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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 273 243
Rank change year-on-year +26 -30 +45
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 211 100 138
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 0.74% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.55% 1.71% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 86 95
10th Percentile £425 £422 £500
25th Percentile £509 £516 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £686 £653 £888
90th Percentile £766 £719 -
England median daily rate £573 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -0.43% -11.54% +6.56%

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 8,280 5,834 6,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.99% 43.32% 41.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,684 3,973 4,699
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 94 46
10th Percentile £17.88 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.67% -23.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £71.13
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -14 18 £700 +8.95% 13
South London -2 9 £600 -14.83%
West London - 9 £725 - 3
East London - 1 £500 - 3
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 (5.69%) Confluence
2 6 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 2 (0.95%) Camunda
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 209 (99.05%) AWS
2 79 (37.44%) Serverless
3 77 (36.49%) Amazon S3
3 77 (36.49%) GitHub
4 76 (36.02%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (35.55%) Amazon ECS
6 70 (33.18%) Amazon EC2
7 68 (32.23%) GitHub Actions
8 63 (29.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 41 (19.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 38 (18.01%) Azure
11 32 (15.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (11.37%) GCP
13 23 (10.90%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (9.48%) Amazon EventBridge
15 19 (9.00%) Datadog
15 19 (9.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 17 (8.06%) Azure AKS
17 16 (7.58%) Snowflake
18 15 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.21%) Network Security
2 9 (4.27%) Firewall
3 7 (3.32%) DNS
4 6 (2.84%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.90%) VPN
6 3 (1.42%) SSL
7 2 (0.95%) DSL
8 1 (0.47%) Calico
8 1 (0.47%) Internet
8 1 (0.47%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (19.91%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (14.22%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (7.58%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.27%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.32%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (3.32%) Redis
5 7 (3.32%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.37%) Big Data
8 4 (1.90%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.90%) MySQL
9 3 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.42%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.42%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.95%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.95%) Power BI
10 2 (0.95%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 79 (37.44%) GitLab
2 57 (27.01%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.85%) Git
4 11 (5.21%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.32%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.84%) JIRA
7 5 (2.37%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.42%) Maven
8 3 (1.42%) Mocha
8 3 (1.42%) MSTest
8 3 (1.42%) tSQLt
9 2 (0.95%) Gradle
9 2 (0.95%) JMeter
9 2 (0.95%) JUnit
9 2 (0.95%) Mockito
10 1 (0.47%) Gatling
10 1 (0.47%) git-flow
10 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.47%) RhodeCode
10 1 (0.47%) Spinnaker
General
1 48 (22.75%) Finance
2 47 (22.27%) Social Skills
3 37 (17.54%) Public Sector
4 30 (14.22%) Banking
5 11 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.32%) Law
8 6 (2.84%) Back Office
8 6 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.84%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Military
10 3 (1.42%) Front Office
10 3 (1.42%) Retail
11 2 (0.95%) Billing
11 2 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.95%) Publishing
12 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.47%) Automotive
12 1 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 57 (27.01%) AWS Engineer
1 57 (27.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (20.85%) Senior
3 31 (14.69%) Architect
4 29 (13.74%) AWS DevOps
4 29 (13.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 28 (13.27%) Lead
6 20 (9.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (9.00%) Developer
8 18 (8.53%) AWS Architect
9 13 (6.16%) Lead DevOps
10 12 (5.69%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.69%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (4.74%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 10 (4.74%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.74%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (4.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (70.62%) Terraform
2 34 (16.11%) Kafka
3 30 (14.22%) REST
4 26 (12.32%) Spring
5 24 (11.37%) Spring Boot
6 20 (9.48%) RESTful
7 14 (6.64%) React
8 13 (6.16%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (6.16%) FastAPI
9 11 (5.21%) Loki
10 10 (4.74%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.27%) Flask
11 9 (4.27%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (3.79%) Keycloak
13 7 (3.32%) .NET
13 7 (3.32%) Model Context Protocol
14 6 (2.84%) ActiveMQ
14 6 (2.84%) AWS CDK
14 6 (2.84%) Langfuse
Miscellaneous
1 88 (41.71%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.74%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.21%) Virtual Team
4 10 (4.74%) AI Agents
5 9 (4.27%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.84%) PKI
6 6 (2.84%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.37%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.37%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.90%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.42%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.69%) Linux
2 12 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.79%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.90%) VMS
5 2 (0.95%) Windows
5 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (76.78%) CI/CD
2 133 (63.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 121 (57.35%) DevOps
4 97 (45.97%) Containerisation
5 93 (44.08%) Observability
6 66 (31.28%) Microservices
7 48 (22.75%) Agile
8 43 (20.38%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (19.91%) AI
10 40 (18.96%) DevSecOps
10 40 (18.96%) Event-Driven
11 38 (18.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 38 (18.01%) Software Engineering
12 30 (14.22%) Mentoring
13 28 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 27 (12.80%) Technical Leadership
15 26 (12.32%) Deployment Automation
15 26 (12.32%) Secrets Management
15 26 (12.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 109 (51.66%) Python
2 51 (24.17%) Bash
3 43 (20.38%) Java
4 19 (9.00%) SQL
5 13 (6.16%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.27%) Go
6 9 (4.27%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.79%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.32%) C#
9 5 (2.37%) Bicep
10 3 (1.42%) C
10 3 (1.42%) Cypher
10 3 (1.42%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.42%) Scala
10 3 (1.42%) SHACL
10 3 (1.42%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.95%) Groovy
11 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.95%) R
11 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (41.71%) Security Cleared
2 75 (35.55%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.37%) AWS Certification
4 17 (8.06%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.84%) Degree
8 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.47%) ISEB
9 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.47%) PMP
9 1 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.11%) QA
2 3 (1.42%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.42%) GDPR
2 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.95%) NCSC
4 1 (0.47%) NIST
System Software
1 91 (43.13%) Docker
2 6 (2.84%) Squid
2 6 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 133 (63.03%) Kubernetes
2 60 (28.44%) Grafana
3 47 (22.27%) Prometheus
4 30 (14.22%) Ansible
5 25 (11.85%) Argo
6 8 (3.79%) Istio
6 8 (3.79%) Puppet
7 4 (1.90%) Suricata
8 3 (1.42%) Bosun
8 3 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.95%) Cilium
9 2 (0.95%) Rancher
10 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.47%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.47%) Packer
10 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.47%) systemd
10 1 (0.47%) yum
Vendors
1 22 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.58%) Oracle
3 8 (3.79%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.32%) New Relic
4 7 (3.32%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.32%) Splunk
5 6 (2.84%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.84%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.84%) VMware
6 5 (2.37%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.37%) Okta
7 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.90%) Sybase
8 3 (1.42%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.95%) BigPanda
9 2 (0.95%) FactSet
10 1 (0.47%) Apple
10 1 (0.47%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.47%) Databricks
10 1 (0.47%) Tenable