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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 273 262
Rank change year-on-year +15 -11 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 199 100 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 0.74% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.38% 1.72% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 84 92
10th Percentile £420 £436 £478
25th Percentile £510 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £653 £888
90th Percentile £775 £706 -
England median daily rate £568 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -1.30% -11.54% +6.78%

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 8,347 5,811 6,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.28% 43.16% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,708 3,979 4,762
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 91 51
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -36.84%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.42 £72.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -13 15 £700 +17.40% 8
West London - 9 £725 - 7
South London -9 7 £600 -14.83%
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 (6.03%) Confluence
2 6 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) Camunda
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) nginx
5 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 197 (98.99%) AWS
2 75 (37.69%) Amazon S3
3 74 (37.19%) Serverless
4 72 (36.18%) Amazon ECS
5 71 (35.68%) AWS Lambda
6 66 (33.17%) Amazon EC2
6 66 (33.17%) GitHub
7 57 (28.64%) GitHub Actions
8 55 (27.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 41 (20.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 30 (15.08%) Azure
11 24 (12.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (11.06%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (10.55%) GCP
14 18 (9.05%) Datadog
14 18 (9.05%) Snowflake
15 17 (8.54%) Amazon EventBridge
16 15 (7.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 13 (6.53%) Azure AKS
18 11 (5.53%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.03%) Network Security
2 9 (4.52%) Firewall
3 6 (3.02%) DNS
3 6 (3.02%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.01%) VPN
5 3 (1.51%) SSL
6 2 (1.01%) DSL
7 1 (0.50%) Calico
7 1 (0.50%) Internet
7 1 (0.50%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.10%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (13.07%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.54%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.52%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.52%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.51%) Big Data
5 5 (2.51%) Redis
6 4 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.01%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.01%) MySQL
7 3 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.51%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.51%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.51%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.01%) Power BI
8 2 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 76 (38.19%) GitLab
2 50 (25.13%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.06%) Git
4 8 (4.02%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.02%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.02%) JIRA
6 5 (2.51%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.51%) Mocha
7 3 (1.51%) MSTest
7 3 (1.51%) tSQLt
8 2 (1.01%) JMeter
8 2 (1.01%) Maven
8 2 (1.01%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.50%) Gatling
9 1 (0.50%) git-flow
9 1 (0.50%) Postman
9 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.50%) RhodeCode
General
1 43 (21.61%) Finance
1 43 (21.61%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.59%) Public Sector
3 30 (15.08%) Banking
4 7 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.02%) Law
6 5 (2.51%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.51%) Back Office
7 3 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.51%) Military
7 3 (1.51%) Retail
8 2 (1.01%) Billing
8 2 (1.01%) Publishing
9 1 (0.50%) Games
9 1 (0.50%) Marketing
9 1 (0.50%) Police
9 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (26.63%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (26.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (22.61%) Senior
4 26 (13.07%) Architect
4 26 (13.07%) Lead
5 25 (12.56%) AWS DevOps
5 25 (12.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 20 (10.05%) Developer
7 18 (9.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (7.54%) AWS Architect
9 14 (7.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 13 (6.53%) Lead DevOps
10 13 (6.53%) Software Engineer
11 12 (6.03%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (6.03%) Site Engineer
12 11 (5.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (5.53%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (5.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (5.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 10 (5.03%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (70.35%) Terraform
2 28 (14.07%) Kafka
3 27 (13.57%) REST
4 21 (10.55%) Spring
5 19 (9.55%) Spring Boot
6 17 (8.54%) RESTful
7 15 (7.54%) React
8 14 (7.04%) FastAPI
9 11 (5.53%) AngularJS
9 11 (5.53%) Loki
10 10 (5.03%) Flask
10 10 (5.03%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (3.52%) .NET
13 6 (3.02%) Langfuse
13 6 (3.02%) Node.js
14 5 (2.51%) AWS CDK
14 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Graph
14 5 (2.51%) Model Context Protocol
14 5 (2.51%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 85 (42.71%) Cloud Native
2 28 (14.07%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.03%) Virtual Team
5 8 (4.02%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.02%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.02%) PKI
8 5 (2.51%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.51%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.01%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.51%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.51%) Taxonomies
11 2 (1.01%) Autonomous Agent
11 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.57%) Linux
2 11 (5.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.02%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.51%) VMS
5 2 (1.01%) Windows
5 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (75.88%) CI/CD
2 118 (59.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 106 (53.27%) DevOps
4 89 (44.72%) Containerisation
5 82 (41.21%) Observability
6 63 (31.66%) Microservices
7 42 (21.11%) Platform Engineering
8 39 (19.60%) Agile
9 38 (19.10%) AI
10 37 (18.59%) DevSecOps
11 36 (18.09%) Software Engineering
12 35 (17.59%) Event-Driven
13 33 (16.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 27 (13.57%) Mentoring
15 26 (13.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (12.56%) Secrets Management
17 24 (12.06%) Deployment Automation
17 24 (12.06%) Technical Leadership
18 23 (11.56%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 104 (52.26%) Python
2 47 (23.62%) Bash
3 37 (18.59%) Java
4 15 (7.54%) SQL
5 14 (7.04%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.52%) Go
6 9 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.52%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.52%) C#
8 3 (1.51%) Cypher
8 3 (1.51%) SHACL
8 3 (1.51%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.01%) Bicep
9 2 (1.01%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.01%) R
10 1 (0.50%) C
10 1 (0.50%) C++
10 1 (0.50%) Haskell
10 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.50%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 78 (39.20%) Security Cleared
2 64 (32.16%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.06%) AWS Certification
4 18 (9.05%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.01%) Degree
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.50%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PMP
9 1 (0.50%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.53%) QA
2 3 (1.51%) SLA
3 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.01%) WCAG
4 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 88 (44.22%) Docker
2 6 (3.02%) Squid
3 5 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 122 (61.31%) Kubernetes
2 53 (26.63%) Grafana
3 40 (20.10%) Prometheus
4 27 (13.57%) Ansible
5 25 (12.56%) Argo
6 9 (4.52%) Istio
7 5 (2.51%) Puppet
8 4 (2.01%) Suricata
9 3 (1.51%) Bosun
9 3 (1.51%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.01%) Cilium
11 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.50%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.50%) Nagios
11 1 (0.50%) Packer
11 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.50%) systemd
11 1 (0.50%) yum
Vendors
1 21 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.04%) Oracle
3 9 (4.52%) Splunk
4 7 (3.52%) New Relic
4 7 (3.52%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.51%) Amplitude
5 5 (2.51%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.01%) Okta
6 4 (2.01%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.01%) Sybase
7 3 (1.51%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.51%) VMware
8 2 (1.01%) FactSet
8 2 (1.01%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.50%) Apple
9 1 (0.50%) BigPanda
9 1 (0.50%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.50%) Databricks
9 1 (0.50%) IBM
9 1 (0.50%) Tenable