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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 286 346
Rank change year-on-year -59 +60 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 112 65 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.47% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.48% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 45 39
10th Percentile £384 £407 £442
25th Percentile £407 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -6.88%
75th Percentile £561 £525 £675
90th Percentile £650 £600 £679
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -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 7,737 4,401 5,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.60% 32.01% 26.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,039 2,987 3,811
10th Percentile £300 £250 £225
25th Percentile £402 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £673
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.77% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 180 276
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +98.73% -9.58% -18.87%
75th Percentile £69.10 £34.47 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.50 £61.69 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -73 32 £474 -0.32% 11
Scotland +2 19 £525 +5.00%
Midlands -43 19 £488 -2.50% 5
North West -42 18 £632 +26.45% 6
South East -59 17 £533 +6.50% 9
South West -22 15 £394 -38.83% 6
West Midlands -48 15 £477 -6.93% 5
North East -29 8 £425 - 2
Yorkshire -59 6 £500 +8.11% 3
Northern Ireland - 6 £446 - 3
East Midlands -9 4 £500 -
Wales - 3 £600 -
East of England - 2 - - 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 18 (16.07%) Confluence
2 6 (5.36%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.57%) Apache
3 4 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.79%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (1.79%) nginx
4 2 (1.79%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.79%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 111 (99.11%) AWS
2 54 (48.21%) Serverless
3 45 (40.18%) AWS Lambda
4 44 (39.29%) Amazon S3
5 43 (38.39%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (33.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 35 (31.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 33 (29.46%) GitHub
9 30 (26.79%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (20.54%) Azure AKS
12 22 (19.64%) Azure
13 17 (15.18%) GCP
14 14 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 13 (11.61%) AWS CodePipeline
16 11 (9.82%) Amazon SQS
17 7 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (6.25%) Route 53
18 6 (5.36%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.36%) Firewall
2 5 (4.46%) HTTP
3 4 (3.57%) DNS
3 4 (3.57%) VPN
4 1 (0.89%) BGP
4 1 (0.89%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (13.39%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (11.61%) DynamoDB
3 13 (11.61%) NoSQL
4 11 (9.82%) Relational Database
5 10 (8.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.36%) Flink
7 5 (4.46%) Redis
8 4 (3.57%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.79%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 35 (31.25%) GitLab
3 18 (16.07%) JIRA
4 13 (11.61%) Bitbucket
5 10 (8.93%) Git
6 4 (3.57%) MLflow
7 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.79%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.79%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.54%) Public Sector
3 13 (11.61%) Finance
4 4 (3.57%) Banking
4 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.89%) Military
6 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (32.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (16.96%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (14.29%) Developer
5 14 (12.50%) Architect
5 14 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 12 (10.71%) Scrum Master
7 11 (9.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (8.93%) AWS Architect
9 9 (8.04%) Java Developer
9 9 (8.04%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (7.14%) Senior
11 6 (5.36%) Python Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (5.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Technical Architect
12 5 (4.46%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.46%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (4.46%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (24.11%) Kafka
2 15 (13.39%) AWS CDK
3 14 (12.50%) Spring
3 14 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 11 (9.82%) OAuth
5 10 (8.93%) RESTful
6 8 (7.14%) .NET
6 8 (7.14%) Node.js
7 7 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.25%) REST
8 6 (5.36%) JWT
8 6 (5.36%) OAuth2
8 6 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.46%) GraphQL
9 5 (4.46%) Java Concurrency
9 5 (4.46%) Keycloak
9 5 (4.46%) React
10 4 (3.57%) FastAPI
10 4 (3.57%) Hugging Face
10 4 (3.57%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 35 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 20 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.46%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.46%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.57%) Replication
7 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.68%) NHS
8 2 (1.79%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.79%) Wiki
9 1 (0.89%) EMV
9 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.96%) Linux
2 4 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.79%) Windows
4 1 (0.89%) Android
4 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 71 (63.39%) DevOps
3 63 (56.25%) Containerisation
3 63 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (36.61%) Agile
5 36 (32.14%) Microservices
5 36 (32.14%) Platform Engineering
6 33 (29.46%) Observability
7 29 (25.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (18.75%) Test Automation
9 20 (17.86%) Scrum
10 19 (16.96%) Event-Driven
11 18 (16.07%) DevSecOps
12 16 (14.29%) Code Quality
12 16 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 16 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (13.39%) ITIL
14 14 (12.50%) Secrets Management
15 13 (11.61%) Backlog Refinement
15 13 (11.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 43 (38.39%) Python
2 26 (23.21%) Java
3 19 (16.96%) Bash
4 12 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.82%) SQL
6 8 (7.14%) C#
6 8 (7.14%) Go
6 8 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.25%) Bicep
8 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.68%) Groovy
9 3 (2.68%) Scala
10 1 (0.89%) Rust
10 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (30.36%) Security Cleared
2 32 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.61%) AWS Certification
4 11 (9.82%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (8.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.79%) CCNP
10 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.79%) Degree
10 2 (1.79%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.89%) CCIE
11 1 (0.89%) CCSK
11 1 (0.89%) CCSP
11 1 (0.89%) CISSP
11 1 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.57%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.68%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.79%) NCSC
3 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.89%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.89%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.89%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (55.36%) Docker
2 4 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.89%) KVM
3 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (72.32%) Kubernetes
2 69 (61.61%) Terraform
3 30 (26.79%) Prometheus
4 27 (24.11%) Grafana
5 15 (13.39%) Ansible
6 14 (12.50%) Argo
7 13 (11.61%) Istio
8 8 (7.14%) linkerd
9 5 (4.46%) Rancher
10 3 (2.68%) Puppet
11 2 (1.79%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.79%) Packer
12 1 (0.89%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (9.82%) Dynatrace
1 11 (9.82%) Splunk
2 10 (8.93%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.14%) Databricks
4 4 (3.57%) VMware
5 3 (2.68%) Google
5 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.79%) IBM
7 1 (0.89%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.89%) Confluent
7 1 (0.89%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.89%) New Relic
7 1 (0.89%) Okta
7 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.89%) Tanium
7 1 (0.89%) Tenable
7 1 (0.89%) Trend Micro