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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 215 294
Rank change year-on-year -18 +79 +58
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 180 141 99
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 1.12% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.43% 2.63% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 125 70
10th Percentile £368 £488 £384
25th Percentile £469 £575 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £630 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.57% -8.00%
75th Percentile £626 £700 £663
90th Percentile £713 £875 £825
England median daily rate £525 £608 £555
% change year-on-year -13.58% +9.46% -9.65%

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 7,405 5,361 6,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.72% 42.54% 37.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,090 3,752 4,943
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 51 77
10th Percentile £18.03 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £24.29 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.25 £67.50 £61.00
England median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +60.73% +26.19% -18.75%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 16 £522 -23.83%
Central London -12 15 £563 -16.67% 9
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 12 (6.67%) Confluence
2 11 (6.11%) nginx
3 5 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.11%) Apache
4 2 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.56%) SAS
5 1 (0.56%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.22%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 174 (96.67%) AWS
2 81 (45.00%) Serverless
3 79 (43.89%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (42.78%) Amazon S3
5 65 (36.11%) Amazon EC2
6 62 (34.44%) GitHub
7 59 (32.78%) Amazon ECS
8 52 (28.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 51 (28.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (28.33%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (24.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (15.56%) Azure
12 26 (14.44%) Route 53
13 21 (11.67%) Datadog
14 18 (10.00%) Azure AKS
15 15 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 14 (7.78%) AWS CodePipeline
16 14 (7.78%) GCP
17 13 (7.22%) Amazon Kinesis
18 11 (6.11%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.22%) DNS
2 17 (9.44%) VPN
3 16 (8.89%) Firewall
4 11 (6.11%) TCP/IP
5 9 (5.00%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.22%) Network Security
6 4 (2.22%) SSL
7 2 (1.11%) BGP
7 2 (1.11%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.11%) OSPF
7 2 (1.11%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.11%) WAN
8 1 (0.56%) DHCP
8 1 (0.56%) ICMP
8 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.56%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (23.89%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.44%) DocumentDB
5 8 (4.44%) Flink
5 8 (4.44%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.89%) Redis
7 5 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (2.78%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.78%) MySQL
8 3 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.67%) Big Data
8 3 (1.67%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (31.67%) Jenkins
2 55 (30.56%) GitLab
3 17 (9.44%) Git
4 14 (7.78%) JIRA
5 12 (6.67%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.44%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.78%) MLflow
8 4 (2.22%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.22%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.22%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.67%) Mocha
9 3 (1.67%) MSTest
9 3 (1.67%) Snyk
9 3 (1.67%) tSQLt
10 2 (1.11%) GoCD
10 2 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.56%) git-flow
11 1 (0.56%) Gradle
11 1 (0.56%) JUnit
11 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 38 (21.11%) Public Sector
2 36 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.78%) Finance
4 24 (13.33%) Banking
5 17 (9.44%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.67%) Front Office
8 5 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.11%) Games
10 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.11%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (21.11%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (18.33%) Architect
4 31 (17.22%) Senior
5 28 (15.56%) Developer
6 21 (11.67%) AWS DevOps
7 20 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (10.56%) AWS Architect
9 18 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (7.78%) Cloud Architect
10 14 (7.78%) Lead
11 13 (7.22%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (7.22%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (7.22%) Site Engineer
12 12 (6.67%) Python Engineer
13 11 (6.11%) Python Developer
14 8 (4.44%) Data Engineer
14 8 (4.44%) Node.js Developer
14 8 (4.44%) Software Engineer
15 7 (3.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (24.44%) Kafka
2 22 (12.22%) Node.js
3 21 (11.67%) REST
4 18 (10.00%) OpenID
5 15 (8.33%) AWS CDK
5 15 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (7.78%) RESTful
7 13 (7.22%) OAuth
8 12 (6.67%) Spring
8 12 (6.67%) Spring Boot
9 10 (5.56%) LDAP
9 10 (5.56%) OAuth2
9 10 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
9 10 (5.56%) React
10 9 (5.00%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.89%) FastAPI
11 7 (3.89%) HTML
12 6 (3.33%) .NET
12 6 (3.33%) Django
13 5 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.89%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.11%) Fixed Income
4 9 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.89%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.78%) Equities
8 4 (2.22%) Replication
9 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.67%) Life Science
9 3 (1.67%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.11%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.11%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.11%) Omics
10 2 (1.11%) PKI
10 2 (1.11%) SCADA
10 2 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.22%) Linux
2 6 (3.33%) Windows
3 3 (1.67%) Unix
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%) VMS
4 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (71.11%) CI/CD
2 90 (50.00%) DevOps
3 89 (49.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (42.78%) Containerisation
5 45 (25.00%) Observability
6 42 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
7 35 (19.44%) Microservices
8 33 (18.33%) Agile
9 31 (17.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 30 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (11.67%) Cloud Security
11 21 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (11.11%) Software Engineering
13 19 (10.56%) DevSecOps
14 17 (9.44%) Roadmaps
14 17 (9.44%) Secrets Management
15 16 (8.89%) SDLC
16 15 (8.33%) AI
16 15 (8.33%) Event-Driven
16 15 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (56.11%) Python
2 42 (23.33%) Java
3 31 (17.22%) Bash
4 19 (10.56%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.44%) SQL
6 11 (6.11%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 9 (5.00%) Go
9 5 (2.78%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.67%) C#
10 3 (1.67%) Groovy
10 3 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.67%) Ruby
10 3 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.11%) Bicep
11 2 (1.11%) Perl
12 1 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.56%) Korn
12 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.56%) ProC
Qualifications
1 55 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 48 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 28 (15.56%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.89%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.33%) Degree
7 5 (2.78%) CISSP
8 4 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
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%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.56%) OSCP
10 1 (0.56%) SANS
10 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.00%) NIST
3 8 (4.44%) QA
4 6 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.33%) WCAG
5 5 (2.78%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.22%) NCSC
7 3 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.67%) SLA
8 2 (1.11%) GRC
9 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 88 (48.89%) Docker
2 10 (5.56%) Squid
3 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 129 (71.67%) Terraform
2 99 (55.00%) Kubernetes
3 37 (20.56%) Grafana
4 31 (17.22%) Prometheus
5 22 (12.22%) Ansible
6 18 (10.00%) Argo
7 14 (7.78%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (5.56%) Puppet
9 9 (5.00%) FortiGate
10 7 (3.89%) Consul
11 5 (2.78%) Karpenter
12 4 (2.22%) Kibana
12 4 (2.22%) Progress Chef
13 3 (1.67%) Istio
13 3 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.67%) Opsgenie
13 3 (1.67%) Rancher
14 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 14 (7.78%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.11%) Splunk
4 9 (5.00%) Databricks
4 9 (5.00%) PagerDuty
4 9 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.89%) AppDynamics
5 7 (3.89%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.33%) Oracle
6 6 (3.33%) Qualys
7 5 (2.78%) AVEVA
7 5 (2.78%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.22%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.22%) Charles River
8 4 (2.22%) Google
8 4 (2.22%) New Relic
8 4 (2.22%) Tenable
9 3 (1.67%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.11%) Avaloq
10 2 (1.11%) SAP