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 citing Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 296 330
Rank change year-on-year -46 +34 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 143 96 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.58% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 1.73% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 69 25
10th Percentile £360 £395 £350
25th Percentile £400 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £615
90th Percentile £675 £640 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £555 £630
% change year-on-year -0.90% -11.90% +9.57%

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 citing cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

6 months to
2 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills 8,240 5,547 4,922
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.26% 33.27% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,245 3,763 3,153
10th Percentile £275 £230 £255
25th Percentile £402 £375 £391
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 £672
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 186 119
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.01 £17.44
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £21.00 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +54.76% -38.11% +50.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.25 £66.74
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +35.15% -28.14% +8.29%

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 2 November 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 2 November 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -48 44 £450 -10.00% 30
Midlands -28 29 £500 -9.09% 6
Scotland -13 28 £400 -20.00% 8
West Midlands -28 26 £500 -9.09% 4
North West -29 20 £600 +9.09% 24
North East -21 19 £425 -26.09% 2
South East -66 18 £588 -3.09% 24
South West -24 11 £425 -30.61% 10
Northern Ireland +5 8 £496 - 1
Yorkshire -48 5 £431 -11.54% 4
East Midlands -13 3 £500 +43.47% 2
East of England -27 3 £345 -56.19% 4
Wales - 3 £600 - 2
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1AWS98.6%141
2Amazon ECS51.7%74
3Serverless47.6%68
4AWS Lambda46.2%66
5Amazon CloudWatch44.1%63
6Amazon S337.1%53
7GitHub29.4%42
8Azure27.3%39
9AWS CloudFormation26.6%38
10Amazon EC225.9%37
10GitHub Actions25.9%37
12Virtual Private Cloud23.8%34
13GCP18.2%26
14Amazon SQS16.1%23
14Azure AKS16.1%23
14Kong16.1%23
17Google Kubernetes Engine14.0%20
18Amazon MSK12.6%18
19AWS KMS10.5%15
20Azure DevOps9.1%13