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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 291 344
Rank change year-on-year -26 +53 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 117 43 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.34% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 1.03% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 38 45
10th Percentile £350 £368 £404
25th Percentile £400 £409 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £603 £578 £634
90th Percentile £652 £633 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £608 £538
% change year-on-year -13.58% +13.02% -12.24%
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 6,784 4,191 5,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.77% 33.28% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,680 2,988 4,028
10th Percentile £263 £231 £213
25th Percentile £399 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £489
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -2.25% -2.93%
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 326 145 263
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.04 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.95 £15.27
Median hourly rate £44.31 £24.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +84.60% +35.44% -19.45%
75th Percentile £66.25 £34.50 £27.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £71.00 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -18.64%

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 25 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 25 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 -43 46 £550 +4.76% 21
North West -20 31 £550 +4.76% 12
Scotland +16 19 £358 -12.47%
Midlands -53 18 £504 +6.11% 1
South East -36 17 £530 +6.00% 14
West Midlands -37 17 £505 +22.42% 1
South West -11 12 £400 -36.00% 9
Yorkshire -55 8 £500 - 5
North East -6 7 £425 -30.61% 4
East of England - 3 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East Midlands -33 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 (6.84%) Apache Spark
1 8 (6.84%) Confluence
2 5 (4.27%) Apache
2 5 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.42%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.71%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (1.71%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 114 (97.44%) AWS
2 56 (47.86%) Serverless
3 51 (43.59%) Amazon ECS
4 49 (41.88%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (30.77%) Amazon S3
5 36 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (27.35%) GitHub
7 31 (26.50%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (25.64%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 25 (21.37%) Azure
11 23 (19.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (16.24%) Azure AKS
13 13 (11.11%) Amazon MSK
13 13 (11.11%) Datadog
14 12 (10.26%) GCP
15 8 (6.84%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (6.84%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (6.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 7 (5.98%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.82%) Firewall
2 4 (3.42%) VPN
3 3 (2.56%) HTTP
4 2 (1.71%) DNS
5 1 (0.85%) BGP
5 1 (0.85%) Internet
5 1 (0.85%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.85%) SSL
5 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.37%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (11.97%) DynamoDB
3 14 (11.97%) NoSQL
4 10 (8.55%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (6.84%) DocumentDB
6 6 (5.13%) Flink
7 5 (4.27%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.27%) Redis
8 3 (2.56%) OLTP
9 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.71%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.85%) Big Data
10 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.85%) Impala
10 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 46 (39.32%) Jenkins
2 44 (37.61%) GitLab
3 29 (24.79%) Git
4 20 (17.09%) JIRA
5 15 (12.82%) Bitbucket
6 12 (10.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.71%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.71%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.71%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.71%) Gradle
7 2 (1.71%) JUnit
7 2 (1.71%) Maven
7 2 (1.71%) MLflow
7 2 (1.71%) Postman
7 2 (1.71%) Selenium
7 2 (1.71%) Snyk
7 2 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.71%) webpack
8 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 23 (19.66%) Public Sector
2 22 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.95%) Finance
4 12 (10.26%) Banking
5 6 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.71%) Aeronautics
7 2 (1.71%) Local Government
7 2 (1.71%) Military
8 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (39.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (20.51%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (14.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (14.53%) Senior
4 15 (12.82%) AWS DevOps
5 14 (11.97%) Developer
6 13 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 10 (8.55%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (8.55%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (8.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.69%) Architect
8 9 (7.69%) Java Developer
9 8 (6.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Lead
11 5 (4.27%) AWS Architect
11 5 (4.27%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.27%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.42%) Site Engineer
12 4 (3.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 4 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.66%) Kafka
2 19 (16.24%) Node.js
3 13 (11.11%) Spring
3 13 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 12 (10.26%) REST
5 10 (8.55%) RESTful
6 9 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (6.84%) .NET
8 7 (5.98%) AWS CDK
8 7 (5.98%) OAuth
9 6 (5.13%) Web Services
10 5 (4.27%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (3.42%) Keycloak
11 4 (3.42%) React
12 3 (2.56%) FastAPI
12 3 (2.56%) JWT
12 3 (2.56%) NestJS
12 3 (2.56%) OAuth2
12 3 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
12 3 (2.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.37%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.42%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.56%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.56%) NHS
5 3 (2.56%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.71%) Replication
6 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.08%) Linux
2 4 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.42%) Windows
3 2 (1.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (70.09%) DevOps
2 80 (68.38%) CI/CD
3 61 (52.14%) Containerisation
4 53 (45.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (35.90%) Microservices
6 34 (29.06%) Agile
7 33 (28.21%) Observability
8 22 (18.80%) Platform Engineering
9 21 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (12.82%) Event-Driven
11 14 (11.97%) DevSecOps
11 14 (11.97%) Mentoring
11 14 (11.97%) Software Engineering
12 13 (11.11%) AI
12 13 (11.11%) Code Quality
12 13 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
13 12 (10.26%) High Availability
13 12 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (9.40%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 58 (49.57%) Python
2 27 (23.08%) Java
3 18 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 16 (13.68%) Bash
4 16 (13.68%) SQL
5 11 (9.40%) Ruby
6 10 (8.55%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.69%) Perl
8 4 (3.42%) Bicep
8 4 (3.42%) Go
8 4 (3.42%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.56%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.56%) ProC
9 3 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.71%) AWK
10 2 (1.71%) Groovy
10 2 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.85%) C
11 1 (0.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 25 (21.37%) SC Cleared
3 24 (20.51%) AWS Certification
4 12 (10.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.13%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.42%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.56%) Degree
8 3 (2.56%) SAFe Agilist
9 2 (1.71%) CCNP
9 2 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.71%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.85%) CCIE
10 1 (0.85%) CISSP
10 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.56%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.56%) GDPR
1 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.56%) PCI DSS
1 3 (2.56%) QA
2 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.85%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.85%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 65 (55.56%) Docker
2 6 (5.13%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 82 (70.09%) Kubernetes
2 67 (57.26%) Terraform
3 32 (27.35%) Prometheus
4 23 (19.66%) Grafana
5 22 (18.80%) Ansible
6 14 (11.97%) Argo
7 8 (6.84%) Puppet
8 6 (5.13%) Istio
9 4 (3.42%) linkerd
9 4 (3.42%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.42%) Rancher
10 2 (1.71%) Podman
10 2 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.85%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (11.11%) Oracle
2 12 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.26%) Splunk
3 8 (6.84%) Databricks
4 6 (5.13%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.42%) Google
6 3 (2.56%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.71%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.71%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.71%) VMware
8 1 (0.85%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.85%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.85%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.85%) UiPath