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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 100 125
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 +1
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 23 18 16
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.51% 1.10% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 2.91% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 14
10th Percentile £310 - £403
25th Percentile £324 £350 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £380 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -15.67% -29.93%
75th Percentile £534 £409 £600
90th Percentile £545 £473 £634
UK median daily rate £525 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -13.58% +10.45% -10.20%

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 612 618 759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.10% 37.73% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 409 511
10th Percentile £313 £255 £325
25th Percentile £410 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £525 £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 6 8 5
10th Percentile £12.23 £21.84 -
25th Percentile £22.40 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.09 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +128.31% +35.95% -
75th Percentile £63.00 £25.07 £21.64
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.94 £40.91
UK median hourly rate £35.25 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.18% +22.22% -6.25%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +3 14 £358 -5.67% 2
Edinburgh +5 9 £525 -
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 5 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (13.04%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (73.91%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (73.91%) AWS Lambda
2 17 (73.91%) Serverless
3 10 (43.48%) Amazon S3
4 9 (39.13%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (39.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (34.78%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (30.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (30.43%) Amazon MSK
7 6 (26.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (13.04%) Azure AKS
8 3 (13.04%) Dagster
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (4.35%) Apigee
9 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (4.35%) GCP
9 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
9 1 (4.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) Firewall
2 4 (17.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Bitbucket
1 8 (34.78%) Git
1 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
1 8 (34.78%) JIRA
1 8 (34.78%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (26.09%) GitLab
3 4 (17.39%) MLflow
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Banking
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Python Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Senior
5 4 (17.39%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) AWS CDK
1 9 (39.13%) FastAPI
1 9 (39.13%) OpenCV
1 9 (39.13%) Pandas
1 9 (39.13%) PyTorch
1 9 (39.13%) SQLAlchemy
2 8 (34.78%) Hugging Face
2 8 (34.78%) NumPy
3 7 (30.43%) Node.js
4 6 (26.09%) boto
4 6 (26.09%) JWT
4 6 (26.09%) OAuth
5 5 (21.74%) REST
6 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Data Structures
2 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) AI
1 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
1 11 (47.83%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (39.13%) Agile
3 9 (39.13%) LLM
3 9 (39.13%) Machine Learning
3 9 (39.13%) TDD
4 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
4 8 (34.78%) Microservices
4 8 (34.78%) OCR
4 8 (34.78%) OOP
4 8 (34.78%) Pair Programming
4 8 (34.78%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (26.09%) Async-Await
5 6 (26.09%) Kanban
5 6 (26.09%) Scrum
6 5 (21.74%) API Development
6 5 (21.74%) API Integration
6 5 (21.74%) Computer Vision
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Java
3 7 (30.43%) Perl
3 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
3 7 (30.43%) Ruby
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
1 3 (13.04%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (86.96%) Kubernetes
2 8 (34.78%) Grafana
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Argo
4 1 (4.35%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk