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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 295 330
Rank change year-on-year -43 +35 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 130 78 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.51% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.64% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 56 23
10th Percentile £400 £411 £430
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -
75th Percentile £600 £601 £675
90th Percentile £651 £650 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%

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 8,123 4,759 4,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.73% 31.00% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,212 3,186 3,366
10th Percentile £281 £254 £240
25th Percentile £403 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £573 £600
90th Percentile £675 £645 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 190 193
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £16.31 £16.06
Median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%
75th Percentile £70.00 £36.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.67% +11.23% -29.03%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -59 35 £500 +5.26% 25
Midlands -24 31 £488 -11.36% 6
West Midlands -30 27 £477 -13.27% 3
North West -34 22 £650 +30.00% 10
Scotland -7 20 £525 +5.00% 17
South East -68 20 £538 -12.24% 13
South West -34 12 £513 -18.00% 12
North East -32 11 £425 - 7
Northern Ireland - 6 £446 - 2
East of England -15 4 £345 -56.19% 8
East Midlands - 4 £500 - 3
Wales - 3 £600 - 1
Yorkshire -57 2 £500 +7.70% 8
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 17 (13.08%) Confluence
2 5 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.08%) Apache
3 4 (3.08%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.54%) nginx
5 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.77%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 129 (99.23%) AWS
2 68 (52.31%) Serverless
3 61 (46.92%) Amazon ECS
3 61 (46.92%) AWS Lambda
4 53 (40.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 53 (40.77%) Amazon S3
5 47 (36.15%) GitHub
6 43 (33.08%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (28.46%) Azure
8 36 (27.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 35 (26.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 34 (26.15%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (19.23%) Azure AKS
11 25 (19.23%) GCP
12 18 (13.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 17 (13.08%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (9.23%) AWS CodePipeline
16 11 (8.46%) Kong
17 8 (6.15%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.23%) Firewall
2 10 (7.69%) DNS
3 6 (4.62%) HTTP
4 5 (3.85%) VPN
5 2 (1.54%) Network Security
6 1 (0.77%) BGP
6 1 (0.77%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.46%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.54%) DynamoDB
3 14 (10.77%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (9.23%) NoSQL
5 10 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.62%) Redis
7 5 (3.85%) Flink
8 4 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.08%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.31%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.31%) DocumentDB
9 3 (2.31%) MySQL
10 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.54%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.77%) Big Data
11 1 (0.77%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 51 (39.23%) Jenkins
2 39 (30.00%) GitLab
3 19 (14.62%) Bitbucket
4 18 (13.85%) Git
5 15 (11.54%) JIRA
6 4 (3.08%) JUnit
6 4 (3.08%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.31%) Mockito
8 2 (1.54%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.54%) MLflow
8 2 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.54%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.54%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.77%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.77%) Gradle
9 1 (0.77%) Postman
9 1 (0.77%) Snyk
9 1 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 29 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.54%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.69%) Finance
4 6 (4.62%) Banking
4 6 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.77%) International Banking
7 1 (0.77%) Local Government
7 1 (0.77%) Military
7 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (24.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (16.92%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (14.62%) Developer
3 19 (14.62%) Scrum Master
4 17 (13.08%) AWS DevOps
5 14 (10.77%) Architect
6 12 (9.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) Lead
8 10 (7.69%) Senior
9 9 (6.92%) AWS Architect
9 9 (6.92%) Java Developer
10 8 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (5.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) Software Developer
12 6 (4.62%) Technical Architect
13 5 (3.85%) Java Engineer
13 5 (3.85%) Lead DevOps
13 5 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (26.92%) Kafka
2 26 (20.00%) Spring
2 26 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 22 (16.92%) RESTful
4 14 (10.77%) AWS CDK
5 13 (10.00%) OAuth
5 13 (10.00%) REST
6 12 (9.23%) React
7 10 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (7.69%) OAuth2
8 9 (6.92%) Node.js
9 8 (6.15%) .NET
9 8 (6.15%) OpenID
10 7 (5.38%) SAML
11 6 (4.62%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.62%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.62%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (3.85%) gRPC
12 5 (3.85%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 49 (37.69%) Cloud Native
2 26 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (19.23%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.38%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.62%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.08%) Replication
7 4 (3.08%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.31%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.54%) NHS
9 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.54%) Wiki
10 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.77%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.15%) Linux
2 5 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.08%) Windows
4 2 (1.54%) Unix
5 1 (0.77%) Android
5 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 86 (66.15%) DevOps
3 77 (59.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 58 (44.62%) Agile
6 47 (36.15%) Microservices
7 46 (35.38%) Observability
8 42 (32.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (29.23%) Platform Engineering
9 38 (29.23%) Test Automation
10 33 (25.38%) DevSecOps
11 31 (23.85%) Scrum
12 25 (19.23%) Code Quality
13 22 (16.92%) Event-Driven
14 21 (16.15%) Secrets Management
14 21 (16.15%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (15.38%) Backlog Refinement
15 20 (15.38%) Configuration Management
15 20 (15.38%) GitOps
16 19 (14.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (32.31%) Java
2 39 (30.00%) Python
3 27 (20.77%) Bash
4 19 (14.62%) PowerShell
5 16 (12.31%) TypeScript
6 13 (10.00%) SQL
7 11 (8.46%) Go
8 10 (7.69%) Bicep
9 9 (6.92%) JavaScript
10 8 (6.15%) C#
11 3 (2.31%) Groovy
11 3 (2.31%) Scala
12 1 (0.77%) Rust
12 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 45 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 27 (20.77%) AWS Certification
4 12 (9.23%) Azure Certification
5 11 (8.46%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (6.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (6.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.62%) Degree
9 5 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (3.08%) CISSP
10 4 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.54%) CCNP
13 1 (0.77%) CCIE
13 1 (0.77%) CCSP
13 1 (0.77%) CISM
13 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.77%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.23%) QA
2 4 (3.08%) NCSC
3 3 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.54%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.77%) NIST
5 1 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 85 (65.38%) Docker
2 4 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.31%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.77%) KVM
4 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (67.69%) Kubernetes
2 79 (60.77%) Terraform
3 33 (25.38%) Grafana
4 31 (23.85%) Prometheus
5 20 (15.38%) Argo
6 19 (14.62%) Ansible
7 12 (9.23%) Istio
8 7 (5.38%) linkerd
8 7 (5.38%) Progress Chef
9 5 (3.85%) Rancher
10 4 (3.08%) Puppet
11 2 (1.54%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.54%) Packer
11 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.77%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.77%) Podman
Vendors
1 21 (16.15%) Dynatrace
2 18 (13.85%) Splunk
3 17 (13.08%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.38%) Databricks
4 7 (5.38%) Google
5 6 (4.62%) ForgeRock
6 4 (3.08%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.08%) VMware
7 3 (2.31%) Confluent
7 3 (2.31%) Oracle
7 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.54%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.54%) IBM
8 2 (1.54%) Okta
8 2 (1.54%) SAP
9 1 (0.77%) Informatica
9 1 (0.77%) New Relic
9 1 (0.77%) Talend
9 1 (0.77%) Trend Micro