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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 258 249
Rank change year-on-year +7 -9 +47
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 202 108 140
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 0.80% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.42% 1.86% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 87 93
10th Percentile £402 £423 £500
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £672 £653 £888
90th Percentile £771 £738 -
England median daily rate £573 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -0.43% -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 8,331 5,817 6,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.39% 42.90% 40.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,682 3,990 4,779
10th Percentile £363 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -3.14% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £658 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 89 52
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.90 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%
75th Percentile £55.63 £43.75 £41.19
90th Percentile £76.93 £68.40 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 August 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 August 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 -21 16 £700 +12.00% 5
West London - 9 £725 - 5
South London -4 8 £513 -27.25%
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 (6.44%) Confluence
2 6 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.98%) nginx
5 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) Apache
6 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.50%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.50%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 198 (98.02%) AWS
2 75 (37.13%) Amazon S3
2 75 (37.13%) Serverless
3 74 (36.63%) Amazon ECS
4 73 (36.14%) AWS Lambda
5 67 (33.17%) Amazon EC2
6 65 (32.18%) GitHub
7 56 (27.72%) GitHub Actions
8 52 (25.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 42 (20.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 28 (13.86%) Azure
11 25 (12.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (11.88%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (10.40%) GCP
14 20 (9.90%) Datadog
15 17 (8.42%) Snowflake
16 16 (7.92%) Amazon EventBridge
17 15 (7.43%) Azure AKS
17 15 (7.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 10 (4.95%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.45%) Network Security
2 10 (4.95%) Firewall
3 9 (4.46%) DNS
4 8 (3.96%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.97%) VPN
6 3 (1.49%) SSL
7 2 (0.99%) DSL
7 2 (0.99%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.50%) Calico
8 1 (0.50%) DHCP
8 1 (0.50%) ICMP
8 1 (0.50%) Internet
8 1 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.82%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (12.38%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.94%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.48%) Big Data
5 5 (2.48%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.48%) Redis
6 4 (1.98%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.49%) MySQL
7 3 (1.49%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.99%) Power BI
8 2 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.50%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 76 (37.62%) GitLab
2 50 (24.75%) Jenkins
3 24 (11.88%) Git
4 10 (4.95%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.47%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.47%) JIRA
6 6 (2.97%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.48%) Mocha
7 5 (2.48%) MSTest
7 5 (2.48%) tSQLt
8 2 (0.99%) Maven
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.50%) Gatling
9 1 (0.50%) git-flow
9 1 (0.50%) Gradle
9 1 (0.50%) JMeter
9 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.50%) RhodeCode
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (22.28%) Finance
2 41 (20.30%) Social Skills
3 38 (18.81%) Public Sector
4 32 (15.84%) Banking
5 11 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.97%) Law
9 5 (2.48%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.49%) Back Office
10 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Retail
11 2 (0.99%) Billing
11 2 (0.99%) Front Office
11 2 (0.99%) Military
11 2 (0.99%) Publishing
12 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.50%) Games
12 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (28.22%) AWS Engineer
2 50 (24.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 48 (23.76%) Senior
4 26 (12.87%) AWS DevOps
4 26 (12.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 25 (12.38%) Architect
6 24 (11.88%) Developer
6 24 (11.88%) Lead
7 19 (9.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (6.93%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (6.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 14 (6.93%) Software Engineer
9 13 (6.44%) Lead DevOps
10 12 (5.94%) AWS Architect
10 12 (5.94%) Site Engineer
11 11 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (5.45%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (5.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.95%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 10 (4.95%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.35%) REST
2 28 (13.86%) Kafka
3 18 (8.91%) Spring
4 16 (7.92%) RESTful
4 16 (7.92%) Spring Boot
5 14 (6.93%) FastAPI
5 14 (6.93%) React
6 13 (6.44%) AngularJS
7 12 (5.94%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (5.45%) .NET
9 10 (4.95%) Flask
9 10 (4.95%) Loki
9 10 (4.95%) Node.js
10 9 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (3.47%) AWS CDK
12 6 (2.97%) Langfuse
13 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Graph
13 5 (2.48%) Model Context Protocol
13 5 (2.48%) Next.js
13 5 (2.48%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 77 (38.12%) Cloud Native
2 27 (13.37%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.95%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.96%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.48%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.48%) PKI
6 5 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.98%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.49%) Equities
8 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.49%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
9 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.36%) Linux
2 11 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.47%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.99%) VMS
4 2 (0.99%) Windows
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (74.26%) CI/CD
2 111 (54.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 109 (53.96%) DevOps
4 87 (43.07%) Containerisation
5 78 (38.61%) Observability
6 64 (31.68%) Microservices
7 45 (22.28%) Platform Engineering
8 38 (18.81%) Agile
9 37 (18.32%) Software Engineering
10 36 (17.82%) AI
11 32 (15.84%) DevSecOps
11 32 (15.84%) Event-Driven
12 30 (14.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 27 (13.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 25 (12.38%) Mentoring
15 24 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (11.88%) Secrets Management
16 23 (11.39%) Deployment Automation
16 23 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
17 22 (10.89%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 106 (52.48%) Python
2 48 (23.76%) Bash
3 39 (19.31%) Java
4 15 (7.43%) TypeScript
5 14 (6.93%) SQL
6 13 (6.44%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.46%) C#
7 9 (4.46%) Go
7 9 (4.46%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.48%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.49%) Cypher
9 3 (1.49%) SHACL
10 2 (0.99%) Bicep
10 2 (0.99%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.99%) R
10 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.50%) C
11 1 (0.50%) C++
11 1 (0.50%) Haskell
11 1 (0.50%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 74 (36.63%) Security Cleared
2 61 (30.20%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.90%) AWS Certification
4 15 (7.43%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.98%) Degree
8 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PMP
9 1 (0.50%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.95%) QA
2 4 (1.98%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.98%) WCAG
3 3 (1.49%) SLA
4 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.99%) NIST
5 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 86 (42.57%) Docker
2 7 (3.47%) Squid
3 4 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 139 (68.81%) Terraform
2 120 (59.41%) Kubernetes
3 53 (26.24%) Grafana
4 40 (19.80%) Prometheus
5 26 (12.87%) Ansible
6 24 (11.88%) Argo
7 8 (3.96%) Istio
8 5 (2.48%) Puppet
9 4 (1.98%) Suricata
10 3 (1.49%) Bosun
10 3 (1.49%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.99%) Cilium
11 2 (0.99%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.50%) Consul
12 1 (0.50%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.50%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.50%) Packer
12 1 (0.50%) systemd
Vendors
1 15 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.93%) Oracle
3 9 (4.46%) Splunk
4 8 (3.96%) New Relic
5 7 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.97%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.48%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.48%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.98%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.98%) Sybase
9 3 (1.49%) Okta
9 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.49%) VMware
10 2 (0.99%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.99%) FactSet
10 2 (0.99%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.99%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.99%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.50%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.50%) Databricks