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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 94 115
Rank change year-on-year -46 +21 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 15 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.47% 0.29% 0.051%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 0.90% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £454 £433 -
25th Percentile £456 £444 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £494 £531 -
90th Percentile £531 £558 -
England median daily rate £550 £598 £563
% change year-on-year -7.95% +6.22% -10.00%

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 932 446 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 29.18% 31.83% 23.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 297 359
10th Percentile £313 £200 £207
25th Percentile £402 £381 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £611
90th Percentile £675 £659 £688
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.39% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 9 12
10th Percentile £22.50 £15.27 £14.14
25th Percentile £24.38 £18.13 £15.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.74 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.38% -16.71% +11.17%
75th Percentile £67.84 £34.98 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £45.70 £33.19
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.01 £21.37
% change year-on-year +57.97% +17.01% -38.94%

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 3 June 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 - 11 £475 -
Warwickshire - 2 £464 - 1
Worcestershire -2 1 £575 +4.55%
Coventry - 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 10 (66.67%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (93.33%) Amazon S3
2 14 (93.33%) Serverless
3 13 (86.67%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (86.67%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (86.67%) GitHub
3 13 (86.67%) GitHub Actions
3 13 (86.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 12 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (73.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (20.00%) Azure
6 3 (20.00%) GCP
6 3 (20.00%) Route 53
7 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (6.67%) Datadog
8 1 (6.67%) npm
8 1 (6.67%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.67%) Impala
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (86.67%) GitLab
3 11 (73.33%) Bitbucket
4 10 (66.67%) JIRA
5 2 (13.33%) Artifactory
5 2 (13.33%) Git
5 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
5 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
6 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (6.67%) Gradle
6 1 (6.67%) JUnit
6 1 (6.67%) Maven
6 1 (6.67%) Postman
6 1 (6.67%) Selenium
6 1 (6.67%) Snyk
6 1 (6.67%) webpack
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Scrum Master
2 5 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) YAML
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) Mustache
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (93.33%) Containerisation
2 14 (93.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (86.67%) DevOps
4 12 (80.00%) Agile
4 12 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (80.00%) Scrum
5 11 (73.33%) DevSecOps
5 11 (73.33%) Test Automation
6 10 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
6 10 (66.67%) Impact Analysis
6 10 (66.67%) ITIL
6 10 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (66.67%) Problem Management
6 10 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 9 (60.00%) Conflict Resolution
8 8 (53.33%) SAFe Practitioner
9 5 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 5 (33.33%) Security Operations
10 4 (26.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) SAFe Agilist
2 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (53.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Grafana
3 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (13.33%) Puppet
4 1 (6.67%) Argo
4 1 (6.67%) Istio
4 1 (6.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) AVEVA
1 1 (6.67%) Cloudera
1 1 (6.67%) Splunk