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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 288 340
Rank change year-on-year -18 +52 +36
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 123 45 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.35% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 1.07% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 38 45
10th Percentile £350 £350 £404
25th Percentile £400 £409 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £634
90th Percentile £651 £633 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £611 £550
% change year-on-year -14.04% +11.05% -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 6,726 4,217 5,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.09% 33.19% 27.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,628 2,973 4,073
10th Percentile £263 £230 £213
25th Percentile £391 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% - -3.47%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £666 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 139 262
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.15 £23.00 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.60% +29.21% -19.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £34.73 £31.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.10 £61.96
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

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 March 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 March 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 -37 50 £550 +4.76% 16
North West -14 32 £563 +7.14% 10
South East -31 19 £530 -2.75% 19
Scotland +12 18 £358 -12.47%
Midlands -39 18 £513 +20.59% 2
West Midlands -48 17 £520 +48.57% 2
South West -15 12 £400 -36.00% 11
North East -3 10 £500 -18.37% 3
Yorkshire -50 8 £500 - 3
East of England - 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
East Midlands -31 1 £322 -35.60%
Wales - 1 £475 -
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 (6.50%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.69%) Confluence
3 6 (4.88%) Apache
3 6 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (4.07%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.63%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.63%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 119 (96.75%) AWS
2 56 (45.53%) Serverless
3 53 (43.09%) Amazon ECS
4 49 (39.84%) AWS Lambda
5 37 (30.08%) Amazon S3
5 37 (30.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (26.02%) Amazon EC2
6 32 (26.02%) GitHub
7 30 (24.39%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (21.95%) Azure
9 26 (21.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 22 (17.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (15.45%) Azure AKS
12 14 (11.38%) Datadog
12 14 (11.38%) GCP
13 13 (10.57%) Amazon MSK
14 9 (7.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 8 (6.50%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (5.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.20%) Firewall
2 4 (3.25%) VPN
3 3 (2.44%) HTTP
4 2 (1.63%) DNS
5 1 (0.81%) BGP
5 1 (0.81%) Internet
5 1 (0.81%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.81%) SSL
5 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.14%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (13.01%) DynamoDB
3 15 (12.20%) NoSQL
4 14 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (8.13%) Relational Database
6 8 (6.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (6.50%) DocumentDB
7 6 (4.88%) Flink
8 5 (4.07%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.25%) Redis
10 3 (2.44%) OLTP
11 2 (1.63%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.63%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.63%) Power BI
11 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.81%) Big Data
12 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.81%) Impala
Development Applications
1 48 (39.02%) GitLab
2 45 (36.59%) Jenkins
3 29 (23.58%) Git
4 19 (15.45%) JIRA
5 15 (12.20%) Bitbucket
6 13 (10.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.44%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.44%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.44%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.44%) Gradle
7 3 (2.44%) JUnit
7 3 (2.44%) Maven
7 3 (2.44%) Postman
7 3 (2.44%) Selenium
7 3 (2.44%) Snyk
7 3 (2.44%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.44%) webpack
8 2 (1.63%) MLflow
9 1 (0.81%) GoCD
9 1 (0.81%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (20.33%) Public Sector
2 21 (17.07%) Finance
2 21 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.76%) Banking
4 5 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.63%) Aeronautics
5 2 (1.63%) Local Government
5 2 (1.63%) Military
6 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (39.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (21.14%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (14.63%) Senior
4 16 (13.01%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (13.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (11.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.38%) Developer
6 10 (8.13%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (8.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.32%) Architect
7 9 (7.32%) Java Developer
7 9 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.50%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.69%) Lead
10 5 (4.07%) AWS Architect
10 5 (4.07%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Java Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.70%) Kafka
2 20 (16.26%) Node.js
3 16 (13.01%) Spring
3 16 (13.01%) Spring Boot
4 13 (10.57%) REST
5 10 (8.13%) RESTful
6 9 (7.32%) .NET
6 9 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (5.69%) OAuth
8 6 (4.88%) AWS CDK
8 6 (4.88%) Web Services
9 5 (4.07%) Java Concurrency
9 5 (4.07%) React
10 4 (3.25%) JSON
10 4 (3.25%) YAML
11 3 (2.44%) JWT
11 3 (2.44%) Keycloak
11 3 (2.44%) Middleware
11 3 (2.44%) OAuth2
11 3 (2.44%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.51%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.25%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.25%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.44%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.44%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.44%) NHS
7 2 (1.63%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.81%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.76%) Linux
2 4 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.25%) Windows
3 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (69.92%) CI/CD
2 85 (69.11%) DevOps
3 68 (55.28%) Containerisation
4 58 (47.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (36.59%) Microservices
6 36 (29.27%) Agile
7 32 (26.02%) Observability
8 21 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (16.26%) Platform Engineering
9 20 (16.26%) Software Engineering
10 16 (13.01%) Event-Driven
10 16 (13.01%) Mentoring
11 15 (12.20%) AI
11 15 (12.20%) DevSecOps
12 14 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (10.57%) Code Quality
13 13 (10.57%) Configuration Management
13 13 (10.57%) Cost Optimisation
14 12 (9.76%) Analytics
14 12 (9.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 59 (47.97%) Python
2 30 (24.39%) Java
3 18 (14.63%) PowerShell
4 17 (13.82%) SQL
5 16 (13.01%) Bash
6 11 (8.94%) Ruby
7 10 (8.13%) JavaScript
8 9 (7.32%) Perl
9 4 (3.25%) Bicep
9 4 (3.25%) Go
9 4 (3.25%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.44%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.44%) ProC
10 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.63%) AWK
11 2 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.81%) C
12 1 (0.81%) C#
12 1 (0.81%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 39 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 28 (22.76%) SC Cleared
3 24 (19.51%) AWS Certification
4 12 (9.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.88%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.44%) Degree
8 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.63%) CCNP
8 2 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.63%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.63%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.81%) CCIE
9 1 (0.81%) CISSP
9 1 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.44%) GDPR
2 3 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.44%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.44%) QA
3 2 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.81%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.81%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 71 (57.72%) Docker
2 6 (4.88%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 86 (69.92%) Kubernetes
2 72 (58.54%) Terraform
3 32 (26.02%) Prometheus
4 25 (20.33%) Ansible
5 23 (18.70%) Grafana
6 15 (12.20%) Argo
7 11 (8.94%) Puppet
8 6 (4.88%) Istio
8 6 (4.88%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.25%) linkerd
10 3 (2.44%) Podman
10 3 (2.44%) Rancher
11 2 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.81%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.81%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (10.57%) Oracle
1 13 (10.57%) Splunk
2 12 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.50%) Databricks
4 5 (4.07%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.25%) Google
6 3 (2.44%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.63%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.63%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.63%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.63%) VMware
8 1 (0.81%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.81%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.81%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.81%) UiPath