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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 334 348
Rank change year-on-year +30 +14 +45
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 107 34 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 0.68% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 27 46
10th Percentile £358 £350 £400
25th Percentile £463 £367 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -16.28% -12.60%
75th Percentile £619 £615 £588
90th Percentile £663 £660 £606
UK median daily rate £550 £630 £550
% change year-on-year -12.70% +14.55% -12.00%

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 5,781 4,990 6,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.58% 30.30% 31.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,970 3,181 4,596
10th Percentile £230 £250 £219
25th Percentile £375 £388 £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 191 135 216
10th Percentile £14.43 £16.85 £14.14
25th Percentile £16.58 £20.88 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +16.09%
75th Percentile £46.29 £49.59 £47.81
90th Percentile £77.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +21.13%

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 27 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 27 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 -6 35 £550 -10.20% 14
Scotland +11 28 £500 +22.25% 2
South East +2 17 £606 -2.22% 27
Midlands -12 16 £550 +8.91% 8
North West -8 15 £575 - 12
West Midlands -17 14 £575 +13.86% 7
Yorkshire -26 14 £475 -17.39% 2
North East -2 6 £575 -11.54%
South West +2 4 £613 +56.25% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
East of England - 3 £788 - 3
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 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.61%) Apache
3 4 (3.74%) Confluence
3 4 (3.74%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.87%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.93%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 96 (89.72%) AWS
2 45 (42.06%) Serverless
3 43 (40.19%) Amazon ECS
4 42 (39.25%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (38.32%) Azure
6 36 (33.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (28.04%) Amazon S3
8 26 (24.30%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (20.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (17.76%) GitHub
10 19 (17.76%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (16.82%) Azure AKS
11 18 (16.82%) GCP
12 17 (15.89%) OpenShift
13 16 (14.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (13.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 13 (12.15%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (12.15%) Entra ID
16 12 (11.21%) Amazon MSK
17 11 (10.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.41%) Firewall
2 3 (2.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.63%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (11.21%) DynamoDB
3 9 (8.41%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.48%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.54%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.74%) DocumentDB
7 3 (2.80%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.87%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.87%) Power BI
9 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (33.64%) GitLab
2 35 (32.71%) Jenkins
3 30 (28.04%) Git
4 14 (13.08%) JIRA
4 14 (13.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (12.15%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.67%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.74%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.74%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.74%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.74%) Gradle
7 4 (3.74%) JUnit
7 4 (3.74%) Maven
7 4 (3.74%) Postman
7 4 (3.74%) Selenium
7 4 (3.74%) Snyk
7 4 (3.74%) Terragrunt
7 4 (3.74%) webpack
8 2 (1.87%) MLflow
General
1 23 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.56%) Public Sector
3 15 (14.02%) Finance
4 10 (9.35%) Banking
5 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.87%) Aeronautics
6 2 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (32.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (20.56%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (11.21%) Senior
4 11 (10.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 11 (10.28%) AWS DevOps
4 11 (10.28%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Business Analyst
7 6 (5.61%) Architect
7 6 (5.61%) Lead
8 5 (4.67%) Python Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Site Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (2.80%) Digital Architect
10 3 (2.80%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.82%) Node.js
2 14 (13.08%) OAuth
2 14 (13.08%) REST
3 12 (11.21%) AWS CDK
3 12 (11.21%) JSON
4 11 (10.28%) Middleware
4 11 (10.28%) React
5 10 (9.35%) FastAPI
6 9 (8.41%) .NET
6 9 (8.41%) Pandas
7 8 (7.48%) OpenCV
7 8 (7.48%) PyTorch
7 8 (7.48%) SAML
7 8 (7.48%) SQLAlchemy
8 7 (6.54%) Hugging Face
8 7 (6.54%) NumPy
8 7 (6.54%) OpenID
9 6 (5.61%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (5.61%) Kafka
9 6 (5.61%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.43%) Cloud Native
2 14 (13.08%) Private Cloud
3 9 (8.41%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.67%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.74%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.87%) Life Science
8 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.93%) NHS
8 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (21.50%) Linux
2 4 (3.74%) Unix
2 4 (3.74%) Windows
2 4 (3.74%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (67.29%) CI/CD
2 70 (65.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (59.81%) DevOps
4 55 (51.40%) Containerisation
5 39 (36.45%) Agile
6 29 (27.10%) Microservices
7 22 (20.56%) Configuration Management
8 20 (18.69%) AI
8 20 (18.69%) Software Engineering
9 17 (15.89%) Migration
9 17 (15.89%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (14.95%) Mentoring
11 14 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (13.08%) LLM
11 14 (13.08%) Machine Learning
11 14 (13.08%) TDD
12 13 (12.15%) API Development
12 13 (12.15%) Observability
13 12 (11.21%) High Availability
13 12 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (51.40%) Python
2 32 (29.91%) Java
3 21 (19.63%) PowerShell
4 18 (16.82%) SQL
5 15 (14.02%) JavaScript
6 13 (12.15%) Bash
7 11 (10.28%) Perl
8 9 (8.41%) C#
8 9 (8.41%) Ruby
9 5 (4.67%) Go
10 4 (3.74%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.80%) C
12 2 (1.87%) AWK
12 2 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.93%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 37 (34.58%) Security Cleared
2 26 (24.30%) SC Cleared
3 20 (18.69%) AWS Certification
4 10 (9.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (7.48%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.67%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.80%) Degree
9 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.93%) CISSP
10 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.80%) GDPR
2 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.87%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 57 (53.27%) Docker
2 11 (10.28%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.61%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.80%) KVM
Systems Management
1 74 (69.16%) Kubernetes
2 59 (55.14%) Terraform
3 33 (30.84%) Ansible
4 22 (20.56%) Grafana
5 19 (17.76%) Prometheus
6 10 (9.35%) Argo
6 10 (9.35%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (7.48%) Puppet
8 6 (5.61%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.74%) Istio
9 4 (3.74%) Podman
10 3 (2.80%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (1.87%) Fluentd
11 2 (1.87%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.87%) Nagios
12 1 (0.93%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.93%) linkerd
12 1 (0.93%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.15%) Red Hat
3 12 (11.21%) Oracle
4 7 (6.54%) Alibaba
4 7 (6.54%) Splunk
5 4 (3.74%) Ping Identity
6 3 (2.80%) Commvault
6 3 (2.80%) Google
7 2 (1.87%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.87%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.93%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.93%) JDA
8 1 (0.93%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.93%) UiPath