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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 285 351
Rank change year-on-year -37 +66 +26
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 134 75 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.50% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.58% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 52 25
10th Percentile £378 £409 £435
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -1.64%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £675
90th Percentile £651 £634 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
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 8,078 4,735 5,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.90% 31.34% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,197 3,178 3,524
10th Percentile £288 £251 £241
25th Percentile £402 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 196 218
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.87 £13.87
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.02 £18.87 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.18% -10.14% -20.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £36.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.86 £66.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -71 36 £500 +5.26% 19
Midlands -32 27 £488 -7.14% 4
Scotland +6 25 £525 +5.00% 8
West Midlands -34 23 £477 -13.27% 3
North West -40 23 £632 +26.45% 8
South East -74 18 £533 -8.78% 11
South West -25 17 £413 -35.92% 7
North East -33 8 £425 - 6
Northern Ireland - 6 £446 - 2
Yorkshire -59 5 £500 +8.11% 5
East Midlands -9 4 £500 - 1
East of England -17 3 - - 4
Wales - 3 £600 -
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 18 (13.43%) Confluence
2 7 (5.22%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.48%) Apache
4 5 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.99%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.49%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (1.49%) nginx
6 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 133 (99.25%) AWS
2 68 (50.75%) Serverless
3 61 (45.52%) Amazon ECS
4 60 (44.78%) AWS Lambda
5 53 (39.55%) Amazon S3
6 48 (35.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 43 (32.09%) GitHub
8 39 (29.10%) GitHub Actions
9 37 (27.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 36 (26.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 33 (24.63%) Azure
12 32 (23.88%) Amazon EC2
13 27 (20.15%) Azure AKS
14 25 (18.66%) GCP
15 20 (14.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 16 (11.94%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (9.70%) AWS CodePipeline
18 11 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
18 11 (8.21%) Kong
19 7 (5.22%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.46%) Firewall
2 7 (5.22%) HTTP
3 6 (4.48%) DNS
4 4 (2.99%) VPN
5 2 (1.49%) Network Security
6 1 (0.75%) BGP
6 1 (0.75%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.16%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (11.94%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (10.45%) DynamoDB
3 14 (10.45%) NoSQL
4 12 (8.96%) Relational Database
5 10 (7.46%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (5.22%) Flink
7 6 (4.48%) Redis
8 4 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.24%) DocumentDB
9 3 (2.24%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.49%) MySQL
10 2 (1.49%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.75%) Big Data
11 1 (0.75%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (35.82%) Jenkins
2 35 (26.12%) GitLab
3 18 (13.43%) Bitbucket
4 16 (11.94%) JIRA
5 15 (11.19%) Git
6 4 (2.99%) MLflow
6 4 (2.99%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.24%) JUnit
8 2 (1.49%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.49%) Mockito
8 2 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.49%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.49%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.75%) Gradle
9 1 (0.75%) Postman
9 1 (0.75%) Snyk
9 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 30 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.90%) Public Sector
3 15 (11.19%) Finance
4 6 (4.48%) Banking
5 5 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.75%) International Banking
8 1 (0.75%) Military
8 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (26.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (16.42%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (14.18%) Developer
4 18 (13.43%) AWS DevOps
5 17 (12.69%) Scrum Master
6 14 (10.45%) Architect
6 14 (10.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (10.45%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (9.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.46%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.72%) AWS Architect
9 9 (6.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Senior
10 7 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (5.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) Lead
11 6 (4.48%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.48%) Technical Architect
12 5 (3.73%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (26.87%) Kafka
2 23 (17.16%) Spring
2 23 (17.16%) Spring Boot
3 18 (13.43%) RESTful
4 16 (11.94%) OAuth
5 15 (11.19%) AWS CDK
6 12 (8.96%) REST
7 11 (8.21%) OAuth2
7 11 (8.21%) React
8 10 (7.46%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (6.72%) Node.js
10 8 (5.97%) .NET
11 7 (5.22%) OpenID
11 7 (5.22%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (4.48%) JWT
12 6 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (4.48%) SAML
13 5 (3.73%) boto
13 5 (3.73%) GraphQL
13 5 (3.73%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 49 (36.57%) Cloud Native
2 27 (20.15%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (16.42%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.97%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.22%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.99%) Replication
7 4 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.24%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.49%) NHS
9 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.49%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.16%) Linux
2 6 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (4.48%) Windows
3 2 (1.49%) Unix
4 1 (0.75%) Android
4 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (81.34%) CI/CD
2 83 (61.94%) DevOps
3 75 (55.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (50.75%) Containerisation
5 54 (40.30%) Agile
6 46 (34.33%) Microservices
7 44 (32.84%) Observability
7 44 (32.84%) Platform Engineering
8 38 (28.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (23.13%) Test Automation
10 30 (22.39%) Scrum
11 29 (21.64%) DevSecOps
12 25 (18.66%) Code Quality
13 23 (17.16%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (15.67%) Event-Driven
15 19 (14.18%) GitOps
15 19 (14.18%) Secrets Management
16 17 (12.69%) Backlog Refinement
16 17 (12.69%) Infrastructure Automation
16 17 (12.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 50 (37.31%) Python
2 39 (29.10%) Java
3 26 (19.40%) Bash
4 17 (12.69%) PowerShell
5 14 (10.45%) SQL
5 14 (10.45%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.21%) Bicep
6 11 (8.21%) Go
7 8 (5.97%) C#
7 8 (5.97%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.24%) Groovy
8 3 (2.24%) Scala
9 1 (0.75%) Rust
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (32.84%) Security Cleared
2 40 (29.85%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.93%) AWS Certification
4 11 (8.21%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (6.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 9 (6.72%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (4.48%) Degree
8 5 (3.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.99%) CISSP
9 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.24%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.49%) CCNP
11 2 (1.49%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.75%) CISM
12 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) QA
2 5 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.24%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.24%) NCSC
4 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (58.21%) Docker
2 4 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.49%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.75%) KVM
4 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 93 (69.40%) Kubernetes
2 78 (58.21%) Terraform
3 34 (25.37%) Prometheus
4 32 (23.88%) Grafana
5 20 (14.93%) Argo
6 15 (11.19%) Ansible
7 13 (9.70%) Istio
8 8 (5.97%) linkerd
9 5 (3.73%) Progress Chef
9 5 (3.73%) Rancher
10 4 (2.99%) Puppet
11 2 (1.49%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.49%) Packer
12 1 (0.75%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.75%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (11.94%) Dynatrace
1 16 (11.94%) Splunk
2 14 (10.45%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.72%) Databricks
4 5 (3.73%) ForgeRock
4 5 (3.73%) Google
5 4 (2.99%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.99%) VMware
6 3 (2.24%) Oracle
6 3 (2.24%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.49%) Confluent
7 2 (1.49%) IBM
7 2 (1.49%) Okta
8 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.75%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.75%) Informatica
8 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.75%) Tanium
8 1 (0.75%) Tenable
8 1 (0.75%) Trend Micro