Amazon EKS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 345 375
Rank change year-on-year +63 +30 -5
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 71 50 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 0.91% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 38 56
10th Percentile £408 £441 £481
25th Percentile £463 £453 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £610
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -5.74% +1.67%
75th Percentile £547 £671 £689
90th Percentile £621 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +1.21%

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 4,575 5,495 7,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.77% 26.08% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,094 3,797 5,508
10th Percentile £250 £225 £240
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £666 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 274 235
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.85 £16.84
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% -20.81% +37.68%
75th Percentile £33.88 £43.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £60.63 £70.00 £75.80
UK median hourly rate £27.63 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.59% -37.14% +59.09%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

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 July 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 5 July 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 +32 36 £475 -5.00% 61
North West +15 18 £500 -9.09% 40
South East +35 17 £500 -23.08% 52
Yorkshire +19 17 £463 -5.13% 17
Scotland -1 13 £525 -10.45% 22
Midlands +11 6 £500 -0.99% 34
West Midlands +9 5 £513 +1.49% 21
South West +36 2 £644 +28.75% 28
East Midlands +4 1 £500 - 13
North East - 1 £425 - 4
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (8.45%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) Camunda
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.41%) nginx
3 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 60 (84.51%) AWS
2 24 (33.80%) Azure
3 21 (29.58%) Serverless
4 18 (25.35%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (23.94%) GitHub
6 15 (21.13%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (21.13%) Amazon S3
6 15 (21.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (19.72%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (18.31%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (16.90%) GCP
9 12 (16.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 12 (16.90%) SaaS
10 11 (15.49%) Azure AKS
11 10 (14.08%) Entra ID
11 10 (14.08%) OpenShift
12 8 (11.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (11.27%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (8.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) DNS
2 3 (4.23%) Firewall
2 3 (4.23%) SSL
2 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.23%) VPN
3 2 (2.82%) Network Security
4 1 (1.41%) DHCP
4 1 (1.41%) FTP
4 1 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) DynamoDB
2 6 (8.45%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (8.45%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.63%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.82%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.82%) DocumentDB
5 2 (2.82%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.41%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (35.21%) Jenkins
2 13 (18.31%) Git
3 9 (12.68%) GitLab
4 8 (11.27%) JIRA
5 4 (5.63%) Terragrunt
6 3 (4.23%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.23%) Mockito
7 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.82%) JMeter
7 2 (2.82%) JUnit
7 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.41%) Selenium
8 1 (1.41%) Snyk
8 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.41%) Toad
8 1 (1.41%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.90%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.45%) Finance
4 5 (7.04%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (19.72%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (15.49%) Senior
4 10 (14.08%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Data Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Architect
6 7 (9.86%) Business Analyst
7 6 (8.45%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (8.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Developer
8 5 (7.04%) Lead
9 4 (5.63%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Python Data Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Python Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Security Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.90%) SAML
2 11 (15.49%) OAuth
2 11 (15.49%) OpenID
3 10 (14.08%) JSON
3 10 (14.08%) React
4 9 (12.68%) Middleware
4 9 (12.68%) OAuth2
5 8 (11.27%) Spring
5 8 (11.27%) Spring Boot
6 6 (8.45%) Kafka
6 6 (8.45%) Node.js
7 5 (7.04%) .NET
7 5 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (7.04%) REST
8 4 (5.63%) Apache Camel
9 3 (4.23%) .NET Framework
9 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (4.23%) AWS CDK
9 3 (4.23%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.31%) Cloud Native
2 10 (14.08%) Private Cloud
3 7 (9.86%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (8.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.41%) PKI
7 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Linux
2 4 (5.63%) Windows
2 4 (5.63%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (67.61%) CI/CD
2 37 (52.11%) DevOps
2 37 (52.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (43.66%) Containerisation
4 25 (35.21%) Agile
5 17 (23.94%) Migration
6 16 (22.54%) Configuration Management
7 15 (21.13%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (21.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (19.72%) RBAC
9 11 (15.49%) Microservices
10 10 (14.08%) Mentoring
11 9 (12.68%) GAP Analysis
12 8 (11.27%) Secrets Management
12 8 (11.27%) Software Engineering
12 8 (11.27%) TDD
12 8 (11.27%) Workshop Facilitation
13 7 (9.86%) Cost Optimisation
13 7 (9.86%) Data Pipeline
13 7 (9.86%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (49.30%) Python
2 25 (35.21%) Java
3 18 (25.35%) SQL
4 17 (23.94%) JavaScript
5 13 (18.31%) PowerShell
6 12 (16.90%) C#
7 8 (11.27%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.63%) Bash
9 2 (2.82%) Groovy
9 2 (2.82%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.41%) Go
10 1 (1.41%) Perl
10 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.27%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.41%) Degree
7 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) GDPR
1 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.23%) NIST
2 2 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (2.82%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.41%) NCSC
3 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (39.44%) Docker
2 11 (15.49%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (77.46%) Kubernetes
2 35 (49.30%) Terraform
3 20 (28.17%) Ansible
4 12 (16.90%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (8.45%) Grafana
5 6 (8.45%) Prometheus
6 5 (7.04%) Argo
6 5 (7.04%) Istio
7 3 (4.23%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.82%) Kibana
8 2 (2.82%) Puppet
9 1 (1.41%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.41%) linkerd
9 1 (1.41%) Packer
9 1 (1.41%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Red Hat
2 10 (14.08%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.86%) Alibaba
4 4 (5.63%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.63%) Splunk
5 2 (2.82%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.82%) Google
5 2 (2.82%) Veeam
5 2 (2.82%) VMware
6 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.41%) IBM
6 1 (1.41%) Informatica
6 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.41%) New Relic
6 1 (1.41%) Okta
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle
6 1 (1.41%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.41%) Talend