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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 95 98
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 +42
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 28 22 17
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.17% 1.37% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.34% 3.80% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 8
10th Percentile £354 £463 -
25th Percentile £363 £475 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £513 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +28.13% -28.25%
75th Percentile £481 £548 £494
90th Percentile £564 £643 £558
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Cloud Computing 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 839 579 589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.21% 36.12% 31.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 369 373
10th Percentile £294 £350 £213
25th Percentile £402 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £639 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £13.97 £19.58 £16.69
25th Percentile - £26.32 £18.42
Median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £21.14
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +77.58% +19.31%
75th Percentile £18.75 £48.77 £24.18
90th Percentile - £55.51 -
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend 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 3 October 2026.

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 3 October 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
Glasgow -2 20 £388 -40.25% 21
Edinburgh -14 8 £450 -10.00% 1
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.14%) nginx
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (60.71%) Amazon ECS
3 14 (50.00%) Kong
4 13 (46.43%) Amazon MSK
5 12 (42.86%) Serverless
6 11 (39.29%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (25.00%) Akamai
7 7 (25.00%) Cloudflare
8 6 (21.43%) Apigee
9 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (17.86%) Amazon S3
9 5 (17.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (7.14%) Azure
12 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (3.57%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) DNS
1 6 (21.43%) HTTP
2 4 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.71%) DynamoDB
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (7.14%) Flink
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (3.57%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.57%) Redis
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.71%) GitLab
4 2 (7.14%) Git
5 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.57%) MLflow
5 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.57%) International Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Lead
3 5 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Developer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (46.43%) Terraform
2 10 (35.71%) OAuth
3 9 (32.14%) OAuth2
4 8 (28.57%) Kafka
4 8 (28.57%) OpenID
4 8 (28.57%) React
4 8 (28.57%) RESTful
5 7 (25.00%) OpenAPI
5 7 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (25.00%) Swagger
6 6 (21.43%) SAML
7 5 (17.86%) gRPC
7 5 (17.86%) WebSockets
8 4 (14.29%) REST
8 4 (14.29%) Spring
8 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
9 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
10 2 (7.14%) AWS CDK
10 2 (7.14%) boto
10 2 (7.14%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (17.86%) Algorithms
3 5 (17.86%) Data Structures
4 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) CI/CD
2 18 (64.29%) DevOps
3 13 (46.43%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (28.57%) API Management
4 8 (28.57%) GitOps
5 7 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 7 (25.00%) Observability
5 7 (25.00%) Operational Stability
6 6 (21.43%) Agile
6 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 6 (21.43%) SIEM
7 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (17.86%) Low Latency
7 5 (17.86%) Runbook
7 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 4 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
8 4 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 4 (14.29%) Microservices
9 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Go
2 8 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 7 (25.00%) Lua
4 5 (17.86%) Python
5 4 (14.29%) Bash
5 4 (14.29%) Java
5 4 (14.29%) SQL
6 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.00%) Argo
3 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 2 (7.14%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) linkerd
4 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.57%) HAProxy
5 1 (3.57%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Dynatrace
1 8 (28.57%) Splunk
2 6 (21.43%) ForgeRock
2 6 (21.43%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.57%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) New Relic
3 1 (3.57%) Okta
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) webMethods