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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 236 291
Rank change year-on-year -23 +55 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 110 145 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 0.94% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 2.29% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 117 106
10th Percentile £409 £500 £400
25th Percentile £469 £553 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £675 £579
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +16.63% -10.96%
75th Percentile £665 £888 £695
90th Percentile £716 - £863
England median daily rate £563 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -13.46% +13.04% -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 6,188 6,341 7,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 40.90% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,188 4,306 5,697
10th Percentile £350 £350 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 34 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.38
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -8.79% +51.98%
75th Percentile £42.44 £55.25 £60.94
90th Percentile £76.88 £65.33 £85.47
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +30.05%

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 November 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 18 November 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 +6 12 £563 -8.16% 40
South London -15 6 £530 -3.42% 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 5 (4.55%) CMS
1 5 (4.55%) Confluence
1 5 (4.55%) Headless CMS
2 3 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.73%) Traefik
3 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.82%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.91%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 100 (90.91%) AWS
2 40 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
3 36 (32.73%) Amazon S3
4 34 (30.91%) GitHub
4 34 (30.91%) Serverless
5 33 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (26.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (25.45%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (16.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (14.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (13.64%) Datadog
12 12 (10.91%) Azure
12 12 (10.91%) GCP
13 11 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 10 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 9 (8.18%) Azure AKS
16 7 (6.36%) Amazon Kinesis
16 7 (6.36%) AWS KMS
16 7 (6.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.36%) DNS
2 6 (5.45%) Firewall
3 5 (4.55%) VPN
4 3 (2.73%) SNMP
5 2 (1.82%) Calico
6 1 (0.91%) DHCP
6 1 (0.91%) HTTP
6 1 (0.91%) Internet
6 1 (0.91%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.91%) NAS
6 1 (0.91%) Network Security
6 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.91%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (26.36%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (15.45%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (10.91%) DynamoDB
4 9 (8.18%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (5.45%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.64%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.64%) Flink
7 4 (3.64%) MySQL
7 4 (3.64%) Redis
8 3 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.73%) Big Data
8 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.82%) Tableau
10 1 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (25.45%) Jenkins
2 18 (16.36%) GitLab
3 11 (10.00%) Git
4 8 (7.27%) JIRA
5 4 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.91%) git-flow
7 1 (0.91%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (20.00%) Finance
2 19 (17.27%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.45%) Banking
4 11 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.64%) Front Office
7 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.82%) Publishing
9 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Games
9 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Police
9 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (31.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (26.36%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (19.09%) Senior
4 18 (16.36%) AWS DevOps
5 17 (15.45%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (12.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (11.82%) Developer
7 13 (11.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 12 (10.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (10.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (9.09%) Architect
9 10 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 10 (9.09%) Java Developer
10 8 (7.27%) Site Engineer
11 7 (6.36%) AWS Architect
12 5 (4.55%) Designer
12 5 (4.55%) Lead
12 5 (4.55%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.00%) Kafka
2 12 (10.91%) Spring Boot
3 8 (7.27%) AWS CDK
4 7 (6.36%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (6.36%) Node.js
4 7 (6.36%) OAuth
4 7 (6.36%) Spring
5 6 (5.45%) OAuth2
5 6 (5.45%) OpenID
5 6 (5.45%) SAML
6 4 (3.64%) JSON
6 4 (3.64%) React
6 4 (3.64%) YAML
7 3 (2.73%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.73%) Keycloak
7 3 (2.73%) REST
8 2 (1.82%) .NET
8 2 (1.82%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.55%) Fixed Income
2 5 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.55%) Replication
3 3 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.73%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.91%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (0.91%) CUDA
5 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.91%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.91%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.91%) NHS
5 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.36%) Linux
2 3 (2.73%) Unix
2 3 (2.73%) VMS
3 2 (1.82%) Windows
4 1 (0.91%) AIX
4 1 (0.91%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.91%) Android
4 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.91%) Solaris
4 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (66.36%) CI/CD
2 56 (50.91%) DevOps
3 50 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 30 (27.27%) Microservices
6 26 (23.64%) Observability
7 23 (20.91%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (18.18%) Agile
8 20 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 17 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (11.82%) Configuration Management
11 12 (10.91%) Migration
11 12 (10.91%) Software Engineering
12 10 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (9.09%) GitOps
12 10 (9.09%) Test Automation
13 9 (8.18%) Cloud Security
13 9 (8.18%) High Availability
13 9 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (54.55%) Python
2 29 (26.36%) Java
3 26 (23.64%) Bash
4 16 (14.55%) Go
5 11 (10.00%) SQL
6 5 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.64%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.73%) Groovy
8 3 (2.73%) Ruby
8 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.82%) Perl
9 2 (1.82%) PromQL
10 1 (0.91%) Bicep
10 1 (0.91%) C#
10 1 (0.91%) COBOL
10 1 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.91%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (30.91%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 22 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 11 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.64%) Degree
6 3 (2.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.82%) CISSP
7 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.91%) CCSP
8 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.91%) OSCP
8 1 (0.91%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.64%) GDPR
1 4 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.73%) NCSC
3 2 (1.82%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.82%) NIST
3 2 (1.82%) QA
4 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.91%) GRC
4 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (43.64%) Docker
2 2 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.91%) etcd
3 1 (0.91%) iptables
3 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 76 (69.09%) Kubernetes
2 64 (58.18%) Terraform
3 25 (22.73%) Grafana
4 14 (12.73%) Argo
5 13 (11.82%) Ansible
6 11 (10.00%) Prometheus
7 8 (7.27%) Puppet
8 5 (4.55%) Istio
9 4 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.73%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (2.73%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.73%) Rancher
11 2 (1.82%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.91%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 7 (6.36%) Dynatrace
1 7 (6.36%) Microsoft
1 7 (6.36%) Splunk
2 5 (4.55%) PagerDuty
3 4 (3.64%) AppDynamics
3 4 (3.64%) Databricks
4 3 (2.73%) Google
4 3 (2.73%) Oracle
4 3 (2.73%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.82%) Avaloq
5 2 (1.82%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.82%) Confluent
5 2 (1.82%) Qualys
6 1 (0.91%) Black Duck
6 1 (0.91%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.91%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.91%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.91%) Tenable
6 1 (0.91%) Veracode
6 1 (0.91%) Virgin Media