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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 265 254
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 +35
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 203 103 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 0.77% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.42% 1.78% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 87 93
10th Percentile £413 £423 £480
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £653 £888
90th Percentile £774 £718 -
England median daily rate £563 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -2.17% -11.54% +8.33%

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 8,387 5,798 6,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.25% 43.26% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,735 3,945 4,658
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 94 49
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £21.60
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £68.05
England median hourly rate £34.06 £26.38 £30.59
% change year-on-year +29.13% -13.78% -7.30%

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 9 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 9 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 -16 16 £700 +8.95% 7
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 (5.91%) Confluence
2 6 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.99%) Camunda
4 1 (0.49%) Apache
4 1 (0.49%) nginx
4 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 201 (99.01%) AWS
2 77 (37.93%) Amazon S3
2 77 (37.93%) Serverless
3 75 (36.95%) Amazon ECS
4 74 (36.45%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (34.98%) GitHub
6 67 (33.00%) Amazon EC2
7 62 (30.54%) GitHub Actions
8 55 (27.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 38 (18.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 32 (15.76%) Azure
11 25 (12.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (11.33%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (9.36%) GCP
14 18 (8.87%) Amazon EventBridge
15 16 (7.88%) Datadog
16 15 (7.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 15 (7.39%) Snowflake
17 13 (6.40%) Azure AKS
18 11 (5.42%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.91%) Network Security
2 9 (4.43%) Firewall
3 6 (2.96%) DNS
3 6 (2.96%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.97%) VPN
5 3 (1.48%) SSL
6 2 (0.99%) DSL
7 1 (0.49%) Calico
7 1 (0.49%) Internet
7 1 (0.49%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (20.69%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (8.37%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.43%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.96%) Redis
7 5 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (2.46%) Big Data
8 4 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.97%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.97%) MySQL
9 3 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.48%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.48%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.48%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.99%) Power BI
10 2 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.99%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 74 (36.45%) GitLab
2 50 (24.63%) Jenkins
3 24 (11.82%) Git
4 9 (4.43%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.45%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.96%) JIRA
7 5 (2.46%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.48%) Maven
8 3 (1.48%) Mocha
8 3 (1.48%) MSTest
8 3 (1.48%) tSQLt
9 2 (0.99%) Gradle
9 2 (0.99%) JMeter
9 2 (0.99%) JUnit
9 2 (0.99%) Mockito
10 1 (0.49%) Gatling
10 1 (0.49%) git-flow
10 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.49%) RhodeCode
10 1 (0.49%) Spinnaker
General
1 46 (22.66%) Finance
1 46 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 30 (14.78%) Banking
4 10 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.96%) Law
8 5 (2.46%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.97%) Back Office
10 3 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.48%) Military
10 3 (1.48%) Retail
11 2 (0.99%) Billing
11 2 (0.99%) Front Office
11 2 (0.99%) Publishing
12 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.49%) Games
12 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (26.60%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (26.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (21.67%) Senior
4 27 (13.30%) Architect
4 27 (13.30%) Lead
5 26 (12.81%) AWS DevOps
5 26 (12.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 21 (10.34%) Developer
7 18 (8.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (7.88%) AWS Architect
9 13 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (6.40%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.91%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (5.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (5.42%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (5.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (4.93%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 10 (4.93%) Python Engineer
13 9 (4.43%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (68.97%) Terraform
2 32 (15.76%) Kafka
3 30 (14.78%) REST
4 26 (12.81%) Spring
5 24 (11.82%) Spring Boot
6 20 (9.85%) RESTful
7 15 (7.39%) React
8 14 (6.90%) FastAPI
9 11 (5.42%) AngularJS
9 11 (5.42%) Loki
10 10 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (4.93%) Flask
10 10 (4.93%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (3.45%) .NET
11 7 (3.45%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.96%) AWS CDK
12 6 (2.96%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.96%) Keycloak
12 6 (2.96%) Langfuse
Miscellaneous
1 89 (43.84%) Cloud Native
2 29 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.40%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.42%) Virtual Team
5 10 (4.93%) AI Agents
6 9 (4.43%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.96%) PKI
9 5 (2.46%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.46%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.46%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.48%) Taxonomies
12 2 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
12 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.29%) Linux
2 12 (5.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.94%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.48%) VMS
5 2 (0.99%) Windows
5 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (76.35%) CI/CD
2 123 (60.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 113 (55.67%) DevOps
4 92 (45.32%) Containerisation
5 86 (42.36%) Observability
6 66 (32.51%) Microservices
7 44 (21.67%) Agile
8 43 (21.18%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (20.69%) AI
10 40 (19.70%) Event-Driven
11 39 (19.21%) DevSecOps
12 38 (18.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 38 (18.72%) Software Engineering
13 28 (13.79%) Mentoring
14 27 (13.30%) Deployment Automation
14 27 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (12.81%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (11.82%) Secrets Management
17 24 (11.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 105 (51.72%) Python
2 48 (23.65%) Bash
3 42 (20.69%) Java
4 17 (8.37%) SQL
5 13 (6.40%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.43%) Go
6 9 (4.43%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.94%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.45%) C#
9 3 (1.48%) Cypher
9 3 (1.48%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.48%) SHACL
9 3 (1.48%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.99%) Bicep
10 2 (0.99%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.99%) R
10 2 (0.99%) Scala
10 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.49%) Groovy
11 1 (0.49%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 82 (40.39%) Security Cleared
2 68 (33.50%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.82%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.87%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.96%) Degree
8 4 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.49%) ISEB
9 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.49%) PMP
9 1 (0.49%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.39%) QA
2 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) GDPR
3 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.49%) NIST
3 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (43.84%) Docker
2 6 (2.96%) Squid
3 5 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 126 (62.07%) Kubernetes
2 52 (25.62%) Grafana
3 39 (19.21%) Prometheus
4 27 (13.30%) Ansible
5 26 (12.81%) Argo
6 9 (4.43%) Istio
7 5 (2.46%) Puppet
8 4 (1.97%) Suricata
9 3 (1.48%) Bosun
9 3 (1.48%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.99%) Cilium
11 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.49%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.49%) Nagios
11 1 (0.49%) Packer
11 1 (0.49%) Rancher
11 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.49%) systemd
11 1 (0.49%) yum
Vendors
1 20 (9.85%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.88%) Oracle
3 7 (3.45%) New Relic
3 7 (3.45%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.96%) OpenAI
4 6 (2.96%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.96%) Splunk
5 5 (2.46%) Amplitude
6 4 (1.97%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.97%) Okta
6 4 (1.97%) Sybase
7 3 (1.48%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.48%) VMware
8 2 (0.99%) BigPanda
8 2 (0.99%) FactSet
9 1 (0.49%) Apple
9 1 (0.49%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.49%) Databricks
9 1 (0.49%) IBM
9 1 (0.49%) Tenable