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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 284 333
Rank change year-on-year -45 +49 +55
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 109 51 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.40% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.26% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 40 38
10th Percentile £356 £383 £441
25th Percentile £413 £461 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £584 £525 £675
90th Percentile £652 £589 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -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 7,147 4,058 5,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.51% 31.88% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,778 2,840 3,726
10th Percentile £298 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £381 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £501 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 156 259
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.90 £15.00
Median hourly rate £42.69 £21.39 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +99.56% +20.71% -28.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £34.23 £26.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +36.65% +28.69% -38.94%

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 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 14 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 -56 39 £500 - 12
North West -35 25 £644 +28.75% 6
Midlands -42 19 £500 +2.56% 4
South East -47 19 £530 +6.00% 11
Scotland +13 18 £525 +5.00% 3
West Midlands -39 17 £488 +2.63% 4
South West -23 12 £388 -38.00% 12
North East -10 8 £425 -26.09% 4
Yorkshire -52 6 £500 +8.11% 2
East Midlands -29 2 £500 -
East of England - 2 - -
Wales - 1 £475 -
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 (13.76%) Confluence
2 6 (5.50%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.67%) Apache
3 4 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.75%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.83%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.83%) nginx
5 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 106 (97.25%) AWS
2 48 (44.04%) Serverless
3 42 (38.53%) Amazon ECS
4 40 (36.70%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (34.86%) Amazon S3
6 36 (33.03%) GitHub
7 34 (31.19%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (25.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 27 (24.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (23.85%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (22.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (19.27%) Azure
13 19 (17.43%) Azure AKS
14 14 (12.84%) AWS CodePipeline
15 11 (10.09%) GCP
16 9 (8.26%) Amazon SQS
16 9 (8.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 7 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (6.42%) Datadog
18 5 (4.59%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.50%) Firewall
1 6 (5.50%) VPN
2 5 (4.59%) HTTP
3 2 (1.83%) DNS
4 1 (0.92%) BGP
4 1 (0.92%) Internet
4 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.92%) SSL
4 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.76%) Amazon RDS
1 15 (13.76%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.84%) DynamoDB
2 14 (12.84%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.26%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (8.26%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.42%) Redis
5 6 (5.50%) Flink
6 4 (3.67%) DocumentDB
7 3 (2.75%) OLTP
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.83%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.92%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.92%) Big Data
9 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.92%) Impala
9 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (37.61%) GitLab
2 39 (35.78%) Jenkins
3 18 (16.51%) JIRA
4 17 (15.60%) Git
5 11 (10.09%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.67%) MLflow
7 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.83%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.92%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.92%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.92%) GoCD
8 1 (0.92%) Gradle
8 1 (0.92%) JUnit
8 1 (0.92%) Postman
8 1 (0.92%) Selenium
8 1 (0.92%) Snyk
8 1 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 28 (25.69%) Public Sector
2 23 (21.10%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.84%) Finance
4 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.67%) Banking
4 4 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.83%) Local Government
6 1 (0.92%) Aeronautics
6 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.92%) Military
6 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (40.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (22.02%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (19.27%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (15.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 16 (14.68%) Developer
6 11 (10.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Architect
7 9 (8.26%) Java Developer
7 9 (8.26%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Scrum Master
8 8 (7.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Senior
9 7 (6.42%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (6.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) AWS Architect
10 6 (5.50%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.59%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 3 (2.75%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.10%) Kafka
2 14 (12.84%) Spring
2 14 (12.84%) Spring Boot
3 13 (11.93%) AWS CDK
4 9 (8.26%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (8.26%) Node.js
5 8 (7.34%) .NET
5 8 (7.34%) OAuth
5 8 (7.34%) REST
5 8 (7.34%) RESTful
6 6 (5.50%) JWT
6 6 (5.50%) Keycloak
7 5 (4.59%) Java Concurrency
8 4 (3.67%) boto
8 4 (3.67%) FastAPI
8 4 (3.67%) NumPy
8 4 (3.67%) OAuth2
8 4 (3.67%) OpenCV
8 4 (3.67%) Pandas
8 4 (3.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.77%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.76%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (11.01%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.50%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.67%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.67%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.67%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.67%) NHS
5 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.67%) Replication
6 3 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.75%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.83%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.83%) Wiki
8 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.85%) Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.75%) Windows
4 1 (0.92%) Android
4 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.92%) Unix
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (77.98%) CI/CD
2 76 (69.72%) DevOps
3 62 (56.88%) Containerisation
4 60 (55.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (35.78%) Agile
6 34 (31.19%) Platform Engineering
7 33 (30.28%) Observability
8 32 (29.36%) Microservices
9 26 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (17.43%) Event-Driven
11 18 (16.51%) Test Automation
12 16 (14.68%) Scrum
13 15 (13.76%) Cost Optimisation
13 15 (13.76%) DevSecOps
14 14 (12.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 13 (11.93%) GitOps
15 13 (11.93%) ITIL
15 13 (11.93%) Mentoring
15 13 (11.93%) Secrets Management
15 13 (11.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (44.04%) Python
2 22 (20.18%) Java
3 18 (16.51%) Bash
4 15 (13.76%) SQL
5 12 (11.01%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.34%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.42%) Bicep
8 6 (5.50%) C#
9 5 (4.59%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.67%) Go
10 4 (3.67%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.75%) Groovy
11 3 (2.75%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.75%) ProC
12 2 (1.83%) Ruby
12 2 (1.83%) Scala
13 1 (0.92%) Perl
13 1 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (35.78%) Security Cleared
2 32 (29.36%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.93%) AWS Certification
4 9 (8.26%) SAFe Agilist
5 7 (6.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (6.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.50%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (4.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.83%) CCNP
8 2 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.83%) Degree
8 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.83%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.92%) CCIE
9 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.67%) QA
2 3 (2.75%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.75%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.92%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.92%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 61 (55.96%) Docker
2 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 78 (71.56%) Kubernetes
2 72 (66.06%) Terraform
3 32 (29.36%) Prometheus
4 28 (25.69%) Grafana
5 22 (20.18%) Ansible
6 15 (13.76%) Argo
7 9 (8.26%) Istio
8 8 (7.34%) Puppet
9 6 (5.50%) linkerd
9 6 (5.50%) Rancher
10 3 (2.75%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.83%) Packer
12 1 (0.92%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.92%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (9.17%) Microsoft
1 10 (9.17%) Splunk
2 8 (7.34%) Databricks
2 8 (7.34%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.59%) Oracle
4 4 (3.67%) VMware
5 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.83%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.83%) Google
7 1 (0.92%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.92%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.92%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.92%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.92%) Tanium
7 1 (0.92%) Tenable
7 1 (0.92%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.92%) UiPath