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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 104 135
Rank change year-on-year +15 +31 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 24 18 10
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.49% 1.01% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.10% 3.14% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 8
10th Percentile £396 - £389
25th Percentile £463 £350 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £409 £463
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -11.57% -27.85%
75th Percentile £545 £442 £537
90th Percentile £638 £475 £573
UK median daily rate £555 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -11.90% +9.57% -8.00%

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 585 573 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.36% 32.01% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 358 553
10th Percentile £340 £259 £313
25th Percentile £419 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -1.45%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £560
90th Percentile £627 £594 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 5
10th Percentile £13.58 £17.19 £14.06
25th Percentile £14.15 £18.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £15.09 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -31.41% +24.15% -
75th Percentile £37.55 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £51.02 - £26.59
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +33.33%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +12 15 £500 +11.11% 1
Glasgow -12 9 £543 +32.76%
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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (58.33%) Serverless
3 13 (54.17%) Amazon S3
4 12 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (16.67%) Slack
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
8 2 (8.33%) Azure
8 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.33%) Dagster
8 2 (8.33%) GCP
8 2 (8.33%) GitHub
8 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
1 3 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.33%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Git
2 7 (29.17%) JIRA
3 5 (20.83%) GitLab
4 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (16.67%) Terragrunt
5 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket
5 3 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 10 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Banking
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Architect
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) AWS CDK
2 8 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 8 (33.33%) OpenCV
2 8 (33.33%) Pandas
2 8 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 8 (33.33%) SQLAlchemy
3 7 (29.17%) Hugging Face
3 7 (29.17%) NumPy
4 5 (20.83%) boto
4 5 (20.83%) JWT
4 5 (20.83%) OAuth
5 4 (16.67%) REST
6 3 (12.50%) Node.js
7 1 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (4.17%) Apache Camel
7 1 (4.17%) JSON
7 1 (4.17%) Kafka
7 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (4.17%) RESTful
7 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Unix
3 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (70.83%) Agile
3 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 14 (58.33%) DevOps
5 10 (41.67%) Containerisation
6 8 (33.33%) AI
6 8 (33.33%) Kanban
6 8 (33.33%) LLM
6 8 (33.33%) Machine Learning
6 8 (33.33%) OOP
6 8 (33.33%) Scrum
7 7 (29.17%) OCR
7 7 (29.17%) TDD
8 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (25.00%) Pair Programming
9 5 (20.83%) API Development
9 5 (20.83%) Coaching
9 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
9 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (20.83%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) Python
2 8 (33.33%) Java
3 6 (25.00%) Perl
4 5 (20.83%) Bash
5 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 3 (12.50%) Ruby
7 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (4.17%) Go
8 1 (4.17%) SQL
8 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) AWS Certification
2 4 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Docker
2 3 (12.50%) KVM
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (54.17%) Terraform
3 11 (45.83%) Grafana
4 6 (25.00%) Ansible
5 5 (20.83%) Argo
5 5 (20.83%) Prometheus
6 4 (16.67%) Istio
7 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (8.33%) Fluentd
8 2 (8.33%) HAProxy
8 2 (8.33%) Nagios
9 1 (4.17%) Karpenter
9 1 (4.17%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Commvault
2 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.33%) ForgeRock
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) Ping Identity
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk