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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 329 360
Rank change year-on-year +33 +31 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 96 34 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.20% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 0.69% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 25 50
10th Percentile £395 £350 £411
25th Percentile £463 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -9.32%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £588
90th Percentile £640 £675 £695
UK median daily rate £555 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -11.90% +9.57% -8.00%

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 5,562 4,898 6,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.26% 29.44% 31.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,776 3,135 4,766
10th Percentile £225 £255 £225
25th Percentile £375 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £674 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 116 234
10th Percentile £13.01 £17.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £33.74 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.75% +49.93% +15.38%
75th Percentile £41.25 £64.73 £48.44
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +45.87%

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 3 November 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 3 November 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 -13 30 £500 -13.04% 14
Scotland +10 23 £500 +22.25% 3
South East +14 18 £606 -6.73% 35
Midlands -7 16 £550 +8.91% 3
Yorkshire -14 16 £488 -15.22% 3
West Midlands -14 14 £550 +8.91% 3
North West -19 9 £550 -4.35% 11
North East - 5 £575 -
South West - 4 £613 - 11
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
East of England -11 2 £788 +31.25%
East Midlands - 2 £349 -
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 6 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.21%) OpenStack
3 4 (4.17%) Apache
3 4 (4.17%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.04%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.04%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 83 (86.46%) AWS
2 41 (42.71%) Azure
3 39 (40.63%) Serverless
4 37 (38.54%) Amazon ECS
5 35 (36.46%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (30.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (29.17%) Amazon S3
8 20 (20.83%) OpenShift
9 19 (19.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (18.75%) GitHub
10 18 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (17.71%) Amazon SQS
11 17 (17.71%) GCP
12 16 (16.67%) Azure AKS
13 14 (14.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 14 (14.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (13.54%) Entra ID
15 10 (10.42%) Amazon MSK
15 10 (10.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.29%) Firewall
2 3 (3.13%) HTTP
3 2 (2.08%) DNS
3 2 (2.08%) Network Security
3 2 (2.08%) SSL
3 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (13.54%) DynamoDB
3 10 (10.42%) MongoDB
4 8 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 7 (7.29%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (5.21%) DocumentDB
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.08%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 36 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 30 (31.25%) GitLab
3 26 (27.08%) Git
4 10 (10.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (9.38%) Bitbucket
5 9 (9.38%) JIRA
6 5 (5.21%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.17%) Artifactory
7 4 (4.17%) CircleCI
7 4 (4.17%) Cypress.io
7 4 (4.17%) Gradle
7 4 (4.17%) JUnit
7 4 (4.17%) Maven
7 4 (4.17%) Postman
7 4 (4.17%) Selenium
7 4 (4.17%) Snyk
7 4 (4.17%) Terragrunt
7 4 (4.17%) webpack
8 2 (2.08%) MLflow
General
1 23 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.71%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.38%) Finance
4 7 (7.29%) Banking
5 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Military
6 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (20.83%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (13.54%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (11.46%) AWS DevOps
4 11 (11.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 11 (11.46%) Senior
5 10 (10.42%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Business Analyst
7 7 (7.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Lead
8 6 (6.25%) Architect
8 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Security Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Digital Architect
11 3 (3.13%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.58%) OAuth
1 14 (14.58%) React
2 13 (13.54%) Middleware
3 12 (12.50%) JSON
3 12 (12.50%) REST
4 11 (11.46%) Node.js
5 10 (10.42%) AWS CDK
5 10 (10.42%) FastAPI
6 8 (8.33%) .NET
6 8 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (8.33%) Kafka
6 8 (8.33%) OpenCV
6 8 (8.33%) Pandas
6 8 (8.33%) PyTorch
6 8 (8.33%) SAML
6 8 (8.33%) SQLAlchemy
7 7 (7.29%) Hugging Face
7 7 (7.29%) NumPy
7 7 (7.29%) OpenID
8 6 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 17 (17.71%) Private Cloud
3 9 (9.38%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.21%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.17%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.08%) Life Science
8 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.71%) Linux
2 4 (4.17%) Unix
3 3 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.13%) Windows
3 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.08%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (71.88%) CI/CD
2 64 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 55 (57.29%) DevOps
4 51 (53.13%) Containerisation
5 34 (35.42%) Agile
6 25 (26.04%) Configuration Management
7 22 (22.92%) Microservices
8 19 (19.79%) Migration
9 17 (17.71%) AI
9 17 (17.71%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (17.71%) Software Engineering
10 16 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 16 (16.67%) TDD
11 13 (13.54%) LLM
12 12 (12.50%) Event-Driven
12 12 (12.50%) Machine Learning
12 12 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (11.46%) DevSecOps
13 11 (11.46%) High Availability
14 10 (10.42%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (50.00%) Python
2 31 (32.29%) Java
3 20 (20.83%) PowerShell
3 20 (20.83%) SQL
4 17 (17.71%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.50%) C#
6 9 (9.38%) Bash
7 8 (8.33%) Perl
8 6 (6.25%) Ruby
9 4 (4.17%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.13%) C
10 3 (3.13%) Go
11 2 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.04%) AWK
12 1 (1.04%) Groovy
12 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (36.46%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.04%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.75%) AWS Certification
4 11 (11.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.29%) DV Cleared
6 6 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.08%) Degree
9 1 (1.04%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) GDPR
1 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.13%) NIST
3 2 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (52.08%) Docker
2 10 (10.42%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (3.13%) KVM
Systems Management
1 68 (70.83%) Kubernetes
2 51 (53.13%) Terraform
3 35 (36.46%) Ansible
4 18 (18.75%) Grafana
5 16 (16.67%) Prometheus
6 10 (10.42%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (8.33%) Puppet
8 7 (7.29%) Argo
9 5 (5.21%) Progress Chef
10 4 (4.17%) Istio
10 4 (4.17%) Podman
11 3 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (2.08%) Fluentd
12 2 (2.08%) HAProxy
12 2 (2.08%) Kustomize
12 2 (2.08%) Nagios
13 1 (1.04%) linkerd
13 1 (1.04%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 13 (13.54%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.29%) Alibaba
3 7 (7.29%) Oracle
3 7 (7.29%) Splunk
4 3 (3.13%) Commvault
5 2 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.08%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.08%) Google
6 1 (1.04%) JDA
6 1 (1.04%) Ping Identity