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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 92 127
Rank change year-on-year +2 +35 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 20 18 10
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.34% 1.12% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.41% 3.04% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 8
10th Percentile £312 - £389
25th Percentile £358 £350 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £380 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.46% -15.67% -29.91%
75th Percentile £534 £409 £516
90th Percentile £545 £455 £555
UK median daily rate £525 £608 £575
% change year-on-year -13.58% +5.65% -8.00%

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 586 592 704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.30% 36.77% 30.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 391 465
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £588 £526 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 4
10th Percentile £11.84 £19.94 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £31.95 £24.00 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% +44.84% -6.49%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £18.70
90th Percentile £57.00 £27.88 £20.46
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +8.34%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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
Edinburgh +9 11 £525 +16.67% 1
Glasgow -1 9 £358 +2.29% 2
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 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (80.00%) Serverless
3 15 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
3 15 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (55.00%) Amazon S3
6 10 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (35.00%) Amazon MSK
8 6 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (20.00%) OpenShift
10 1 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (5.00%) Apigee
10 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (5.00%) Azure
10 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (5.00%) GCP
10 1 (5.00%) GitHub
10 1 (5.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (10.00%) InfluxDB
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Git
2 8 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (40.00%) JIRA
2 8 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (35.00%) GitLab
4 2 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 7 (35.00%) Banking
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Site Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) AWS CDK
2 7 (35.00%) FastAPI
2 7 (35.00%) Node.js
2 7 (35.00%) OpenCV
2 7 (35.00%) Pandas
2 7 (35.00%) PyTorch
2 7 (35.00%) SQLAlchemy
3 6 (30.00%) Hugging Face
3 6 (30.00%) NumPy
4 4 (20.00%) boto
4 4 (20.00%) JWT
4 4 (20.00%) OAuth
5 3 (15.00%) REST
6 1 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Unix
3 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (55.00%) Agile
2 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (55.00%) Containerisation
2 11 (55.00%) DevOps
3 9 (45.00%) AI
4 8 (40.00%) Microservices
5 7 (35.00%) LLM
5 7 (35.00%) Machine Learning
5 7 (35.00%) TDD
6 6 (30.00%) Kanban
6 6 (30.00%) OCR
6 6 (30.00%) OOP
6 6 (30.00%) Pair Programming
6 6 (30.00%) Scrum
7 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (25.00%) Observability
8 4 (20.00%) API Development
8 4 (20.00%) Async-Await
9 3 (15.00%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) Perl
3 8 (40.00%) Java
3 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 7 (35.00%) Ruby
5 5 (25.00%) Bash
6 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.00%) Go
7 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Docker
2 4 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (15.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 17 (85.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (50.00%) Grafana
3 6 (30.00%) Terraform
4 5 (25.00%) Ansible
5 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (10.00%) Fluentd
7 2 (10.00%) HAProxy
7 2 (10.00%) Nagios
8 1 (5.00%) Argo
8 1 (5.00%) Karpenter
8 1 (5.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Commvault
2 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.00%) ForgeRock
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Ping Identity
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk