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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 299 343
Rank change year-on-year -28 +44 +26
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 143 73 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.48% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 1.53% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 53 17
10th Percentile £394 £410 £425
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £675
90th Percentile £652 £638 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 8,208 4,780 4,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.45% 31.22% 27.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,286 3,179 3,285
10th Percentile £265 £250 £248
25th Percentile £405 £380 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £569 £600
90th Percentile £675 £644 £670
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 174 149
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.82 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.31 £16.95 £17.44
Median hourly rate £32.00 £19.27 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.06% -31.18% +3.70%
75th Percentile £69.80 £39.86 £61.06
90th Percentile £83.43 £67.18 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.12 £29.07 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.93% -3.10% -14.29%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -54 42 £473 -0.53% 27
Midlands -32 33 £488 -11.36% 12
Scotland -13 29 £425 -15.00% 34
West Midlands -27 28 £477 -13.27% 4
North West -42 22 £630 +32.67% 14
North East -22 18 £425 - 7
South East -72 16 £533 -13.06% 17
South West -35 11 £600 -4.00% 14
Northern Ireland +8 6 £446 - 7
East Midlands -12 5 £500 +33.33% 8
East of England -17 3 £345 -56.19% 12
Wales - 3 £600 - 1
Yorkshire -54 2 £481 +3.27% 6
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 16 (11.19%) Confluence
2 4 (2.80%) Apache
3 3 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.40%) nginx
4 2 (1.40%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 140 (97.90%) AWS
2 69 (48.25%) Amazon ECS
3 67 (46.85%) Serverless
4 63 (44.06%) AWS Lambda
5 61 (42.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 50 (34.97%) GitHub
7 48 (33.57%) Amazon S3
8 45 (31.47%) GitHub Actions
9 38 (26.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (26.57%) Azure
10 36 (25.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 35 (24.48%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (18.18%) GCP
13 24 (16.78%) Azure AKS
14 20 (13.99%) Kong
15 19 (13.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 17 (11.89%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (9.79%) Amazon MSK
17 14 (9.79%) Azure DevOps
18 12 (8.39%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.49%) DNS
1 15 (10.49%) Firewall
2 7 (4.90%) HTTP
3 6 (4.20%) VPN
4 4 (2.80%) Network Security
5 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.40%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.70%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.99%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.49%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (9.79%) DynamoDB
4 11 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 10 (6.99%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (6.29%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.50%) Redis
8 4 (2.80%) DocumentDB
8 4 (2.80%) MySQL
8 4 (2.80%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.40%) Big Data
10 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.40%) Flink
11 1 (0.70%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 37 (25.87%) GitLab
3 19 (13.29%) Bitbucket
4 15 (10.49%) Git
5 14 (9.79%) JIRA
6 5 (3.50%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.80%) JUnit
8 3 (2.10%) Mockito
9 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.40%) MLflow
9 2 (1.40%) ScalaTest
9 2 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.40%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.70%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.70%) Gradle
10 1 (0.70%) Postman
10 1 (0.70%) Snyk
10 1 (0.70%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 34 (23.78%) Public Sector
2 27 (18.88%) Finance
2 27 (18.88%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (6.99%) Banking
5 4 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.70%) iGaming
7 1 (0.70%) International Banking
7 1 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 31 (21.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (16.78%) AWS Engineer
3 20 (13.99%) Scrum Master
4 19 (13.29%) AWS DevOps
4 19 (13.29%) Developer
5 16 (11.19%) Lead
6 14 (9.79%) Architect
6 14 (9.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (7.69%) Senior
8 11 (7.69%) Software Developer
9 8 (5.59%) AWS Architect
10 7 (4.90%) Security Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Technical Architect
12 5 (3.50%) Java Engineer
12 5 (3.50%) Lead DevOps
12 5 (3.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (3.50%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (63.64%) Terraform
2 32 (22.38%) Kafka
3 28 (19.58%) RESTful
4 23 (16.08%) Spring Boot
5 22 (15.38%) Spring
6 14 (9.79%) AWS CDK
6 14 (9.79%) OAuth
6 14 (9.79%) REST
7 11 (7.69%) OAuth2
7 11 (7.69%) React
8 10 (6.99%) OpenID
9 8 (5.59%) .NET
9 8 (5.59%) Node.js
10 7 (4.90%) AngularJS
10 7 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (4.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (4.90%) SAML
11 6 (4.20%) gRPC
11 6 (4.20%) OpenAPI
11 6 (4.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 62 (43.36%) Cloud Native
2 27 (18.88%) Product Ownership
3 24 (16.78%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.90%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.90%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.20%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.20%) Blog
5 6 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.50%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.80%) Replication
8 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.10%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.40%) NHS
9 2 (1.40%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.40%) Wiki
10 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.38%) Linux
2 7 (4.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (4.90%) Windows
3 3 (2.10%) Unix
4 1 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (85.31%) CI/CD
2 91 (63.64%) DevOps
3 80 (55.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (45.45%) Agile
5 62 (43.36%) Containerisation
6 51 (35.66%) Observability
7 45 (31.47%) Microservices
8 42 (29.37%) Platform Engineering
8 42 (29.37%) Test Automation
9 40 (27.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (27.27%) Scrum
11 33 (23.08%) DevSecOps
12 23 (16.08%) Configuration Management
13 22 (15.38%) Code Quality
13 22 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
13 22 (15.38%) Event-Driven
13 22 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (14.69%) Backlog Refinement
14 21 (14.69%) Clean Code
15 20 (13.99%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 41 (28.67%) Java
2 37 (25.87%) Python
3 27 (18.88%) Bash
4 18 (12.59%) Go
4 18 (12.59%) PowerShell
5 17 (11.89%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.69%) Bicep
6 11 (7.69%) SQL
7 9 (6.29%) Scala
8 8 (5.59%) C#
8 8 (5.59%) JavaScript
9 6 (4.20%) Lua
10 3 (2.10%) Groovy
10 3 (2.10%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 48 (33.57%) SC Cleared
3 31 (21.68%) AWS Certification
4 12 (8.39%) Azure Certification
5 11 (7.69%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (6.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (5.59%) Degree
8 7 (4.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.90%) CISSP
9 5 (3.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (2.10%) DV Cleared
11 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.70%) CCIE
13 1 (0.70%) CCNP
13 1 (0.70%) CCSP
13 1 (0.70%) CISM
13 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.79%) QA
2 9 (6.29%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.80%) NCSC
4 3 (2.10%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (2.10%) WCAG
5 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.40%) SLA
6 1 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 82 (57.34%) Docker
2 5 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.70%) KVM
4 1 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (70.63%) Kubernetes
2 39 (27.27%) Grafana
3 26 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 18 (12.59%) Ansible
5 16 (11.19%) Argo
6 11 (7.69%) Istio
6 11 (7.69%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.50%) linkerd
8 4 (2.80%) Puppet
8 4 (2.80%) Rancher
9 3 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.40%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.70%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.70%) Packer
11 1 (0.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 24 (16.78%) Dynatrace
2 22 (15.38%) Splunk
3 16 (11.19%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.59%) Google
5 7 (4.90%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.20%) ForgeRock
7 5 (3.50%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.80%) Confluent
9 3 (2.10%) Oracle
9 3 (2.10%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.10%) SAP
9 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.10%) VMware
10 2 (1.40%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.40%) Databricks
10 2 (1.40%) IBM
10 2 (1.40%) Okta
10 2 (1.40%) Tenable
11 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.70%) Tanium