Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - 85
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.57% - 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% - 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £474
25th Percentile - - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £519
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.89%
75th Percentile £559 - £558
90th Percentile £595 - £568
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% -12.00%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 379 334 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.26% 42.93% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 227 301
10th Percentile £313 £342 £281
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £548 £553 £600
90th Percentile £629 £652 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.26% -1.00% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £43.63 £15.09 -
25th Percentile £69.69 £19.28 -
Median hourly rate £113.75 £27.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +313.64% -55.65% +175.56%
75th Percentile £157.19 £28.75 -
90th Percentile £182.88 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Leeds - 5 £500 - 3
Amazon EKS
Yorkshire

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) SIEM
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) AI
5 1 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) DDoS Mitigation
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (20.00%) Release Management
5 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
5 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Grafana
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (20.00%) Kustomize
4 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk