Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 88 108
Rank change year-on-year -38 +20 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 7 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.38% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% 0.44% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £429 £515 £477
25th Percentile £463 £538 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £519
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +10.84% -25.89%
75th Percentile - £613 £539
90th Percentile £571 £635 £546
England median daily rate £550 £650 £569
% change year-on-year -15.38% +14.24% -8.96%

All Cloud Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 770 452 583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.49% 38.27% 32.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 302 429
10th Percentile £213 £276 £230
25th Percentile £375 £400 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £595
90th Percentile £602 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 3
10th Percentile - £18.04 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.25 £24.81 £19.25
Median hourly rate £38.43 £34.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% +71.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £56.31 £97.98 £41.00
90th Percentile £57.25 £102.00 £53.60
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.88 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.17% +32.85% +3.29%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in Yorkshire

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
South Yorkshire -39 4 £475 -17.39%
West Yorkshire - 3 £556 - 4
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
4 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
1 2 (28.57%) OpenID
1 2 (28.57%) SAML
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) NHS
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Privileged Identity Management
4 2 (28.57%) RBAC
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) SIEM
5 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
3 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Alibaba
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk