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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 325 353
Rank change year-on-year +36 +28 +33
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 110 35 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.90% 0.72% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 28 45
10th Percentile £358 - £400
25th Percentile £463 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £430 £550
Median % change year-on-year +28.06% -21.91% -10.20%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £588
90th Percentile £662 £650 £610
UK median daily rate £550 £630 £550
% change year-on-year -12.70% +14.55% -12.00%

All Cloud 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 5,798 4,883 6,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.47% 30.82% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,979 3,159 4,587
10th Percentile £225 £250 £222
25th Percentile £375 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £657 £675 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 121 213
10th Percentile £13.95 £16.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +28.86% +9.27%
75th Percentile £48.34 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.23 £69.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 -11 35 £550 -4.35% 40
Scotland +13 26 £500 +22.25% 3
South East -1 20 £600 +1.69% 46
Midlands -17 18 £550 +8.91% 29
West Midlands -13 16 £550 +8.91% 20
North West -2 15 £575 - 22
Yorkshire -28 14 £475 -17.39% 16
North East +1 6 £575 -6.12% 2
South West -9 4 £613 +56.25% 19
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 2
East of England - 3 £788 - 17
East Midlands - 2 £349 - 9
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 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.45%) Apache
3 4 (3.64%) Confluence
3 4 (3.64%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.82%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.91%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (90.00%) AWS
2 44 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 44 (40.00%) Serverless
3 42 (38.18%) AWS Lambda
4 40 (36.36%) Azure
5 37 (33.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (28.18%) Amazon S3
7 28 (25.45%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (19.09%) GitHub
10 20 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (16.36%) Azure AKS
11 18 (16.36%) GCP
12 17 (15.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (14.55%) OpenShift
14 14 (12.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 13 (11.82%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (11.82%) Entra ID
16 12 (10.91%) Amazon MSK
17 11 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.18%) Firewall
2 4 (3.64%) HTTP
3 1 (0.91%) DNS
3 1 (0.91%) Internet
3 1 (0.91%) SSL
3 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.91%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (10.91%) DynamoDB
3 10 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 9 (8.18%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.27%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (4.55%) DocumentDB
7 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.73%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.82%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.82%) Power BI
9 2 (1.82%) Redis
9 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (33.64%) GitLab
2 35 (31.82%) Jenkins
3 31 (28.18%) Git
4 15 (13.64%) JIRA
5 14 (12.73%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (11.82%) Bitbucket
7 5 (4.55%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.64%) Artifactory
8 4 (3.64%) CircleCI
8 4 (3.64%) Cypress.io
8 4 (3.64%) Gradle
8 4 (3.64%) JUnit
8 4 (3.64%) Maven
8 4 (3.64%) Postman
8 4 (3.64%) Selenium
8 4 (3.64%) Snyk
8 4 (3.64%) webpack
9 3 (2.73%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.82%) MLflow
11 1 (0.91%) GoCD
General
1 23 (20.91%) Public Sector
2 22 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.73%) Finance
4 10 (9.09%) Banking
5 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.82%) Aeronautics
6 2 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (32.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (19.09%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (11.82%) Senior
4 11 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 10 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 10 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Architect
8 6 (5.45%) Lead
8 6 (5.45%) Site Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Security Engineer
11 3 (2.73%) Java Engineer
11 3 (2.73%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.36%) Node.js
2 15 (13.64%) REST
3 14 (12.73%) OAuth
4 12 (10.91%) AWS CDK
4 12 (10.91%) JSON
5 10 (9.09%) .NET
5 10 (9.09%) FastAPI
5 10 (9.09%) Middleware
5 10 (9.09%) React
6 9 (8.18%) Pandas
7 8 (7.27%) Kafka
7 8 (7.27%) OpenCV
7 8 (7.27%) PyTorch
7 8 (7.27%) SAML
7 8 (7.27%) SQLAlchemy
8 7 (6.36%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (6.36%) Hugging Face
8 7 (6.36%) NumPy
8 7 (6.36%) OpenID
9 6 (5.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.82%) Private Cloud
3 9 (8.18%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.64%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.73%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.82%) Life Science
8 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.91%) NHS
8 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.73%) Linux
2 4 (3.64%) Unix
2 4 (3.64%) Windows
2 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.82%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (66.36%) CI/CD
2 70 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (60.00%) DevOps
4 58 (52.73%) Containerisation
5 40 (36.36%) Agile
6 31 (28.18%) Microservices
7 22 (20.00%) Configuration Management
8 21 (19.09%) AI
8 21 (19.09%) Software Engineering
9 17 (15.45%) Migration
10 16 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (13.64%) Mentoring
11 15 (13.64%) Observability
12 14 (12.73%) LLM
12 14 (12.73%) Machine Learning
12 14 (12.73%) TDD
13 13 (11.82%) API Development
13 13 (11.82%) Event-Driven
14 12 (10.91%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 55 (50.00%) Python
2 31 (28.18%) Java
3 21 (19.09%) PowerShell
4 17 (15.45%) SQL
5 15 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 14 (12.73%) Bash
7 11 (10.00%) Perl
8 9 (8.18%) Ruby
9 8 (7.27%) C#
10 5 (4.55%) Go
11 4 (3.64%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.73%) C
13 2 (1.82%) AWK
13 2 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (1.82%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.91%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 39 (35.45%) Security Cleared
2 27 (24.55%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.27%) AWS Certification
4 10 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (7.27%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.64%) Degree
8 3 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.91%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.73%) GDPR
2 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.91%) NIST
System Software
1 61 (55.45%) Docker
2 11 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.45%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.73%) KVM
5 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 76 (69.09%) Kubernetes
2 61 (55.45%) Terraform
3 34 (30.91%) Ansible
4 25 (22.73%) Grafana
5 21 (19.09%) Prometheus
6 11 (10.00%) Argo
7 10 (9.09%) Puppet
7 10 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (6.36%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.64%) Podman
10 3 (2.73%) Istio
10 3 (2.73%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (1.82%) Fluentd
11 2 (1.82%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.82%) Nagios
12 1 (0.91%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.91%) linkerd
12 1 (0.91%) Packer
12 1 (0.91%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.82%) Red Hat
3 12 (10.91%) Oracle
4 8 (7.27%) Splunk
5 7 (6.36%) Alibaba
6 4 (3.64%) Ping Identity
7 3 (2.73%) Commvault
7 3 (2.73%) Google
8 2 (1.82%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.91%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.91%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.91%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.91%) JDA
9 1 (0.91%) UiPath
9 1 (0.91%) VMware