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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 233 276
Rank change year-on-year -1 +43 +57
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 145 134 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 0.96% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.28% 2.33% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 117 92
10th Percentile £400 £500 £414
25th Percentile £494 £565 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £695
90th Percentile £713 £888 £836
England median daily rate £550 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -12.70% +9.57% -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 6,356 5,762 6,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.31% 41.14% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,360 3,856 5,035
10th Percentile £343 £353 £325
25th Percentile £424 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 46 67
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.76 £17.47
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £30.80 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -12.01% +40.00%
75th Percentile £56.00 £47.72 £58.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.38 £68.20
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.21 £24.02
% change year-on-year +6.36% +17.42% +6.14%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +10 17 £556 -17.59% 6
South London -10 8 £530 -4.29% 3
West London - 2 £725 -
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 9 (6.21%) Confluence
2 3 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.07%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.07%) Traefik
3 2 (1.38%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.69%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.69%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (1.38%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 136 (93.79%) AWS
2 63 (43.45%) GitHub
3 52 (35.86%) Amazon ECS
4 51 (35.17%) Amazon S3
5 49 (33.79%) Serverless
6 48 (33.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 48 (33.10%) GitHub Actions
7 46 (31.72%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (26.21%) Amazon EC2
9 32 (22.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 30 (20.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (14.48%) Datadog
12 20 (13.79%) Azure
13 15 (10.34%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (8.97%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 13 (8.97%) GCP
15 11 (7.59%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 11 (7.59%) Route 53
16 10 (6.90%) Amazon MSK
16 10 (6.90%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.59%) DNS
2 6 (4.14%) VPN
3 4 (2.76%) Firewall
3 4 (2.76%) SSL
4 3 (2.07%) SNMP
5 2 (1.38%) Calico
5 2 (1.38%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.69%) Network Security
6 1 (0.69%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (27.59%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.97%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (7.59%) DynamoDB
4 11 (7.59%) NoSQL
5 9 (6.21%) Redis
6 8 (5.52%) DocumentDB
6 8 (5.52%) Flink
6 8 (5.52%) MySQL
7 7 (4.83%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.45%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.76%) Big Data
9 4 (2.76%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.07%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (31.03%) Jenkins
2 41 (28.28%) GitLab
3 14 (9.66%) Git
4 12 (8.28%) JIRA
5 4 (2.76%) Terragrunt
6 3 (2.07%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.38%) GoCD
7 2 (1.38%) Snyk
7 2 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.69%) git-flow
8 1 (0.69%) JUnit
8 1 (0.69%) MLflow
8 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (21.38%) Finance
2 22 (15.17%) Banking
3 20 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 19 (13.10%) Social Skills
5 10 (6.90%) Front Office
6 7 (4.83%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.38%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Games
11 1 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (28.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (24.14%) AWS Engineer
3 23 (15.86%) Developer
4 22 (15.17%) AWS DevOps
5 20 (13.79%) Senior
6 18 (12.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 18 (12.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 17 (11.72%) Architect
7 17 (11.72%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (8.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (8.28%) AWS Architect
10 11 (7.59%) Lead
11 10 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (6.90%) Python Developer
11 10 (6.90%) Python Engineer
12 9 (6.21%) Site Engineer
13 8 (5.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 6 (4.14%) Data Engineer
14 6 (4.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (32.41%) Kafka
2 16 (11.03%) Spring Boot
3 15 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (10.34%) Spring
4 14 (9.66%) Node.js
4 14 (9.66%) REST
5 12 (8.28%) AWS CDK
6 11 (7.59%) RESTful
7 9 (6.21%) React
8 8 (5.52%) OAuth
9 7 (4.83%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.83%) OpenID
9 7 (4.83%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (4.14%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.14%) Django
10 6 (4.14%) FastAPI
11 5 (3.45%) Hibernate
11 5 (3.45%) HTML
11 5 (3.45%) JPA
11 5 (3.45%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 31 (21.38%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.90%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.14%) Replication
5 5 (3.45%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.38%) Equities
8 2 (1.38%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.38%) PKI
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.69%) NHS
9 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.55%) Linux
2 6 (4.14%) Windows
3 3 (2.07%) Unix
3 3 (2.07%) VMS
4 1 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.69%) Android
4 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (73.79%) CI/CD
2 78 (53.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 75 (51.72%) DevOps
4 60 (41.38%) Containerisation
5 45 (31.03%) Observability
6 35 (24.14%) Microservices
6 35 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
7 30 (20.69%) Agile
8 29 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 18 (12.41%) Test Automation
10 17 (11.72%) Cloud Security
10 17 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (11.72%) Software Engineering
11 16 (11.03%) Secrets Management
12 15 (10.34%) Configuration Management
12 15 (10.34%) DevSecOps
12 15 (10.34%) GitOps
13 13 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (8.97%) Event-Driven
14 11 (7.59%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 88 (60.69%) Python
2 41 (28.28%) Java
3 31 (21.38%) Bash
4 19 (13.10%) SQL
5 15 (10.34%) Go
6 10 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.90%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.14%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.76%) Groovy
8 4 (2.76%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.07%) Ruby
10 2 (1.38%) Bicep
10 2 (1.38%) Perl
11 1 (0.69%) C
11 1 (0.69%) C#
11 1 (0.69%) Korn
11 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.69%) PHP
11 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.69%) ProC
Qualifications
1 46 (31.72%) Security Cleared
2 40 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 23 (15.86%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (4.83%) Degree
5 5 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.07%) CISSP
7 3 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.69%) CCSP
9 1 (0.69%) CEH
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.69%) MCP
9 1 (0.69%) OSCP
9 1 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (6.21%) NIST
3 8 (5.52%) QA
4 5 (3.45%) NCSC
4 5 (3.45%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.07%) GDPR
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.69%) GRC
6 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
System Software
1 78 (53.79%) Docker
2 2 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.69%) etcd
3 1 (0.69%) HDFS
3 1 (0.69%) Squid
3 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 102 (70.34%) Terraform
2 92 (63.45%) Kubernetes
3 30 (20.69%) Grafana
4 21 (14.48%) Ansible
5 19 (13.10%) Argo
6 17 (11.72%) Prometheus
7 12 (8.28%) Puppet
8 5 (3.45%) Istio
8 5 (3.45%) Karpenter
8 5 (3.45%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.76%) Kibana
9 4 (2.76%) Rancher
10 3 (2.07%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.38%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.69%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (7.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.52%) Dynatrace
2 8 (5.52%) Splunk
3 7 (4.83%) PagerDuty
4 6 (4.14%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.45%) Qualys
6 4 (2.76%) Databricks
6 4 (2.76%) Google
6 4 (2.76%) Oracle
6 4 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.76%) Tenable
7 3 (2.07%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.07%) New Relic
8 2 (1.38%) Avaloq
8 2 (1.38%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.38%) Charles River
8 2 (1.38%) Confluent
8 2 (1.38%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.69%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.69%) SnapLogic