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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 289 342
Rank change year-on-year -33 +53 +50
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 116 48 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.38% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.16% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 40 40
10th Percentile £350 £383 £412
25th Percentile £400 £409 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £664
90th Percentile £652 £600 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -16.00%
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 6,994 4,135 5,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.92% 32.37% 26.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,784 2,941 3,869
10th Percentile £280 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £666 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 156 254
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.46 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year +106.52% +29.94% -26.25%
75th Percentile £68.75 £34.50 £26.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.13 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.78 £27.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year +47.59% +31.57% -37.31%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -41 47 £550 +10.00% 11
North West -38 31 £615 +22.90% 6
Scotland +9 22 £450 +10.02% 5
South East -45 16 £530 +6.00% 12
Midlands -53 15 £500 +2.56% 1
West Midlands -49 13 £503 +5.89% 1
South West -20 12 £388 -38.00% 7
North East -8 8 £425 -30.61% 4
Yorkshire -58 8 £500 +25.00% 1
East of England - 3 - - 1
East Midlands -33 2 £500 -
Wales - 1 £475 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5
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 10 (8.62%) Confluence
2 8 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.17%) Apache
3 6 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.59%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.72%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.72%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.72%) nginx
5 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 113 (97.41%) AWS
2 53 (45.69%) Serverless
3 47 (40.52%) Amazon ECS
4 44 (37.93%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (30.17%) Amazon S3
6 31 (26.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (26.72%) GitHub
7 29 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (24.14%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (21.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 22 (18.97%) Azure
11 21 (18.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (17.24%) Azure AKS
13 12 (10.34%) GCP
14 9 (7.76%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (7.76%) AWS CodePipeline
14 9 (7.76%) Datadog
14 9 (7.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 7 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (5.17%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.62%) Firewall
2 5 (4.31%) VPN
3 4 (3.45%) HTTP
4 2 (1.72%) DNS
5 1 (0.86%) BGP
5 1 (0.86%) Internet
5 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.86%) SSL
5 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.10%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (14.66%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (13.79%) DynamoDB
3 16 (13.79%) NoSQL
4 11 (9.48%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (8.62%) Relational Database
6 7 (6.03%) Redis
7 6 (5.17%) DocumentDB
7 6 (5.17%) Flink
8 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.59%) OLTP
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.72%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.86%) Big Data
10 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.86%) Impala
10 1 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (34.48%) Jenkins
2 39 (33.62%) GitLab
3 24 (20.69%) Git
4 17 (14.66%) JIRA
5 10 (8.62%) Bitbucket
6 6 (5.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.59%) MLflow
8 2 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.72%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.86%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.86%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.86%) GoCD
9 1 (0.86%) Gradle
9 1 (0.86%) Maven
9 1 (0.86%) Postman
9 1 (0.86%) Selenium
9 1 (0.86%) Snyk
9 1 (0.86%) webpack
General
1 27 (23.28%) Public Sector
2 21 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.38%) Finance
4 7 (6.03%) Banking
5 6 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Aeronautics
7 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Local Government
8 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Military
8 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (39.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (23.28%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (15.52%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (14.66%) Developer
5 15 (12.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 15 (12.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (10.34%) Senior
7 10 (8.62%) Java Developer
8 9 (7.76%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.90%) Architect
9 8 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (6.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.17%) AWS Architect
12 5 (4.31%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.31%) Lead
12 5 (4.31%) Python Engineer
13 4 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (3.45%) Site Engineer
13 4 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.55%) Kafka
2 15 (12.93%) Node.js
2 15 (12.93%) Spring
2 15 (12.93%) Spring Boot
3 11 (9.48%) REST
4 10 (8.62%) .NET
4 10 (8.62%) RESTful
5 9 (7.76%) AWS CDK
5 9 (7.76%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (5.17%) Keycloak
6 6 (5.17%) OAuth
7 5 (4.31%) Java Concurrency
7 5 (4.31%) Web Services
8 4 (3.45%) JWT
8 4 (3.45%) Pandas
8 4 (3.45%) React
9 3 (2.59%) FastAPI
9 3 (2.59%) NestJS
9 3 (2.59%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (2.59%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.07%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.45%) NHS
5 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.45%) Replication
6 3 (2.59%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.59%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.59%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.72%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.72%) Wiki
8 1 (0.86%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (0.86%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.41%) Linux
2 4 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.45%) Windows
3 2 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (74.14%) CI/CD
2 80 (68.97%) DevOps
3 60 (51.72%) Containerisation
4 58 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (32.76%) Agile
5 38 (32.76%) Microservices
6 35 (30.17%) Observability
7 27 (23.28%) Platform Engineering
8 24 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (17.24%) Event-Driven
10 15 (12.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 14 (12.07%) AI
11 14 (12.07%) Code Quality
11 14 (12.07%) GitOps
11 14 (12.07%) Mentoring
12 13 (11.21%) Cost Optimisation
12 13 (11.21%) DevSecOps
12 13 (11.21%) Infrastructure Automation
12 13 (11.21%) Test Automation
13 12 (10.34%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (47.41%) Python
2 24 (20.69%) Java
3 19 (16.38%) Bash
4 17 (14.66%) SQL
5 15 (12.93%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.90%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.03%) Bicep
8 5 (4.31%) C#
8 5 (4.31%) Go
8 5 (4.31%) Ruby
8 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.45%) Perl
10 3 (2.59%) Groovy
10 3 (2.59%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.59%) ProC
10 3 (2.59%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.72%) AWK
12 1 (0.86%) C
12 1 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (31.90%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.86%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.66%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.03%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (4.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (3.45%) SAFe Agilist
9 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.59%) Degree
9 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.72%) CCNP
10 2 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.72%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.86%) CCIE
11 1 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.45%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.59%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.86%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.86%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.86%) NIST
System Software
1 65 (56.03%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 82 (70.69%) Kubernetes
2 74 (63.79%) Terraform
3 32 (27.59%) Prometheus
4 27 (23.28%) Grafana
5 22 (18.97%) Ansible
6 15 (12.93%) Argo
7 9 (7.76%) Istio
8 7 (6.03%) Puppet
9 6 (5.17%) linkerd
9 6 (5.17%) Rancher
10 3 (2.59%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.86%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.86%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.86%) Packer
11 1 (0.86%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.34%) Splunk
3 9 (7.76%) Oracle
4 8 (6.90%) Databricks
4 8 (6.90%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.59%) Google
5 3 (2.59%) Ping Identity
5 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.59%) VMware
6 2 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.72%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.86%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.86%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.86%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.86%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.86%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.86%) UiPath