Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in Central London

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 119 116
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 +65
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 17 9 19
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.84% 0.42% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.05% 1.04% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 15
10th Percentile £486 £515 £400
25th Percentile £511 £568 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £675 £569
Median % change year-on-year -17.59% +18.63% -10.39%
75th Percentile £641 £688 £700
90th Percentile £654 - £760
London median daily rate £533 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -18.08% +13.04% -11.54%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 830 864 1,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.09% 40.19% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 559 743
10th Percentile £343 £390 £363
25th Percentile £429 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £740 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £18.83 £26.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.97
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £30.88
90th Percentile £42.50 - £48.75
London median hourly rate £26.50 £30.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.95% -12.01% +40.00%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EKS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in Central London

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in Central London over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in Central London

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 18 January 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
City of London 0 16 £550 -18.52% 6
Amazon EKS
London

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (5.88%) Fidessa
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) GitHub
3 7 (41.18%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (41.18%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (35.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
5 5 (29.41%) Azure
5 5 (29.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (23.53%) Serverless
7 3 (17.65%) GCP
8 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
8 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (11.76%) Datadog
8 2 (11.76%) Sumo Logic
9 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (11.76%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.88%) CouchDB
3 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.88%) OLTP
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) GitLab
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) MLflow
3 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Front Office
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Local Government
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ARM Templates
1 2 (11.76%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (5.88%) JMS
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Memcached
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) NumPy
2 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.88%) Pandas
2 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Fixed Income
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Equities
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) NHS
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
1 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
4 6 (35.29%) DevOps
5 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
5 5 (29.41%) Observability
6 3 (17.65%) Microservices
7 2 (11.76%) AI
7 2 (11.76%) Architectural Design
7 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 2 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (11.76%) ETL
7 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) High Availability
7 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
7 2 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
7 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
7 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Bash
4 3 (17.65%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) C
5 1 (5.88%) Korn
5 1 (5.88%) PHP
5 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.88%) ProC
5 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (5.88%) CCSP
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.88%) CISSP
1 1 (5.88%) OSCP
1 1 (5.88%) SANS
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) NCSC
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (23.53%) Ansible
4 3 (17.65%) Grafana
4 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.88%) Argo
5 1 (5.88%) Istio
5 1 (5.88%) Karpenter
5 1 (5.88%) Kibana
5 1 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) AppDynamics
1 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
1 2 (11.76%) Google
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg
2 1 (5.88%) Charles River
2 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Rapid7
2 1 (5.88%) Tenable