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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 108 119
Rank change year-on-year -28 +11 +47
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 9 16 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.35% 0.83% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 1.95% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 5
10th Percentile £518 £507 £431
25th Percentile £527 £613 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £510
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +32.35% -7.27%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £738
90th Percentile £625 £698 £768
London median daily rate £563 £600 £569
% change year-on-year -6.25% +5.49% -9.00%

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 998 822 968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.30% 42.81% 40.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 531 687
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £458 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -7.33%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 6
10th Percentile £21.06 £22.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £27.54 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £54.60 £31.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.38% +41.60% -66.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.51 £26.19
90th Percentile £76.58 £94.38 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% +17.44% -50.48%

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 17 June 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 17 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
City of London -26 8 £560 -17.11% 4
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 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (33.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (11.11%) Datadog
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) MLflow
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Front Office
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Security Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
1 3 (33.33%) JMS
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
1 3 (33.33%) Middleware
1 3 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
3 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) NumPy
3 1 (11.11%) Pandas
3 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
3 1 (11.11%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 3 (33.33%) Equities
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Order Management
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Runbook
2 3 (33.33%) Smart Order Routing
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 2 (22.22%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
4 1 (11.11%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
1 1 (11.11%) PMP
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Grafana
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Splunk
2 3 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 3 (33.33%) Bloomberg
2 3 (33.33%) Charles River
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft