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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 249 288
Rank change year-on-year +17 +39 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 212 116 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 0.86% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.57% 2.00% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 91 75
10th Percentile £400 £425 £380
25th Percentile £513 £519 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £875
90th Percentile £770 £725 £888
England median daily rate £560 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -2.61% - -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 8,247 5,790 7,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.74% 42.84% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,666 3,933 5,162
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 81 64
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.44 £25.01 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -52.05%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £67.50 £61.00
England median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +58.05% +14.32% -33.33%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -5 17 £613 -5.77% 10
South London 0 12 £519 -26.40%
West London - 6 £725 - 6
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 18 (8.49%) Confluence
2 11 (5.19%) nginx
3 6 (2.83%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.47%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.42%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 208 (98.11%) AWS
2 85 (40.09%) Amazon S3
3 84 (39.62%) Serverless
4 83 (39.15%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (35.38%) Amazon ECS
6 68 (32.08%) Amazon EC2
7 62 (29.25%) GitHub
8 57 (26.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 54 (25.47%) GitHub Actions
10 53 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 39 (18.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 26 (12.26%) Azure
13 20 (9.43%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (8.49%) Datadog
14 18 (8.49%) Route 53
15 17 (8.02%) Snowflake
16 16 (7.55%) Azure AKS
17 14 (6.60%) AWS CodePipeline
18 12 (5.66%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 12 (5.66%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.96%) Firewall
2 16 (7.55%) DNS
3 15 (7.08%) TCP/IP
3 15 (7.08%) VPN
4 13 (6.13%) Network Security
5 9 (4.25%) OpenVPN
6 3 (1.42%) SSL
7 2 (0.94%) BGP
7 2 (0.94%) DSL
7 2 (0.94%) OSPF
7 2 (0.94%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.94%) WAN
8 1 (0.47%) Calico
8 1 (0.47%) DHCP
8 1 (0.47%) ICMP
8 1 (0.47%) Internet
8 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.98%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.25%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.77%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.30%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.36%) Big Data
7 3 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.42%) MySQL
7 3 (1.42%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.94%) Power BI
8 2 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.47%) Redis
9 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.47%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 69 (32.55%) GitLab
2 52 (24.53%) Jenkins
3 23 (10.85%) Git
4 16 (7.55%) Bitbucket
5 13 (6.13%) JIRA
6 8 (3.77%) Artifactory
6 8 (3.77%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.77%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.83%) Mocha
7 6 (2.83%) MSTest
7 6 (2.83%) tSQLt
8 4 (1.89%) MLflow
9 2 (0.94%) Maven
9 2 (0.94%) Snyk
10 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.47%) Gatling
10 1 (0.47%) Gradle
10 1 (0.47%) JMeter
10 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 52 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 44 (20.75%) Public Sector
3 38 (17.92%) Finance
4 27 (12.74%) Banking
5 18 (8.49%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.83%) Law
9 5 (2.36%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.89%) Front Office
10 4 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.94%) Back Office
12 2 (0.94%) Military
12 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.94%) Publishing
13 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.47%) Billing
13 1 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 57 (26.89%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (24.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (21.23%) Senior
4 32 (15.09%) Architect
5 26 (12.26%) Lead
6 25 (11.79%) AWS DevOps
6 25 (11.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 20 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (9.43%) Developer
8 16 (7.55%) AWS Architect
9 14 (6.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 14 (6.60%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.66%) Lead DevOps
10 12 (5.66%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.19%) Data Engineer
12 10 (4.72%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 10 (4.72%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (4.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.72%) Technical Architect
13 9 (4.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.21%) Kafka
2 23 (10.85%) REST
3 17 (8.02%) AWS CDK
4 14 (6.60%) Node.js
4 14 (6.60%) React
5 12 (5.66%) .NET
5 12 (5.66%) AngularJS
5 12 (5.66%) FastAPI
5 12 (5.66%) RESTful
6 11 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (5.19%) OpenID
7 10 (4.72%) LDAP
7 10 (4.72%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (3.77%) Loki
8 8 (3.77%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.30%) Flask
9 7 (3.30%) HTML
10 6 (2.83%) CSS
10 6 (2.83%) OAuth
10 6 (2.83%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 70 (33.02%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.66%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.25%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.30%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.83%) Equities
7 5 (2.36%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.36%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.89%) PKI
9 3 (1.42%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.42%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.42%) Life Science
9 3 (1.42%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.42%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.15%) Linux
2 9 (4.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.83%) Windows
4 3 (1.42%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.94%) Unix
5 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (68.87%) CI/CD
2 111 (52.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 109 (51.42%) DevOps
4 88 (41.51%) Containerisation
5 63 (29.72%) Observability
6 51 (24.06%) Microservices
7 47 (22.17%) Platform Engineering
8 33 (15.57%) AI
9 31 (14.62%) Agile
10 30 (14.15%) Software Engineering
11 29 (13.68%) DevSecOps
12 27 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (11.32%) Mentoring
14 23 (10.85%) Cloud Security
15 22 (10.38%) Event-Driven
15 22 (10.38%) Runbook
15 22 (10.38%) Secrets Management
16 20 (9.43%) LLM
16 20 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 104 (49.06%) Python
2 40 (18.87%) Bash
3 29 (13.68%) Java
4 18 (8.49%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.55%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.72%) C#
7 9 (4.25%) SQL
8 8 (3.77%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.83%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.36%) Go
11 4 (1.89%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.42%) Bicep
12 3 (1.42%) Cypher
12 3 (1.42%) SHACL
13 2 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.94%) R
14 1 (0.47%) C
14 1 (0.47%) C++
14 1 (0.47%) Haskell
14 1 (0.47%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 79 (37.26%) Security Cleared
2 70 (33.02%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.38%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.60%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.42%) Degree
8 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.94%) CISSP
8 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.47%) PMP
9 1 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.25%) QA
2 6 (2.83%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.83%) WCAG
3 4 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.42%) NIST
4 3 (1.42%) SLA
5 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.47%) GRC
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (40.09%) Docker
2 14 (6.60%) Squid
3 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 145 (68.40%) Terraform
2 116 (54.72%) Kubernetes
3 56 (26.42%) Grafana
4 46 (21.70%) Prometheus
5 24 (11.32%) Ansible
6 22 (10.38%) Argo
7 11 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (4.25%) FortiGate
9 8 (3.77%) Puppet
10 7 (3.30%) Consul
11 5 (2.36%) Istio
12 4 (1.89%) Suricata
13 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.94%) ITRS Geneos
15 1 (0.47%) Cilium
15 1 (0.47%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.47%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.47%) Packer
15 1 (0.47%) systemd
Vendors
1 14 (6.60%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.66%) Dynatrace
2 12 (5.66%) Red Hat
3 10 (4.72%) Oracle
4 8 (3.77%) Splunk
5 7 (3.30%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.83%) Databricks
7 5 (2.36%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.36%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.36%) AVEVA
7 5 (2.36%) New Relic
7 5 (2.36%) Sybase
8 4 (1.89%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.42%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.42%) Charles River
10 2 (0.94%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.94%) Qualys
10 2 (0.94%) SAP
10 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow