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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 286 326
Rank change year-on-year -39 +40 +46
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 112 55 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.43% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.34% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 41 40
10th Percentile £357 £425 £434
25th Percentile £404 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -14.89% -8.20%
75th Percentile £568 £525 £675
90th Percentile £650 £588 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -12.00%
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 7,299 4,093 5,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.48% 32.05% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,838 2,868 3,762
10th Percentile £300 £237 £213
25th Percentile £400 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £673 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 151 260
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.70 £16.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £20.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +82.93% +15.69% -29.12%
75th Percentile £67.50 £34.50 £32.69
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £66.05
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +28.57% +31.02% -38.94%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 38 £500 - 11
North West -41 23 £632 +26.45% 8
South East -47 20 £531 +6.25% 11
Scotland +8 18 £525 +5.00% 3
Midlands -58 18 £488 - 5
West Midlands -51 16 £475 - 5
South West -18 14 £394 -38.83% 10
North East -20 8 £425 -26.09% 2
Yorkshire -58 7 £500 +7.30% 1
East Midlands -27 2 £500 -
East of England - 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 £446 - 2
Wales - 1 £475 -
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 16 (14.29%) Confluence
2 6 (5.36%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.57%) Apache
3 4 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.68%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.79%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.79%) nginx
5 2 (1.79%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 110 (98.21%) AWS
2 50 (44.64%) Serverless
3 43 (38.39%) Amazon ECS
4 42 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (34.82%) Amazon S3
6 38 (33.93%) GitHub
7 35 (31.25%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 30 (26.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 29 (25.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (23.21%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (20.54%) Azure
13 22 (19.64%) Azure AKS
14 15 (13.39%) AWS CodePipeline
15 14 (12.50%) GCP
16 12 (10.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 9 (8.04%) Amazon SQS
18 8 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
19 7 (6.25%) Datadog
20 5 (4.46%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.36%) Firewall
1 6 (5.36%) VPN
2 5 (4.46%) HTTP
3 3 (2.68%) DNS
4 1 (0.89%) BGP
4 1 (0.89%) Calico
4 1 (0.89%) Internet
4 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.89%) SSL
4 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 14 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.93%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (8.04%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.25%) Redis
6 6 (5.36%) Flink
7 4 (3.57%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.68%) OLTP
9 2 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.79%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.89%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.89%) Big Data
10 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.89%) Impala
10 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (38.39%) Jenkins
2 40 (35.71%) GitLab
3 18 (16.07%) JIRA
4 16 (14.29%) Git
5 12 (10.71%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.57%) MLflow
7 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.79%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.89%) Gradle
8 1 (0.89%) JUnit
8 1 (0.89%) Maven
8 1 (0.89%) Postman
8 1 (0.89%) Selenium
8 1 (0.89%) Snyk
8 1 (0.89%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.89%) webpack
General
1 27 (24.11%) Public Sector
2 22 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.50%) Finance
4 5 (4.46%) Banking
5 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.79%) Local Government
7 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Military
7 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (38.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (20.54%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (18.75%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (15.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 16 (14.29%) Developer
6 11 (9.82%) Architect
7 10 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (8.93%) Scrum Master
8 9 (8.04%) Java Developer
9 8 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.14%) Senior
10 7 (6.25%) AWS Architect
10 7 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Python Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (4.46%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.46%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (3.57%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.54%) Kafka
2 14 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 14 (12.50%) Spring
2 14 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 9 (8.04%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (8.04%) Node.js
3 9 (8.04%) OAuth
3 9 (8.04%) RESTful
4 8 (7.14%) REST
5 7 (6.25%) .NET
6 6 (5.36%) JWT
6 6 (5.36%) Keycloak
7 5 (4.46%) Java Concurrency
8 4 (3.57%) boto
8 4 (3.57%) NumPy
8 4 (3.57%) OAuth2
8 4 (3.57%) OpenCV
8 4 (3.57%) Pandas
8 4 (3.57%) React
8 4 (3.57%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.39%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (11.61%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.57%) NHS
5 4 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.57%) Replication
6 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.68%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.79%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.79%) Wiki
8 1 (0.89%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (0.89%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.21%) Linux
2 4 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.79%) Windows
4 1 (0.89%) Android
4 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (80.36%) CI/CD
2 77 (68.75%) DevOps
3 66 (58.93%) Containerisation
4 63 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (33.93%) Agile
6 35 (31.25%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (30.36%) Observability
8 32 (28.57%) Microservices
9 26 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (16.96%) Event-Driven
10 19 (16.96%) Test Automation
11 17 (15.18%) DevSecOps
11 17 (15.18%) Scrum
12 15 (13.39%) Cost Optimisation
13 14 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 14 (12.50%) GitOps
13 14 (12.50%) ITIL
13 14 (12.50%) Secrets Management
13 14 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (11.61%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 49 (43.75%) Python
2 23 (20.54%) Java
3 19 (16.96%) Bash
4 15 (13.39%) SQL
5 12 (10.71%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.25%) Bicep
8 6 (5.36%) C#
8 6 (5.36%) Go
8 6 (5.36%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.68%) Groovy
10 3 (2.68%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.68%) ProC
10 3 (2.68%) Scala
11 2 (1.79%) Ruby
12 1 (0.89%) Perl
12 1 (0.89%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (34.82%) Security Cleared
2 32 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 10 (8.93%) SAFe Agilist
5 8 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (4.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.79%) CCNP
9 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.79%) Degree
9 2 (1.79%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.89%) CCIE
10 1 (0.89%) CCSK
10 1 (0.89%) CCSP
10 1 (0.89%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.57%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.68%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.89%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.89%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.89%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) NCSC
4 1 (0.89%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (55.36%) Docker
2 5 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.89%) HDFS
3 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.89%) KVM
3 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 75 (66.96%) Terraform
3 36 (32.14%) Prometheus
4 32 (28.57%) Grafana
5 21 (18.75%) Ansible
6 15 (13.39%) Argo
7 11 (9.82%) Istio
8 8 (7.14%) Puppet
9 7 (6.25%) linkerd
10 6 (5.36%) Rancher
11 3 (2.68%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.79%) Packer
13 1 (0.89%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.89%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.89%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (9.82%) Splunk
2 9 (8.04%) Dynatrace
2 9 (8.04%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.14%) Databricks
4 5 (4.46%) VMware
5 4 (3.57%) Oracle
6 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.79%) Google
8 1 (0.89%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.89%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.89%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.89%) Okta
8 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.89%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.89%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.89%) Tanium
8 1 (0.89%) Tenable
8 1 (0.89%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.89%) UiPath