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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 218 287
Rank change year-on-year -16 +69 +60
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 180 137 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 1.08% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.40% 2.53% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 119 68
10th Percentile £368 £485 £373
25th Percentile £471 £576 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £630 £556
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +13.26% -11.00%
75th Percentile £630 £700 £663
90th Percentile £713 £878 £825
England median daily rate £525 £605 £550
% change year-on-year -13.15% +9.91% -12.00%

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 7,488 5,406 6,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.31% 42.69% 37.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,156 3,750 4,893
10th Percentile £350 £356 £331
25th Percentile £425 £440 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £675
90th Percentile £750 £776 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 52 76
10th Percentile £18.64 £22.27 £17.39
25th Percentile £25.36 £24.66 £21.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £52.96 £54.13 £41.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.13 £61.25
England median hourly rate £43.61 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +64.57% +27.59% -24.47%

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 15 April 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 15 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
South London +2 16 £522 -23.83% 1
Central London -17 14 £563 -16.67% 4
West London - 2 £725 -
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 12 (6.67%) Confluence
2 11 (6.11%) nginx
3 5 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) SAS
5 1 (0.56%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.22%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 174 (96.67%) AWS
2 80 (44.44%) Serverless
3 78 (43.33%) Amazon S3
3 78 (43.33%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (36.11%) Amazon EC2
5 60 (33.33%) GitHub
6 58 (32.22%) Amazon ECS
7 51 (28.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 50 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 48 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (23.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 26 (14.44%) Azure
12 25 (13.89%) Route 53
13 22 (12.22%) Datadog
14 18 (10.00%) Azure AKS
15 14 (7.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 14 (7.78%) AWS CodePipeline
15 14 (7.78%) GCP
16 13 (7.22%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (6.11%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.22%) DNS
2 16 (8.89%) Firewall
2 16 (8.89%) VPN
3 11 (6.11%) TCP/IP
4 9 (5.00%) OpenVPN
5 4 (2.22%) Network Security
5 4 (2.22%) SSL
6 2 (1.11%) BGP
6 2 (1.11%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.11%) OSPF
6 2 (1.11%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.11%) WAN
7 1 (0.56%) DHCP
7 1 (0.56%) ICMP
7 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (23.89%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.44%) DocumentDB
5 8 (4.44%) Flink
5 8 (4.44%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (3.89%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.89%) Redis
7 6 (3.33%) MySQL
8 5 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.67%) Big Data
9 3 (1.67%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.67%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (31.11%) GitLab
2 55 (30.56%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.89%) Git
4 14 (7.78%) JIRA
5 13 (7.22%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.44%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.78%) MLflow
8 4 (2.22%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.22%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.22%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.67%) Mocha
9 3 (1.67%) MSTest
9 3 (1.67%) Snyk
9 3 (1.67%) tSQLt
10 2 (1.11%) GoCD
10 2 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.56%) git-flow
11 1 (0.56%) Gradle
11 1 (0.56%) JUnit
11 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 38 (21.11%) Public Sector
2 36 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.78%) Finance
4 24 (13.33%) Banking
5 17 (9.44%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.67%) Front Office
8 5 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.11%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Games
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (22.78%) AWS Engineer
2 37 (20.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (18.89%) Architect
4 33 (18.33%) Senior
5 28 (15.56%) Developer
6 21 (11.67%) AWS DevOps
6 21 (11.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 20 (11.11%) AWS Architect
8 19 (10.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (8.33%) Lead
10 14 (7.78%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (7.22%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (7.22%) Site Engineer
12 12 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (6.67%) Python Engineer
13 11 (6.11%) Python Developer
14 8 (4.44%) Data Engineer
14 8 (4.44%) Node.js Developer
14 8 (4.44%) Software Engineer
15 7 (3.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (25.00%) Kafka
2 21 (11.67%) Node.js
2 21 (11.67%) REST
3 18 (10.00%) OpenID
4 15 (8.33%) RESTful
5 14 (7.78%) AWS CDK
5 14 (7.78%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (6.67%) OAuth
6 12 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
6 12 (6.67%) Spring
6 12 (6.67%) Spring Boot
7 10 (5.56%) LDAP
7 10 (5.56%) OAuth2
8 9 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 9 (5.00%) React
9 7 (3.89%) FastAPI
9 7 (3.89%) HTML
10 6 (3.33%) .NET
10 6 (3.33%) Django
11 5 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 45 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.11%) Fixed Income
4 9 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.89%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.78%) Equities
8 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.67%) Life Science
8 3 (1.67%) PKI
8 3 (1.67%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.67%) Replication
9 2 (1.11%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.11%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.11%) Omics
9 2 (1.11%) SCADA
9 2 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.22%) Linux
2 6 (3.33%) Windows
3 3 (1.67%) Unix
4 2 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) VMS
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 90 (50.00%) DevOps
3 89 (49.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (42.78%) Containerisation
5 46 (25.56%) Observability
6 44 (24.44%) Platform Engineering
7 37 (20.56%) Microservices
8 33 (18.33%) Agile
8 33 (18.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 30 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (11.67%) Software Engineering
11 19 (10.56%) Cloud Security
12 18 (10.00%) DevSecOps
13 17 (9.44%) SDLC
14 16 (8.89%) Roadmaps
14 16 (8.89%) Secrets Management
15 15 (8.33%) AI
15 15 (8.33%) Event-Driven
15 15 (8.33%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 99 (55.00%) Python
2 42 (23.33%) Java
3 29 (16.11%) Bash
4 18 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.89%) SQL
6 10 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.44%) Go
8 5 (2.78%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.22%) C#
10 3 (1.67%) Bicep
10 3 (1.67%) Ruby
10 3 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.11%) Groovy
11 2 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.11%) Perl
12 1 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.56%) Korn
12 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.56%) ProC
Qualifications
1 56 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 49 (27.22%) SC Cleared
3 28 (15.56%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.89%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.33%) Degree
7 4 (2.22%) CISSP
7 4 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) CEH
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) OSCP
9 1 (0.56%) SANS
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.00%) NIST
3 8 (4.44%) QA
4 6 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.33%) WCAG
5 5 (2.78%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.22%) NCSC
7 3 (1.67%) SLA
8 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.11%) GRC
9 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 86 (47.78%) Docker
2 10 (5.56%) Squid
3 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 130 (72.22%) Terraform
2 98 (54.44%) Kubernetes
3 37 (20.56%) Grafana
4 31 (17.22%) Prometheus
5 24 (13.33%) Ansible
6 20 (11.11%) Argo
7 12 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (6.11%) Puppet
9 9 (5.00%) FortiGate
10 7 (3.89%) Consul
11 5 (2.78%) Karpenter
12 4 (2.22%) Istio
12 4 (2.22%) Kibana
12 4 (2.22%) Progress Chef
13 3 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.67%) Opsgenie
14 2 (1.11%) Rancher
15 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (7.78%) Dynatrace
2 12 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.11%) Splunk
4 9 (5.00%) Databricks
4 9 (5.00%) PagerDuty
4 9 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.89%) AppDynamics
5 7 (3.89%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.89%) Oracle
6 6 (3.33%) Qualys
7 5 (2.78%) AVEVA
8 4 (2.22%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.22%) Charles River
8 4 (2.22%) Google
8 4 (2.22%) New Relic
8 4 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.22%) Tenable
9 3 (1.67%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.11%) Avaloq
10 2 (1.11%) SAP