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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 105 113
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 23 13 15
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.27% 0.81% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.09% 2.03% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 12
10th Percentile £311 £350 £415
25th Percentile £347 £380 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £409 £611
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% -33.09% -5.96%
75th Percentile £558 £531 £634
90th Percentile £572 £550 -
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -12.00%

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 745 639 747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.16% 39.64% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 436 509
10th Percentile £313 £297 £256
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -
75th Percentile £578 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £600 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 10
10th Percentile £12.74 £21.84 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.39 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £14.44 £24.09 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.06% +41.71% -71.92%
75th Percentile £46.25 £27.91 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £40.78 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.70% +30.60% -40.00%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +12 16 £358 -12.47% 1
Edinburgh -4 7 £556 +8.39% 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 (17.39%) Apache
1 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.70%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) Serverless
3 9 (39.13%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (39.13%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (34.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (26.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
7 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (17.39%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (17.39%) Azure AKS
7 4 (17.39%) Dagster
8 2 (8.70%) Azure
8 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.70%) Slack
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (4.35%) CloudFront
9 1 (4.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 4 (17.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
1 7 (30.43%) JIRA
2 5 (21.74%) Bitbucket
2 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 5 (21.74%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (17.39%) GitLab
3 4 (17.39%) MLflow
4 2 (8.70%) Terragrunt
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Python Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior
7 1 (4.35%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) AWS CDK
1 4 (17.39%) boto
1 4 (17.39%) FastAPI
1 4 (17.39%) Hugging Face
1 4 (17.39%) JWT
1 4 (17.39%) Node.js
1 4 (17.39%) NumPy
1 4 (17.39%) OAuth
1 4 (17.39%) OpenCV
1 4 (17.39%) Pandas
1 4 (17.39%) PyTorch
1 4 (17.39%) REST
1 4 (17.39%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (13.04%) Spring
2 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
2 4 (17.39%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 11 (47.83%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
4 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (34.78%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (30.43%) AI
6 7 (30.43%) Mentoring
7 6 (26.09%) Agile
8 5 (21.74%) GitOps
8 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (21.74%) Microservices
8 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
8 5 (21.74%) Secrets Management
9 4 (17.39%) A/B Testing
9 4 (17.39%) Async-Await
9 4 (17.39%) Computer Vision
9 4 (17.39%) LLM
9 4 (17.39%) OCR
9 4 (17.39%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) Java
3 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
4 4 (17.39%) Perl
4 4 (17.39%) Ruby
5 3 (13.04%) Bash
6 2 (8.70%) Go
6 2 (8.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) AWS Certification
1 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (39.13%) Terraform
3 7 (30.43%) Grafana
4 5 (21.74%) Istio
5 3 (13.04%) Ansible
5 3 (13.04%) Argo
6 2 (8.70%) linkerd
6 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
7 1 (4.35%) HAProxy
7 1 (4.35%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk