Amazon EKS Contracts

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 417 440
Rank change year-on-year +107 +23 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 226 185 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.42% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 1.31% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 134 210
10th Percentile £425 £400 £500
25th Percentile £500 £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £634 £715
90th Percentile £784 £694 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +4.17%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +104 177 £600 +7.14% 150
London +76 134 £625 +11.11% 82
Work from Home +60 91 £600 +20.00% 94
UK excluding London +52 51 £500 -13.04% 77
North of England +40 29 £500 -17.53% 28
North West +20 23 £500 -24.53% 24
Scotland +7 13 £409 -33.09% 6
South East +35 7 £500 -16.67% 10
Yorkshire +16 4 £463 -5.13% 4
South West +45 3 £625 +25.00% 14
Midlands +24 2 £488 +8.33% 11
North East - 2 £613 -
West Midlands +16 1 £475 +5.56% 8
East Midlands +10 1 £500 - 3

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (13.72%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (9.29%) Apache
3 10 (4.42%) Confluence
4 6 (2.65%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.33%) nginx
6 2 (0.88%) Camunda
6 2 (0.88%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 219 (96.90%) AWS
2 83 (36.73%) Amazon EC2
3 68 (30.09%) Amazon S3
4 65 (28.76%) Serverless
5 60 (26.55%) Amazon ECS
6 55 (24.34%) AWS Lambda
7 54 (23.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 51 (22.57%) GitHub
9 30 (13.27%) GCP
10 28 (12.39%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (10.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (8.41%) Snowflake
13 18 (7.96%) Azure AKS
13 18 (7.96%) Dagster
13 18 (7.96%) dbt
14 16 (7.08%) Route 53
15 15 (6.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (6.19%) AWS CodePipeline
16 14 (6.19%) CloudFront
17 13 (5.75%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.85%) DNS
2 13 (5.75%) TCP/IP
3 12 (5.31%) HTTP
4 7 (3.10%) Internet
5 6 (2.65%) Firewall
5 6 (2.65%) VPN
6 4 (1.77%) DHCP
7 2 (0.88%) SSL
8 1 (0.44%) FTP
8 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (22.12%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (11.06%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (8.41%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (7.96%) Data Lake
5 17 (7.52%) Apache Arrow
5 17 (7.52%) Apache Iceberg
5 17 (7.52%) Apache Ignite
5 17 (7.52%) Dremio
6 16 (7.08%) NoSQL
7 15 (6.64%) DocumentDB
8 12 (5.31%) Redis
9 8 (3.54%) DynamoDB
9 8 (3.54%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.65%) Big Data
11 6 (2.65%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.77%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 44 (19.47%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.62%) GitLab
3 13 (5.75%) JIRA
4 10 (4.42%) Git
5 5 (2.21%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.77%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.33%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.33%) JMeter
7 3 (1.33%) Mockito
8 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.88%) JUnit
8 2 (0.88%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.88%) Toad
9 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.44%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.44%) JProfiler
9 1 (0.44%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.44%) Selenium
9 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (21.24%) Finance
2 38 (16.81%) Banking
3 36 (15.93%) Social Skills
4 35 (15.49%) Public Sector
5 26 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (8.85%) Front Office
7 19 (8.41%) Investment Banking
8 12 (5.31%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Marketing
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (38.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (27.88%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (19.91%) Architect
4 37 (16.37%) Senior
5 36 (15.93%) AWS DevOps
5 36 (15.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 28 (12.39%) AWS Architect
7 26 (11.50%) Developer
8 25 (11.06%) Software Engineer
9 17 (7.52%) AWS Software Engineer
10 16 (7.08%) Senior DevOps
10 16 (7.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.75%) Data Engineer
11 13 (5.75%) Python Engineer
11 13 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (5.31%) Java Engineer
13 11 (4.87%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (3.98%) Lead
14 9 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (3.54%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.29%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (7.52%) .NET
2 17 (7.52%) gRPC
2 17 (7.52%) NumPy
2 17 (7.52%) Pandas
2 17 (7.52%) Protocol Buffers
2 17 (7.52%) PySpark
2 17 (7.52%) SciPy
2 17 (7.52%) Spring
3 16 (7.08%) RESTful
3 16 (7.08%) Spring Boot
4 15 (6.64%) GraphQL
5 14 (6.19%) REST
6 11 (4.87%) Node.js
7 9 (3.98%) Kafka
8 7 (3.10%) OAuth
8 7 (3.10%) OpenID
8 7 (3.10%) SAML
9 5 (2.21%) OAuth2
9 5 (2.21%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.83%) Derivative
2 17 (7.52%) Equities
2 17 (7.52%) Fixed Income
2 17 (7.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (7.52%) Hedge funds
3 14 (6.19%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.31%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.88%) PKI
11 1 (0.44%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.95%) Linux
2 7 (3.10%) Unix
3 4 (1.77%) Windows
4 3 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.44%) SUSE
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (49.56%) DevOps
2 108 (47.79%) CI/CD
3 78 (34.51%) Containerisation
4 72 (31.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (26.99%) Agile
6 39 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (14.60%) Software Engineering
8 29 (12.83%) Asset Management
9 27 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (11.50%) Microservices
10 26 (11.50%) Migration
11 25 (11.06%) High Availability
12 21 (9.29%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (9.29%) Open Source
13 20 (8.85%) Configuration Management
14 18 (7.96%) Data Pipeline
15 14 (6.19%) Analytics
15 14 (6.19%) Cost Management
16 13 (5.75%) Platform Engineering
17 12 (5.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 86 (38.05%) Python
2 51 (22.57%) Java
3 31 (13.72%) JavaScript
4 20 (8.85%) SQL
4 20 (8.85%) TypeScript
5 19 (8.41%) Go
6 17 (7.52%) Bash
7 16 (7.08%) C#
8 11 (4.87%) Shell Script
9 10 (4.42%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.54%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.77%) Perl
12 2 (0.88%) Groovy
12 2 (0.88%) Rust
13 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 80 (35.40%) Security Cleared
2 65 (28.76%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.72%) AWS Certification
4 27 (11.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (2.65%) OCP
5 6 (2.65%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (2.21%) Degree
7 4 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.33%) GDPR
2 3 (1.33%) NCSC
2 3 (1.33%) QA
3 2 (0.88%) NIST
4 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (26.55%) Docker
2 3 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 129 (57.08%) Kubernetes
2 105 (46.46%) Terraform
3 31 (13.72%) Ansible
4 22 (9.73%) Grafana
4 22 (9.73%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.87%) Progress Chef
6 10 (4.42%) Puppet
7 6 (2.65%) Kustomize
8 5 (2.21%) Argo
9 4 (1.77%) Istio
9 4 (1.77%) Kibana
9 4 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.33%) Packer
11 2 (0.88%) logstash
12 1 (0.44%) Apache Ranger
12 1 (0.44%) Consul
12 1 (0.44%) linkerd
12 1 (0.44%) Rancher
12 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (5.31%) Red Hat
2 8 (3.54%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.65%) Splunk
4 4 (1.77%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.77%) VMware
5 3 (1.33%) Oracle
6 2 (0.88%) Google
6 2 (0.88%) Veeam
7 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.44%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.44%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.44%) IBM
7 1 (0.44%) Informatica
7 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.44%) New Relic
7 1 (0.44%) Pega
7 1 (0.44%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.44%) SAP
7 1 (0.44%) Talend
7 1 (0.44%) Trayport