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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 117 122
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 18 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.72% 0.51% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 1.29% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 4
10th Percentile £531 £495 £511
25th Percentile £563 £525 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £643 £570
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% +12.82% +3.55%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £680
90th Percentile £760 £783 £744
London median daily rate £575 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +12.00%

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 1,032 776 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.43% 39.86% 40.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 731 533 633
10th Percentile £350 £334 £389
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -
75th Percentile £656 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
London median daily rate £545 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +1.82% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 5
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £69.50
London median hourly rate £31.25 £31.00 £30.80
% change year-on-year +0.81% +0.67% -23.01%

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 September 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 September 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 18 £700 +8.95% 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) GitHub
3 7 (38.89%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
3 7 (38.89%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
4 6 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 6 (33.33%) Serverless
5 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
6 2 (11.11%) Azure
6 2 (11.11%) GCP
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (5.56%) Chroma
3 1 (5.56%) Milvus
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) Pinecone
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) GitLab
2 6 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) Maven
General
1 12 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Back Office
3 5 (27.78%) Banking
4 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Front Office
5 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.56%) Retail
6 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Data Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) AWS Data Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Developer
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) Terraform
2 6 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (16.67%) Kafka
3 3 (16.67%) Spring
4 2 (11.11%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.56%) Flask
5 1 (5.56%) gRPC
5 1 (5.56%) Hugging Face
5 1 (5.56%) LangChain
5 1 (5.56%) LangGraph
5 1 (5.56%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (5.56%) React
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.11%) PropTech
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 12 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (61.11%) Event-Driven
3 11 (61.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 9 (50.00%) Microservices
5 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 6 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 6 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (33.33%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) Knowledge Transfer
6 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
7 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
8 3 (16.67%) Migration
8 3 (16.67%) Observability
8 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (11.11%) Scrum
9 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.56%) PMP
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Bosun
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) New Relic