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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 293 333
Rank change year-on-year -26 +40 +56
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 115 46 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.11% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 40 43
10th Percentile £350 £373 £410
25th Percentile £400 £409 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -11.11%
75th Percentile £603 £525 £647
90th Percentile £652 £600 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £531
% change year-on-year -12.50% +12.94% -15.00%
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 6,948 4,132 5,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.08% 32.52% 26.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,780 2,945 3,897
10th Percentile £275 £238 £213
25th Percentile £400 £391 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £588
90th Percentile £666 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 153 251
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.02 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.79 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -24.08%
75th Percentile £68.29 £34.50 £26.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.75 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
% change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -30.91%

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 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 14 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 -54 45 £550 +10.00% 14
North West -24 30 £615 +22.90% 8
Scotland +12 24 £400 -2.20% 2
South East -38 17 £530 +6.00% 14
Midlands -55 14 £500 +5.26%
West Midlands -51 12 £503 +21.94%
South West -22 11 £388 -38.00% 9
Yorkshire -54 8 £500 +25.00% 3
North East -13 7 £425 -30.61% 3
East of England - 3 - - 1
East Midlands -32 2 £500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
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 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 48 (41.74%) Amazon ECS
4 44 (38.26%) AWS Lambda
5 33 (28.70%) 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 24 (20.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (18.26%) Azure
12 20 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (16.52%) Azure AKS
14 12 (10.43%) GCP
15 9 (7.83%) Amazon MSK
15 9 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (7.83%) Datadog
15 9 (7.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 8 (6.96%) AWS CodePipeline
17 6 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
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 22 (19.13%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (13.91%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (13.04%) NoSQL
4 14 (12.17%) DynamoDB
5 10 (8.70%) Relational Database
6 9 (7.83%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (5.22%) DocumentDB
7 6 (5.22%) Flink
7 6 (5.22%) Redis
8 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.61%) OLTP
9 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.74%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.87%) Big Data
10 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.87%) Impala
10 1 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 42 (36.52%) Jenkins
2 40 (34.78%) GitLab
3 26 (22.61%) 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%) SonarQube
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%) webpack
General
1 27 (23.48%) Public Sector
2 21 (18.26%) Finance
3 19 (16.52%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.70%) Banking
5 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Aeronautics
7 2 (1.74%) Local Government
8 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Military
8 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (40.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (14.78%) Developer
4 15 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
4 15 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (13.04%) Senior
5 13 (11.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Java Developer
6 10 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Architect
9 5 (4.35%) AWS Architect
9 5 (4.35%) Backend Developer
9 5 (4.35%) Lead
9 5 (4.35%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Site Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.87%) Kafka
2 18 (15.65%) Node.js
3 15 (13.04%) Spring
3 15 (13.04%) Spring Boot
4 11 (9.57%) REST
5 10 (8.70%) RESTful
6 9 (7.83%) .NET
7 8 (6.96%) AWS CDK
7 8 (6.96%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (5.22%) OAuth
9 5 (4.35%) Java Concurrency
9 5 (4.35%) Keycloak
9 5 (4.35%) React
9 5 (4.35%) Web Services
10 4 (3.48%) JWT
10 4 (3.48%) Pandas
11 3 (2.61%) boto
11 3 (2.61%) NumPy
11 3 (2.61%) OAuth2
11 3 (2.61%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 27 (23.48%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.30%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.48%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.48%) NHS
4 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.61%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.61%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.61%) Replication
6 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.87%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (0.87%) EMV
7 1 (0.87%) Wiki
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 84 (73.04%) CI/CD
2 79 (68.70%) DevOps
3 60 (52.17%) Containerisation
4 55 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (34.78%) Microservices
6 36 (31.30%) Agile
7 33 (28.70%) Observability
8 27 (23.48%) Platform Engineering
9 23 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (15.65%) Event-Driven
11 14 (12.17%) Code Quality
11 14 (12.17%) GitOps
11 14 (12.17%) Mentoring
12 13 (11.30%) AI
12 13 (11.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 12 (10.43%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (10.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (10.43%) Software Engineering
14 11 (9.57%) Cost Optimisation
14 11 (9.57%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 57 (49.57%) Python
2 28 (24.35%) Java
3 18 (15.65%) PowerShell
4 17 (14.78%) Bash
4 17 (14.78%) SQL
5 9 (7.83%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.96%) Ruby
7 7 (6.09%) Perl
8 6 (5.22%) Bicep
9 5 (4.35%) C#
9 5 (4.35%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.48%) Go
11 3 (2.61%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.61%) ProC
11 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.74%) AWK
12 2 (1.74%) Groovy
13 1 (0.87%) C
13 1 (0.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (31.30%) 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 4 (3.48%) QA
2 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.61%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.74%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.87%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.87%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 64 (55.65%) 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 84 (73.04%) 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
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 3 (2.61%) Google
6 3 (2.61%) Ping Identity
6 3 (2.61%) VMware
7 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.74%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.87%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.87%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.87%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.87%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.87%) UiPath