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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 288 257
Rank change year-on-year +57 -31 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 241 85 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 0.64% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.88% 1.46% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 69 100
10th Percentile £425 £400 £500
25th Percentile £495 £500 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -17.86% +13.82%
75th Percentile £668 £670 £888
90th Percentile £750 £728 -
England median daily rate £566 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -1.52% -11.54% +8.33%

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 8,354 5,826 6,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.01% 43.83% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,769 3,964 4,507
10th Percentile £363 £347 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.65%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 100 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.45 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.79 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -15.08% -22.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £80.40 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 October 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 October 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 -12 20 £688 +15.30% 17
South London -10 9 £600 -14.83%
West London - 9 £725 - 3
East London - 1 £500 - 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 17 (7.05%) Confluence
2 6 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) Camunda
4 2 (0.83%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.41%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 238 (98.76%) AWS
2 92 (38.17%) GitHub
3 89 (36.93%) Amazon S3
4 87 (36.10%) Amazon ECS
4 87 (36.10%) Serverless
5 84 (34.85%) AWS Lambda
6 82 (34.02%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (32.37%) Amazon EC2
8 74 (30.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 56 (23.24%) Azure
10 50 (20.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 40 (16.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (12.45%) GCP
13 26 (10.79%) Amazon SQS
14 23 (9.54%) Amazon EventBridge
15 22 (9.13%) Azure AKS
15 22 (9.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 21 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (7.88%) Snowflake
18 18 (7.47%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.98%) Network Security
2 7 (2.90%) Firewall
3 6 (2.49%) DNS
4 4 (1.66%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.24%) SSL
5 3 (1.24%) VPN
6 2 (0.83%) DSL
7 1 (0.41%) Calico
7 1 (0.41%) Internet
7 1 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (20.33%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.05%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.15%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.32%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.90%) Redis
7 6 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.07%) Big Data
8 5 (2.07%) MySQL
9 4 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.66%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.66%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.66%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.24%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.24%) Power BI
10 3 (1.24%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.83%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 89 (36.93%) GitLab
2 68 (28.22%) Jenkins
3 32 (13.28%) Git
4 11 (4.56%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.15%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.15%) JIRA
6 5 (2.07%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.07%) Maven
7 4 (1.66%) JUnit
7 4 (1.66%) Mockito
8 3 (1.24%) Gradle
8 3 (1.24%) JMeter
8 3 (1.24%) Mocha
8 3 (1.24%) MSTest
8 3 (1.24%) tSQLt
9 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.83%) Postman
9 2 (0.83%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.83%) Selenium
9 2 (0.83%) SpecFlow
General
1 58 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 55 (22.82%) Finance
3 41 (17.01%) Public Sector
4 33 (13.69%) Banking
5 12 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.90%) Law
8 6 (2.49%) Back Office
8 6 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.49%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.07%) Retail
10 4 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.66%) Military
11 3 (1.24%) Billing
11 3 (1.24%) Front Office
11 3 (1.24%) Publishing
11 3 (1.24%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.83%) Police
13 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (29.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 60 (24.90%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (19.50%) Senior
4 32 (13.28%) Architect
4 32 (13.28%) AWS DevOps
4 32 (13.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 29 (12.03%) Lead
6 22 (9.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (8.71%) Developer
8 19 (7.88%) AWS Architect
9 14 (5.81%) Lead DevOps
10 13 (5.39%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.39%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (5.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (5.39%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.98%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 11 (4.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (4.56%) Java Developer
12 11 (4.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (72.20%) Terraform
2 40 (16.60%) Kafka
3 37 (15.35%) REST
4 29 (12.03%) Spring
5 27 (11.20%) Spring Boot
6 22 (9.13%) RESTful
7 16 (6.64%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (6.22%) FastAPI
9 14 (5.81%) Loki
9 14 (5.81%) React
10 11 (4.56%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.56%) Flask
10 11 (4.56%) Keycloak
11 10 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (3.32%) Model Context Protocol
12 8 (3.32%) OpenID
13 7 (2.90%) AWS CDK
13 7 (2.90%) JWT
13 7 (2.90%) OpenAPI
13 7 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 107 (44.40%) Cloud Native
2 36 (14.94%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.98%) AI Agents
4 12 (4.98%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.73%) PKI
6 8 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.90%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.07%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.07%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.66%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.24%) Replication
11 3 (1.24%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.60%) Linux
2 13 (5.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.73%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.66%) VMS
4 4 (1.66%) Windows
5 3 (1.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (78.84%) CI/CD
2 155 (64.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 143 (59.34%) DevOps
4 113 (46.89%) Observability
5 108 (44.81%) Containerisation
6 78 (32.37%) Microservices
7 62 (25.73%) Agile
8 53 (21.99%) Platform Engineering
9 51 (21.16%) AI
9 51 (21.16%) DevSecOps
10 46 (19.09%) Event-Driven
11 44 (18.26%) Software Engineering
12 43 (17.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 36 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (14.52%) Cloud Security
14 35 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (14.11%) Deployment Automation
16 32 (13.28%) Secrets Management
16 32 (13.28%) Technical Leadership
17 31 (12.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 132 (54.77%) Python
2 65 (26.97%) Bash
3 46 (19.09%) Java
4 21 (8.71%) SQL
5 16 (6.64%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.22%) Go
7 13 (5.39%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.32%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.49%) C#
10 4 (1.66%) Bicep
10 4 (1.66%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.66%) Scala
11 3 (1.24%) C
11 3 (1.24%) Cypher
11 3 (1.24%) Groovy
11 3 (1.24%) Lua
11 3 (1.24%) SHACL
11 3 (1.24%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 100 (41.49%) Security Cleared
2 86 (35.68%) SC Cleared
3 32 (13.28%) AWS Certification
4 20 (8.30%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (3.32%) Degree
8 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.83%) ISEB
10 2 (0.83%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.83%) PMP
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.41%) CISSP
11 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.41%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.05%) QA
2 4 (1.66%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.24%) GDPR
3 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.83%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 106 (43.98%) Docker
2 6 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.07%) Squid
4 4 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 160 (66.39%) Kubernetes
2 69 (28.63%) Grafana
3 53 (21.99%) Prometheus
4 35 (14.52%) Ansible
5 27 (11.20%) Argo
6 11 (4.56%) Puppet
7 9 (3.73%) Istio
8 4 (1.66%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.66%) Suricata
9 3 (1.24%) Bosun
9 3 (1.24%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.24%) Rancher
10 2 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.83%) Cilium
10 2 (0.83%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.41%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.41%) Nagios
11 1 (0.41%) Packer
11 1 (0.41%) systemd
11 1 (0.41%) yum
Vendors
1 30 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.88%) Oracle
3 8 (3.32%) Dynatrace
3 8 (3.32%) Splunk
4 7 (2.90%) New Relic
4 7 (2.90%) OpenAI
4 7 (2.90%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.49%) VMware
6 5 (2.07%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.07%) Okta
6 5 (2.07%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.07%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.66%) Databricks
7 4 (1.66%) Sybase
8 3 (1.24%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.83%) BigPanda
9 2 (0.83%) FactSet
10 1 (0.41%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.41%) Sparx
10 1 (0.41%) Tenable