 £379 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 158 138
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £19.14 £30.44
Median % change year-on-year +69.85% -37.13% +17.07%
75th Percentile £69.87 £37.13 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.94 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year +16.07% -11.81% -9.29%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -54 41 £475 - 40
Midlands -24 32 £494 -10.23% 18
Scotland -18 31 £425 -17.07% 38
West Midlands -28 27 £488 -11.36% 5
North West -39 21 £630 +32.67% 24
North East -23 18 £425 - 7
South East -63 18 £543 -11.43% 35
South West -28 13 £425 -32.00% 28
Northern Ireland +9 6 £446 - 10
East Midlands -10 5 £500 +33.33% 13
East of England -26 3 £345 -56.19% 19
Wales - 3 £600 - 6
Yorkshire -53 2 £481 +3.27% 9
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 13 (8.84%) Confluence
2 7 (4.76%) Apache
3 3 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.36%) nginx
4 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 144 (97.96%) AWS
2 73 (49.66%) Amazon ECS
3 68 (46.26%) Serverless
4 64 (43.54%) AWS Lambda
5 61 (41.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 51 (34.69%) Amazon S3
7 50 (34.01%) GitHub
8 46 (31.29%) GitHub Actions
9 37 (25.17%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (25.17%) Azure
10 35 (23.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 34 (23.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (17.01%) GCP
13 24 (16.33%) Azure AKS
14 22 (14.97%) Amazon SQS
15 21 (14.29%) Kong
16 19 (12.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 15 (10.20%) Amazon MSK
18 14 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
19 10 (6.80%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.52%) DNS
1 14 (9.52%) Firewall
2 7 (4.76%) HTTP
3 5 (3.40%) VPN
4 4 (2.72%) Network Security
5 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.36%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.68%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.93%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (11.56%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (9.52%) DynamoDB
4 13 (8.84%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.12%) NoSQL
6 8 (5.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.40%) Flink
7 5 (3.40%) MySQL
8 4 (2.72%) DocumentDB
8 4 (2.72%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.04%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.04%) Redis
10 2 (1.36%) Big Data
10 2 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.36%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 33 (22.45%) GitLab
3 17 (11.56%) Git
4 16 (10.88%) Bitbucket
5 12 (8.16%) JIRA
6 6 (4.08%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.72%) JUnit
8 3 (2.04%) Mockito
8 3 (2.04%) ScalaTest
9 2 (1.36%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.36%) Maven
9 2 (1.36%) MLflow
9 2 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.36%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.68%) Gradle
10 1 (0.68%) Postman
10 1 (0.68%) Snyk
10 1 (0.68%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 35 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 33 (22.45%) Finance
3 26 (17.69%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (8.84%) Banking
6 5 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.68%) iGaming
8 1 (0.68%) International Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Local Government
8 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (16.33%) Developer
3 22 (14.97%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (12.93%) Lead
4 19 (12.93%) Scrum Master
5 16 (10.88%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (10.20%) Architect
7 14 (9.52%) Senior
8 12 (8.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (8.16%) Software Developer
9 11 (7.48%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.12%) AWS Architect
11 7 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.76%) Java Developer
11 7 (4.76%) Security Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) Technical Leader
12 6 (4.08%) Java Scrum Master
12 6 (4.08%) Technical Architect
13 5 (3.40%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (59.18%) Terraform
2 34 (23.13%) RESTful
3 31 (21.09%) Kafka
4 26 (17.69%) Spring Boot
5 25 (17.01%) Spring
6 17 (11.56%) REST
7 14 (9.52%) OAuth
7 14 (9.52%) React
8 12 (8.16%) AWS CDK
9 11 (7.48%) OAuth2
10 10 (6.80%) AngularJS
10 10 (6.80%) OpenID
11 9 (6.12%) .NET
12 8 (5.44%) Node.js
12 8 (5.44%) Play Framework
13 7 (4.76%) gRPC
13 7 (4.76%) OpenAPI
13 7 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (4.76%) SAML
13 7 (4.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 65 (44.22%) Cloud Native
2 27 (18.37%) Product Ownership
3 24 (16.33%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.44%) Blog
4 8 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.76%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.08%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.40%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.04%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.36%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.36%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.36%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.97%) Linux
2 7 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (4.76%) Windows
3 3 (2.04%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) Android
4 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (84.35%) CI/CD
2 90 (61.22%) DevOps
3 78 (53.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (44.90%) Agile
5 61 (41.50%) Containerisation
6 56 (38.10%) Observability
7 51 (34.69%) Microservices
8 42 (28.57%) Scrum
9 40 (27.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (27.21%) Test Automation
10 38 (25.85%) Platform Engineering
11 32 (21.77%) DevSecOps
12 24 (16.33%) Clean Code
12 24 (16.33%) Code Quality
12 24 (16.33%) Deployment Automation
12 24 (16.33%) Technical Leadership
13 23 (15.65%) Configuration Management
13 23 (15.65%) Event-Driven
13 23 (15.65%) Root Cause Analysis
13 23 (15.65%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (29.93%) Java
2 37 (25.17%) Python
3 25 (17.01%) Bash
4 19 (12.93%) Go
5 18 (12.24%) PowerShell
5 18 (12.24%) TypeScript
6 14 (9.52%) SQL
7 11 (7.48%) Bicep
7 11 (7.48%) Scala
8 9 (6.12%) C#
8 9 (6.12%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.76%) Lua
10 3 (2.04%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.68%) Groovy
11 1 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 49 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 45 (30.61%) SC Cleared
3 35 (23.81%) AWS Certification
4 12 (8.16%) Azure Certification
5 9 (6.12%) Degree
6 8 (5.44%) SAFe Agilist
7 7 (4.76%) CISSP
8 6 (4.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.36%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.68%) CCSK
12 1 (0.68%) CCSP
12 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.68%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.24%) QA
2 11 (7.48%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.72%) NCSC
3 4 (2.72%) WCAG
4 3 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (2.04%) NIST
5 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.36%) SLA
6 1 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 83 (56.46%) Docker
2 5 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.68%) KVM
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 39 (26.53%) Grafana
3 24 (16.33%) Prometheus
4 18 (12.24%) Ansible
5 16 (10.88%) Argo
6 11 (7.48%) Progress Chef
7 10 (6.80%) Istio
8 5 (3.40%) linkerd
9 4 (2.72%) Puppet
10 3 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.36%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.36%) Rancher
12 1 (0.68%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.68%) Packer
12 1 (0.68%) Podman
Vendors
1 24 (16.33%) Splunk
2 22 (14.97%) Dynatrace
3 15 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.76%) Google
4 7 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 6 (4.08%) ForgeRock
5 6 (4.08%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.72%) Confluent
6 4 (2.72%) Oracle
7 3 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.04%) SAP
7 3 (2.04%) VMware
7 3 (2.04%) webMethods
8 2 (1.36%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.36%) Databricks
8 2 (1.36%) IBM
8 2 (1.36%) Okta
8 2 (1.36%) Tenable
9 1 (0.68%) New Relic
9 1 (0.68%) Tanium