Amazon EKS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 346 365
Rank change year-on-year +59 +19 -10
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 56 51 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 0.96% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 39 51
10th Percentile £425 £442 £525
25th Percentile £463 £456 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £640
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £525 £675 £676
90th Percentile £600 £694 £700
UK median daily rate £593 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +7.73% -12.00% +4.12%

All Cloud 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 4,170 5,328 7,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.99% 25.71% 32.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,912 3,769 5,494
10th Percentile £250 £213 £248
25th Percentile £380 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £573 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 262 224
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.06
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.22 £16.79
Median hourly rate £20.50 £17.80 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year +15.17% -34.92% +36.75%
75th Percentile £34.46 £35.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £69.88 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £21.37 £37.00
% change year-on-year +31.02% -42.24% +65.18%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

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 2025.

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 2025. 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 +33 31 £500 -24.53% 38
North West +21 24 £500 -24.53% 28
South East +42 11 £500 -23.08% 10
Scotland -1 10 £500 -14.71% 5
Yorkshire +18 7 £466 -4.41% 8
Midlands +16 5 £488 +8.33% 12
West Midlands +16 4 £475 +5.56% 9
South West +45 2 £644 +28.75% 14
East Midlands +9 1 £500 - 3
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.36%) Confluence
3 2 (3.57%) Camunda
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.79%) nginx
4 1 (1.79%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 50 (89.29%) AWS
2 21 (37.50%) GitHub
3 20 (35.71%) Serverless
4 18 (32.14%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (30.36%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (26.79%) Amazon S3
7 14 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (17.86%) Azure
10 8 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (8.93%) AWS CloudTrail
12 5 (8.93%) Azure AKS
12 5 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 4 (7.14%) OpenShift
13 4 (7.14%) SaaS
14 3 (5.36%) Amazon Cognito
14 3 (5.36%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) DNS
2 3 (5.36%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) SSL
2 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.36%) VPN
3 2 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (1.79%) DHCP
4 1 (1.79%) FTP
4 1 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 6 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.93%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.57%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.57%) DocumentDB
5 2 (3.57%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (30.36%) Jenkins
2 9 (16.07%) Git
3 5 (8.93%) GitLab
3 5 (8.93%) JIRA
4 3 (5.36%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.36%) Mockito
5 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.57%) JMeter
5 2 (3.57%) JUnit
6 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.79%) Selenium
6 1 (1.79%) Snyk
6 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.79%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.79%) Toad
6 1 (1.79%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.14%) Finance
4 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (23.21%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Senior
4 9 (16.07%) Architect
5 8 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Developer
7 6 (10.71%) Java Developer
8 5 (8.93%) Lead
9 4 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Data Architect
9 4 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Python Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Security Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) Spring
1 9 (16.07%) Spring Boot
2 7 (12.50%) Kafka
3 6 (10.71%) .NET
3 6 (10.71%) OAuth
3 6 (10.71%) OpenID
3 6 (10.71%) React
3 6 (10.71%) SAML
4 5 (8.93%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (8.93%) Node.js
4 5 (8.93%) OAuth2
4 5 (8.93%) REST
5 4 (7.14%) Middleware
6 3 (5.36%) .NET Framework
6 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.36%) Apache Camel
6 3 (5.36%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (5.36%) AWS CDK
6 3 (5.36%) LDAP
6 3 (5.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.79%) PKI
4 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) Windows
2 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (73.21%) CI/CD
2 28 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 25 (44.64%) DevOps
4 22 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (35.71%) Agile
6 12 (21.43%) Microservices
7 11 (19.64%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (17.86%) Configuration Management
9 9 (16.07%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (16.07%) Cost Optimisation
9 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
10 8 (14.29%) Migration
10 8 (14.29%) RBAC
10 8 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 8 (14.29%) TDD
11 7 (12.50%) Analytics
11 7 (12.50%) Digital Twin
11 7 (12.50%) Load Balancing
11 7 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (46.43%) Python
2 17 (30.36%) Java
3 12 (21.43%) SQL
4 11 (19.64%) JavaScript
5 8 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 7 (12.50%) C#
6 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 4 (7.14%) Bash
8 2 (3.57%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.79%) Go
9 1 (1.79%) Groovy
9 1 (1.79%) Perl
9 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 7 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) GDPR
1 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.36%) NIST
2 2 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.57%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.79%) NCSC
3 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (44.64%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (42.86%) Terraform
3 12 (21.43%) Ansible
4 5 (8.93%) Grafana
4 5 (8.93%) Kustomize
5 4 (7.14%) Istio
5 4 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.57%) Argo
6 2 (3.57%) Kibana
6 2 (3.57%) Puppet
7 1 (1.79%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.79%) linkerd
7 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.79%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 4 (7.14%) Splunk
4 2 (3.57%) ForgeRock
4 2 (3.57%) Google
4 2 (3.57%) Veeam
4 2 (3.57%) VMware
5 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.79%) IBM
5 1 (1.79%) Informatica
5 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.79%) New Relic
5 1 (1.79%) Okta
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.79%) Talend