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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 284 346
Rank change year-on-year -29 +62 +47
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 119 51 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.40% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 1.25% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 42 38
10th Percentile £350 £384 £432
25th Percentile £400 £452 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -14.89% -6.00%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £675
90th Percentile £652 £599 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -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 7,113 4,089 5,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.66% 32.05% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,833 2,898 3,841
10th Percentile £281 £236 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 159 259
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.32 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +121.34% +21.11% -28.03%
75th Percentile £68.75 £33.45 £26.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £69.25 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -52 43 £525 +5.00% 12
North West -35 29 £620 +23.95% 7
Scotland +6 23 £463 +13.08% 3
South East -44 19 £530 +6.00% 7
Midlands -60 18 £500 +2.56%
West Midlands -47 16 £495 +4.26%
South West -21 12 £388 -38.00% 14
North East -13 8 £425 -30.61% 4
Yorkshire -50 6 £500 +8.11% 1
East of England - 3 - -
East Midlands -29 2 £500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
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 13 (10.92%) Confluence
2 7 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.04%) Apache
3 6 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.52%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.68%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.68%) nginx
5 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.84%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 116 (97.48%) AWS
2 54 (45.38%) Serverless
3 50 (42.02%) Amazon ECS
4 46 (38.66%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (31.93%) Amazon S3
6 35 (29.41%) GitHub
7 33 (27.73%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (26.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (25.21%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (23.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 26 (21.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (18.49%) Azure
13 20 (16.81%) Azure AKS
14 12 (10.08%) AWS CodePipeline
14 12 (10.08%) GCP
15 9 (7.56%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (7.56%) Datadog
15 9 (7.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 7 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
17 5 (4.20%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.40%) Firewall
2 5 (4.20%) HTTP
2 5 (4.20%) VPN
3 2 (1.68%) DNS
4 1 (0.84%) BGP
4 1 (0.84%) Internet
4 1 (0.84%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.84%) SSL
4 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (12.61%) DynamoDB
3 15 (12.61%) NoSQL
4 10 (8.40%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (7.56%) Relational Database
6 7 (5.88%) Redis
7 6 (5.04%) Flink
8 4 (3.36%) DocumentDB
9 3 (2.52%) OLTP
10 2 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.68%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.84%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.84%) Big Data
11 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.84%) Impala
11 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.84%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 42 (35.29%) GitLab
1 42 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 22 (18.49%) Git
3 20 (16.81%) JIRA
4 13 (10.92%) Bitbucket
5 6 (5.04%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.36%) MLflow
7 2 (1.68%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.68%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.84%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.84%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.84%) GoCD
8 1 (0.84%) Gradle
8 1 (0.84%) Maven
8 1 (0.84%) Postman
8 1 (0.84%) Selenium
8 1 (0.84%) Snyk
8 1 (0.84%) webpack
General
1 28 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 21 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 20 (16.81%) Finance
4 7 (5.88%) Banking
5 5 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.68%) Aeronautics
6 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.68%) Local Government
7 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Military
7 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (40.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (22.69%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 16 (13.45%) Developer
6 14 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (9.24%) Senior
8 9 (7.56%) Architect
8 9 (7.56%) Java Developer
8 9 (7.56%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.88%) Scrum Master
10 7 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) AWS Architect
11 6 (5.04%) Python Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (4.20%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.20%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (3.36%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.33%) Kafka
2 16 (13.45%) Node.js
3 14 (11.76%) Spring
3 14 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 12 (10.08%) AWS CDK
5 11 (9.24%) REST
6 10 (8.40%) RESTful
7 9 (7.56%) .NET
7 9 (7.56%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (6.72%) OAuth
9 6 (5.04%) JWT
9 6 (5.04%) Keycloak
10 5 (4.20%) Java Concurrency
10 5 (4.20%) Pandas
10 5 (4.20%) Web Services
11 4 (3.36%) boto
11 4 (3.36%) NumPy
11 4 (3.36%) OAuth2
11 4 (3.36%) OpenCV
11 4 (3.36%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 29 (24.37%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.61%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.40%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.36%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.36%) NHS
5 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.36%) Replication
6 3 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.52%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.68%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.68%) Wiki
8 1 (0.84%) EMV
8 1 (0.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 29 (24.37%) Linux
2 4 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.36%) Windows
3 2 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.84%) Android
4 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (75.63%) CI/CD
2 82 (68.91%) DevOps
3 65 (54.62%) Containerisation
4 64 (53.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (34.45%) Agile
6 38 (31.93%) Microservices
7 37 (31.09%) Observability
8 30 (25.21%) Platform Engineering
9 27 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (15.97%) Event-Driven
11 16 (13.45%) DevSecOps
11 16 (13.45%) Test Automation
12 15 (12.61%) AI
13 14 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
13 14 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 14 (11.76%) GitOps
13 14 (11.76%) Scrum
13 14 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (10.92%) Code Quality
14 13 (10.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 57 (47.90%) Python
2 25 (21.01%) Java
3 21 (17.65%) Bash
4 16 (13.45%) SQL
5 14 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 9 (7.56%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.88%) Bicep
7 7 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.04%) C#
9 5 (4.20%) Go
9 5 (4.20%) Ruby
10 4 (3.36%) Perl
11 3 (2.52%) Groovy
11 3 (2.52%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.52%) ProC
11 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.68%) Scala
13 1 (0.84%) AWK
13 1 (0.84%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (31.93%) Security Cleared
2 31 (26.05%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.88%) SAFe Agilist
6 6 (5.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (4.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.52%) Degree
9 2 (1.68%) CCNP
9 2 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.68%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.84%) CCIE
10 1 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.36%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.52%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.52%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.84%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.84%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 67 (56.30%) Docker
2 3 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.84%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 86 (72.27%) Kubernetes
2 76 (63.87%) Terraform
3 34 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 30 (25.21%) Grafana
5 23 (19.33%) Ansible
6 15 (12.61%) Argo
7 9 (7.56%) Istio
7 9 (7.56%) Puppet
8 6 (5.04%) linkerd
8 6 (5.04%) Rancher
9 3 (2.52%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.84%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.84%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.84%) Packer
10 1 (0.84%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.24%) Splunk
3 9 (7.56%) Oracle
4 8 (6.72%) Databricks
4 8 (6.72%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.52%) Google
5 3 (2.52%) Ping Identity
5 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.52%) VMware
6 2 (1.68%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.68%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.84%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.84%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.84%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.84%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.84%) UiPath