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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 106 117
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 +56
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 16 16 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.72% 0.79% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 1.87% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 13
10th Percentile £486 £520 £401
25th Percentile £511 £613 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £688 £675
90th Percentile £650 - £768
London median daily rate £525 £635 £575
% change year-on-year -17.32% +10.43% -8.00%

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 924 857 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.85% 42.05% 38.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 563 710
10th Percentile £342 £375 £342
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £666
90th Percentile £750 £738 £746
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.30 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -36.67%
75th Percentile £49.83 £41.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.72 £104.25 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
% change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -12.72%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -7 15 £525 -22.22% 3
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 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (18.75%) Fidessa
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (43.75%) GitHub
3 6 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
4 5 (31.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (25.00%) Azure
6 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (18.75%) Datadog
6 3 (18.75%) GCP
6 3 (18.75%) Serverless
7 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (12.50%) Sumo Logic
8 1 (6.25%) Apigee
8 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
8 1 (6.25%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (6.25%) CouchDB
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) OLTP
2 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) GitLab
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) MLflow
2 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Front Office
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Local Government
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Electronics Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Architect
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (18.75%) JMS
2 3 (18.75%) Kafka
2 3 (18.75%) Middleware
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CDK
4 1 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
4 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.25%) Memcached
4 1 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (6.25%) NumPy
4 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (6.25%) Pandas
4 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
4 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
1 3 (18.75%) Equities
1 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Code
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (31.25%) Observability
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Microservices
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Algorithmic Trading
5 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
5 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) Order Management
5 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Runbook
5 3 (18.75%) Smart Order Routing
6 2 (12.50%) Architectural Design
6 2 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (12.50%) Generative AI
6 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) Bicep
5 1 (6.25%) C
5 1 (6.25%) Korn
5 1 (6.25%) PHP
5 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.25%) ProC
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (6.25%) CCSP
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.25%) CISSP
1 1 (6.25%) OSCP
1 1 (6.25%) SANS
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) GRC
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NCSC
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Terraform
2 5 (31.25%) Grafana
2 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (18.75%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Argo
4 1 (6.25%) Karpenter
4 1 (6.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Splunk
2 3 (18.75%) AppDynamics
2 3 (18.75%) Bloomberg
2 3 (18.75%) Charles River
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
4 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Rapid7