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 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 17 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 110 | 90 | 104 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -20 | +14 | +31 |
| Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS | 26 | 24 | 17 |
| As % of all contract jobs in Scotland | 1.08% | 1.51% | 0.92% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 3.13% | 4.20% | 2.94% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 17 | 21 | 8 |
| 10th Percentile | £346 | £400 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £363 | £463 | £350 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £400 | £500 | £400 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -20.00% | +25.00% | -27.27% |
| 75th Percentile | £425 | £543 | £494 |
| 90th Percentile | £570 | £635 | £558 |
| UK median daily rate | £559 | £555 | £630 |
| % change year-on-year | +0.72% | -11.90% | +8.11% |
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.
| 6 months to 17 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 830 | 572 | 579 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland | 34.33% | 36.02% | 31.38% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 494 | 366 | 364 |
| 10th Percentile | £283 | £325 | £216 |
| 25th Percentile | £400 | £421 | £375 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £469 | £500 | £450 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -6.30% | +11.11% | -5.26% |
| 75th Percentile | £539 | £562 | £532 |
| 90th Percentile | £634 | £625 | £594 |
| UK median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 10 | 2 | 8 |
| 10th Percentile | £15.63 | £19.58 | £16.69 |
| 25th Percentile | - | £26.32 | £18.42 |
| Median hourly rate | £15.81 | £37.55 | £21.14 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -57.89% | +77.58% | +19.31% |
| 75th Percentile | £18.75 | £48.77 | £24.18 |
| 90th Percentile | £22.63 | £55.51 | - |
| UK median hourly rate | £30.00 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +19.28% | -28.14% | +8.29% |
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 Daily Rate Trend in Scotland
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 17 October 2026.
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 17 October 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 | -8 | 20 | £388 | -28.64% | 17 |
| Edinburgh | -12 | 6 | £423 | -15.40% | 3 |
| Amazon EKS UK |
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Amazon EKS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 26 |
| 2 | Amazon ECS | 69.2% | 18 |
| 3 | Kong | 53.8% | 14 |
| 4 | Amazon MSK | 50.0% | 13 |
| 5 | AWS Lambda | 42.3% | 11 |
| 5 | Serverless | 42.3% | 11 |
| 7 | Akamai | 26.9% | 7 |
| 7 | Cloudflare | 26.9% | 7 |
| 9 | Apigee | 23.1% | 6 |
| 10 | Amazon CloudWatch | 19.2% | 5 |
| 10 | Amazon S3 | 19.2% | 5 |
| 12 | Amazon SQS | 15.4% | 4 |
| 12 | AWS Direct Connect | 15.4% | 4 |
| 14 | Amazon EC2 | 11.5% | 3 |
| 14 | Virtual Private Cloud | 11.5% | 3 |
| 16 | Amazon ECR | 7.7% | 2 |
| 16 | AWS CloudFormation | 7.7% | 2 |
| 16 | GCP | 7.7% | 2 |
| 19 | Amazon EventBridge | 3.8% | 1 |
| 19 | AWS Step Functions | 3.8% | 1 |