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 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 256 284
Rank change year-on-year -23 +28 +52
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 88 138 161
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.86% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 2.09% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 97 133
10th Percentile £401 £500 £401
25th Percentile £511 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £671 £888 £775
90th Percentile £736 - £863
England median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -4.00%

All Cloud 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 5,842 6,594 8,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.38% 40.94% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,965 4,542 6,237
10th Percentile £339 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.34% -1.90%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £501 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -3.59% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 40 63
10th Percentile £22.50 £23.62 £17.20
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.06 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.95 £30.80 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% -23.96% +20.90%
75th Percentile £47.31 £50.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.03 £89.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +6.06% +46.67%

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 1 October 2025.

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 1 October 2025. 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 +22 10 £643 +22.03% 6
South London -17 4 £705 +28.38%
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 5 (5.68%) CMS
1 5 (5.68%) Confluence
1 5 (5.68%) Headless CMS
2 4 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.41%) Traefik
4 2 (2.27%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.14%) Apache
5 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.14%) CICS
5 1 (1.14%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 80 (90.91%) AWS
2 30 (34.09%) Amazon S3
3 29 (32.95%) Amazon ECS
3 29 (32.95%) Serverless
4 26 (29.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 25 (28.41%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (23.86%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (20.45%) GitHub
8 13 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (14.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (12.50%) GCP
10 10 (11.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 8 (9.09%) AWS KMS
12 6 (6.82%) Azure AKS
12 6 (6.82%) Datadog
13 5 (5.68%) Amazon Cognito
14 4 (4.55%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.23%) DNS
2 4 (4.55%) Firewall
3 3 (3.41%) HTTP
3 3 (3.41%) Internet
3 3 (3.41%) SNMP
3 3 (3.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.27%) Calico
4 2 (2.27%) VPN
5 1 (1.14%) DHCP
5 1 (1.14%) NAS
5 1 (1.14%) Network Security
5 1 (1.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (26.14%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (14.77%) DynamoDB
3 9 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.41%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.41%) MySQL
5 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.27%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.27%) Redis
6 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.14%) Big Data
7 1 (1.14%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.14%) Hasura
7 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (20.45%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.95%) GitLab
2 7 (7.95%) JIRA
3 4 (4.55%) Git
4 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.27%) JMeter
4 2 (2.27%) JUnit
4 2 (2.27%) Mockito
5 1 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.36%) Finance
4 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Banking
6 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.27%) Publishing
8 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Police
8 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (29.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (26.14%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (19.32%) Senior
4 14 (15.91%) Developer
5 13 (14.77%) Architect
5 13 (14.77%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (13.64%) Java Developer
7 11 (12.50%) AWS Architect
7 11 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (11.36%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (11.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 10 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Designer
10 5 (5.68%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.68%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (5.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.64%) Kafka
1 12 (13.64%) Spring Boot
2 8 (9.09%) AWS CDK
3 7 (7.95%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (6.82%) Spring
5 5 (5.68%) OAuth
5 5 (5.68%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.68%) OpenID
5 5 (5.68%) SAML
6 3 (3.41%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.41%) HTML
6 3 (3.41%) JSON
6 3 (3.41%) Node.js
6 3 (3.41%) React
6 3 (3.41%) REST
6 3 (3.41%) YAML
7 2 (2.27%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (2.27%) Jest
7 2 (2.27%) RESTful
7 2 (2.27%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.41%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Replication
5 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.14%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.14%) NHS
6 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.14%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (2.27%) Unix
2 2 (2.27%) VMS
3 1 (1.14%) AIX
3 1 (1.14%) Android
3 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.14%) Solaris
3 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (57.95%) CI/CD
2 36 (40.91%) DevOps
3 35 (39.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 21 (23.86%) Microservices
6 16 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (15.91%) Observability
8 13 (14.77%) Agile
8 13 (14.77%) Migration
9 10 (11.36%) High Availability
10 8 (9.09%) Configuration Management
10 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (9.09%) Mentoring
10 8 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (7.95%) Software Engineering
12 6 (6.82%) E-Commerce
12 6 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (6.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (43.18%) Python
2 20 (22.73%) Java
3 17 (19.32%) Go
4 15 (17.05%) Bash
5 9 (10.23%) SQL
6 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.68%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.41%) Rust
8 3 (3.41%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.27%) Groovy
9 2 (2.27%) PromQL
10 1 (1.14%) C#
10 1 (1.14%) COBOL
10 1 (1.14%) PHP
10 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 32 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 21 (23.86%) AWS Certification
4 12 (13.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.14%) Degree
7 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) GDPR
2 3 (3.41%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.27%) NCSC
3 2 (2.27%) QA
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (35.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) etcd
2 1 (1.14%) iptables
2 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (68.18%) Kubernetes
2 43 (48.86%) Terraform
3 16 (18.18%) Grafana
4 11 (12.50%) Ansible
5 8 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.82%) Puppet
7 5 (5.68%) Argo
7 5 (5.68%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.55%) Istio
9 2 (2.27%) Kibana
9 2 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.14%) Podman
10 1 (1.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (7.95%) Dynatrace
1 7 (7.95%) Splunk
2 3 (3.41%) AppDynamics
2 3 (3.41%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.27%) Confluent
3 2 (2.27%) Google
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.14%) Databricks
4 1 (1.14%) NetApp
4 1 (1.14%) SaltStack
4 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.14%) Tenable
4 1 (1.14%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.14%) VMware