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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 298 342
Rank change year-on-year -6 +44 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 112 41 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.31% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 0.94% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 37 47
10th Percentile £350 £350 £406
25th Percentile £400 £409 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -9.09% -9.28%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £629
90th Percentile £650 £615 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -13.58% +10.45% -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 6,412 4,360 5,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 32.73% 28.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,453 2,932 4,261
10th Percentile £240 £232 £215
25th Percentile £375 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £663 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 102 238
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.27 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.69 £20.04 £15.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.42 £20.64
Median % change year-on-year +63.80% +18.34% +3.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £40.86 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £71.44
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%

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 February 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 17 February 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 -36 39 £550 +4.76% 17
North West -14 25 £550 +4.76% 11
Scotland +8 23 £425 +3.79% 1
Midlands -39 18 £535 +25.88% 2
West Midlands -33 16 £563 +60.71% 2
South East -17 15 £530 -2.75% 11
South West -11 11 £400 +2.04% 12
North East -7 7 £575 -6.12% 2
Yorkshire -46 7 £500 -13.04% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East Midlands -22 2 £349 -30.30%
Wales - 1 £475 - 3
East of England - 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 (8.04%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.25%) Apache
2 7 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.57%) Confluence
3 4 (3.57%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.79%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (1.79%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 108 (96.43%) AWS
2 52 (46.43%) Serverless
3 51 (45.54%) Amazon ECS
4 48 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (31.25%) Amazon S3
6 33 (29.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (23.21%) Azure
9 25 (22.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (21.43%) GitHub
11 23 (20.54%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (19.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (14.29%) Azure AKS
14 14 (12.50%) Datadog
15 13 (11.61%) Amazon MSK
16 12 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (9.82%) GCP
18 7 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
18 7 (6.25%) IaaS
19 6 (5.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.71%) Firewall
2 5 (4.46%) HTTP
3 2 (1.79%) VPN
4 1 (0.89%) DNS
4 1 (0.89%) Internet
4 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.89%) SSL
4 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.32%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 14 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.14%) DocumentDB
3 8 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (5.36%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.46%) Flink
6 5 (4.46%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.68%) OLTP
8 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.79%) Power BI
8 2 (1.79%) Redis
8 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.89%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.89%) Big Data
9 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.89%) Impala
Development Applications
1 42 (37.50%) GitLab
2 33 (29.46%) Jenkins
3 25 (22.32%) Git
4 16 (14.29%) JIRA
5 14 (12.50%) Bitbucket
5 14 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.57%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.57%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.57%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.57%) Gradle
6 4 (3.57%) JUnit
6 4 (3.57%) Maven
6 4 (3.57%) MLflow
6 4 (3.57%) Postman
6 4 (3.57%) Selenium
6 4 (3.57%) Snyk
6 4 (3.57%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.57%) webpack
7 1 (0.89%) GoCD
General
1 22 (19.64%) Public Sector
2 20 (17.86%) Finance
3 17 (15.18%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.93%) Banking
5 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.79%) Aeronautics
7 2 (1.79%) Local Government
8 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (36.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (20.54%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (11.61%) AWS DevOps
4 13 (11.61%) Senior
5 12 (10.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.93%) Developer
7 9 (8.04%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.04%) Python Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Architect
8 8 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.25%) Lead
10 6 (5.36%) Java Developer
10 6 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (5.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) AWS Architect
11 4 (3.57%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.07%) Node.js
2 17 (15.18%) Kafka
3 16 (14.29%) REST
4 11 (9.82%) AWS CDK
4 11 (9.82%) FastAPI
5 10 (8.93%) .NET
5 10 (8.93%) OAuth
5 10 (8.93%) Pandas
5 10 (8.93%) Spring
5 10 (8.93%) Spring Boot
6 9 (8.04%) OpenCV
6 9 (8.04%) PyTorch
6 9 (8.04%) SQLAlchemy
7 8 (7.14%) Hugging Face
7 8 (7.14%) NumPy
7 8 (7.14%) RESTful
8 6 (5.36%) boto
8 6 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (5.36%) JWT
9 5 (4.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.36%) Data Structures
2 6 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.46%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.46%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.68%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.68%) NHS
6 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.89%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (0.89%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.89%) EMV
7 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.21%) Linux
2 4 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.57%) Windows
3 2 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 73 (65.18%) DevOps
3 64 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 57 (50.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (34.82%) Microservices
6 34 (30.36%) Agile
7 27 (24.11%) Observability
8 20 (17.86%) AI
8 20 (17.86%) Software Engineering
9 17 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (14.29%) TDD
11 14 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 14 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (11.61%) API Development
12 13 (11.61%) Code Quality
12 13 (11.61%) Cost Optimisation
12 13 (11.61%) Event-Driven
12 13 (11.61%) LLM
12 13 (11.61%) Machine Learning
12 13 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 58 (51.79%) Python
2 23 (20.54%) Java
3 16 (14.29%) SQL
4 13 (11.61%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.82%) Ruby
6 10 (8.93%) Bash
7 9 (8.04%) Perl
8 8 (7.14%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.57%) Go
10 3 (2.68%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.68%) ProC
10 3 (2.68%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.68%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.79%) AWK
11 2 (1.79%) Bicep
11 2 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.89%) C
12 1 (0.89%) C#
Qualifications
1 32 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 20 (17.86%) AWS Certification
4 11 (9.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.36%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.68%) Degree
6 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.89%) CISSP
8 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.68%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.68%) GDPR
2 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.68%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.79%) QA
4 1 (0.89%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.89%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.89%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (53.57%) Docker
2 6 (5.36%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.89%) HDFS
4 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 78 (69.64%) Kubernetes
2 59 (52.68%) Terraform
3 27 (24.11%) Prometheus
4 25 (22.32%) Ansible
5 24 (21.43%) Grafana
6 12 (10.71%) Puppet
7 11 (9.82%) Argo
8 7 (6.25%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.57%) Podman
10 2 (1.79%) Istio
10 2 (1.79%) linkerd
10 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.89%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.89%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (11.61%) Oracle
2 10 (8.93%) Splunk
3 9 (8.04%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.46%) Databricks
5 3 (2.68%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.68%) Google
5 3 (2.68%) Ping Identity
6 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.79%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.79%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.89%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.89%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.89%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.89%) UiPath
7 1 (0.89%) VMware