Hybrid/Remote Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 218 246
Rank change year-on-year -24 +28 +36
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 126 97 96
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 0.97% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.29% 2.32% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 81 72
10th Percentile £421 £414 £439
25th Percentile £478 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -3.23% -0.80%
75th Percentile £669 £640 £888
90th Percentile £719 £675 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £581
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.08% -7.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,493 4,179 4,905
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 40.63% 41.59% 37.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,664 2,914 3,467
10th Percentile £358 £340 £345
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -6.05% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £715 £750 £785
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 50 51
10th Percentile £17.76 £16.45 £16.50
25th Percentile £30.00 £30.19 £20.03
Median hourly rate £65.00 £41.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.58% +16.20% -10.80%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £89.50 £80.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £24.92
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.88% -28.80%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EKS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Amazon EKS daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Amazon EKS
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 16 (12.70%) Confluence
2 6 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.17%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.79%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.79%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 123 (97.62%) AWS
2 58 (46.03%) GitHub
3 57 (45.24%) Amazon S3
4 56 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
4 56 (44.44%) Serverless
5 54 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
6 46 (36.51%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
8 35 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 33 (26.19%) Azure
10 31 (24.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 23 (18.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (11.90%) Route 53
13 13 (10.32%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (9.52%) Azure AKS
15 11 (8.73%) Amazon EventBridge
15 11 (8.73%) AWS CloudTrail
15 11 (8.73%) GCP
16 9 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.14%) DNS
2 5 (3.97%) Firewall
3 4 (3.17%) VPN
4 3 (2.38%) Network Security
5 2 (1.59%) DHCP
5 2 (1.59%) PCoIP
5 2 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.79%) BGP
6 1 (0.79%) NGFW
6 1 (0.79%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.79%) SSL
6 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (13.49%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.14%) Big Data
4 7 (5.56%) MySQL
5 6 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (4.76%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.97%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.17%) Apache Hive
7 4 (3.17%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.38%) Redis
9 2 (1.59%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.79%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.79%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.79%) Stardog
10 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (38.89%) GitLab
2 37 (29.37%) Jenkins
3 11 (8.73%) Git
4 9 (7.14%) JIRA
5 7 (5.56%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.38%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.79%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.79%) MLflow
7 1 (0.79%) RStudio
7 1 (0.79%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (34.13%) Public Sector
2 31 (24.60%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.90%) Finance
4 9 (7.14%) Banking
5 3 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.59%) Billing
6 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.79%) Local Government
7 1 (0.79%) Military
7 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (22.22%) Senior
3 18 (14.29%) Architect
3 18 (14.29%) Lead
4 16 (12.70%) AWS Architect
4 16 (12.70%) Developer
5 14 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 14 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 14 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 13 (10.32%) Python Engineer
6 13 (10.32%) Technical Architect
7 12 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.35%) AWS Software Engineer
9 8 (6.35%) Lead DevOps
9 8 (6.35%) Python Software Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) Data Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) Node.js Developer
10 7 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.29%) Kafka
2 12 (9.52%) Loki
2 12 (9.52%) Node.js
2 12 (9.52%) REST
3 11 (8.73%) AWS CDK
3 11 (8.73%) React
4 10 (7.94%) FastAPI
4 10 (7.94%) Flask
4 10 (7.94%) RESTful
5 9 (7.14%) GraphQL
6 8 (6.35%) Spring Boot
7 7 (5.56%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.56%) Spring
8 6 (4.76%) .NET
8 6 (4.76%) Apollo GraphQL
8 6 (4.76%) LangChain
8 6 (4.76%) OpenID
9 5 (3.97%) Langfuse
9 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (3.97%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 44 (34.92%) Cloud Native
2 17 (13.49%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.73%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.35%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.56%) Virtual Team
6 6 (4.76%) AI Agents
6 6 (4.76%) Autonomous Agent
7 4 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.38%) PropTech
8 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.59%) CUDA
9 2 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.79%) Clustering
10 1 (0.79%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.79%) NHS
10 1 (0.79%) PKI
10 1 (0.79%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.87%) Linux
2 3 (2.38%) Windows
3 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (76.98%) CI/CD
2 72 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 63 (50.00%) DevOps
4 58 (46.03%) Containerisation
5 44 (34.92%) Microservices
6 43 (34.13%) Observability
7 35 (27.78%) Agile
8 33 (26.19%) Platform Engineering
9 27 (21.43%) AI
9 27 (21.43%) DevSecOps
10 24 (19.05%) Event-Driven
11 23 (18.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 21 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (15.87%) Software Engineering
14 18 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (13.49%) Cloud Security
15 17 (13.49%) LLM
16 16 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (12.70%) Runbook
17 15 (11.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 70 (55.56%) Python
2 35 (27.78%) Bash
3 26 (20.63%) TypeScript
4 23 (18.25%) Java
5 16 (12.70%) PowerShell
6 15 (11.90%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.17%) SQL
8 3 (2.38%) Bicep
8 3 (2.38%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.59%) Scala
9 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.79%) C
10 1 (0.79%) Cypher
10 1 (0.79%) Go
10 1 (0.79%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.79%) SHACL
10 1 (0.79%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 66 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 61 (48.41%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.90%) AWS Certification
4 11 (8.73%) DV Cleared
5 9 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.97%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (3.17%) SAFe Agilist
8 2 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.59%) CCNP
8 2 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.59%) Degree
8 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.79%) CCIE
9 1 (0.79%) CISSP
9 1 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.97%) WCAG
3 2 (1.59%) NCSC
4 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 67 (53.17%) Docker
2 4 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.59%) HDFS
4 2 (1.59%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.59%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.79%) Squid
Systems Management
1 86 (68.25%) Terraform
2 72 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 37 (29.37%) Grafana
4 25 (19.84%) Prometheus
5 14 (11.11%) Ansible
6 13 (10.32%) Argo
7 5 (3.97%) Istio
8 3 (2.38%) Kustomize
8 3 (2.38%) Packer
9 2 (1.59%) Puppet
9 2 (1.59%) SCCM
10 1 (0.79%) Bosun
10 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.35%) OpenAI
2 8 (6.35%) Oracle
2 8 (6.35%) Splunk
3 6 (4.76%) Google
3 6 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.97%) Amplitude
4 5 (3.97%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.17%) IBM
6 3 (2.38%) Tenable
6 3 (2.38%) VMware
7 2 (1.59%) HP
7 2 (1.59%) Leostream
7 2 (1.59%) New Relic
7 2 (1.59%) NVIDIA
7 2 (1.59%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.59%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.79%) Okta
8 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow