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 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 19 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 346 | 287 | 328 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -59 | +41 | +36 |
| Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS | 142 | 95 | 38 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London | 0.50% | 0.59% | 0.22% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 1.72% | 1.79% | 0.77% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 90 | 69 | 25 |
| 10th Percentile | £363 | £395 | £350 |
| 25th Percentile | £400 | £463 | £425 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £466 | £525 | £524 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -11.19% | +0.19% | -6.12% |
| 75th Percentile | £588 | £588 | £650 |
| 90th Percentile | £672 | £638 | £675 |
| UK median daily rate | £559 | £553 | £630 |
| % change year-on-year | +1.18% | -12.30% | +9.57% |
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.
| 6 months to 19 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 8,251 | 5,301 | 4,950 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London | 29.21% | 33.09% | 28.87% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 5,223 | 3,569 | 3,161 |
| 10th Percentile | £263 | £240 | £250 |
| 25th Percentile | £402 | £378 | £388 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £475 | £500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.26% | -5.00% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £600 | £575 | £600 |
| 90th Percentile | £675 | £658 | £663 |
| UK median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 522 | 176 | 129 |
| 10th Percentile | £15.50 | £14.63 | £15.88 |
| 25th Percentile | £17.48 | £16.00 | £21.00 |
| Median hourly rate | £30.00 | £20.00 | £33.93 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +50.00% | -41.06% | +50.73% |
| 75th Percentile | £70.00 | £36.00 | £69.69 |
| 90th Percentile | £78.98 | £65.88 | £70.00 |
| UK median hourly rate | £32.50 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +29.22% | -28.14% | +8.36% |
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 Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London
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 19 October 2026.
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 19 October 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 | -55 | 44 | £450 | -5.26% | 40 |
| Midlands | -26 | 29 | £488 | -11.36% | 8 |
| Scotland | -23 | 26 | £400 | -20.00% | 24 |
| West Midlands | -38 | 26 | £488 | -11.36% | 3 |
| North West | -37 | 21 | £600 | +20.00% | 28 |
| South East | -57 | 19 | £588 | -4.08% | 18 |
| North East | -28 | 18 | £425 | -26.09% | 6 |
| South West | -25 | 11 | £425 | -30.61% | 15 |
| Northern Ireland | +10 | 7 | £496 | - | 9 |
| Yorkshire | -45 | 5 | £431 | -7.46% | 6 |
| East Midlands | -11 | 3 | £500 | +43.47% | 5 |
| East of England | -25 | 3 | £345 | -56.19% | 16 |
| Wales | - | 3 | £600 | - | 6 |
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Amazon EKS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 98.6% | 140 |
| 2 | Amazon ECS | 54.9% | 78 |
| 3 | Serverless | 48.6% | 69 |
| 4 | AWS Lambda | 47.2% | 67 |
| 5 | Amazon CloudWatch | 45.8% | 65 |
| 6 | Amazon S3 | 38.7% | 55 |
| 7 | GitHub | 33.1% | 47 |
| 8 | GitHub Actions | 29.6% | 42 |
| 9 | Amazon EC2 | 27.5% | 39 |
| 10 | AWS CloudFormation | 25.4% | 36 |
| 11 | Azure | 23.9% | 34 |
| 11 | Virtual Private Cloud | 23.9% | 34 |
| 13 | GCP | 17.6% | 25 |
| 14 | Amazon SQS | 15.5% | 22 |
| 14 | Kong | 15.5% | 22 |
| 16 | Azure AKS | 14.1% | 20 |
| 17 | Google Kubernetes Engine | 13.4% | 19 |
| 18 | Amazon MSK | 12.7% | 18 |
| 19 | Azure DevOps | 8.5% | 12 |
| 20 | AWS KMS | 7.7% | 11 |