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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 121 125
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 15 15 10
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.57% 0.73% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 1.74% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 4
10th Percentile £513 £503 £420
25th Percentile £527 £613 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £505
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +33.66% -6.05%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £583
90th Percentile £733 £778 £706
London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -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 1,027 861 990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.98% 41.98% 41.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 557 696
10th Percentile £338 £359 £363
25th Percentile £456 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £653
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 6
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 £16.31
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £44.44
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £71.38
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
% change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -50.96%

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 July 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 July 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 -17 15 £575 -14.81% 8
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 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (13.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (20.00%) Serverless
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 1 (6.67%) Datadog
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (6.67%) Prefect
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (6.67%) Pinecone
3 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Maven
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Back Office
4 2 (13.33%) Front Office
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Electronics Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (13.33%) JMS
2 2 (13.33%) Middleware
2 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (13.33%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (6.67%) Flask
3 1 (6.67%) Hugging Face
3 1 (6.67%) LangChain
3 1 (6.67%) LangGraph
3 1 (6.67%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (13.33%) Equities
3 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Microservices
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven
4 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
6 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (13.33%) Observability
6 2 (13.33%) Order Management
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Runbook
6 2 (13.33%) Smart Order Routing
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Grafana
4 1 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) AppDynamics
2 2 (13.33%) Bloomberg
2 2 (13.33%) Charles River
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft