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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 97 112
Rank change year-on-year -46 +15 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 16 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.51% 0.074% 0.052%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 0.23% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £456 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +5.56% -15.89%
75th Percentile £567 £488 -
90th Percentile £739 - -
England median daily rate £530 £600 £561
% change year-on-year -11.67% +6.90% -10.20%

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 894 440 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 28.49% 32.67% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 303 356
10th Percentile £313 £200 £213
25th Percentile £402 £391 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -10.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £685 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 9
10th Percentile - £15.24 £14.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.44 £18.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +140.45% -19.71% +11.17%
75th Percentile £67.84 £19.93 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £35.45 £32.20
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +84.31% +22.77% -35.70%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the West Midlands

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 4 May 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 - 8 £463 -
Coventry - 3 £504 -
Worcestershire - 3 £725 -
Staffordshire - 1 £338 -
Warwickshire - 1 £450 -
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 (50.00%) Confluence
2 2 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) AWS
2 12 (75.00%) GitHub
3 11 (68.75%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (62.50%) Amazon S3
4 10 (62.50%) Serverless
4 10 (62.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (56.25%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (56.25%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (56.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (56.25%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (25.00%) Azure
8 2 (12.50%) GCP
8 2 (12.50%) Route 53
9 1 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (6.25%) Datadog
9 1 (6.25%) Kong
9 1 (6.25%) npm
9 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
2 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
2 1 (6.25%) Big Data
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) DocumentDB
2 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.25%) Impala
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Redis
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) GitLab
1 11 (68.75%) Jenkins
2 10 (62.50%) JIRA
3 8 (50.00%) Bitbucket
4 5 (31.25%) Git
5 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
5 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
5 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
5 1 (6.25%) GoCD
5 1 (6.25%) Gradle
5 1 (6.25%) JUnit
5 1 (6.25%) Maven
5 1 (6.25%) Postman
5 1 (6.25%) Selenium
5 1 (6.25%) Snyk
5 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Aeronautics
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Scrum Master
2 3 (18.75%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) AWS CDK
2 3 (18.75%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (12.50%) JSON
3 2 (12.50%) Kafka
3 2 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (12.50%) YAML
4 1 (6.25%) Mustache
4 1 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) SignalR
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
2 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (68.75%) Agile
3 11 (68.75%) Containerisation
4 10 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (62.50%) DevOps
5 9 (56.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 8 (50.00%) DevSecOps
6 8 (50.00%) Scrum
6 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (43.75%) Backlog Refinement
7 7 (43.75%) Conflict Resolution
7 7 (43.75%) Impact Analysis
7 7 (43.75%) ITIL
7 7 (43.75%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (43.75%) Problem Management
8 6 (37.50%) SAFe Practitioner
9 5 (31.25%) Microservices
10 4 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 4 (25.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Java
1 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 2 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) SAFe Agilist
4 6 (37.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 15 (93.75%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Terraform
2 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 4 (25.00%) Ansible
4 2 (12.50%) Argo
4 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.25%) Grafana
5 1 (6.25%) Podman
5 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) AVEVA
2 1 (6.25%) Cloudera
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk