Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 100 140
Rank change year-on-year +5 +40 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 22 16 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.38% 0.86% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.83% 2.65% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 5
10th Percentile £463 - £428
25th Percentile £475 £350 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £565
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -29.20% -8.50%
75th Percentile £548 £494 £673
90th Percentile £643 £558 -
UK median daily rate £558 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.08% - -4.00%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 575 604 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.96% 32.28% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 396 578
10th Percentile £351 £213 £300
25th Percentile £425 £377 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £616 £623
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £19.58 £16.69 £14.53
25th Percentile £26.32 £18.42 £16.58
Median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £23.86
Median % change year-on-year +77.58% -11.39% +34.65%
75th Percentile £48.77 £24.18 £39.06
90th Percentile £55.51 - £50.88
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in Scotland

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in Scotland

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Edinburgh +16 16 £500 +11.11% 7
Glasgow -21 6 £649 +85.29% 2
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (22.73%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (18.18%) Confluence
3 2 (9.09%) Apache
3 2 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (59.09%) Amazon S3
2 13 (59.09%) Serverless
3 10 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (40.91%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (36.36%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (18.18%) Slack
9 3 (13.64%) Azure
9 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
10 2 (9.09%) Dagster
10 2 (9.09%) GitHub
10 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (4.55%) CloudFront
11 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.09%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
2 5 (22.73%) JIRA
3 4 (18.18%) Terragrunt
4 3 (13.64%) GitLab
5 2 (9.09%) MLflow
6 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 1 (4.55%) Selenium
6 1 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Site Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Architect
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) AWS CDK
2 8 (36.36%) FastAPI
2 8 (36.36%) OpenCV
2 8 (36.36%) Pandas
2 8 (36.36%) PyTorch
2 8 (36.36%) SQLAlchemy
3 7 (31.82%) Hugging Face
3 7 (31.82%) NumPy
4 5 (22.73%) boto
4 5 (22.73%) JWT
4 5 (22.73%) OAuth
5 4 (18.18%) REST
6 1 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (4.55%) Apache Camel
6 1 (4.55%) JSON
6 1 (4.55%) Kafka
6 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (4.55%) RESTful
6 1 (4.55%) Spring
6 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 4 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 3 (13.64%) Algorithms
3 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Unix
3 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Agile
1 18 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
3 11 (50.00%) DevOps
4 8 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 8 (36.36%) Kanban
4 8 (36.36%) LLM
4 8 (36.36%) Machine Learning
4 8 (36.36%) OOP
4 8 (36.36%) Scrum
5 7 (31.82%) OCR
5 7 (31.82%) TDD
6 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
6 6 (27.27%) Migration
6 6 (27.27%) Pair Programming
7 5 (22.73%) API Development
7 5 (22.73%) Coaching
7 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
7 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) Bash
2 5 (22.73%) Java
3 3 (13.64%) Perl
4 2 (9.09%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) AWS Certification
2 4 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 2 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
2 3 (13.64%) KVM
Systems Management
1 17 (77.27%) Kubernetes
2 13 (59.09%) Terraform
3 11 (50.00%) Grafana
4 7 (31.82%) Ansible
5 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
6 4 (18.18%) Argo
6 4 (18.18%) Istio
7 3 (13.64%) HAProxy
7 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (9.09%) Fluentd
8 2 (9.09%) linkerd
8 2 (9.09%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Commvault
1 3 (13.64%) Dynatrace
1 3 (13.64%) ForgeRock
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle
1 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.55%) IBM
2 1 (4.55%) Informatica
2 1 (4.55%) Ping Identity
2 1 (4.55%) StreamSets