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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 291 342
Rank change year-on-year -35 +51 +36
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 109 44 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.35% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.06% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 39 46
10th Percentile £350 £370 £405
25th Percentile £400 £409 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £611 £544 £634
90th Percentile £652 £617 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.63% -14.00%
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 6,843 4,159 5,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.53% 32.98% 27.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,713 2,979 4,022
10th Percentile £263 £236 £213
25th Percentile £400 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -2.65% -2.10%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 148 257
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.29 £16.95 £15.13
Median hourly rate £45.23 £23.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +92.47% +32.62% -19.45%
75th Percentile £67.50 £35.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.25 £60.57
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 31 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 31 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 -49 43 £550 +4.76% 18
North West -23 28 £595 +16.05% 10
Scotland +10 19 £358 -12.47%
Midlands -51 17 £503 +5.89% 1
West Midlands -41 16 £504 +22.18% 1
South East -43 15 £530 +6.00% 16
South West -18 11 £394 -37.00% 7
Yorkshire -49 8 £500 -4.76% 4
North East -7 7 £425 -30.61% 4
East of England - 3 - -
East Midlands -37 1 £322 -35.60%
Wales - 1 £475 -
Northern Ireland - 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 8 (7.34%) Apache Spark
1 8 (7.34%) Confluence
2 5 (4.59%) Apache
2 5 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.67%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.83%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (1.83%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 106 (97.25%) AWS
2 50 (45.87%) Serverless
3 48 (44.04%) Amazon ECS
4 43 (39.45%) AWS Lambda
5 33 (30.28%) Amazon S3
5 33 (30.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (28.44%) GitHub
7 29 (26.61%) Amazon EC2
7 29 (26.61%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (20.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 21 (19.27%) Azure
10 20 (18.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (16.51%) Azure AKS
12 11 (10.09%) GCP
13 10 (9.17%) Datadog
14 9 (8.26%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (7.34%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (7.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 7 (6.42%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (6.42%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.93%) Firewall
2 4 (3.67%) VPN
3 3 (2.75%) HTTP
4 2 (1.83%) DNS
5 1 (0.92%) BGP
5 1 (0.92%) Internet
5 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.92%) SSL
5 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.10%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (13.76%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (11.93%) DynamoDB
3 13 (11.93%) NoSQL
4 10 (9.17%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.42%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.50%) DocumentDB
6 6 (5.50%) Flink
7 5 (4.59%) Redis
8 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.75%) OLTP
9 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.83%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.92%) Big Data
10 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.92%) Impala
10 1 (0.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 44 (40.37%) Jenkins
2 40 (36.70%) GitLab
3 27 (24.77%) Git
4 18 (16.51%) JIRA
5 13 (11.93%) Bitbucket
6 10 (9.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.83%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.83%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.83%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.83%) Gradle
7 2 (1.83%) JUnit
7 2 (1.83%) Maven
7 2 (1.83%) MLflow
7 2 (1.83%) Postman
7 2 (1.83%) Selenium
7 2 (1.83%) Snyk
7 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.83%) webpack
8 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (20.18%) Public Sector
2 20 (18.35%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.43%) Finance
4 10 (9.17%) Banking
5 6 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.83%) Aeronautics
7 2 (1.83%) Local Government
7 2 (1.83%) Military
8 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (40.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (22.02%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (14.68%) Senior
4 15 (13.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (12.84%) AWS DevOps
5 14 (12.84%) Developer
6 12 (11.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 10 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (9.17%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (9.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 9 (8.26%) Java Developer
9 8 (7.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Architect
11 5 (4.59%) AWS Architect
11 5 (4.59%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.59%) Lead
12 4 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (3.67%) Python Engineer
12 4 (3.67%) Site Engineer
12 4 (3.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.27%) Kafka
2 17 (15.60%) Node.js
3 13 (11.93%) Spring
3 13 (11.93%) Spring Boot
4 12 (11.01%) REST
5 10 (9.17%) RESTful
6 9 (8.26%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.42%) AWS CDK
7 7 (6.42%) OAuth
8 6 (5.50%) .NET
8 6 (5.50%) Web Services
9 5 (4.59%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (3.67%) Keycloak
10 4 (3.67%) React
11 3 (2.75%) FastAPI
11 3 (2.75%) JWT
11 3 (2.75%) NestJS
11 3 (2.75%) OAuth2
11 3 (2.75%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (2.75%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.18%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.50%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.67%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.75%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.75%) NHS
5 3 (2.75%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.83%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Replication
6 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.92%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (0.92%) EMV
7 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.85%) Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Windows
3 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (70.64%) CI/CD
2 76 (69.72%) DevOps
3 55 (50.46%) Containerisation
4 51 (46.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (33.03%) Microservices
6 32 (29.36%) Agile
7 30 (27.52%) Observability
8 22 (20.18%) Platform Engineering
9 21 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (12.84%) Event-Driven
11 13 (11.93%) DevSecOps
12 12 (11.01%) AI
12 12 (11.01%) Code Quality
12 12 (11.01%) Infrastructure Automation
12 12 (11.01%) Software Engineering
13 11 (10.09%) Analytics
13 11 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (10.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 10 (9.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 10 (9.17%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (50.46%) Python
2 24 (22.02%) Java
3 16 (14.68%) Bash
3 16 (14.68%) PowerShell
4 15 (13.76%) SQL
5 9 (8.26%) JavaScript
5 9 (8.26%) Ruby
6 7 (6.42%) Perl
7 4 (3.67%) Bicep
7 4 (3.67%) Go
7 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.75%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.75%) ProC
8 3 (2.75%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.83%) AWK
9 2 (1.83%) C#
9 2 (1.83%) Groovy
9 2 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.92%) C
Qualifications
1 34 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 25 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.43%) AWS Certification
4 9 (8.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.50%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.67%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.75%) Degree
8 3 (2.75%) SAFe Agilist
9 2 (1.83%) CCNP
9 2 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.83%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.92%) CCIE
10 1 (0.92%) CISSP
10 1 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.75%) PCI DSS
1 3 (2.75%) QA
2 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.92%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.92%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.92%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (55.05%) Docker
2 4 (3.67%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 78 (71.56%) Kubernetes
2 64 (58.72%) Terraform
3 29 (26.61%) Prometheus
4 23 (21.10%) Grafana
5 21 (19.27%) Ansible
6 13 (11.93%) Argo
7 8 (7.34%) Puppet
8 6 (5.50%) Istio
9 4 (3.67%) linkerd
9 4 (3.67%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.67%) Rancher
10 2 (1.83%) Podman
10 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.92%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.92%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (11.01%) Microsoft
1 12 (11.01%) Splunk
2 11 (10.09%) Oracle
3 8 (7.34%) Databricks
4 6 (5.50%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.67%) Google
6 3 (2.75%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.83%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.83%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.83%) VMware
8 1 (0.92%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.92%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.92%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.92%) UiPath