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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 237 285
Rank change year-on-year +7 +48 +62
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 160 124 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 0.90% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.45% 2.17% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 109 91
10th Percentile £400 £493 £400
25th Percentile £475 £553 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% +13.04% -9.45%
75th Percentile £651 £725 £695
90th Percentile £713 £888 £825
England median daily rate £541 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -14.09% +9.57% -8.00%

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 6,526 5,716 6,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.20% 41.38% 37.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,479 3,806 5,078
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £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 96 46 74
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.85
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £29.69 £29.80 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% -5.41% +14.55%
75th Percentile £54.31 £47.72 £53.44
90th Percentile £75.84 £64.38 £61.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 18 £550 -18.52% 5
South London -10 12 £530 -4.29% 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 14 (8.75%) Confluence
2 5 (3.13%) nginx
3 3 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.88%) Traefik
4 2 (1.25%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.63%) Apache
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (1.25%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 151 (94.38%) AWS
2 68 (42.50%) Amazon S3
2 68 (42.50%) GitHub
3 62 (38.75%) Serverless
4 59 (36.88%) AWS Lambda
5 54 (33.75%) Amazon ECS
6 53 (33.13%) GitHub Actions
7 51 (31.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 48 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
9 41 (25.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 39 (24.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (13.75%) Azure
11 22 (13.75%) Datadog
12 21 (13.13%) Route 53
13 15 (9.38%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (8.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 13 (8.13%) Azure AKS
15 12 (7.50%) AWS CodePipeline
16 11 (6.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 11 (6.88%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.25%) DNS
2 13 (8.13%) VPN
3 11 (6.88%) Firewall
4 5 (3.13%) OpenVPN
4 5 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.50%) SSL
6 3 (1.88%) Network Security
6 3 (1.88%) SNMP
7 2 (1.25%) BGP
7 2 (1.25%) Calico
7 2 (1.25%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.25%) OSPF
7 2 (1.25%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.25%) WAN
8 1 (0.63%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (28.13%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (18.13%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (7.50%) DynamoDB
5 11 (6.88%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.63%) Redis
7 8 (5.00%) DocumentDB
7 8 (5.00%) Flink
7 8 (5.00%) MySQL
8 7 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (4.38%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.13%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.50%) Big Data
10 4 (2.50%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (30.63%) Jenkins
2 42 (26.25%) GitLab
3 17 (10.63%) JIRA
4 14 (8.75%) Git
5 8 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.38%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.50%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.25%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.25%) GoCD
8 2 (1.25%) Snyk
8 2 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.63%) git-flow
9 1 (0.63%) JUnit
9 1 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 31 (19.38%) Finance
2 29 (18.13%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.75%) Banking
4 19 (11.88%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.88%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (6.25%) Front Office
7 7 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.25%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Games
11 1 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (26.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (21.25%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (15.63%) Architect
4 22 (13.75%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (13.75%) Senior
5 21 (13.13%) Developer
6 18 (11.25%) AWS Architect
6 18 (11.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 18 (11.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 16 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (9.38%) Cloud Architect
8 15 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (8.75%) Lead
10 11 (6.88%) Python Engineer
11 10 (6.25%) Python Developer
12 9 (5.63%) Data Engineer
12 9 (5.63%) Site Engineer
13 7 (4.38%) Lead Data Engineer
14 6 (3.75%) Kafka Engineer
14 6 (3.75%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (31.88%) Kafka
2 15 (9.38%) Spring
3 14 (8.75%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (8.75%) Node.js
3 14 (8.75%) REST
3 14 (8.75%) Spring Boot
4 12 (7.50%) OpenID
5 11 (6.88%) AWS CDK
5 11 (6.88%) RESTful
6 10 (6.25%) OAuth
7 9 (5.63%) React
8 7 (4.38%) OAuth2
8 7 (4.38%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (3.75%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.75%) Django
9 6 (3.75%) FastAPI
10 5 (3.13%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.13%) HTML
10 5 (3.13%) JPA
10 5 (3.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (24.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.25%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.75%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.75%) Replication
5 5 (3.13%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.88%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.25%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.25%) Equities
8 2 (1.25%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.25%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.25%) PKI
8 2 (1.25%) SCADA
9 1 (0.63%) CUDA
9 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.63%) NHS
9 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.25%) Linux
2 6 (3.75%) Windows
3 3 (1.88%) Unix
3 3 (1.88%) VMS
4 1 (0.63%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.63%) Android
4 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (67.50%) CI/CD
2 84 (52.50%) DevOps
3 82 (51.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 42 (26.25%) Observability
6 38 (23.75%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (21.25%) Microservices
8 30 (18.75%) Agile
9 29 (18.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 21 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (11.88%) Cloud Security
12 18 (11.25%) DevSecOps
12 18 (11.25%) Test Automation
13 17 (10.63%) Software Engineering
14 16 (10.00%) Secrets Management
15 15 (9.38%) Configuration Management
15 15 (9.38%) GitOps
16 14 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (8.75%) Roadmaps
17 13 (8.13%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 93 (58.13%) Python
2 39 (24.38%) Java
3 32 (20.00%) Bash
4 19 (11.88%) SQL
5 13 (8.13%) Go
6 11 (6.88%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.25%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.75%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.50%) Groovy
9 4 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.88%) Ruby
11 2 (1.25%) Bicep
11 2 (1.25%) Perl
12 1 (0.63%) C
12 1 (0.63%) C#
12 1 (0.63%) Korn
12 1 (0.63%) PHP
12 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.63%) ProC
Qualifications
1 50 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 45 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 28 (17.50%) AWS Certification
4 10 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (4.38%) Degree
6 6 (3.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.13%) CISSP
7 5 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.63%) CCSP
10 1 (0.63%) CEH
10 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.63%) MCP
10 1 (0.63%) OSCP
10 1 (0.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.63%) NIST
3 8 (5.00%) QA
4 5 (3.13%) NCSC
4 5 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.88%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.63%) GRC
6 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
System Software
1 82 (51.25%) Docker
2 6 (3.75%) Squid
3 2 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.63%) etcd
4 1 (0.63%) HDFS
4 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 115 (71.88%) Terraform
2 96 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 32 (20.00%) Grafana
4 25 (15.63%) Prometheus
5 22 (13.75%) Ansible
6 19 (11.88%) Argo
7 12 (7.50%) Puppet
7 12 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (3.13%) Consul
8 5 (3.13%) FortiGate
8 5 (3.13%) Istio
8 5 (3.13%) Karpenter
8 5 (3.13%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.50%) Kibana
9 4 (2.50%) Rancher
10 3 (1.88%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.88%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.63%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (8.75%) Dynatrace
1 14 (8.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.00%) Splunk
3 7 (4.38%) AppDynamics
3 7 (4.38%) PagerDuty
4 6 (3.75%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.75%) Databricks
5 5 (3.13%) AVEVA
5 5 (3.13%) Qualys
5 5 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.50%) Google
6 4 (2.50%) Oracle
6 4 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.50%) Tenable
7 3 (1.88%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.88%) New Relic
8 2 (1.25%) Avaloq
8 2 (1.25%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.25%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.25%) SAP