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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 287 346
Rank change year-on-year -36 +59 +41
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 115 44 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.35% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 1.05% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 39 44
10th Percentile £350 £370 £403
25th Percentile £400 £409 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% -9.09% -11.11%
75th Percentile £611 £525 £640
90th Percentile £652 £600 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £544
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -11.48%
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 6,999 4,185 5,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.45% 32.99% 26.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,807 2,994 3,953
10th Percentile £263 £238 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% -2.76% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £663 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 148 252
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £23.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +97.65% +29.83% -21.27%
75th Percentile £67.84 £34.47 £26.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.25 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year +47.47% +29.17% -26.32%

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 7 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 7 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 -51 44 £550 +10.00% 18
North West -25 29 £615 +22.90% 10
Scotland +18 24 £400 -2.20%
South East -43 17 £530 +6.00% 16
Midlands -57 15 £483 +1.63% 1
West Midlands -48 14 £503 +21.94% 1
South West -20 11 £388 -38.00% 7
Yorkshire -48 8 £500 +25.00% 4
North East -10 7 £425 -30.61% 4
East of England - 3 - -
East Midlands -32 1 £322 -35.60%
Wales - 1 £475 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
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 9 (7.83%) Confluence
2 8 (6.96%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.22%) Apache
3 6 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.61%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.74%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.74%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.87%) nginx
6 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 111 (96.52%) AWS
2 53 (46.09%) Serverless
3 49 (42.61%) Amazon ECS
4 45 (39.13%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (29.57%) Amazon S3
6 32 (27.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (26.09%) GitHub
8 29 (25.22%) Amazon EC2
9 28 (24.35%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 22 (19.13%) Azure
12 21 (18.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (15.65%) Azure AKS
14 10 (8.70%) GCP
15 9 (7.83%) Amazon MSK
15 9 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (7.83%) Datadog
16 8 (6.96%) AWS CodePipeline
17 7 (6.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 6 (5.22%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.30%) Firewall
2 5 (4.35%) VPN
3 4 (3.48%) HTTP
4 2 (1.74%) DNS
5 1 (0.87%) BGP
5 1 (0.87%) Internet
5 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.87%) SSL
5 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (13.91%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (13.04%) DynamoDB
3 15 (13.04%) NoSQL
4 10 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 9 (7.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.22%) DocumentDB
6 6 (5.22%) Flink
6 6 (5.22%) Redis
7 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.61%) OLTP
8 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.74%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.87%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.87%) Impala
9 1 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 42 (36.52%) Jenkins
2 39 (33.91%) GitLab
3 27 (23.48%) Git
4 19 (16.52%) JIRA
5 12 (10.43%) Bitbucket
6 9 (7.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.61%) MLflow
8 2 (1.74%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.87%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.87%) GoCD
9 1 (0.87%) Gradle
9 1 (0.87%) Maven
9 1 (0.87%) Postman
9 1 (0.87%) Selenium
9 1 (0.87%) Snyk
9 1 (0.87%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 27 (23.48%) Public Sector
2 21 (18.26%) Finance
3 20 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.70%) Banking
5 6 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Aeronautics
7 2 (1.74%) Local Government
7 2 (1.74%) Military
8 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (41.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (13.04%) Senior
4 14 (12.17%) Developer
5 13 (11.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.83%) Java Developer
8 8 (6.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Architect
10 5 (4.35%) AWS Architect
10 5 (4.35%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Lead
10 5 (4.35%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.13%) Kafka
2 17 (14.78%) Node.js
3 15 (13.04%) Spring
3 15 (13.04%) Spring Boot
4 12 (10.43%) REST
5 10 (8.70%) RESTful
6 8 (6.96%) .NET
6 8 (6.96%) AWS CDK
6 8 (6.96%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.09%) OAuth
8 6 (5.22%) Web Services
9 5 (4.35%) Java Concurrency
9 5 (4.35%) Keycloak
10 4 (3.48%) FastAPI
10 4 (3.48%) JWT
10 4 (3.48%) Pandas
10 4 (3.48%) React
11 3 (2.61%) boto
11 3 (2.61%) OAuth2
11 3 (2.61%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.61%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.43%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.48%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.61%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.61%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.61%) NHS
7 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.74%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.74%) Replication
7 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.87%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.22%) Linux
2 4 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.48%) Windows
3 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (72.17%) CI/CD
2 80 (69.57%) DevOps
3 58 (50.43%) Containerisation
4 55 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (33.04%) Microservices
6 35 (30.43%) Agile
7 32 (27.83%) Observability
8 26 (22.61%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (13.91%) Event-Driven
11 14 (12.17%) GitOps
12 13 (11.30%) AI
12 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure Automation
12 13 (11.30%) Mentoring
13 12 (10.43%) Code Quality
13 12 (10.43%) DevSecOps
13 12 (10.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (9.57%) Cost Optimisation
14 11 (9.57%) Secrets Management
14 11 (9.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 59 (51.30%) Python
2 27 (23.48%) Java
3 18 (15.65%) PowerShell
4 17 (14.78%) Bash
4 17 (14.78%) SQL
5 9 (7.83%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.83%) Ruby
6 7 (6.09%) Perl
7 6 (5.22%) Bicep
8 5 (4.35%) Go
9 4 (3.48%) C#
9 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.61%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.61%) ProC
10 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.74%) AWK
11 2 (1.74%) Groovy
12 1 (0.87%) C
12 1 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 37 (32.17%) Security Cleared
2 29 (25.22%) SC Cleared
3 19 (16.52%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.09%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.61%) Degree
8 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.61%) SAFe Agilist
9 2 (1.74%) CCNP
9 2 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.87%) CCIE
10 1 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.61%) PCI DSS
1 3 (2.61%) QA
2 2 (1.74%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.87%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.87%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (53.91%) Docker
2 4 (3.48%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.87%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 83 (72.17%) Kubernetes
2 70 (60.87%) Terraform
3 30 (26.09%) Prometheus
4 25 (21.74%) Grafana
5 22 (19.13%) Ansible
6 15 (13.04%) Argo
7 9 (7.83%) Istio
8 7 (6.09%) Puppet
9 5 (4.35%) linkerd
9 5 (4.35%) Rancher
10 3 (2.61%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.87%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.87%) Packer
11 1 (0.87%) Podman
11 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.43%) Splunk
3 11 (9.57%) Oracle
4 8 (6.96%) Databricks
5 6 (5.22%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.48%) Google
7 3 (2.61%) Ping Identity
7 3 (2.61%) VMware
8 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.74%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.87%) AVEVA
9 1 (0.87%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.87%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.87%) UiPath