Amazon EKS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 106 149
Rank change year-on-year -4 +43 +7
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 14 17 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.79% 0.82% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.18% 2.34% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 14
10th Percentile £463 £426 £570
25th Percentile £475 £446 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £586 £646
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% -9.28% +7.71%
75th Percentile £626 £634 £673
90th Percentile £663 - £676
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% -

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 641 727 1,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.30% 34.95% 36.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 488 756
10th Percentile £313 £210 £250
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.96%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £630 £613
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 10
10th Percentile £16.21 £14.91 £17.26
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.50 £20.56
Median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -63.24% +14.20%
75th Percentile £25.06 £20.87 £62.39
90th Percentile £27.05 £27.14 £64.30
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.15% -36.71% +55.56%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in Scotland

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 July 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 +3 7 £500 -14.71% 2
Glasgow -20 7 £635 +11.40% 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 6 (42.86%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) Camunda
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (7.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Serverless
3 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (28.57%) Slack
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
4 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (14.29%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (7.14%) CloudFront
6 1 (7.14%) Datadog
6 1 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) IaaS
6 1 (7.14%) PaaS
6 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) FTP
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) JIRA
2 6 (42.86%) Git
3 4 (28.57%) Terragrunt
4 2 (14.29%) Artifactory
4 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (14.29%) GitLab
5 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 1 (7.14%) Mockito
5 1 (7.14%) Selenium
5 1 (7.14%) Toad
5 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Banking
5 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
1 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Apache Camel
3 2 (14.29%) LDAP
4 1 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.14%) J2EE
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) JWT
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) OpenID
4 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) SAML
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
2 12 (85.71%) DevOps
3 9 (64.29%) Agile
4 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 6 (42.86%) Mentoring
5 6 (42.86%) Migration
6 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
6 5 (35.71%) Secrets Management
7 4 (28.57%) Architecture Roadmap
7 4 (28.57%) Coaching
7 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
7 4 (28.57%) Data Protection
7 4 (28.57%) GitOps
7 4 (28.57%) Microservices
7 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (28.57%) Prototyping
7 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 3 (21.43%) Fintech
9 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
1 9 (64.29%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Argo
2 4 (28.57%) Istio
3 3 (21.43%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (7.14%) Grafana
5 1 (7.14%) HAProxy
5 1 (7.14%) linkerd
5 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 2 (14.29%) ForgeRock
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Informatica
2 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.14%) Okta
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) StreamSets
2 1 (7.14%) Talend