Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 118 109
Rank change year-on-year -21 -9 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 27 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.75% 0.54% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.39% 1.67% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 2
10th Percentile £465 £493 £500
25th Percentile £477 £525 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +6.90% -
75th Percentile £494 £588 £521
90th Percentile £550 - £523
England median daily rate £570 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -0.87% -11.54% +8.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,129 600 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.29% 32.47% 28.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 414 351
10th Percentile £308 £275 £213
25th Percentile £406 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +2.65% +5.26%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £612
90th Percentile £681 £700 £685
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 6 9
10th Percentile £17.48 £28.61 £15.65
25th Percentile £19.48 £30.97 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £34.43 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year -34.65% +2.65% +81.30%
75th Percentile £50.88 £35.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £47.13 £40.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EKS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Solihull - 19 £488 -
Birmingham -7 3 £463 +2.78% 2
Coventry -21 3 - -
Worcestershire -2 1 £575 +4.55%
Warwickshire - 1 £477 - 1
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (29.63%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (85.19%) GitHub
3 22 (81.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 22 (81.48%) Amazon S3
3 22 (81.48%) GitHub Actions
3 22 (81.48%) Serverless
4 21 (77.78%) Amazon EC2
4 21 (77.78%) Amazon ECS
4 21 (77.78%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (37.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (29.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (29.63%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (11.11%) Azure
7 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
8 2 (7.41%) GCP
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.70%) Datadog
9 1 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (88.89%) Jenkins
2 11 (40.74%) GitLab
3 9 (33.33%) Bitbucket
4 8 (29.63%) JIRA
5 2 (7.41%) Artifactory
5 2 (7.41%) Git
5 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
5 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.70%) Gradle
6 1 (3.70%) JUnit
6 1 (3.70%) Maven
6 1 (3.70%) Postman
6 1 (3.70%) Selenium
6 1 (3.70%) Snyk
6 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Scrum Master
2 6 (22.22%) Java Scrum Master
2 6 (22.22%) Lead
3 5 (18.52%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Technical Leader
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) Spring
1 13 (48.15%) Spring Boot
2 12 (44.44%) RESTful
3 9 (33.33%) Terraform
4 7 (25.93%) AWS CDK
5 3 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (7.41%) REST
7 1 (3.70%) JSON
7 1 (3.70%) Kafka
7 1 (3.70%) Mustache
7 1 (3.70%) Node.js
7 1 (3.70%) Pulumi
7 1 (3.70%) React
7 1 (3.70%) Web Services
7 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (70.37%) Product Ownership
2 12 (44.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 23 (85.19%) Agile
2 23 (85.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 23 (85.19%) DevOps
3 22 (81.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (81.48%) Scrum
4 21 (77.78%) DevSecOps
4 21 (77.78%) Test Automation
5 19 (70.37%) Backlog Refinement
5 19 (70.37%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 17 (62.96%) Containerisation
7 16 (59.26%) Microservices
8 12 (44.44%) Clean Code
8 12 (44.44%) Code Quality
8 12 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
8 12 (44.44%) Design Patterns
8 12 (44.44%) Observability
8 12 (44.44%) Sprint Planning
8 12 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (40.74%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Java
2 2 (7.41%) Bash
2 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.41%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (81.48%) Security Cleared
2 21 (77.78%) SC Cleared
3 12 (44.44%) AWS Certification
4 8 (29.63%) SAFe Agilist
5 6 (22.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) QA
System Software
1 24 (88.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Grafana
2 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.41%) Ansible
3 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
3 2 (7.41%) Puppet
4 1 (3.70%) Argo
4 1 (3.70%) Istio
4 1 (3.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (3.70%) Splunk