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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 241 293
Rank change year-on-year -28 +52 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 115 145 133
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 0.93% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 2.27% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 117 104
10th Percentile £413 £500 £400
25th Percentile £463 £553 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.59% +17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £665 £888 £695
90th Percentile £724 - £863
England median daily rate £550 £650 £572
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.64% -8.48%

All Cloud 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 6,245 6,382 7,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.92% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,230 4,335 5,641
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 34 67
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.56
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -9.68% +49.93%
75th Percentile £41.94 £55.25 £61.88
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.33 £85.62
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 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
Central London +3 12 £563 -8.16% 38
South London -14 7 £530 -3.42% 1
West London - 1 £725 - 2
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 5 (4.35%) CMS
1 5 (4.35%) Confluence
1 5 (4.35%) Headless CMS
2 3 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.61%) Traefik
3 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.74%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.87%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 105 (91.30%) AWS
2 43 (37.39%) Amazon ECS
3 38 (33.04%) Amazon S3
4 37 (32.17%) GitHub
5 36 (31.30%) Serverless
6 35 (30.43%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (27.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
9 28 (24.35%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (16.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (14.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (13.91%) Datadog
13 13 (11.30%) Azure
13 13 (11.30%) GCP
14 11 (9.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 10 (8.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 9 (7.83%) Azure AKS
17 8 (6.96%) IaaS
17 8 (6.96%) Route 53
18 7 (6.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.09%) DNS
2 6 (5.22%) Firewall
2 6 (5.22%) VPN
3 3 (2.61%) SNMP
4 2 (1.74%) Calico
4 2 (1.74%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.87%) DHCP
5 1 (0.87%) HTTP
5 1 (0.87%) Internet
5 1 (0.87%) NAS
5 1 (0.87%) Network Security
5 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.87%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (27.83%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (10.43%) DynamoDB
4 10 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (6.09%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.35%) Redis
7 4 (3.48%) Big Data
7 4 (3.48%) Flink
7 4 (3.48%) MySQL
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.61%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.74%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.74%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (27.83%) Jenkins
2 20 (17.39%) GitLab
3 13 (11.30%) Git
4 8 (6.96%) JIRA
5 4 (3.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.87%) git-flow
7 1 (0.87%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (20.00%) Finance
2 19 (16.52%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.78%) Banking
4 11 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Front Office
7 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Publishing
9 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Games
9 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Police
9 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (32.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (26.96%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (18.26%) Senior
4 20 (17.39%) AWS DevOps
5 17 (14.78%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (13.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 14 (12.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 13 (11.30%) Developer
9 12 (10.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (10.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (8.70%) Architect
10 10 (8.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 10 (8.70%) Java Developer
11 9 (7.83%) Site Engineer
12 7 (6.09%) AWS Architect
13 6 (5.22%) Lead
14 5 (4.35%) Python Engineer
14 5 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
14 5 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 5 (4.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.00%) Kafka
2 12 (10.43%) Spring Boot
3 8 (6.96%) AWS CDK
3 8 (6.96%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (6.09%) Node.js
4 7 (6.09%) OAuth
4 7 (6.09%) Spring
5 6 (5.22%) OAuth2
5 6 (5.22%) OpenID
5 6 (5.22%) SAML
6 5 (4.35%) JSON
6 5 (4.35%) YAML
7 4 (3.48%) Keycloak
7 4 (3.48%) React
8 3 (2.61%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.61%) REST
9 2 (1.74%) .NET
9 2 (1.74%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.22%) Replication
3 5 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.35%) Fixed Income
3 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.61%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.87%) CUDA
6 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.87%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.87%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.87%) NHS
6 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.87%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.52%) Linux
2 3 (2.61%) Unix
2 3 (2.61%) VMS
3 2 (1.74%) Windows
4 1 (0.87%) AIX
4 1 (0.87%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.87%) Android
4 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.87%) Solaris
4 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (67.83%) CI/CD
2 60 (52.17%) DevOps
3 54 (46.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (40.87%) Containerisation
5 30 (26.09%) Microservices
6 28 (24.35%) Observability
7 25 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
8 22 (19.13%) Agile
9 21 (18.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 17 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (12.17%) Configuration Management
12 12 (10.43%) Migration
12 12 (10.43%) Software Engineering
13 11 (9.57%) Test Automation
14 10 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (8.70%) GitOps
14 10 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
15 9 (7.83%) Cloud Security
15 9 (7.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 9 (7.83%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (54.78%) Python
2 30 (26.09%) Java
3 28 (24.35%) Bash
4 16 (13.91%) Go
5 11 (9.57%) SQL
6 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.48%) Groovy
7 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.61%) Ruby
8 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.74%) Perl
9 2 (1.74%) PromQL
10 1 (0.87%) Bicep
10 1 (0.87%) C#
10 1 (0.87%) COBOL
10 1 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (31.30%) Security Cleared
2 31 (26.96%) SC Cleared
3 22 (19.13%) AWS Certification
4 11 (9.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.35%) Degree
6 4 (3.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.74%) CISSP
8 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.87%) CCSP
9 1 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.87%) OSCP
9 1 (0.87%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.48%) GDPR
1 4 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.61%) NCSC
3 2 (1.74%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.74%) NIST
3 2 (1.74%) QA
4 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.87%) GRC
4 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (45.22%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.87%) etcd
3 1 (0.87%) HDFS
3 1 (0.87%) iptables
3 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 77 (66.96%) Kubernetes
2 68 (59.13%) Terraform
3 27 (23.48%) Grafana
4 14 (12.17%) Ansible
4 14 (12.17%) Argo
5 12 (10.43%) Prometheus
6 9 (7.83%) Puppet
7 5 (4.35%) Istio
8 4 (3.48%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.48%) Rancher
8 4 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.61%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.74%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.87%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 9 (7.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.96%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.09%) Splunk
4 6 (5.22%) PagerDuty
5 4 (3.48%) AppDynamics
5 4 (3.48%) Databricks
5 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.61%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.61%) Google
6 3 (2.61%) Oracle
7 2 (1.74%) Avaloq
7 2 (1.74%) Confluent
7 2 (1.74%) Qualys
8 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.87%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.87%) Intel
8 1 (0.87%) NetApp
8 1 (0.87%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.87%) Tenable