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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 104 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 9 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.11% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 0.37% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £451 £500 -
25th Percentile £509 £504 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% - -
75th Percentile £578 £521 -
90th Percentile £588 £523 -
England median daily rate £575 £650 £610
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.56% -2.40%

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 591 542 730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.30% 28.53% 35.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 364 527
10th Percentile £273 £213 £209
25th Percentile £413 £352 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% +1.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £687 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £31.94 £15.83 £17.58
25th Percentile £34.16 £23.55 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +82.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £52.69 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £59.44 £55.50 £19.60
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS 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 17 September 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 - 6 £550 - 1
Birmingham - 3 £463 - 1
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
5 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Datadog
5 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (22.22%) npm
5 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
5 2 (22.22%) Pulumi
5 2 (22.22%) Serverless
6 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (11.11%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Git
2 6 (66.67%) GitLab
3 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
4 3 (33.33%) Snyk
4 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
5 2 (22.22%) Artifactory
5 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
5 2 (22.22%) CircleCI
5 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
5 2 (22.22%) Gradle
5 2 (22.22%) JUnit
5 2 (22.22%) Maven
5 2 (22.22%) Postman
5 2 (22.22%) Selenium
5 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (22.22%) webpack
6 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (33.33%) REST
1 3 (33.33%) YAML
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) Mustache
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
3 6 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 5 (55.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (44.44%) Change Control
5 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
5 4 (44.44%) DevOps
5 4 (44.44%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (33.33%) Scrum
6 3 (33.33%) SDLC
6 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
7 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
7 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
7 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
5 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (77.78%) Ansible
3 6 (66.67%) Terraform
4 2 (22.22%) Grafana
4 2 (22.22%) Podman
4 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
4 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (22.22%) Puppet
5 1 (11.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat