Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 245 286
Rank change year-on-year +25 +41 +75
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 181 114 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 0.85% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.64% 2.04% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 102 90
10th Percentile £400 £500 £406
25th Percentile £471 £575 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £695
90th Percentile £713 £888 £825
England median daily rate £528 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -16.27% +9.57% -6.12%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,844 5,595 6,853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.06% 41.49% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,690 3,743 5,047
10th Percentile £350 £354 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 51 79
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.99 £21.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 £34.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year - +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £57.25 £53.63
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £62.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +34.55% +25.00% -12.00%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EKS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in London

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in London over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in London

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London -2 19 £544 -19.44% 9
South London 0 16 £525 -18.60% 4
West London - 2 £725 - 1
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 16 (8.84%) Confluence
2 9 (4.97%) nginx
3 4 (2.21%) Traefik
4 3 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.55%) Apache
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.21%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 172 (95.03%) AWS
2 72 (39.78%) Amazon S3
2 72 (39.78%) Serverless
3 71 (39.23%) GitHub
4 69 (38.12%) AWS Lambda
5 61 (33.70%) Amazon ECS
6 56 (30.94%) Amazon EC2
6 56 (30.94%) GitHub Actions
7 52 (28.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 46 (25.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 43 (23.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (14.36%) Azure
11 23 (12.71%) Route 53
12 20 (11.05%) Datadog
13 16 (8.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 16 (8.84%) AWS CodePipeline
14 15 (8.29%) Azure AKS
15 13 (7.18%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (6.08%) GCP
17 10 (5.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.60%) DNS
2 16 (8.84%) VPN
3 14 (7.73%) Firewall
4 8 (4.42%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.87%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.21%) Network Security
6 4 (2.21%) SSL
7 3 (1.66%) SNMP
8 2 (1.10%) BGP
8 2 (1.10%) Calico
8 2 (1.10%) Kerberos
8 2 (1.10%) OSPF
8 2 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.10%) WAN
9 1 (0.55%) DHCP
9 1 (0.55%) ICMP
9 1 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.55%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (23.76%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (14.92%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.08%) DynamoDB
4 10 (5.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.97%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.97%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.42%) DocumentDB
6 8 (4.42%) Flink
6 8 (4.42%) MySQL
6 8 (4.42%) Redis
7 5 (2.76%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.21%) Big Data
9 3 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.66%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.66%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (30.39%) Jenkins
2 48 (26.52%) GitLab
3 19 (10.50%) JIRA
4 15 (8.29%) Git
5 12 (6.63%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.87%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.21%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.21%) MLflow
7 4 (2.21%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.10%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.10%) GoCD
8 2 (1.10%) Mocha
8 2 (1.10%) MSTest
8 2 (1.10%) Snyk
8 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.10%) tSQLt
9 1 (0.55%) git-flow
9 1 (0.55%) JUnit
General
1 38 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.13%) Public Sector
3 30 (16.57%) Finance
4 21 (11.60%) Banking
5 15 (8.29%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.63%) Front Office
8 5 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Games
11 1 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 44 (24.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (21.55%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (16.02%) Architect
4 28 (15.47%) Senior
5 25 (13.81%) Developer
6 23 (12.71%) AWS DevOps
7 20 (11.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 18 (9.94%) AWS Architect
8 18 (9.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 16 (8.84%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (8.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (8.29%) Lead
11 14 (7.73%) Cloud Architect
12 11 (6.08%) Python Developer
12 11 (6.08%) Python Engineer
13 9 (4.97%) Site Engineer
14 8 (4.42%) Senior Developer
14 8 (4.42%) Software Engineer
15 7 (3.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 7 (3.87%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (27.07%) Kafka
2 18 (9.94%) Node.js
2 18 (9.94%) REST
3 16 (8.84%) AWS CDK
4 15 (8.29%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (8.29%) Spring
4 15 (8.29%) Spring Boot
5 14 (7.73%) OpenID
6 13 (7.18%) RESTful
7 11 (6.08%) OAuth
8 10 (5.52%) React
9 8 (4.42%) AngularJS
9 8 (4.42%) LDAP
9 8 (4.42%) OAuth2
10 7 (3.87%) FastAPI
10 7 (3.87%) HTML
10 7 (3.87%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (3.31%) Django
12 5 (2.76%) Hibernate
12 5 (2.76%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.65%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.08%) Fixed Income
4 8 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.42%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.87%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.76%) Equities
6 5 (2.76%) Replication
7 4 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.21%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.66%) Life Science
9 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.10%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.10%) Omics
9 2 (1.10%) PKI
9 2 (1.10%) SCADA
9 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.13%) Linux
2 6 (3.31%) Windows
3 5 (2.76%) Unix
4 3 (1.66%) VMS
5 1 (0.55%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (67.96%) CI/CD
2 95 (52.49%) DevOps
3 90 (49.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (41.44%) Containerisation
5 43 (23.76%) Observability
5 43 (23.76%) Platform Engineering
6 38 (20.99%) Microservices
7 37 (20.44%) Agile
8 28 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (15.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 22 (12.15%) Software Engineering
10 20 (11.05%) Cloud Security
10 20 (11.05%) DevSecOps
11 18 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (9.39%) Test Automation
13 15 (8.29%) AI
13 15 (8.29%) Configuration Management
13 15 (8.29%) GitOps
13 15 (8.29%) Secrets Management
14 14 (7.73%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 104 (57.46%) Python
2 43 (23.76%) Java
3 34 (18.78%) Bash
4 20 (11.05%) SQL
5 17 (9.39%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.18%) Go
7 11 (6.08%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.97%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.42%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.66%) C#
10 3 (1.66%) Groovy
10 3 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.66%) Ruby
11 2 (1.10%) Bicep
11 2 (1.10%) Perl
11 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.55%) Korn
12 1 (0.55%) PHP
12 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.55%) ProC
Qualifications
1 63 (34.81%) Security Cleared
2 57 (31.49%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.92%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.87%) Degree
6 6 (3.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.76%) CISSP
7 5 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.55%) CCSP
10 1 (0.55%) CEH
10 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.55%) OSCP
10 1 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.97%) NIST
3 8 (4.42%) QA
4 5 (2.76%) NCSC
4 5 (2.76%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.66%) WCAG
6 2 (1.10%) GDPR
6 2 (1.10%) GRC
7 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 90 (49.72%) Docker
2 8 (4.42%) Squid
3 3 (1.66%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.55%) etcd
5 1 (0.55%) HDFS
5 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 124 (68.51%) Terraform
2 103 (56.91%) Kubernetes
3 35 (19.34%) Grafana
4 26 (14.36%) Prometheus
5 22 (12.15%) Ansible
6 20 (11.05%) Argo
7 14 (7.73%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (6.08%) Puppet
9 7 (3.87%) FortiGate
10 6 (3.31%) Consul
11 5 (2.76%) Istio
11 5 (2.76%) Karpenter
11 5 (2.76%) Progress Chef
12 4 (2.21%) Kibana
13 3 (1.66%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.66%) Opsgenie
13 3 (1.66%) Rancher
14 1 (0.55%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.55%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (8.29%) Dynatrace
1 15 (8.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.52%) Splunk
3 9 (4.97%) AppDynamics
3 9 (4.97%) Databricks
4 7 (3.87%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.87%) PagerDuty
4 7 (3.87%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.76%) AVEVA
5 5 (2.76%) Oracle
5 5 (2.76%) Qualys
6 4 (2.21%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.21%) Charles River
6 4 (2.21%) Google
7 3 (1.66%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.66%) New Relic
7 3 (1.66%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.66%) Tenable
8 2 (1.10%) Avaloq
8 2 (1.10%) Rapid7