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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 110 114
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 +52
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 14 17 16
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.57% 0.86% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 1.99% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 7
10th Percentile £512 £510 £454
25th Percentile £513 £613 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £763
90th Percentile £651 - £848
London median daily rate £550 £625 £556
% change year-on-year -12.00% +12.36% -11.00%

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 962 856 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.25% 43.45% 39.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 547 680
10th Percentile £350 £360 £350
25th Percentile £453 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £751
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 7
10th Percentile £20.67 £23.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -72.99%
75th Percentile £57.83 £43.75 £25.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £89.75 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -48.00%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -16 13 £553 -18.04% 12
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 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (21.43%) Fidessa
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (35.71%) GitHub
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (21.43%) Azure
4 3 (21.43%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) Serverless
4 3 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.14%) OLTP
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) GitLab
2 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) MLflow
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Front Office
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Local Government
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Electronics Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Security Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) REST
2 3 (21.43%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (21.43%) JMS
2 3 (21.43%) Kafka
2 3 (21.43%) Middleware
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) NumPy
4 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (7.14%) Pandas
4 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
4 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Equities
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Code
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) Observability
5 4 (28.57%) Microservices
6 3 (21.43%) Algorithmic Trading
6 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
6 3 (21.43%) DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
6 3 (21.43%) Electronic Trading
6 3 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (21.43%) Order Management
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Runbook
6 3 (21.43%) Smart Order Routing
7 2 (14.29%) AI
7 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (14.29%) Generative AI
7 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Bicep
4 1 (7.14%) C
4 1 (7.14%) Korn
4 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) ProC
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (7.14%) CCSP
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.14%) CISSP
1 1 (7.14%) OSCP
1 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
1 1 (7.14%) PMP
1 1 (7.14%) SANS
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) GRC
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
2 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (35.71%) Grafana
4 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.14%) Ansible
5 1 (7.14%) Argo
5 1 (7.14%) Karpenter
5 1 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Splunk
2 3 (21.43%) AppDynamics
2 3 (21.43%) Bloomberg
2 3 (21.43%) Charles River
3 2 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Rapid7