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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 247 277
Rank change year-on-year +21 +30 +67
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 175 112 109
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 0.82% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.61% 1.97% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 103 88
10th Percentile £400 £495 £397
25th Percentile £494 £575 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £652 £725 £695
90th Percentile £713 £888 £825
England median daily rate £530 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -15.87% +9.57% -5.15%

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 6,712 5,675 6,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.24% 41.74% 37.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,591 3,787 5,042
10th Percentile £350 £355 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 49 76
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.07 £17.39
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +4.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £55.75 £55.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £73.50 £68.75 £61.25
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +5 18 £544 -19.44% 11
South London -1 13 £528 -18.22% 3
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 15 (8.57%) Confluence
2 7 (4.00%) nginx
3 3 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.71%) Traefik
4 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.14%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.71%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 166 (94.86%) AWS
2 70 (40.00%) GitHub
3 69 (39.43%) Amazon S3
4 68 (38.86%) Serverless
5 65 (37.14%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (32.57%) Amazon ECS
7 53 (30.29%) GitHub Actions
8 51 (29.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
10 43 (24.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 40 (22.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 26 (14.86%) Azure
13 23 (13.14%) Route 53
14 22 (12.57%) Datadog
15 16 (9.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 15 (8.57%) Amazon Kinesis
16 15 (8.57%) Azure AKS
17 13 (7.43%) AWS CodePipeline
18 11 (6.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
18 11 (6.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.43%) DNS
2 15 (8.57%) VPN
3 14 (8.00%) Firewall
4 7 (4.00%) OpenVPN
4 7 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.29%) Network Security
5 4 (2.29%) SSL
6 3 (1.71%) SNMP
7 2 (1.14%) BGP
7 2 (1.14%) Calico
7 2 (1.14%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.14%) OSPF
7 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.14%) WAN
8 1 (0.57%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (26.29%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (7.43%) DynamoDB
4 11 (6.29%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.14%) Redis
6 8 (4.57%) DocumentDB
6 8 (4.57%) Flink
6 8 (4.57%) MySQL
6 8 (4.57%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.86%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.29%) Big Data
9 3 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.71%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.71%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (29.71%) Jenkins
2 44 (25.14%) GitLab
3 18 (10.29%) JIRA
4 16 (9.14%) Git
5 9 (5.14%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.00%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.29%) MLflow
7 4 (2.29%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.71%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.14%) GoCD
9 2 (1.14%) Snyk
9 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.57%) git-flow
10 1 (0.57%) JUnit
10 1 (0.57%) Mocha
10 1 (0.57%) MSTest
10 1 (0.57%) tSQLt
General
1 34 (19.43%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.71%) Finance
3 28 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 22 (12.57%) Banking
5 14 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (6.29%) Front Office
7 10 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.14%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Games
11 1 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 44 (25.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (21.71%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (16.00%) Architect
4 25 (14.29%) Senior
5 23 (13.14%) AWS DevOps
5 23 (13.14%) Developer
6 19 (10.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 18 (10.29%) AWS Architect
7 18 (10.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 16 (9.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (8.57%) Lead
9 15 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (6.29%) Python Developer
11 11 (6.29%) Python Engineer
12 9 (5.14%) Data Engineer
12 9 (5.14%) Site Engineer
13 7 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (4.00%) Software Engineer
14 6 (3.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (29.14%) Kafka
2 16 (9.14%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (9.14%) Node.js
2 16 (9.14%) REST
3 15 (8.57%) Spring
3 15 (8.57%) Spring Boot
4 14 (8.00%) OpenID
5 12 (6.86%) AWS CDK
5 12 (6.86%) RESTful
6 11 (6.29%) OAuth
7 10 (5.71%) React
8 8 (4.57%) LDAP
8 8 (4.57%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.00%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.00%) FastAPI
9 7 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (3.43%) Django
10 6 (3.43%) HTML
11 5 (2.86%) Hibernate
11 5 (2.86%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 41 (23.43%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.29%) Fixed Income
4 8 (4.57%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.43%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.43%) Replication
7 4 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.29%) Equities
7 4 (2.29%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.71%) Life Science
9 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.14%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.14%) Omics
9 2 (1.14%) PKI
9 2 (1.14%) SCADA
9 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.57%) Linux
2 6 (3.43%) Windows
3 5 (2.86%) Unix
4 3 (1.71%) VMS
5 1 (0.57%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (66.86%) CI/CD
2 91 (52.00%) DevOps
3 89 (50.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (41.14%) Containerisation
5 44 (25.14%) Observability
6 39 (22.29%) Platform Engineering
7 37 (21.14%) Microservices
8 33 (18.86%) Agile
9 28 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 25 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (11.43%) Cloud Security
11 20 (11.43%) DevSecOps
12 19 (10.86%) Software Engineering
13 18 (10.29%) Test Automation
14 16 (9.14%) GitOps
14 16 (9.14%) Secrets Management
15 15 (8.57%) AI
15 15 (8.57%) Configuration Management
15 15 (8.57%) Roadmaps
16 14 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 101 (57.71%) Python
2 42 (24.00%) Java
3 34 (19.43%) Bash
4 20 (11.43%) SQL
5 14 (8.00%) Go
5 14 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.29%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.86%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.29%) Groovy
10 3 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.71%) Ruby
11 2 (1.14%) Bicep
11 2 (1.14%) C#
11 2 (1.14%) Perl
12 1 (0.57%) C
12 1 (0.57%) PHP
12 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.57%) ProC
12 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (33.71%) Security Cleared
2 54 (30.86%) SC Cleared
3 27 (15.43%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (4.00%) Degree
6 6 (3.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (2.86%) CISSP
7 5 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.57%) CCSP
10 1 (0.57%) CEH
10 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.57%) OSCP
10 1 (0.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.14%) NIST
3 8 (4.57%) QA
4 5 (2.86%) NCSC
4 5 (2.86%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.14%) GDPR
6 2 (1.14%) GRC
7 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 85 (48.57%) Docker
2 8 (4.57%) Squid
3 3 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.57%) etcd
5 1 (0.57%) HDFS
5 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 123 (70.29%) Terraform
2 105 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 35 (20.00%) Grafana
4 27 (15.43%) Prometheus
5 21 (12.00%) Ansible
5 21 (12.00%) Argo
6 14 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (6.29%) Puppet
8 7 (4.00%) FortiGate
9 6 (3.43%) Consul
10 5 (2.86%) Karpenter
10 5 (2.86%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.29%) Istio
11 4 (2.29%) Kibana
11 4 (2.29%) Rancher
12 3 (1.71%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.71%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.57%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 16 (9.14%) Dynatrace
2 15 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.14%) Databricks
3 9 (5.14%) Splunk
4 8 (4.57%) AppDynamics
5 7 (4.00%) Atlassian
5 7 (4.00%) PagerDuty
5 7 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.86%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.86%) Qualys
7 4 (2.29%) Google
7 4 (2.29%) Oracle
7 4 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.71%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.71%) Charles River
8 3 (1.71%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.71%) New Relic
8 3 (1.71%) Tenable
9 2 (1.14%) Avaloq
9 2 (1.14%) Globalscape