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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 108 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 14 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.71% 0.16% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 0.54% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £502 £380 -
25th Percentile £525 £424 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% - -
75th Percentile £588 £518 -
90th Percentile - £522 -
England median daily rate £575 £650 £583
% change year-on-year -11.54% +11.54% -6.76%

All Cloud 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 658 559 711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.52% 29.91% 35.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 366 523
10th Percentile £300 £219 £200
25th Percentile £421 £358 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £597
90th Percentile £700 £685 £688
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 7
10th Percentile £25.82 £15.83 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £23.55 £17.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% +82.35% +12.12%
75th Percentile £34.98 £35.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £40.45 £37.50 £19.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 21 October 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
Worcestershire -5 8 £563 +60.71% 1
Birmingham - 4 £450 -
Coventry - 1 £520 - 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 5 (35.71%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (85.71%) Azure
3 6 (42.86%) Azure AKS
3 6 (42.86%) GitHub
3 6 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (35.71%) Datadog
5 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) GCP
5 4 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (28.57%) npm
5 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
5 4 (28.57%) Pulumi
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
6 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
6 3 (21.43%) Serverless
7 2 (14.29%) IaaS
7 2 (14.29%) PaaS
7 2 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Git
2 8 (57.14%) GitLab
3 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (28.57%) Artifactory
4 4 (28.57%) Bitbucket
4 4 (28.57%) CircleCI
4 4 (28.57%) Cypress.io
4 4 (28.57%) Gradle
4 4 (28.57%) JUnit
4 4 (28.57%) Maven
4 4 (28.57%) Postman
4 4 (28.57%) Selenium
4 4 (28.57%) Snyk
4 4 (28.57%) SonarQube
4 4 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (28.57%) webpack
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Architect
4 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (35.71%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) JSON
2 4 (28.57%) YAML
3 2 (14.29%) OAuth
3 2 (14.29%) Web Services
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) Mustache
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) React
4 1 (7.14%) Spring
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Private Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 9 (64.29%) Containerisation
2 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (50.00%) DevOps
5 6 (42.86%) Agile
5 6 (42.86%) Cloud Security
5 6 (42.86%) DevSecOps
6 5 (35.71%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (35.71%) SDLC
6 5 (35.71%) Task Automation
7 4 (28.57%) Change Control
7 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
7 4 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
7 4 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (28.57%) Software Delivery
7 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
8 3 (21.43%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Go
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
2 5 (35.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) CISSP
5 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 8 (57.14%) Ansible
2 8 (57.14%) Terraform
3 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
4 4 (28.57%) Grafana
4 4 (28.57%) Podman
4 4 (28.57%) Progress Chef
4 4 (28.57%) Puppet
5 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Splunk