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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 236 297
Rank change year-on-year -10 +61 +7
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 180 117 92
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 0.97% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.31% 2.24% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 93 60
10th Percentile £400 £433 £363
25th Percentile £506 £525 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £556
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +7.87% -11.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £718 £725 £825
England median daily rate £550 £598 £575
% change year-on-year -7.95% +3.91% -8.00%

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 7,806 5,219 6,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.30% 43.13% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,389 3,531 5,001
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £780
England median daily rate £513 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 61 70
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.27 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.64 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -49.03%
75th Percentile £55.94 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.17 £67.50 £58.00
England median hourly rate £40.28 £25.26 £21.37
% change year-on-year +59.49% +18.18% -38.94%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -3 13 £519 -24.30%
Central London -13 12 £575 -14.81% 13
West London - 6 £725 -
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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 11 (6.11%) nginx
3 6 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.67%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 178 (98.89%) AWS
2 86 (47.78%) Serverless
3 85 (47.22%) AWS Lambda
4 76 (42.22%) Amazon S3
5 69 (38.33%) Amazon EC2
6 61 (33.89%) Amazon ECS
7 58 (32.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 57 (31.67%) GitHub
9 55 (30.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 46 (25.56%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (12.78%) Route 53
13 19 (10.56%) Azure
14 17 (9.44%) Datadog
15 14 (7.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 14 (7.78%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (7.78%) AWS CodePipeline
15 14 (7.78%) Azure AKS
16 13 (7.22%) GCP
17 9 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.78%) DNS
2 19 (10.56%) Firewall
3 15 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 15 (8.33%) VPN
4 11 (6.11%) Network Security
5 9 (5.00%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.22%) SSL
7 2 (1.11%) BGP
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%) Internet
8 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.56%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (3.89%) MySQL
7 6 (3.33%) DocumentDB
7 6 (3.33%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.78%) Redis
9 4 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.56%) Big Data
11 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.56%) Flink
11 1 (0.56%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 63 (35.00%) GitLab
2 52 (28.89%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.44%) Git
4 14 (7.78%) Bitbucket
5 13 (7.22%) JIRA
6 8 (4.44%) Artifactory
6 8 (4.44%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.44%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.33%) Mocha
7 6 (3.33%) MSTest
7 6 (3.33%) tSQLt
8 5 (2.78%) MLflow
9 4 (2.22%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.67%) Snyk
11 2 (1.11%) GoCD
12 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.56%) Gatling
12 1 (0.56%) Gradle
12 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 42 (23.33%) Public Sector
1 42 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.78%) Finance
3 20 (11.11%) Banking
4 15 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.22%) Front Office
7 4 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.67%) Law
8 3 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Games
10 1 (0.56%) Local Government
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Military
10 1 (0.56%) Publishing
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (20.00%) Senior
3 35 (19.44%) Architect
4 27 (15.00%) Developer
5 23 (12.78%) AWS Architect
6 20 (11.11%) Lead
7 19 (10.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (9.44%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (9.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
10 13 (7.22%) Python Developer
11 12 (6.67%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
13 9 (5.00%) Data Engineer
13 9 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (5.00%) Technical Architect
14 8 (4.44%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.44%) Kafka
2 20 (11.11%) REST
3 18 (10.00%) RESTful
4 17 (9.44%) OpenID
5 15 (8.33%) AWS CDK
5 15 (8.33%) Node.js
6 12 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 12 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (6.67%) OAuth
6 12 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
6 12 (6.67%) Spring Boot
7 11 (6.11%) React
8 10 (5.56%) LDAP
8 10 (5.56%) OAuth2
9 9 (5.00%) .NET
9 9 (5.00%) FastAPI
9 9 (5.00%) Spring
10 8 (4.44%) HTML
11 7 (3.89%) Django
11 7 (3.89%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 58 (32.22%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.33%) Equities
4 6 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.78%) PKI
6 4 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.22%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.67%) Life Science
8 2 (1.11%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.11%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.11%) SCADA
8 2 (1.11%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.44%) Linux
2 8 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.33%) Windows
4 3 (1.67%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.11%) Unix
5 2 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (74.44%) CI/CD
2 94 (52.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 89 (49.44%) DevOps
4 73 (40.56%) Containerisation
5 50 (27.78%) Observability
6 39 (21.67%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (21.11%) Microservices
8 28 (15.56%) Agile
9 26 (14.44%) Software Engineering
10 25 (13.89%) Cloud Security
10 25 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (13.33%) DevSecOps
12 21 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (11.11%) Mentoring
13 20 (11.11%) SDLC
14 19 (10.56%) Event-Driven
14 19 (10.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 18 (10.00%) Secrets Management
16 17 (9.44%) Roadmaps
17 16 (8.89%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 87 (48.33%) Python
2 31 (17.22%) Java
3 30 (16.67%) Bash
4 17 (9.44%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.22%) SQL
6 11 (6.11%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.00%) C#
7 9 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.33%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.78%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.22%) Go
11 3 (1.67%) Bicep
12 2 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.56%) C
13 1 (0.56%) Korn
13 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.56%) ProC
Qualifications
1 64 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 56 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.67%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.11%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.67%) CISSP
7 3 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.11%) Degree
9 1 (0.56%) CEH
9 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PMP
9 1 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.22%) QA
2 8 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.44%) NIST
3 6 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.33%) WCAG
4 4 (2.22%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.67%) SLA
6 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.11%) NCSC
7 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.56%) GRC
System Software
1 73 (40.56%) Docker
2 15 (8.33%) Squid
3 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (72.22%) Terraform
2 98 (54.44%) Kubernetes
3 43 (23.89%) Grafana
4 41 (22.78%) Prometheus
5 23 (12.78%) Ansible
6 12 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.56%) Argo
8 9 (5.00%) FortiGate
9 7 (3.89%) Consul
9 7 (3.89%) Puppet
10 5 (2.78%) Istio
11 4 (2.22%) Karpenter
11 4 (2.22%) Kibana
11 4 (2.22%) Suricata
12 3 (1.67%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.11%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.56%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (6.67%) Dynatrace
1 12 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 9 (5.00%) Splunk
3 7 (3.89%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.89%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.33%) Databricks
4 6 (3.33%) Oracle
5 5 (2.78%) AppDynamics
5 5 (2.78%) AVEVA
5 5 (2.78%) New Relic
5 5 (2.78%) Sybase
6 4 (2.22%) Qualys
6 4 (2.22%) Tenable
7 3 (1.67%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.67%) Charles River
7 3 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.11%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.11%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.11%) SAP
8 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow