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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 287 346
Rank change year-on-year -42 +59 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 112 56 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.43% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 1.34% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 41 39
10th Percentile £374 £425 £442
25th Percentile £410 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £558 £525 £675
90th Percentile £650 £600 £694
UK median daily rate £528 £593 £550
% change year-on-year -10.97% +7.73% -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 7,407 4,176 5,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.59% 32.17% 25.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,894 2,915 3,770
10th Percentile £300 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £378 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £573 £588
90th Percentile £674 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £509 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.30% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 163 262
10th Percentile £14.70 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.30 £15.22
Median hourly rate £37.12 £21.28 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +74.44% +19.55% -34.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £34.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.13 £69.88
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +28.41% +30.48% -41.21%

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 31 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 31 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 -72 36 £500 - 10
North West -44 23 £632 +26.45% 6
Scotland +6 19 £525 +5.00%
South East -49 19 £531 +6.25% 8
Midlands -42 18 £488 - 5
West Midlands -47 16 £482 +1.53% 5
South West -19 14 £394 -38.83% 7
North East - 7 £425 - 1
Yorkshire -59 6 £500 +7.30% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £446 - 3
East Midlands -23 2 £500 -
Wales - 2 £513 - 1
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 15 (13.39%) 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
1 111 (99.11%) AWS
2 53 (47.32%) Serverless
3 45 (40.18%) Amazon ECS
4 44 (39.29%) AWS Lambda
5 42 (37.50%) Amazon S3
6 36 (32.14%) GitHub
7 35 (31.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 33 (29.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 33 (29.46%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (26.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (19.64%) Azure
12 21 (18.75%) Azure AKS
13 16 (14.29%) GCP
14 13 (11.61%) AWS CodePipeline
15 12 (10.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 10 (8.93%) Amazon SQS
17 8 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
18 7 (6.25%) Datadog
18 7 (6.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.36%) Firewall
2 5 (4.46%) VPN
3 4 (3.57%) HTTP
4 2 (1.79%) DNS
5 1 (0.89%) BGP
5 1 (0.89%) Calico
5 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.96%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (15.18%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 13 (11.61%) NoSQL
5 10 (8.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (8.04%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.36%) Flink
8 5 (4.46%) Redis
9 3 (2.68%) DocumentDB
9 3 (2.68%) OLTP
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.79%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.89%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.89%) Big Data
11 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.89%) Impala
Development Applications
1 43 (38.39%) Jenkins
2 39 (34.82%) GitLab
3 17 (15.18%) JIRA
4 14 (12.50%) Git
5 13 (11.61%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.57%) MLflow
7 3 (2.68%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.79%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.79%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.89%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.89%) GoCD
9 1 (0.89%) Gradle
9 1 (0.89%) Postman
9 1 (0.89%) Selenium
9 1 (0.89%) Snyk
9 1 (0.89%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.89%) webpack
General
1 26 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.54%) Public Sector
3 15 (13.39%) 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 41 (36.61%) 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 13 (11.61%) Architect
7 11 (9.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (8.93%) Scrum Master
9 9 (8.04%) AWS Architect
9 9 (8.04%) Java Developer
10 8 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (7.14%) Senior
11 7 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (5.36%) Python Engineer
13 5 (4.46%) Backend Developer
13 5 (4.46%) Principal Engineer
13 5 (4.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 4 (3.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.75%) Kafka
2 14 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 13 (11.61%) Spring
3 13 (11.61%) Spring Boot
4 9 (8.04%) OAuth
4 9 (8.04%) RESTful
5 8 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (7.14%) Node.js
6 7 (6.25%) .NET
6 7 (6.25%) REST
7 6 (5.36%) JWT
8 5 (4.46%) GraphQL
8 5 (4.46%) Java Concurrency
8 5 (4.46%) Keycloak
9 4 (3.57%) boto
9 4 (3.57%) NumPy
9 4 (3.57%) OAuth2
9 4 (3.57%) Pandas
9 4 (3.57%) React
9 4 (3.57%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 31 (27.68%) Cloud Native
2 18 (16.07%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (12.50%) 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%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.57%) Replication
6 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.68%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.68%) NHS
7 2 (1.79%) AI Agents
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%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.43%) 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 93 (83.04%) CI/CD
2 74 (66.07%) DevOps
3 67 (59.82%) Containerisation
4 64 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (34.82%) Agile
6 35 (31.25%) Microservices
7 34 (30.36%) Platform Engineering
8 33 (29.46%) Observability
9 27 (24.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (16.96%) Test Automation
11 18 (16.07%) Event-Driven
11 18 (16.07%) Scrum
12 17 (15.18%) DevSecOps
13 15 (13.39%) Cost Optimisation
13 15 (13.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 14 (12.50%) High Availability
14 14 (12.50%) ITIL
14 14 (12.50%) Roadmaps
14 14 (12.50%) Secrets Management
14 14 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (41.96%) Python
2 23 (20.54%) Java
3 20 (17.86%) Bash
4 14 (12.50%) SQL
5 12 (10.71%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.25%) Bicep
7 6 (5.36%) C#
7 6 (5.36%) Go
7 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.36%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.68%) Groovy
9 3 (2.68%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.68%) ProC
9 3 (2.68%) Scala
10 2 (1.79%) Ruby
11 1 (0.89%) Perl
11 1 (0.89%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 30 (26.79%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.61%) AWS Certification
4 10 (8.93%) SAFe Agilist
5 8 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (5.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.79%) CCNP
10 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.79%) Degree
10 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.79%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.89%) CCIE
11 1 (0.89%) CCSK
11 1 (0.89%) CCSP
11 1 (0.89%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.68%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.79%) NCSC
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%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (55.36%) Docker
2 4 (3.57%) 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 73 (65.18%) Terraform
3 34 (30.36%) Prometheus
4 29 (25.89%) Grafana
5 20 (17.86%) Ansible
6 15 (13.39%) Argo
7 12 (10.71%) Istio
8 7 (6.25%) linkerd
8 7 (6.25%) Puppet
9 5 (4.46%) Rancher
10 2 (1.79%) Packer
10 2 (1.79%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.89%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.89%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.89%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (9.82%) Dynatrace
2 10 (8.93%) Splunk
3 9 (8.04%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.14%) Databricks
5 4 (3.57%) Oracle
5 4 (3.57%) VMware
6 3 (2.68%) Google
6 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.89%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.89%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.89%) New Relic
8 1 (0.89%) Okta
8 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.89%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.89%) Tanium
8 1 (0.89%) Tenable
8 1 (0.89%) Trend Micro