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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 128 134
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 +51
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 12 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.61% 0.21% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 0.54% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 15
10th Percentile £445 £503 £340
25th Percentile £513 £527 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +16.67% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £572
90th Percentile £708 - £705
London median daily rate £550 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -21.43% +21.74% -11.54%

All Cloud 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 821 925 1,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.65% 39.40% 40.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 600 830
10th Percentile £341 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 10
10th Percentile £18.69 £29.40 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £33.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £48.67 £49.38 £46.06
90th Percentile £61.16 £75.25 £54.63
London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -27.23% -9.68% +40.91%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +14 12 £563 -8.16% 36
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 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) CICS
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (8.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (50.00%) GitHub
4 5 (41.67%) Amazon S3
4 5 (41.67%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (33.33%) Azure
5 4 (33.33%) Serverless
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
7 2 (16.67%) Datadog
7 2 (16.67%) IaaS
7 2 (16.67%) PaaS
7 2 (16.67%) SaaS
7 2 (16.67%) Sumo Logic
8 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) NAS
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (8.33%) CouchDB
3 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Redis
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Security Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Designer
2 1 (8.33%) Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (8.33%) Memcached
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (8.33%) OpenID
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) SAML
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) AIX
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Solaris
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (16.67%) Microservices
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Server Hardening
4 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) COBOL
4 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (8.33%) CCSP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) OSCP
2 1 (8.33%) SANS
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) GRC
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Istio
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) NetApp
1 1 (8.33%) Rapid7
1 1 (8.33%) Tenable