Amazon EKS Contracts in London

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 298 313
Rank change year-on-year +56 +15 +60
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 118 107 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.89% 0.61% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.07% 1.52% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 73 140
10th Percentile £425 £379 £500
25th Percentile £513 £503 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £875 £863
90th Percentile £723 £888 -
England median daily rate £575 £575 £625
% change year-on-year - -8.00% -

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 5,711 7,025 10,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.00% 39.87% 39.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,865 5,152 7,476
10th Percentile £350 £350 £367
25th Percentile £425 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £694
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 64 76
10th Percentile £22.85 £18.45 £17.77
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.06 £24.63
Median hourly rate £30.75 £26.49 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% -52.92% +30.36%
75th Percentile £48.44 £38.75 £76.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £61.00 £89.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +54.48%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in London

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in London

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in London over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +14 15 £675 +33.66% 36
South London -7 3 £705 +93.01% 1
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (11.86%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.47%) Apache
3 6 (5.08%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.24%) CMS
4 5 (4.24%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.69%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.85%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 111 (94.07%) AWS
2 46 (38.98%) Amazon S3
3 42 (35.59%) Serverless
4 40 (33.90%) Amazon EC2
4 40 (33.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 37 (31.36%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (21.19%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (11.02%) GCP
7 13 (11.02%) GitHub
8 11 (9.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (8.47%) Route 53
10 9 (7.63%) Azure AKS
11 8 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (6.78%) Snowflake
12 7 (5.93%) Amazon Cognito
12 7 (5.93%) dbt
13 6 (5.08%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 6 (5.08%) CloudFront
13 6 (5.08%) Dagster
13 6 (5.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.02%) DNS
2 10 (8.47%) TCP/IP
3 9 (7.63%) HTTP
4 8 (6.78%) Internet
5 5 (4.24%) Firewall
5 5 (4.24%) VPN
6 3 (2.54%) DHCP
7 1 (0.85%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.85%) SMS
7 1 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (33.05%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (13.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (8.47%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.93%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (5.93%) Data Lake
4 7 (5.93%) DocumentDB
4 7 (5.93%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.08%) Redis
6 5 (4.24%) Apache Arrow
6 5 (4.24%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (4.24%) Apache Ignite
6 5 (4.24%) Dremio
7 4 (3.39%) Big Data
8 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.54%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (22.03%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.32%) GitLab
3 5 (4.24%) Git
4 3 (2.54%) JMeter
5 2 (1.69%) JUnit
5 2 (1.69%) Mockito
6 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.85%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.85%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.85%) JIRA
6 1 (0.85%) JProfiler
6 1 (0.85%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.85%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.85%) Toad
General
1 28 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.88%) Public Sector
3 26 (22.03%) Finance
4 24 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (15.25%) Banking
6 8 (6.78%) Front Office
7 7 (5.93%) Investment Banking
8 6 (5.08%) Retail Banking
9 5 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.69%) Publishing
11 1 (0.85%) Marketing
11 1 (0.85%) Police
11 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (28.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (24.58%) Architect
3 26 (22.03%) AWS Architect
4 24 (20.34%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (18.64%) Senior
6 12 (10.17%) AWS DevOps
6 12 (10.17%) Developer
7 11 (9.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 11 (9.32%) Software Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (7.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Lead
11 5 (4.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) AWS Software Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) AWS Solution Architect
11 5 (4.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.02%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (8.47%) .NET
2 10 (8.47%) GraphQL
3 8 (6.78%) REST
3 8 (6.78%) RESTful
4 6 (5.08%) Node.js
4 6 (5.08%) OAuth
4 6 (5.08%) OpenID
4 6 (5.08%) SAML
5 5 (4.24%) gRPC
5 5 (4.24%) NumPy
5 5 (4.24%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.24%) Pandas
5 5 (4.24%) Protocol Buffers
5 5 (4.24%) PySpark
5 5 (4.24%) SciPy
6 4 (3.39%) JSON
6 4 (3.39%) Spring
6 4 (3.39%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) Derivative
2 8 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.93%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.24%) Equities
4 5 (4.24%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.24%) Hedge funds
4 5 (4.24%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.54%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.64%) Linux
2 2 (1.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.98%) Containerisation
2 43 (36.44%) CI/CD
2 43 (36.44%) DevOps
3 36 (30.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (20.34%) Agile
6 21 (17.80%) High Availability
6 21 (17.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (15.25%) Open Source
8 12 (10.17%) Cost Management
8 12 (10.17%) Migration
8 12 (10.17%) Software Engineering
9 11 (9.32%) Asset Management
9 11 (9.32%) Configuration Management
9 11 (9.32%) Microservices
10 10 (8.47%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (8.47%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (6.78%) Mentoring
11 8 (6.78%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (5.93%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (36.44%) Python
2 22 (18.64%) Java
3 12 (10.17%) Go
4 11 (9.32%) Bash
4 11 (9.32%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.47%) SQL
6 7 (5.93%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.08%) C#
8 5 (4.24%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.39%) Rust
10 2 (1.69%) Groovy
10 2 (1.69%) Perl
11 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (37.29%) Security Cleared
2 41 (34.75%) SC Cleared
3 32 (27.12%) AWS Certification
4 27 (22.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.54%) Degree
5 3 (2.54%) OCP
5 3 (2.54%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.54%) QA
2 2 (1.69%) GDPR
2 2 (1.69%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.85%) NCSC
3 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (23.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) iptables
2 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (53.39%) Kubernetes
2 47 (39.83%) Terraform
3 20 (16.95%) Ansible
4 13 (11.02%) Grafana
5 11 (9.32%) Prometheus
6 9 (7.63%) Progress Chef
6 9 (7.63%) Puppet
7 2 (1.69%) Argo
7 2 (1.69%) Kibana
7 2 (1.69%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.69%) Packer
8 1 (0.85%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.85%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (6.78%) Red Hat
1 8 (6.78%) Splunk
2 3 (2.54%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.69%) Google
3 2 (1.69%) VMware
4 1 (0.85%) Cloudera
4 1 (0.85%) Databricks
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle
4 1 (0.85%) Pega
4 1 (0.85%) SaltStack
4 1 (0.85%) Trayport