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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 276 344
Rank change year-on-year -61 +68 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 114 63 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.47% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 1.45% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 46 42
10th Percentile £370 £408 £444
25th Percentile £402 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £611
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -18.20% -4.49%
75th Percentile £557 £525 £675
90th Percentile £650 £600 £694
UK median daily rate £543 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.65% +4.55% -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 7,549 4,332 5,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.53% 32.43% 25.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,971 2,986 3,798
10th Percentile £300 £250 £220
25th Percentile £400 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £511 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.59% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 172 273
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +94.60% -3.41% -25.42%
75th Percentile £68.75 £34.62 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.81 £67.94 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.25 £21.64
% change year-on-year +30.97% +30.55% -38.17%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -67 35 £474 -5.30% 7
North West -43 21 £632 +26.45% 4
Scotland -8 19 £525 +5.00% 1
South East -56 19 £533 +6.50% 9
Midlands -45 17 £488 -2.50% 2
South West -11 15 £394 -38.83% 10
West Midlands -44 14 £477 -6.93% 2
North East - 8 £425 -
Yorkshire -57 6 £500 +8.11% 3
Northern Ireland - 6 £446 - 3
East Midlands -21 3 £500 -
Wales - 2 £513 -
East of England - 2 - -
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 (14.04%) Confluence
2 6 (5.26%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.51%) Apache
3 4 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.75%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (1.75%) nginx
4 2 (1.75%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.75%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 113 (99.12%) AWS
2 54 (47.37%) Serverless
3 47 (41.23%) Amazon ECS
4 45 (39.47%) AWS Lambda
5 42 (36.84%) Amazon S3
6 38 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 36 (31.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 35 (30.70%) GitHub
9 32 (28.07%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (23.68%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (19.30%) Azure
12 22 (19.30%) Azure AKS
13 16 (14.04%) GCP
14 14 (12.28%) AWS CodePipeline
15 13 (11.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 11 (9.65%) Amazon SQS
17 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (6.14%) Route 53
18 6 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) Firewall
2 4 (3.51%) HTTP
2 4 (3.51%) VPN
3 3 (2.63%) DNS
4 1 (0.88%) BGP
4 1 (0.88%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.91%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (12.28%) DynamoDB
4 13 (11.40%) NoSQL
5 10 (8.77%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (7.89%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.26%) Flink
8 5 (4.39%) Redis
9 4 (3.51%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.75%) OLTP
10 2 (1.75%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (37.72%) Jenkins
2 38 (33.33%) GitLab
3 17 (14.91%) JIRA
4 13 (11.40%) Bitbucket
5 12 (10.53%) Git
6 4 (3.51%) MLflow
7 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.75%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.75%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
General
1 27 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.18%) Public Sector
3 15 (13.16%) Finance
4 5 (4.39%) Banking
4 5 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Local Government
7 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Military
7 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (35.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (20.18%) AWS Engineer
3 22 (19.30%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (14.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 17 (14.91%) Developer
5 14 (12.28%) Architect
6 11 (9.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (9.65%) Scrum Master
7 10 (8.77%) AWS Architect
8 9 (7.89%) Java Developer
9 8 (7.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.02%) Senior
10 7 (6.14%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (6.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.26%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.39%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.39%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (4.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (4.39%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.93%) Kafka
2 15 (13.16%) AWS CDK
3 13 (11.40%) Spring
3 13 (11.40%) Spring Boot
4 10 (8.77%) OAuth
5 9 (7.89%) Node.js
5 9 (7.89%) RESTful
6 7 (6.14%) .NET
6 7 (6.14%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (6.14%) REST
7 6 (5.26%) JWT
8 5 (4.39%) GraphQL
8 5 (4.39%) Java Concurrency
8 5 (4.39%) Keycloak
8 5 (4.39%) OAuth2
9 4 (3.51%) boto
9 4 (3.51%) OpenCV
9 4 (3.51%) Pandas
9 4 (3.51%) React
9 4 (3.51%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (30.70%) Cloud Native
2 19 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (14.04%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.51%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.51%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.51%) Replication
6 3 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.63%) NHS
7 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.75%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.75%) Wiki
8 1 (0.88%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.30%) Linux
2 4 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.75%) Windows
4 1 (0.88%) Android
4 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (82.46%) CI/CD
2 75 (65.79%) DevOps
3 68 (59.65%) Containerisation
4 66 (57.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (35.09%) Agile
6 36 (31.58%) Microservices
7 35 (30.70%) Platform Engineering
8 34 (29.82%) Observability
9 28 (24.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (17.54%) Test Automation
11 19 (16.67%) Event-Driven
11 19 (16.67%) Scrum
12 17 (14.91%) DevSecOps
13 16 (14.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 15 (13.16%) High Availability
14 15 (13.16%) Infrastructure Automation
14 15 (13.16%) ITIL
15 14 (12.28%) GitOps
15 14 (12.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 47 (41.23%) Python
2 24 (21.05%) Java
3 21 (18.42%) Bash
4 13 (11.40%) PowerShell
4 13 (11.40%) SQL
5 9 (7.89%) Go
6 7 (6.14%) Bicep
6 7 (6.14%) C#
6 7 (6.14%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.14%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.63%) Groovy
7 3 (2.63%) Scala
7 3 (2.63%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.75%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.75%) ProC
8 2 (1.75%) Ruby
9 1 (0.88%) Perl
9 1 (0.88%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (30.70%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.19%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.28%) AWS Certification
4 11 (9.65%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (7.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (6.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.75%) CCNP
10 2 (1.75%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.88%) CCIE
11 1 (0.88%) CCSK
11 1 (0.88%) CCSP
11 1 (0.88%) CISM
11 1 (0.88%) CISSP
11 1 (0.88%) Degree
11 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.26%) QA
2 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.63%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.75%) NCSC
4 1 (0.88%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.88%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.88%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (54.39%) Docker
2 4 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.88%) KVM
3 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (72.81%) Kubernetes
2 74 (64.91%) Terraform
3 34 (29.82%) Prometheus
4 29 (25.44%) Grafana
5 18 (15.79%) Ansible
6 15 (13.16%) Argo
7 13 (11.40%) Istio
8 8 (7.02%) linkerd
9 5 (4.39%) Puppet
9 5 (4.39%) Rancher
10 2 (1.75%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.75%) Packer
11 1 (0.88%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (10.53%) Dynatrace
2 10 (8.77%) Splunk
3 9 (7.89%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.02%) Databricks
5 4 (3.51%) VMware
6 3 (2.63%) Google
6 3 (2.63%) Oracle
6 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.75%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.88%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.88%) Confluent
8 1 (0.88%) New Relic
8 1 (0.88%) Okta
8 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.88%) Tanium
8 1 (0.88%) Tenable
8 1 (0.88%) Trend Micro