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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 286 331
Rank change year-on-year -47 +45 +45
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 148 92 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.59% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.81% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 66 24
10th Percentile £363 £406 £350
25th Percentile £402 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.23% -5.79%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £650
90th Percentile £671 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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 8,176 5,081 4,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.13% 32.38% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,177 3,430 3,143
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £402 £376 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 166 133
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +40.88%
75th Percentile £69.69 £35.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.63 £65.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -56 44 £450 -5.26% 31
Midlands -21 32 £494 -10.23% 11
West Midlands -31 27 £488 -11.36% 4
Scotland -10 26 £400 -21.95% 40
North West -32 21 £607 +27.68% 15
South East -57 20 £575 -6.12% 32
North East -24 19 £425 -26.09% 7
South West -28 13 £425 -30.61% 21
Northern Ireland +8 7 £496 - 11
East Midlands -6 5 £500 +33.33% 7
Yorkshire -46 4 £463 -0.75% 9
East of England -22 3 £345 -56.19% 17
Wales - 3 £600 - 8
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 12 (8.11%) Confluence
2 7 (4.73%) Apache
3 3 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.35%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.35%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) nginx
5 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 146 (98.65%) AWS
2 77 (52.03%) Amazon ECS
3 71 (47.97%) Serverless
4 68 (45.95%) AWS Lambda
5 66 (44.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 55 (37.16%) Amazon S3
7 49 (33.11%) GitHub
8 44 (29.73%) GitHub Actions
9 41 (27.70%) Amazon EC2
10 38 (25.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 38 (25.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 37 (25.00%) Azure
12 26 (17.57%) GCP
13 23 (15.54%) Azure AKS
14 22 (14.86%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (14.86%) Kong
15 20 (13.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 16 (10.81%) Amazon MSK
17 13 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
18 11 (7.43%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.46%) DNS
1 14 (9.46%) Firewall
2 6 (4.05%) HTTP
3 5 (3.38%) Network Security
4 4 (2.70%) VPN
5 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.35%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.68%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.46%) MongoDB
4 12 (8.11%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.73%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.38%) DocumentDB
7 5 (3.38%) Flink
7 5 (3.38%) MySQL
7 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.03%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.03%) Redis
9 2 (1.35%) Big Data
9 2 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.35%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (29.73%) Jenkins
2 35 (23.65%) GitLab
3 18 (12.16%) Git
4 16 (10.81%) Bitbucket
5 11 (7.43%) JIRA
6 6 (4.05%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.70%) JUnit
8 3 (2.03%) Mockito
8 3 (2.03%) ScalaTest
9 2 (1.35%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.35%) Maven
9 2 (1.35%) Selenium
9 2 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.35%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.68%) MLflow
10 1 (0.68%) Postman
10 1 (0.68%) Snyk
General
1 33 (22.30%) Public Sector
2 32 (21.62%) Finance
3 29 (19.59%) Social Skills
4 15 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (9.46%) Banking
6 6 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.35%) iGaming
9 1 (0.68%) Billing
9 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.68%) International Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.68%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 26 (17.57%) Developer
2 25 (16.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (14.19%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (12.84%) Lead
4 19 (12.84%) Scrum Master
5 16 (10.81%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (10.14%) Architect
6 15 (10.14%) Senior
7 13 (8.78%) Software Developer
8 12 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (7.43%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) AWS Architect
11 8 (5.41%) Java Developer
12 7 (4.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.73%) Security Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Technical Leader
13 6 (4.05%) Java Scrum Master
13 6 (4.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (59.46%) Terraform
2 36 (24.32%) RESTful
3 34 (22.97%) Kafka
4 25 (16.89%) Spring Boot
5 24 (16.22%) Spring
6 18 (12.16%) REST
7 15 (10.14%) React
8 13 (8.78%) AWS CDK
8 13 (8.78%) OAuth
9 11 (7.43%) AngularJS
9 11 (7.43%) OAuth2
10 10 (6.76%) OpenID
11 9 (6.08%) Node.js
12 8 (5.41%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (5.41%) Play Framework
13 7 (4.73%) .NET
13 7 (4.73%) gRPC
13 7 (4.73%) OpenAPI
13 7 (4.73%) SAML
13 7 (4.73%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 65 (43.92%) Cloud Native
2 28 (18.92%) Product Ownership
3 24 (16.22%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.08%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (5.41%) Blog
6 7 (4.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.73%) Security Posture
7 6 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (4.05%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.38%) Algorithms
8 5 (3.38%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.70%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.35%) Replication
11 2 (1.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.16%) Linux
2 7 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (4.73%) Windows
3 2 (1.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) Android
4 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (85.14%) CI/CD
2 94 (63.51%) DevOps
3 82 (55.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (45.27%) Agile
5 64 (43.24%) Containerisation
6 60 (40.54%) Observability
7 51 (34.46%) Microservices
8 45 (30.41%) Test Automation
9 41 (27.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (27.70%) Scrum
10 35 (23.65%) Platform Engineering
11 34 (22.97%) DevSecOps
12 27 (18.24%) Deployment Automation
13 25 (16.89%) Clean Code
13 25 (16.89%) Root Cause Analysis
13 25 (16.89%) Software Engineering
14 24 (16.22%) Code Quality
15 23 (15.54%) Event-Driven
16 22 (14.86%) Configuration Management
17 21 (14.19%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 43 (29.05%) Java
2 35 (23.65%) Python
3 25 (16.89%) Bash
4 20 (13.51%) TypeScript
5 19 (12.84%) Go
6 17 (11.49%) PowerShell
7 11 (7.43%) Scala
7 11 (7.43%) SQL
8 10 (6.76%) Bicep
8 10 (6.76%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.73%) C#
9 7 (4.73%) Lua
10 3 (2.03%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.68%) Groovy
11 1 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 50 (33.78%) Security Cleared
2 46 (31.08%) SC Cleared
3 37 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 11 (7.43%) Azure Certification
5 9 (6.08%) Degree
6 8 (5.41%) SAFe Agilist
7 7 (4.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (4.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.73%) CISSP
8 6 (4.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.68%) CCSK
12 1 (0.68%) CCSP
12 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.68%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.51%) QA
2 11 (7.43%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.70%) NCSC
3 4 (2.70%) WCAG
4 3 (2.03%) NIST
5 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.35%) SLA
6 1 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 84 (56.76%) Docker
2 5 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.68%) KVM
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (71.62%) Kubernetes
2 40 (27.03%) Grafana
3 26 (17.57%) Prometheus
4 17 (11.49%) Ansible
5 15 (10.14%) Argo
6 11 (7.43%) Progress Chef
7 7 (4.73%) Istio
8 4 (2.70%) linkerd
8 4 (2.70%) Puppet
9 3 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.35%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.35%) Rancher
11 1 (0.68%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.68%) Packer
11 1 (0.68%) Podman
Vendors
1 24 (16.22%) Splunk
2 23 (15.54%) Dynatrace
3 14 (9.46%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.41%) Google
5 7 (4.73%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.05%) ForgeRock
6 6 (4.05%) MuleSoft
7 5 (3.38%) Confluent
8 4 (2.70%) Oracle
9 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.03%) SAP
9 3 (2.03%) VMware
9 3 (2.03%) webMethods
10 2 (1.35%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.35%) Databricks
10 2 (1.35%) IBM
10 2 (1.35%) Okta
10 2 (1.35%) Tenable
11 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.68%) Tanium