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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 308 347
Rank change year-on-year -2 +39 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 115 41 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 0.93% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 37 47
10th Percentile £350 £350 £406
25th Percentile £400 £409 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -1.96% -16.73%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £629
90th Percentile £650 £615 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -13.58% +10.45% -11.65%
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 6,502 4,424 5,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.99% 32.86% 28.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,502 2,988 4,221
10th Percentile £250 £237 £215
25th Percentile £375 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £666 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 108 238
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.94 £15.50
Median hourly rate £40.44 £24.42 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.58% +22.10% -3.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £36.17 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.04 £68.75 £68.67
UK median hourly rate £37.25 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.45% +25.00% -12.00%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -38 41 £550 +4.76% 15
North West -10 27 £550 +4.76% 9
Scotland +8 23 £425 +3.79% 2
Midlands -36 18 £535 +25.88% 5
West Midlands -31 16 £563 +60.71% 5
South East -22 15 £530 -2.75% 12
South West -4 12 £400 +2.04% 15
North East -10 7 £575 -6.12% 2
Yorkshire -58 7 £500 -13.04% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
East Midlands -25 2 £349 -30.30%
Wales - 1 £475 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 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%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.96%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.09%) Apache
4 4 (3.48%) Confluence
4 4 (3.48%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.74%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.74%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 111 (96.52%) AWS
2 55 (47.83%) Serverless
3 54 (46.96%) Amazon ECS
4 51 (44.35%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (33.04%) Amazon S3
6 33 (28.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (24.35%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (22.61%) Azure
9 25 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (20.87%) GitHub
11 23 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (19.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (13.91%) Azure AKS
14 15 (13.04%) Datadog
15 13 (11.30%) Amazon MSK
16 12 (10.43%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (9.57%) GCP
18 7 (6.09%) AWS Fargate
18 7 (6.09%) IaaS
19 6 (5.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.43%) Firewall
2 5 (4.35%) HTTP
3 2 (1.74%) VPN
4 1 (0.87%) DNS
4 1 (0.87%) Internet
4 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.87%) SSL
4 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.74%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 14 (12.17%) DynamoDB
4 8 (6.96%) DocumentDB
4 8 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (6.09%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.22%) Flink
7 5 (4.35%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.61%) OLTP
9 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.74%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.74%) Power BI
9 2 (1.74%) Redis
9 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.87%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.87%) Big Data
10 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.87%) Impala
Development Applications
1 42 (36.52%) GitLab
2 33 (28.70%) Jenkins
3 25 (21.74%) Git
4 16 (13.91%) JIRA
5 14 (12.17%) Bitbucket
5 14 (12.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.48%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.48%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.48%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.48%) Gradle
6 4 (3.48%) JUnit
6 4 (3.48%) Maven
6 4 (3.48%) MLflow
6 4 (3.48%) Postman
6 4 (3.48%) Selenium
6 4 (3.48%) Snyk
6 4 (3.48%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.48%) webpack
7 1 (0.87%) GoCD
General
1 22 (19.13%) Public Sector
2 20 (17.39%) Finance
3 17 (14.78%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.70%) Banking
5 5 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.74%) Aeronautics
7 2 (1.74%) Local Government
8 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (35.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (12.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (11.30%) AWS DevOps
4 13 (11.30%) Senior
5 12 (10.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.57%) Developer
7 9 (7.83%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.83%) Python Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Architect
8 8 (6.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Java Developer
9 7 (6.09%) Lead
10 6 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (5.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.48%) AWS Architect
12 4 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.65%) Kafka
1 18 (15.65%) Node.js
2 16 (13.91%) REST
3 11 (9.57%) AWS CDK
3 11 (9.57%) FastAPI
3 11 (9.57%) Spring
3 11 (9.57%) Spring Boot
4 10 (8.70%) .NET
4 10 (8.70%) OAuth
4 10 (8.70%) Pandas
5 9 (7.83%) OpenCV
5 9 (7.83%) PyTorch
5 9 (7.83%) RESTful
5 9 (7.83%) SQLAlchemy
6 8 (6.96%) Hugging Face
6 8 (6.96%) NumPy
7 6 (5.22%) boto
7 6 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (5.22%) JWT
8 5 (4.35%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.13%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.22%) Data Structures
2 6 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.35%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.48%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.61%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.61%) NHS
6 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.87%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.87%) EMV
7 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.61%) Linux
2 4 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.48%) Windows
3 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (66.96%) CI/CD
2 74 (64.35%) DevOps
3 65 (56.52%) Containerisation
4 57 (49.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (34.78%) Microservices
6 34 (29.57%) Agile
7 28 (24.35%) Observability
8 22 (19.13%) AI
9 20 (17.39%) Software Engineering
10 17 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (13.91%) TDD
12 15 (13.04%) LLM
12 15 (13.04%) Machine Learning
13 14 (12.17%) Code Quality
13 14 (12.17%) Mentoring
13 14 (12.17%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (11.30%) API Development
14 13 (11.30%) Configuration Management
14 13 (11.30%) Cost Optimisation
14 13 (11.30%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 59 (51.30%) Python
2 24 (20.87%) Java
3 17 (14.78%) SQL
4 13 (11.30%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.57%) Ruby
6 10 (8.70%) Bash
7 9 (7.83%) Perl
8 8 (6.96%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.48%) Go
10 3 (2.61%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.61%) ProC
10 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.61%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.74%) AWK
11 2 (1.74%) Bicep
11 2 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.87%) C
12 1 (0.87%) C#
Qualifications
1 32 (27.83%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.26%) SC Cleared
3 20 (17.39%) AWS Certification
4 11 (9.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.22%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.61%) Degree
6 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.87%) CISSP
8 1 (0.87%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.61%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.61%) GDPR
2 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.61%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.74%) QA
4 1 (0.87%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.87%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 61 (53.04%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.87%) HDFS
4 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 79 (68.70%) Kubernetes
2 59 (51.30%) Terraform
3 28 (24.35%) Prometheus
4 25 (21.74%) Ansible
5 24 (20.87%) Grafana
6 12 (10.43%) Puppet
7 11 (9.57%) Argo
8 7 (6.09%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.48%) Podman
10 2 (1.74%) Istio
10 2 (1.74%) linkerd
10 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.87%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.87%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (11.30%) Oracle
2 10 (8.70%) Splunk
3 9 (7.83%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.96%) Databricks
5 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.61%) Google
5 3 (2.61%) Ping Identity
6 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.74%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.87%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.87%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.87%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.87%) UiPath
7 1 (0.87%) VMware