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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 239 301
Rank change year-on-year +1 +62 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 187 117 99
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 0.95% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.36% 2.21% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 93 64
10th Percentile £400 £433 £367
25th Percentile £500 £525 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.49% -9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £747
90th Percentile £718 £735 £875
England median daily rate £550 £598 £575
% change year-on-year -7.95% +3.91% -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 7,932 5,284 6,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.09% 43.04% 39.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,446 3,584 5,084
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 63 68
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.60 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +23.08% -51.63%
75th Percentile £56.00 £48.13 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £72.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +54.90% +18.60% -38.57%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 £519 -24.30%
Central London -24 10 £575 -14.81% 7
West London - 6 £725 - 4
East London - 1 £500 - 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 13 (6.95%) Confluence
2 11 (5.88%) nginx
3 6 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) Apache
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.60%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 185 (98.93%) AWS
2 87 (46.52%) Serverless
3 86 (45.99%) AWS Lambda
4 81 (43.32%) Amazon S3
5 71 (37.97%) Amazon EC2
6 64 (34.22%) Amazon ECS
7 59 (31.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 57 (30.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 56 (29.95%) GitHub
10 45 (24.06%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (12.30%) Route 53
13 19 (10.16%) Datadog
14 18 (9.63%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (9.63%) Azure
15 14 (7.49%) AWS CodePipeline
15 14 (7.49%) Azure AKS
16 13 (6.95%) Snowflake
17 12 (6.42%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 11 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.23%) DNS
2 19 (10.16%) Firewall
3 15 (8.02%) TCP/IP
3 15 (8.02%) VPN
4 13 (6.95%) Network Security
5 9 (4.81%) OpenVPN
6 5 (2.67%) SSL
7 2 (1.07%) BGP
7 2 (1.07%) OSPF
7 2 (1.07%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.07%) WAN
8 1 (0.53%) Calico
8 1 (0.53%) DHCP
8 1 (0.53%) DSL
8 1 (0.53%) ICMP
8 1 (0.53%) Internet
8 1 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (20.86%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.35%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.28%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.28%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (3.74%) MySQL
7 6 (3.21%) DocumentDB
7 6 (3.21%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.67%) Redis
9 3 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.60%) Big Data
10 2 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.53%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (36.36%) GitLab
2 53 (28.34%) Jenkins
3 19 (10.16%) Git
4 14 (7.49%) Bitbucket
4 14 (7.49%) JIRA
5 8 (4.28%) Artifactory
5 8 (4.28%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.28%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.21%) Mocha
6 6 (3.21%) MSTest
6 6 (3.21%) tSQLt
7 5 (2.67%) MLflow
8 2 (1.07%) GoCD
8 2 (1.07%) Snyk
9 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.53%) Gatling
9 1 (0.53%) Gradle
9 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.53%) Selenium
9 1 (0.53%) Terragrunt
General
1 43 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.93%) Public Sector
3 27 (14.44%) Finance
4 22 (11.76%) Banking
5 15 (8.02%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.21%) Law
9 4 (2.14%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Front Office
10 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.07%) Military
11 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Publishing
12 1 (0.53%) Games
12 1 (0.53%) Marketing
12 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (28.34%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (22.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (20.32%) Senior
4 31 (16.58%) Architect
5 26 (13.90%) Developer
6 23 (12.30%) AWS DevOps
6 23 (12.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 21 (11.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (10.70%) AWS Architect
8 20 (10.70%) Lead
9 13 (6.95%) Python Developer
10 12 (6.42%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.42%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (5.88%) Data Engineer
12 10 (5.35%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (4.81%) AWS Software Engineer
13 9 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.65%) Kafka
2 24 (12.83%) REST
3 18 (9.63%) RESTful
4 17 (9.09%) AWS CDK
4 17 (9.09%) OpenID
5 15 (8.02%) Node.js
6 13 (6.95%) AngularJS
6 13 (6.95%) OpenTelemetry
7 12 (6.42%) OAuth
7 12 (6.42%) Spring Boot
8 11 (5.88%) React
9 10 (5.35%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (5.35%) FastAPI
9 10 (5.35%) LDAP
9 10 (5.35%) OAuth2
10 9 (4.81%) .NET
10 9 (4.81%) Spring
11 8 (4.28%) HTML
12 7 (3.74%) Django
12 7 (3.74%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 63 (33.69%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.56%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.35%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.21%) Equities
6 5 (2.67%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.14%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.14%) PKI
7 4 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.14%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.60%) Life Science
8 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.07%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.07%) Omics
9 2 (1.07%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.51%) Linux
2 9 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.21%) Windows
4 3 (1.60%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.07%) Unix
5 2 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (73.26%) CI/CD
2 99 (52.94%) DevOps
2 99 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (44.92%) Containerisation
4 55 (29.41%) Observability
5 43 (22.99%) Microservices
6 42 (22.46%) Platform Engineering
7 29 (15.51%) Agile
8 28 (14.97%) Software Engineering
9 27 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (13.37%) Cloud Security
11 23 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (12.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 22 (11.76%) AI
12 22 (11.76%) DevSecOps
13 21 (11.23%) Mentoring
14 19 (10.16%) Event-Driven
15 18 (9.63%) Roadmaps
15 18 (9.63%) SDLC
15 18 (9.63%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (49.73%) Python
2 31 (16.58%) Bash
3 30 (16.04%) Java
4 17 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 12 (6.42%) SQL
5 12 (6.42%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.81%) C#
6 9 (4.81%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.21%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.14%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.60%) Bicep
9 3 (1.60%) Go
10 2 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.53%) Cypher
11 1 (0.53%) R
11 1 (0.53%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 66 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 58 (31.02%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.30%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.95%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.60%) CISSP
7 3 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.07%) Degree
9 1 (0.53%) CEH
9 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.53%) PMP
9 1 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.95%) QA
2 7 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.74%) NIST
3 6 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.21%) WCAG
4 4 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.60%) SLA
6 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
7 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 78 (41.71%) Docker
2 15 (8.02%) Squid
3 2 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 137 (73.26%) Terraform
2 105 (56.15%) Kubernetes
3 48 (25.67%) Grafana
4 45 (24.06%) Prometheus
5 24 (12.83%) Ansible
6 12 (6.42%) Argo
6 12 (6.42%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (4.81%) FortiGate
8 8 (4.28%) Puppet
9 7 (3.74%) Consul
10 5 (2.67%) Istio
11 4 (2.14%) Suricata
12 3 (1.60%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (1.07%) Karpenter
14 1 (0.53%) Cilium
14 1 (0.53%) Kibana
14 1 (0.53%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.53%) Packer
14 1 (0.53%) systemd
Vendors
1 12 (6.42%) Red Hat
2 11 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 9 (4.81%) Splunk
4 8 (4.28%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.74%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.21%) Databricks
7 5 (2.67%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.67%) AVEVA
7 5 (2.67%) New Relic
7 5 (2.67%) Oracle
7 5 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.67%) Sybase
8 3 (1.60%) Amplitude
8 3 (1.60%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.60%) Charles River
8 3 (1.60%) Qualys
8 3 (1.60%) Tenable
9 2 (1.07%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.07%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.07%) Solace