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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 102 107
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 29 15 11
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.27% 0.95% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.47% 2.75% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 4
10th Percentile £363 £463 -
25th Percentile £400 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £558 £598 £556
90th Percentile £583 £662 £568
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -1.44%

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 835 546 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.51% 34.45% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 339 392
10th Percentile £313 £344 £186
25th Percentile £401 £419 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £538
90th Percentile £636 £601 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 12
10th Percentile £13.86 - -
25th Percentile £13.97 - £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £15.09 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% -19.25% -57.29%
75th Percentile - - £23.30
90th Percentile £19.98 - £24.18
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +19.26% +1.79% -20.28%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +6 21 £425 -35.80% 10
Edinburgh -10 8 £463 -7.50% 3
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 (13.79%) Apache
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.90%) Confluence
3 2 (6.90%) nginx
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.45%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (44.83%) Amazon ECS
3 12 (41.38%) Kong
4 11 (37.93%) Amazon MSK
4 11 (37.93%) Serverless
5 10 (34.48%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (24.14%) Akamai
6 7 (24.14%) Cloudflare
7 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
8 4 (13.79%) Apigee
8 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (13.79%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (6.90%) Azure
10 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (6.90%) Dagster
10 2 (6.90%) Slack
11 1 (3.45%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) HTTP
2 6 (20.69%) DNS
3 4 (13.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.34%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.45%) Flink
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) Redis
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Bitbucket
2 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) Git
3 3 (10.34%) GitLab
4 2 (6.90%) JIRA
4 2 (6.90%) MLflow
4 2 (6.90%) Terragrunt
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.45%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (31.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.45%) Architect
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Integration Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (51.72%) Terraform
2 11 (37.93%) OAuth
3 9 (31.03%) OAuth2
4 8 (27.59%) Kafka
4 8 (27.59%) OpenID
5 7 (24.14%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (24.14%) React
6 6 (20.69%) RESTful
6 6 (20.69%) SAML
7 5 (17.24%) gRPC
7 5 (17.24%) OpenAPI
7 5 (17.24%) Spring
7 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
7 5 (17.24%) Swagger
7 5 (17.24%) WebSockets
8 4 (13.79%) REST
9 3 (10.34%) AWS CDK
9 3 (10.34%) boto
9 3 (10.34%) JWT
10 2 (6.90%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (44.83%) Cloud Native
2 7 (24.14%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (20.69%) Algorithms
3 6 (20.69%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) CI/CD
2 18 (62.07%) Platform Engineering
3 17 (58.62%) DevOps
4 12 (41.38%) GitOps
5 8 (27.59%) Agile
6 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (20.69%) API Management
7 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
7 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
7 6 (20.69%) Observability
7 6 (20.69%) SIEM
8 5 (17.24%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (17.24%) Low Latency
8 5 (17.24%) Operational Stability
8 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
8 5 (17.24%) Runbook
8 5 (17.24%) Secrets Management
8 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
9 4 (13.79%) Dashboard Development
9 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Go
2 9 (31.03%) Python
3 8 (27.59%) TypeScript
4 7 (24.14%) Java
5 5 (17.24%) Lua
6 4 (13.79%) Bash
7 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
7 3 (10.34%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
1 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (96.55%) Kubernetes
2 9 (31.03%) Argo
3 5 (17.24%) Istio
4 4 (13.79%) Grafana
5 2 (6.90%) Ansible
5 2 (6.90%) linkerd
5 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.45%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Dynatrace
1 8 (27.59%) Splunk
2 6 (20.69%) ForgeRock
3 4 (13.79%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.45%) Checkmarx
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) New Relic
4 1 (3.45%) Okta
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle