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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 238 272
Rank change year-on-year +8 +34 +92
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 178 117 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 0.88% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.56% 2.10% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 104 90
10th Percentile £400 £489 £406
25th Percentile £475 £575 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £639 £725 £695
90th Percentile £713 £888 £825
England median daily rate £525 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.57% -5.15%

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 6,953 5,559 6,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.00% 41.58% 37.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,776 3,759 4,999
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 52 80
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.54 £21.81
Median hourly rate £33.75 £32.75 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% +8.77% -6.64%
75th Percentile £51.81 £56.50 £53.31
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.13 £62.63
England median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.48
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.03% -14.08%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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
South London -1 17 £522 -19.11% 3
Central London -2 17 £525 -22.22% 8
West London - 2 £725 - 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 17 (9.55%) Confluence
2 10 (5.62%) nginx
3 4 (2.25%) Traefik
4 3 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.25%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 170 (95.51%) AWS
2 73 (41.01%) Amazon S3
2 73 (41.01%) Serverless
3 70 (39.33%) AWS Lambda
3 70 (39.33%) GitHub
4 60 (33.71%) Amazon ECS
5 57 (32.02%) Amazon EC2
6 55 (30.90%) GitHub Actions
7 53 (29.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 47 (26.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 42 (23.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (14.61%) Azure
11 24 (13.48%) Route 53
12 18 (10.11%) Datadog
13 17 (9.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 16 (8.99%) AWS CodePipeline
15 15 (8.43%) Azure AKS
16 13 (7.30%) Amazon Kinesis
17 10 (5.62%) GCP
17 10 (5.62%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.80%) DNS
2 17 (9.55%) VPN
3 15 (8.43%) Firewall
4 9 (5.06%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.49%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.25%) SSL
7 3 (1.69%) Network Security
7 3 (1.69%) SNMP
8 2 (1.12%) BGP
8 2 (1.12%) Calico
8 2 (1.12%) Kerberos
8 2 (1.12%) OSPF
8 2 (1.12%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.12%) WAN
9 1 (0.56%) DHCP
9 1 (0.56%) ICMP
9 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.56%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (24.16%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (15.17%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.18%) DynamoDB
4 10 (5.62%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.62%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.06%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.06%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.49%) DocumentDB
6 8 (4.49%) Flink
6 8 (4.49%) MySQL
6 8 (4.49%) Redis
7 5 (2.81%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.25%) Big Data
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (29.78%) Jenkins
2 48 (26.97%) GitLab
3 20 (11.24%) JIRA
4 15 (8.43%) Git
5 13 (7.30%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.49%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.25%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.25%) MLflow
7 4 (2.25%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.69%) Snyk
9 2 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.12%) GoCD
9 2 (1.12%) Mocha
9 2 (1.12%) MSTest
9 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.12%) tSQLt
10 1 (0.56%) git-flow
10 1 (0.56%) JUnit
General
1 39 (21.91%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.98%) Public Sector
3 29 (16.29%) Finance
4 20 (11.24%) Banking
5 16 (8.99%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.74%) Front Office
8 5 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Games
11 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (21.91%) AWS Engineer
1 39 (21.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (16.85%) Architect
3 28 (15.73%) Senior
4 26 (14.61%) Developer
5 22 (12.36%) AWS DevOps
6 19 (10.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 17 (9.55%) AWS Architect
8 16 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 15 (8.43%) Lead
10 14 (7.87%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (7.30%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (7.30%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (6.18%) Python Developer
12 11 (6.18%) Python Engineer
13 9 (5.06%) Senior Developer
13 9 (5.06%) Site Engineer
14 8 (4.49%) Software Engineer
15 7 (3.93%) Data Engineer
15 7 (3.93%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (26.97%) Kafka
2 19 (10.67%) Node.js
3 18 (10.11%) REST
4 16 (8.99%) AWS CDK
5 15 (8.43%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (8.43%) OpenID
5 15 (8.43%) Spring
5 15 (8.43%) Spring Boot
6 13 (7.30%) RESTful
7 11 (6.18%) OAuth
8 10 (5.62%) React
9 9 (5.06%) LDAP
10 8 (4.49%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.49%) OAuth2
11 7 (3.93%) FastAPI
11 7 (3.93%) HTML
11 7 (3.93%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (3.37%) Django
13 5 (2.81%) Hibernate
13 5 (2.81%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.91%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.18%) Fixed Income
4 8 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.93%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.93%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.81%) Equities
6 5 (2.81%) Replication
7 4 (2.25%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.69%) Life Science
9 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.12%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.12%) Omics
9 2 (1.12%) PKI
9 2 (1.12%) SCADA
10 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.42%) Linux
2 6 (3.37%) Windows
3 3 (1.69%) Unix
3 3 (1.69%) VMS
4 1 (0.56%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (67.98%) CI/CD
2 90 (50.56%) DevOps
2 90 (50.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 75 (42.13%) Containerisation
4 42 (23.60%) Observability
5 40 (22.47%) Platform Engineering
6 37 (20.79%) Agile
7 35 (19.66%) Microservices
8 29 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (14.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 21 (11.80%) DevSecOps
10 21 (11.80%) Software Engineering
11 20 (11.24%) Cloud Security
12 18 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (9.55%) Test Automation
14 16 (8.99%) Secrets Management
15 15 (8.43%) AI
15 15 (8.43%) Configuration Management
15 15 (8.43%) Roadmaps
16 14 (7.87%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 104 (58.43%) Python
2 44 (24.72%) Java
3 34 (19.10%) Bash
4 20 (11.24%) SQL
5 18 (10.11%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.30%) Go
7 11 (6.18%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.62%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.37%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.69%) C#
10 3 (1.69%) Groovy
10 3 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.69%) Ruby
11 2 (1.12%) Bicep
11 2 (1.12%) Perl
11 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.56%) Korn
12 1 (0.56%) PHP
12 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (35.39%) Security Cleared
2 58 (32.58%) SC Cleared
3 29 (16.29%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.93%) Degree
6 6 (3.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.37%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.81%) CISSP
7 5 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.56%) CCSP
10 1 (0.56%) CEH
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.56%) OSCP
10 1 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.06%) NIST
3 8 (4.49%) QA
4 5 (2.81%) NCSC
4 5 (2.81%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.25%) WCAG
6 3 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.12%) GDPR
7 2 (1.12%) GRC
8 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 88 (49.44%) Docker
2 9 (5.06%) Squid
3 3 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.56%) etcd
5 1 (0.56%) HDFS
5 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 123 (69.10%) Terraform
2 101 (56.74%) Kubernetes
3 36 (20.22%) Grafana
4 27 (15.17%) Prometheus
5 22 (12.36%) Ansible
6 19 (10.67%) Argo
7 13 (7.30%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (6.18%) Puppet
9 8 (4.49%) FortiGate
10 7 (3.93%) Consul
11 5 (2.81%) Istio
11 5 (2.81%) Karpenter
11 5 (2.81%) Progress Chef
12 4 (2.25%) Kibana
13 3 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.69%) Opsgenie
13 3 (1.69%) Rancher
14 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 16 (8.99%) Dynatrace
2 15 (8.43%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.06%) AppDynamics
3 9 (5.06%) Databricks
4 8 (4.49%) Atlassian
4 8 (4.49%) Red Hat
4 8 (4.49%) Splunk
5 7 (3.93%) PagerDuty
6 6 (3.37%) Qualys
7 5 (2.81%) AVEVA
7 5 (2.81%) Oracle
8 4 (2.25%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.25%) Charles River
8 4 (2.25%) Google
8 4 (2.25%) Tenable
9 3 (1.69%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.69%) New Relic
9 3 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.12%) Avaloq
10 2 (1.12%) Rapid7