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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 327 361
Rank change year-on-year +48 +34 +13
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 108 31 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 0.67% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 25 37
10th Percentile £358 - £400
25th Percentile £469 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £409 £510
Median % change year-on-year +34.47% -19.80% -18.40%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £636 £640
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 5,838 4,632 6,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.18% 31.18% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,039 3,040 4,388
10th Percentile £237 £238 £219
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 112 190
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.18 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £24.18 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +16.53% +5.84%
75th Percentile £54.06 £41.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -4.36% +8.35% +12.80%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 -14 30 £575 - 10
Scotland +15 27 £500 +22.25%
South East -1 20 £606 +2.75% 11
North West -12 19 £575 - 6
Midlands -16 19 £550 +57.14% 9
West Midlands -12 17 £563 +60.71% 9
Yorkshire -40 6 £500 -13.04% 4
North East -2 5 £575 -6.12%
South West -9 4 £613 +56.25% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England - 3 £788 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £349 -
Wales - 1 £475 - 2
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 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.56%) Apache
3 5 (4.63%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.70%) Confluence
5 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.85%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.93%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 98 (90.74%) AWS
2 46 (42.59%) Serverless
3 45 (41.67%) Amazon ECS
4 44 (40.74%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (32.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (30.56%) Amazon S3
6 33 (30.56%) Azure
7 30 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (21.30%) GitHub
9 22 (20.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (20.37%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (17.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (15.74%) OpenShift
12 13 (12.04%) Amazon MSK
12 13 (12.04%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (12.04%) GCP
13 12 (11.11%) Azure AKS
14 11 (10.19%) Datadog
15 8 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 7 (6.48%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.26%) Firewall
2 4 (3.70%) HTTP
3 2 (1.85%) VPN
4 1 (0.93%) DNS
4 1 (0.93%) Internet
4 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.93%) SSL
4 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (24.07%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (12.04%) DynamoDB
3 10 (9.26%) MongoDB
4 9 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (4.63%) DocumentDB
6 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.78%) OLTP
7 3 (2.78%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.85%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.85%) Power BI
8 2 (1.85%) Redis
8 2 (1.85%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.93%) Big Data
9 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 41 (37.96%) GitLab
2 35 (32.41%) Jenkins
3 32 (29.63%) Git
4 16 (14.81%) JIRA
5 15 (13.89%) Bitbucket
5 15 (13.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (4.63%) Artifactory
6 5 (4.63%) CircleCI
6 5 (4.63%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.63%) Gradle
6 5 (4.63%) JUnit
6 5 (4.63%) Maven
6 5 (4.63%) Postman
6 5 (4.63%) Selenium
6 5 (4.63%) Snyk
6 5 (4.63%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.63%) webpack
7 3 (2.78%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.85%) MLflow
9 1 (0.93%) GoCD
General
1 23 (21.30%) Public Sector
2 16 (14.81%) Finance
2 16 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.33%) Banking
4 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.85%) Aeronautics
6 2 (1.85%) Local Government
6 2 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (35.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (20.37%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (12.04%) Senior
4 12 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (10.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 11 (10.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (9.26%) Software Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Architect
9 6 (5.56%) Lead
9 6 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) Site Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Developer
10 5 (4.63%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Security Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (2.78%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.67%) Node.js
2 16 (14.81%) REST
3 12 (11.11%) AWS CDK
4 10 (9.26%) .NET
4 10 (9.26%) FastAPI
5 9 (8.33%) Middleware
5 9 (8.33%) Pandas
5 9 (8.33%) React
6 8 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (7.41%) JSON
6 8 (7.41%) Kafka
6 8 (7.41%) OAuth
6 8 (7.41%) OpenCV
6 8 (7.41%) PyTorch
6 8 (7.41%) SQLAlchemy
7 7 (6.48%) Hugging Face
7 7 (6.48%) NumPy
8 6 (5.56%) Spring
8 6 (5.56%) Spring Boot
8 6 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.59%) Cloud Native
2 13 (12.04%) Private Cloud
3 5 (4.63%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.63%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.78%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.85%) Life Science
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) NHS
7 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (25.93%) Linux
2 4 (3.70%) Unix
3 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.78%) Windows
3 3 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.85%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (70.37%) CI/CD
2 64 (59.26%) DevOps
3 63 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (56.48%) Containerisation
5 38 (35.19%) Agile
6 33 (30.56%) Microservices
7 23 (21.30%) Configuration Management
7 23 (21.30%) Software Engineering
8 21 (19.44%) AI
9 17 (15.74%) Observability
10 16 (14.81%) Migration
11 15 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (13.89%) Mentoring
11 15 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
12 14 (12.96%) Event-Driven
12 14 (12.96%) LLM
12 14 (12.96%) Machine Learning
12 14 (12.96%) TDD
13 13 (12.04%) API Development
13 13 (12.04%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 56 (51.85%) Python
2 30 (27.78%) Java
3 21 (19.44%) PowerShell
4 19 (17.59%) SQL
5 14 (12.96%) Bash
5 14 (12.96%) JavaScript
6 12 (11.11%) Perl
7 10 (9.26%) Ruby
8 7 (6.48%) C#
9 5 (4.63%) Go
9 5 (4.63%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.70%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.78%) C
11 3 (2.78%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.78%) ProC
12 2 (1.85%) AWK
12 2 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 39 (36.11%) Security Cleared
2 26 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.59%) AWS Certification
4 10 (9.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.70%) Degree
6 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.93%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.78%) GDPR
2 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 61 (56.48%) Docker
2 6 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (3.70%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.78%) KVM
5 1 (0.93%) HDFS
5 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (64.81%) Kubernetes
2 58 (53.70%) Terraform
3 34 (31.48%) Ansible
4 26 (24.07%) Grafana
5 25 (23.15%) Prometheus
6 12 (11.11%) Argo
6 12 (11.11%) Puppet
7 8 (7.41%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.63%) Podman
9 3 (2.78%) Istio
9 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.85%) Fluentd
10 2 (1.85%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.85%) Nagios
11 1 (0.93%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.93%) linkerd
11 1 (0.93%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (14.81%) Oracle
2 14 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 9 (8.33%) Splunk
5 4 (3.70%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.70%) Ping Identity
6 3 (2.78%) Commvault
6 3 (2.78%) Google
7 2 (1.85%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.93%) Alibaba
8 1 (0.93%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.93%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.93%) JDA
8 1 (0.93%) UiPath
8 1 (0.93%) VMware