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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 250 287
Rank change year-on-year +17 +37 +36
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 209 117 110
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 0.86% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.54% 2.02% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 92 74
10th Percentile £400 £425 £379
25th Percentile £513 £522 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £875
90th Percentile £774 £735 £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 8,214 5,786 6,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.60% 42.77% 40.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,623 3,941 5,121
10th Percentile £361 £350 £350
25th Percentile £440 £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 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 79 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.08 £22.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.23 £67.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +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 15 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 15 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 -8 15 £575 -14.81% 9
South London -2 13 £519 -26.40%
West London - 6 £725 - 3
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 (8.61%) Confluence
2 11 (5.26%) nginx
3 6 (2.87%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.48%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.96%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 205 (98.09%) AWS
2 85 (40.67%) Amazon S3
3 83 (39.71%) Serverless
4 82 (39.23%) AWS Lambda
5 73 (34.93%) Amazon ECS
6 69 (33.01%) Amazon EC2
7 60 (28.71%) GitHub
8 54 (25.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 52 (24.88%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (24.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 35 (16.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (11.96%) Azure
12 22 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (8.61%) Route 53
14 17 (8.13%) Snowflake
15 16 (7.66%) Azure AKS
15 16 (7.66%) Datadog
16 12 (5.74%) Amazon EventBridge
16 12 (5.74%) GCP
17 11 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.09%) Firewall
2 16 (7.66%) DNS
3 15 (7.18%) TCP/IP
3 15 (7.18%) VPN
4 13 (6.22%) Network Security
5 9 (4.31%) OpenVPN
6 3 (1.44%) SSL
7 2 (0.96%) BGP
7 2 (0.96%) DSL
7 2 (0.96%) OSPF
7 2 (0.96%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.96%) WAN
8 1 (0.48%) Calico
8 1 (0.48%) DHCP
8 1 (0.48%) ICMP
8 1 (0.48%) Internet
8 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.75%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.31%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.83%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.87%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.39%) Big Data
7 4 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.44%) MySQL
8 3 (1.44%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.96%) Power BI
9 2 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.48%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.48%) Stardog
10 1 (0.48%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 68 (32.54%) GitLab
2 52 (24.88%) Jenkins
3 23 (11.00%) Git
4 16 (7.66%) Bitbucket
5 13 (6.22%) JIRA
6 8 (3.83%) Artifactory
6 8 (3.83%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.83%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.87%) Mocha
7 6 (2.87%) MSTest
7 6 (2.87%) tSQLt
8 4 (1.91%) MLflow
9 2 (0.96%) Maven
10 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.48%) Gatling
10 1 (0.48%) Gradle
10 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.48%) Selenium
10 1 (0.48%) Snyk
General
1 49 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.53%) Public Sector
3 39 (18.66%) Finance
4 28 (13.40%) Banking
5 17 (8.13%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.87%) Law
9 5 (2.39%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.44%) Front Office
10 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.96%) Back Office
11 2 (0.96%) Military
11 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Publishing
12 1 (0.48%) Billing
12 1 (0.48%) Marketing
12 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
2 50 (23.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (22.01%) Senior
4 33 (15.79%) Architect
5 25 (11.96%) AWS DevOps
5 25 (11.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 25 (11.96%) Lead
6 20 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (9.57%) Developer
7 16 (7.66%) AWS Architect
8 14 (6.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 14 (6.70%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (6.22%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.74%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (4.78%) Data Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (4.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Technical Architect
12 9 (4.31%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.44%) Kafka
2 24 (11.48%) REST
3 14 (6.70%) AWS CDK
3 14 (6.70%) React
4 13 (6.22%) FastAPI
4 13 (6.22%) Node.js
4 13 (6.22%) RESTful
5 12 (5.74%) .NET
5 12 (5.74%) AngularJS
6 11 (5.26%) OpenID
7 10 (4.78%) LDAP
7 10 (4.78%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (4.78%) Spring Boot
8 9 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (3.83%) Flask
9 8 (3.83%) Loki
9 8 (3.83%) Spring
10 7 (3.35%) HTML
11 6 (2.87%) CSS
11 6 (2.87%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 72 (34.45%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.05%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.74%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.31%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.35%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.87%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.39%) Equities
7 5 (2.39%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.39%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.91%) PKI
9 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.44%) Life Science
9 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.44%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.96%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.40%) Linux
2 9 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.91%) Windows
4 3 (1.44%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.96%) Unix
5 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (69.38%) CI/CD
2 110 (52.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 109 (52.15%) DevOps
4 87 (41.63%) Containerisation
5 62 (29.67%) Observability
6 53 (25.36%) Microservices
7 47 (22.49%) Platform Engineering
8 34 (16.27%) AI
9 33 (15.79%) Agile
9 33 (15.79%) Software Engineering
10 30 (14.35%) DevSecOps
11 26 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (11.48%) Mentoring
13 23 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (11.00%) Event-Driven
14 22 (10.53%) Cloud Security
15 21 (10.05%) LLM
15 21 (10.05%) Secrets Management
16 20 (9.57%) Runbook
16 20 (9.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 102 (48.80%) Python
2 39 (18.66%) Bash
3 27 (12.92%) Java
4 18 (8.61%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.66%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.78%) C#
7 8 (3.83%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.83%) SQL
8 6 (2.87%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.39%) Go
10 4 (1.91%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.44%) Cypher
11 3 (1.44%) SHACL
12 2 (0.96%) Bicep
12 2 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.96%) R
13 1 (0.48%) C++
13 1 (0.48%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.48%) Haskell
13 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 79 (37.80%) Security Cleared
2 70 (33.49%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.57%) AWS Certification
4 15 (7.18%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.44%) Degree
8 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.96%) CISSP
8 2 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.48%) PMP
9 1 (0.48%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.31%) QA
2 6 (2.87%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.87%) WCAG
3 4 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.44%) SLA
5 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.96%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 84 (40.19%) Docker
2 14 (6.70%) Squid
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 141 (67.46%) Terraform
2 115 (55.02%) Kubernetes
3 55 (26.32%) Grafana
4 43 (20.57%) Prometheus
5 22 (10.53%) Ansible
5 22 (10.53%) Argo
6 11 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (4.31%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.35%) Consul
9 6 (2.87%) Puppet
10 5 (2.39%) Istio
11 4 (1.91%) Suricata
12 2 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.48%) Cilium
13 1 (0.48%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.48%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.48%) Packer
13 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.48%) systemd
Vendors
1 14 (6.70%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.74%) Dynatrace
2 12 (5.74%) Red Hat
3 10 (4.78%) Oracle
4 7 (3.35%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.35%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.35%) Splunk
5 6 (2.87%) Databricks
6 5 (2.39%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.39%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.39%) Sybase
7 4 (1.91%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.91%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.44%) New Relic
9 2 (0.96%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.96%) Charles River
9 2 (0.96%) FactSet
9 2 (0.96%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.96%) SAP
9 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow