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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 226 304
Rank change year-on-year -13 +78 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 180 117 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 0.97% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.32% 2.25% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 93 57
10th Percentile £400 £433 £363
25th Percentile £507 £525 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £723 £725 £780
England median daily rate £550 £598 £563
% change year-on-year -7.95% +6.22% -10.00%

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 7,774 5,204 6,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.28% 43.09% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,369 3,525 4,995
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -1.53% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £780
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.39% -1.00% -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% -50.25%
75th Percentile £55.94 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.17 £67.50 £58.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.26 £21.37
% change year-on-year +56.40% +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 4 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 4 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 -16 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%) 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 59 (32.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 59 (32.78%) GitHub
8 54 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 48 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (25.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (12.78%) Route 53
12 20 (11.11%) Azure
13 17 (9.44%) Datadog
14 15 (8.33%) Azure AKS
15 14 (7.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 14 (7.78%) AWS CodePipeline
16 13 (7.22%) GCP
17 12 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
18 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 35 (19.44%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.56%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (3.89%) MySQL
6 7 (3.89%) SQL Server
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 2 (1.11%) Flink
12 1 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.56%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 63 (35.00%) GitLab
2 53 (29.44%) 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%) SonarQube
7 7 (3.89%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.78%) MLflow
8 5 (2.78%) Mocha
8 5 (2.78%) MSTest
8 5 (2.78%) tSQLt
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 22 (12.22%) Finance
3 20 (11.11%) Banking
4 16 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.78%) Front Office
8 4 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.67%) Law
9 3 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Games
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Military
11 1 (0.56%) Publishing
11 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (19.44%) Architect
3 35 (19.44%) Senior
4 27 (15.00%) Developer
5 23 (12.78%) AWS Architect
6 21 (11.67%) Lead
7 19 (10.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (8.89%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (8.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
10 13 (7.22%) Python Developer
11 11 (6.11%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (6.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 11 (6.11%) Software Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Technical Architect
13 8 (4.44%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (20.56%) Kafka
2 19 (10.56%) REST
3 17 (9.44%) OpenID
3 17 (9.44%) RESTful
4 15 (8.33%) AWS CDK
4 15 (8.33%) Node.js
5 12 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (6.67%) OAuth
5 12 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 12 (6.67%) React
6 11 (6.11%) AngularJS
6 11 (6.11%) Spring Boot
7 10 (5.56%) LDAP
7 10 (5.56%) OAuth2
8 9 (5.00%) FastAPI
8 9 (5.00%) Spring
9 8 (4.44%) .NET
10 7 (3.89%) Django
10 7 (3.89%) Flask
10 7 (3.89%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (32.78%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.78%) Equities
5 5 (2.78%) PKI
6 4 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.67%) Fixed Income
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%) Omics
8 2 (1.11%) SCADA
8 2 (1.11%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.00%) 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
1 135 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 93 (51.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 90 (50.00%) DevOps
4 71 (39.44%) Containerisation
5 49 (27.22%) Observability
6 41 (22.78%) Platform Engineering
7 36 (20.00%) 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%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 20 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (11.11%) SDLC
14 19 (10.56%) Event-Driven
14 19 (10.56%) Mentoring
15 18 (10.00%) Secrets Management
16 17 (9.44%) Roadmaps
17 16 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 87 (48.33%) Python
2 31 (17.22%) Bash
2 31 (17.22%) Java
3 16 (8.89%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.67%) SQL
5 11 (6.11%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.44%) C#
8 5 (2.78%) Go
8 5 (2.78%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.78%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.67%) Bicep
10 2 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.56%) C
11 1 (0.56%) Korn
11 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
11 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
6 4 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.67%) CISSP
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 12 (6.67%) 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 75 (41.67%) Docker
2 15 (8.33%) Squid
3 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (73.33%) Terraform
2 100 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 43 (23.89%) Grafana
4 41 (22.78%) Prometheus
5 23 (12.78%) Ansible
6 12 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (6.11%) 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
4 6 (3.33%) Databricks
4 6 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.33%) Oracle
5 5 (2.78%) AppDynamics
5 5 (2.78%) AVEVA
5 5 (2.78%) New Relic
6 4 (2.22%) Qualys
6 4 (2.22%) Sybase
6 4 (2.22%) Tenable
7 3 (1.67%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.67%) Charles River
8 2 (1.11%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.11%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.11%) SAP
8 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow