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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 402 437
Rank change year-on-year +86 +35 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 225 187 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.43% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 1.34% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 136 202
10th Percentile £437 £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 £641 £725
90th Percentile £785 £694 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £640
% change year-on-year -16.67% -6.25% +10.25%

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 10,930 13,929 21,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.54% 32.30% 36.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,553 9,906 15,594
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £735 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -2.46% -2.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 342 345
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.92 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £46.30 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.81
% change year-on-year +21.31% -28.70% +30.58%

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 8 May 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 8 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
England +119 179 £600 +6.67% 218
London +90 135 £625 +12.36% 140
Work from Home +53 93 £600 +20.00% 147
UK excluding London +53 50 £500 -16.67% 120
North of England +33 30 £500 -17.53% 42
North West +23 24 £500 -24.53% 32
Scotland +14 11 £500 -18.20% 4
South East +34 7 £500 -23.08% 43
Yorkshire +6 4 £463 -5.13% 9
South West +39 3 £625 +25.00% 11
Midlands +19 2 £488 +8.33% 13
North East - 2 £613 - 1
West Midlands +13 1 £475 +5.56% 8
East Midlands +10 1 £500 - 5

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 (13.78%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (9.33%) Apache
3 8 (3.56%) Confluence
4 6 (2.67%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.33%) nginx
6 2 (0.89%) Camunda
6 2 (0.89%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 218 (96.89%) AWS
2 85 (37.78%) Amazon EC2
3 69 (30.67%) Amazon S3
4 65 (28.89%) Serverless
5 58 (25.78%) Amazon ECS
6 56 (24.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (24.44%) AWS Lambda
8 50 (22.22%) GitHub
9 30 (13.33%) GCP
10 29 (12.89%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (10.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (8.44%) Snowflake
13 18 (8.00%) Azure AKS
13 18 (8.00%) Dagster
13 18 (8.00%) dbt
14 16 (7.11%) Route 53
14 16 (7.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
16 14 (6.22%) CloudFront
17 13 (5.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.33%) DNS
2 14 (6.22%) TCP/IP
3 13 (5.78%) HTTP
4 8 (3.56%) Internet
5 6 (2.67%) Firewall
5 6 (2.67%) VPN
6 4 (1.78%) DHCP
7 2 (0.89%) SSL
8 1 (0.44%) FTP
8 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.44%) SMS
8 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (23.11%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (8.44%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 17 (7.56%) Apache Arrow
5 17 (7.56%) Apache Iceberg
5 17 (7.56%) Apache Ignite
5 17 (7.56%) Dremio
5 17 (7.56%) NoSQL
6 16 (7.11%) DocumentDB
7 12 (5.33%) Redis
8 10 (4.44%) DynamoDB
9 8 (3.56%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.67%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.22%) Big Data
12 5 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (2.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (20.44%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.67%) GitLab
3 11 (4.89%) JIRA
4 10 (4.44%) Git
5 5 (2.22%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.78%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.33%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.33%) JMeter
7 3 (1.33%) Mockito
8 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.89%) JUnit
8 2 (0.89%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.89%) 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 49 (21.78%) Finance
2 38 (16.89%) Banking
2 38 (16.89%) Social Skills
3 35 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 26 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.89%) Front Office
6 19 (8.44%) Investment Banking
7 12 (5.33%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Marketing
9 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (39.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (28.00%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (20.00%) Architect
4 38 (16.89%) Senior
5 36 (16.00%) AWS DevOps
5 36 (16.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 28 (12.44%) AWS Architect
7 26 (11.56%) Software Engineer
8 24 (10.67%) Developer
9 17 (7.56%) AWS Software Engineer
9 17 (7.56%) Senior DevOps
9 17 (7.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (5.78%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (5.33%) Python Engineer
12 11 (4.89%) Java Engineer
12 11 (4.89%) Java Software Engineer
13 10 (4.44%) Lead
14 9 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.78%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (8.00%) .NET
3 17 (7.56%) gRPC
3 17 (7.56%) NumPy
3 17 (7.56%) Pandas
3 17 (7.56%) Protocol Buffers
3 17 (7.56%) PySpark
3 17 (7.56%) SciPy
4 16 (7.11%) RESTful
5 15 (6.67%) GraphQL
5 15 (6.67%) Spring
6 14 (6.22%) REST
6 14 (6.22%) Spring Boot
7 12 (5.33%) Node.js
8 10 (4.44%) Kafka
9 7 (3.11%) OAuth
9 7 (3.11%) OpenID
9 7 (3.11%) SAML
10 6 (2.67%) AWS CDK
11 5 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.89%) Derivative
2 17 (7.56%) Equities
2 17 (7.56%) Fixed Income
2 17 (7.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (7.56%) Hedge funds
3 14 (6.22%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.78%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.89%) 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 28 (12.44%) Linux
2 7 (3.11%) Unix
3 4 (1.78%) Windows
4 3 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.44%) SUSE
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (50.22%) DevOps
2 110 (48.89%) CI/CD
3 81 (36.00%) Containerisation
4 74 (32.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (27.11%) Agile
6 39 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (15.11%) Software Engineering
8 29 (12.89%) Asset Management
8 29 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (12.00%) Microservices
9 27 (12.00%) Migration
10 26 (11.56%) High Availability
11 22 (9.78%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (9.33%) Configuration Management
12 21 (9.33%) Open Source
13 18 (8.00%) Data Pipeline
14 15 (6.67%) Cost Management
15 14 (6.22%) Analytics
16 13 (5.78%) Platform Engineering
16 13 (5.78%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 85 (37.78%) Python
2 50 (22.22%) Java
3 31 (13.78%) JavaScript
4 21 (9.33%) SQL
5 20 (8.89%) TypeScript
6 19 (8.44%) Go
7 17 (7.56%) Bash
8 16 (7.11%) C#
9 11 (4.89%) Shell Script
10 10 (4.44%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.67%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.78%) Perl
13 2 (0.89%) Groovy
13 2 (0.89%) Rust
14 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 80 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 65 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.22%) AWS Certification
4 28 (12.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (2.67%) OCP
6 6 (2.67%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (2.22%) Degree
8 4 (1.78%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.33%) GDPR
2 3 (1.33%) NCSC
2 3 (1.33%) QA
3 2 (0.89%) NIST
4 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (27.11%) Docker
2 3 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 131 (58.22%) Kubernetes
2 108 (48.00%) Terraform
3 32 (14.22%) Ansible
4 23 (10.22%) Grafana
4 23 (10.22%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.33%) Progress Chef
6 11 (4.89%) Puppet
7 6 (2.67%) Kustomize
8 5 (2.22%) Argo
9 4 (1.78%) Istio
9 4 (1.78%) Kibana
9 4 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.33%) Packer
11 2 (0.89%) logstash
12 1 (0.44%) Consul
12 1 (0.44%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.44%) linkerd
12 1 (0.44%) Rancher
12 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (5.78%) Red Hat
2 6 (2.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.67%) Splunk
3 4 (1.78%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.78%) VMware
4 2 (0.89%) Google
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle
4 2 (0.89%) Veeam
5 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.44%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.44%) Databricks
5 1 (0.44%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.44%) IBM
5 1 (0.44%) Informatica
5 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.44%) New Relic
5 1 (0.44%) Pega
5 1 (0.44%) Talend
5 1 (0.44%) Trayport
5 1 (0.44%) Virgin Media