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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 233 284
Rank change year-on-year -28 +51 +34
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 124 154 132
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 0.97% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 2.37% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 126 101
10th Percentile £409 £500 £400
25th Percentile £472 £555 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £661 £888 £695
90th Percentile £716 - £863
England median daily rate £563 £650 £551
% change year-on-year -13.46% +17.89% -11.78%

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 6,300 6,491 7,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.78% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,259 4,418 5,538
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 39 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.07 £18.65
25th Percentile £22.88 £24.15 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -7.28% +23.77%
75th Percentile £46.19 £59.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £68.05 £74.13
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.82% +24.53% +17.78%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 +1 12 £563 -8.16% 9
South London -8 8 £530 -3.42% 1
West London - 1 £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 6 (4.84%) Confluence
2 5 (4.03%) CMS
2 5 (4.03%) Headless CMS
3 3 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.42%) Traefik
4 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.61%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.81%) Apache
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.81%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.81%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 115 (92.74%) AWS
2 45 (36.29%) Amazon ECS
3 39 (31.45%) Amazon S3
3 39 (31.45%) GitHub
4 37 (29.84%) Serverless
5 35 (28.23%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (27.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (25.81%) Amazon EC2
8 29 (23.39%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (15.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (14.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (12.90%) Datadog
12 14 (11.29%) GCP
13 13 (10.48%) Azure
14 12 (9.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 10 (8.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 9 (7.26%) IaaS
17 8 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
17 8 (6.45%) Azure AKS
17 8 (6.45%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.65%) DNS
2 6 (4.84%) Firewall
2 6 (4.84%) VPN
3 3 (2.42%) SNMP
4 2 (1.61%) Calico
4 2 (1.61%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.81%) DHCP
5 1 (0.81%) HTTP
5 1 (0.81%) Internet
5 1 (0.81%) NAS
5 1 (0.81%) Network Security
5 1 (0.81%) SSL
5 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.81%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (26.61%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (17.74%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.68%) DynamoDB
4 10 (8.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (6.45%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.03%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.03%) Flink
6 5 (4.03%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.03%) Redis
7 4 (3.23%) Big Data
7 4 (3.23%) MySQL
8 3 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.42%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.61%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.61%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (27.42%) Jenkins
2 22 (17.74%) GitLab
3 14 (11.29%) Git
4 9 (7.26%) JIRA
5 4 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.81%) git-flow
7 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (20.16%) Finance
2 20 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.52%) Banking
4 14 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.84%) Front Office
7 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.61%) Publishing
9 1 (0.81%) Games
9 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.81%) Police
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (32.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (25.81%) AWS Engineer
3 22 (17.74%) Senior
4 21 (16.94%) AWS DevOps
5 18 (14.52%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (13.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 17 (13.71%) Developer
7 16 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 12 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (9.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (8.06%) Architect
9 10 (8.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 10 (8.06%) Java Developer
9 10 (8.06%) Site Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) AWS Architect
10 7 (5.65%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Lead
12 5 (4.03%) Kafka Engineer
12 5 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (4.03%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.39%) Kafka
2 14 (11.29%) Spring Boot
3 10 (8.06%) Node.js
4 9 (7.26%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (6.45%) AWS CDK
5 8 (6.45%) Spring
6 7 (5.65%) OAuth
7 6 (4.84%) OAuth2
7 6 (4.84%) OpenID
7 6 (4.84%) REST
7 6 (4.84%) SAML
8 5 (4.03%) JSON
8 5 (4.03%) Keycloak
8 5 (4.03%) YAML
9 4 (3.23%) React
10 3 (2.42%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.42%) HTML
10 3 (2.42%) RESTful
11 2 (1.61%) .NET
11 2 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.94%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.65%) Fixed Income
3 6 (4.84%) Replication
4 5 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.03%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.42%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.81%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.13%) Linux
2 3 (2.42%) Unix
2 3 (2.42%) VMS
3 2 (1.61%) Windows
4 1 (0.81%) AIX
4 1 (0.81%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Android
4 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.81%) Solaris
4 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (67.74%) CI/CD
2 64 (51.61%) DevOps
3 57 (45.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (41.13%) Containerisation
5 33 (26.61%) Microservices
6 29 (23.39%) Observability
7 27 (21.77%) Platform Engineering
8 24 (19.35%) Agile
9 23 (18.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 18 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (12.10%) Configuration Management
12 14 (11.29%) Test Automation
13 13 (10.48%) Software Engineering
14 12 (9.68%) Migration
15 11 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 10 (8.06%) GitOps
16 10 (8.06%) High Availability
16 10 (8.06%) Technical Leadership
17 9 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 9 (7.26%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (55.65%) Python
2 32 (25.81%) Java
3 29 (23.39%) Bash
4 17 (13.71%) Go
5 13 (10.48%) SQL
6 7 (5.65%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.84%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.03%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.23%) Groovy
10 3 (2.42%) Ruby
10 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.61%) Perl
11 2 (1.61%) PromQL
12 1 (0.81%) Bicep
12 1 (0.81%) C#
12 1 (0.81%) COBOL
12 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 34 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 22 (17.74%) AWS Certification
4 11 (8.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.03%) Degree
6 4 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.61%) CISSP
8 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.81%) CCSP
9 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.81%) MCP
9 1 (0.81%) OSCP
9 1 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.23%) GDPR
1 4 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.42%) NCSC
2 3 (2.42%) QA
3 2 (1.61%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.61%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.81%) GRC
4 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (45.16%) Docker
2 2 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.81%) etcd
3 1 (0.81%) HDFS
3 1 (0.81%) iptables
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (66.13%) Kubernetes
2 73 (58.87%) Terraform
3 30 (24.19%) Grafana
4 16 (12.90%) Ansible
5 15 (12.10%) Argo
6 13 (10.48%) Prometheus
7 10 (8.06%) Puppet
8 5 (4.03%) Istio
9 4 (3.23%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.23%) Rancher
9 4 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.42%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.61%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.81%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 10 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.45%) Dynatrace
2 8 (6.45%) Splunk
3 7 (5.65%) PagerDuty
4 5 (4.03%) AppDynamics
5 4 (3.23%) Databricks
5 4 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.42%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.42%) Google
6 3 (2.42%) Oracle
7 2 (1.61%) Avaloq
7 2 (1.61%) Confluent
7 2 (1.61%) Qualys
8 1 (0.81%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.81%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.81%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.81%) Tenable
8 1 (0.81%) Veracode
8 1 (0.81%) Virgin Media