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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 243 305
Rank change year-on-year +1 +62 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 187 115 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 0.93% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.35% 2.16% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 91 60
10th Percentile £400 £425 £363
25th Percentile £506 £525 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.49% -9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £775
90th Percentile £724 £738 £875
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -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 7,946 5,331 6,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.01% 43.10% 39.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,458 3,622 5,076
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £786 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 68 68
10th Percentile £20.86 £22.50 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +17.44% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.81 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £69.38 £55.75
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year +63.72% +16.65% -38.21%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 0 13 £519 -24.30%
Central London -28 9 £575 -14.81% 5
West London - 6 £725 - 1
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 12 (6.42%) Confluence
2 11 (5.88%) nginx
3 6 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) Apache
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.60%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 185 (98.93%) AWS
2 85 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
2 85 (45.45%) Serverless
3 79 (42.25%) Amazon S3
4 68 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
5 64 (34.22%) Amazon ECS
6 58 (31.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 56 (29.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 55 (29.41%) GitHub
9 45 (24.06%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (22.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (11.76%) Route 53
12 19 (10.16%) Datadog
13 17 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (9.09%) Azure
14 15 (8.02%) Azure AKS
15 14 (7.49%) AWS CodePipeline
16 13 (6.95%) Snowflake
17 12 (6.42%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 10 (5.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.70%) DNS
2 19 (10.16%) Firewall
3 15 (8.02%) TCP/IP
3 15 (8.02%) VPN
4 13 (6.95%) Network Security
5 9 (4.81%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.14%) SSL
7 2 (1.07%) BGP
7 2 (1.07%) OSPF
7 2 (1.07%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.07%) WAN
8 1 (0.53%) Calico
8 1 (0.53%) DHCP
8 1 (0.53%) DSL
8 1 (0.53%) ICMP
8 1 (0.53%) Internet
8 1 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (20.86%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.35%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.28%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (3.74%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.74%) MySQL
7 5 (2.67%) DocumentDB
7 5 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.67%) Redis
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.60%) Big Data
9 2 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.53%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 67 (35.83%) GitLab
2 53 (28.34%) Jenkins
3 19 (10.16%) Git
4 14 (7.49%) Bitbucket
5 13 (6.95%) JIRA
6 8 (4.28%) Artifactory
6 8 (4.28%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.28%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.21%) Mocha
7 6 (3.21%) MSTest
7 6 (3.21%) tSQLt
8 5 (2.67%) MLflow
9 2 (1.07%) GoCD
9 2 (1.07%) Snyk
10 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.53%) Gatling
10 1 (0.53%) Gradle
10 1 (0.53%) JUnit
10 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 44 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 40 (21.39%) Public Sector
3 27 (14.44%) Finance
4 22 (11.76%) Banking
5 16 (8.56%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.21%) Law
9 4 (2.14%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Front Office
10 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.07%) Military
11 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Publishing
12 1 (0.53%) Games
12 1 (0.53%) Marketing
12 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (28.88%) AWS Engineer
2 45 (24.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (19.79%) Senior
4 30 (16.04%) Architect
5 24 (12.83%) AWS DevOps
5 24 (12.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 24 (12.83%) Developer
6 21 (11.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (10.70%) Lead
8 19 (10.16%) AWS Architect
9 13 (6.95%) Python Developer
10 12 (6.42%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.42%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.88%) Data Engineer
12 10 (5.35%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (5.35%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (4.81%) AWS Software Engineer
13 9 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.11%) Kafka
2 23 (12.30%) REST
3 17 (9.09%) AWS CDK
3 17 (9.09%) OpenID
3 17 (9.09%) RESTful
4 13 (6.95%) AngularJS
4 13 (6.95%) Node.js
5 12 (6.42%) OAuth
5 12 (6.42%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (5.88%) React
6 11 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 10 (5.35%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (5.35%) FastAPI
7 10 (5.35%) LDAP
7 10 (5.35%) OAuth2
8 9 (4.81%) .NET
9 8 (4.28%) Spring
10 7 (3.74%) Django
10 7 (3.74%) Flask
10 7 (3.74%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (34.22%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.56%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.35%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.21%) Equities
6 5 (2.67%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.14%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.14%) PKI
7 4 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.14%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.60%) Life Science
8 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.07%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.07%) SCADA
9 2 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.04%) Linux
2 9 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.21%) Windows
4 3 (1.60%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.07%) Unix
5 2 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 101 (54.01%) DevOps
3 100 (53.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (44.39%) Containerisation
5 53 (28.34%) Observability
6 43 (22.99%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (22.46%) Microservices
8 29 (15.51%) Agile
9 28 (14.97%) Software Engineering
10 27 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (13.37%) Cloud Security
12 23 (12.30%) AI
12 23 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (12.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 22 (11.76%) DevSecOps
14 21 (11.23%) Mentoring
15 18 (9.63%) Event-Driven
15 18 (9.63%) Roadmaps
15 18 (9.63%) SDLC
15 18 (9.63%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (49.73%) Python
2 32 (17.11%) Bash
3 30 (16.04%) Java
4 15 (8.02%) JavaScript
5 12 (6.42%) SQL
5 12 (6.42%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.81%) C#
6 9 (4.81%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.21%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.14%) Go
8 4 (2.14%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.60%) Bicep
10 2 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.53%) Cypher
11 1 (0.53%) R
11 1 (0.53%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 67 (35.83%) Security Cleared
2 59 (31.55%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.30%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.95%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.60%) CISSP
7 3 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.07%) Degree
9 1 (0.53%) CEH
9 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.53%) PMP
9 1 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.95%) QA
2 7 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.74%) NIST
3 6 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.21%) WCAG
4 4 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.60%) SLA
6 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
7 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 75 (40.11%) Docker
2 15 (8.02%) Squid
3 2 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 138 (73.80%) Terraform
2 106 (56.68%) Kubernetes
3 47 (25.13%) Grafana
4 45 (24.06%) Prometheus
5 23 (12.30%) Ansible
6 12 (6.42%) Argo
6 12 (6.42%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (4.81%) FortiGate
8 8 (4.28%) Puppet
9 7 (3.74%) Consul
10 5 (2.67%) Istio
11 4 (2.14%) Suricata
12 3 (1.60%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.53%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.53%) Nagios
14 1 (0.53%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.53%) Packer
14 1 (0.53%) systemd
14 1 (0.53%) yum
Vendors
1 12 (6.42%) Red Hat
2 11 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 8 (4.28%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.28%) Splunk
4 7 (3.74%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.21%) Databricks
6 5 (2.67%) AppDynamics
6 5 (2.67%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.67%) New Relic
6 5 (2.67%) Oracle
6 5 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.67%) Sybase
7 3 (1.60%) Amplitude
7 3 (1.60%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.60%) Charles River
7 3 (1.60%) Qualys
7 3 (1.60%) Tenable
8 2 (1.07%) Globalscape
8 2 (1.07%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.07%) Ping Identity