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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 121 129
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 20 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.84% 0.47% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 1.19% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 4
10th Percentile £504 £411 £493
25th Percentile £536 £484 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £596 £526
Median % change year-on-year +15.30% +13.41% -2.19%
75th Percentile £734 £692 £583
90th Percentile £755 £742 £619
London median daily rate £575 £575 £700
% change year-on-year - -17.86% +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 992 756 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.66% 39.62% 39.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 538 614
10th Percentile £331 £337 £390
25th Percentile £455 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £656 £660 £675
90th Percentile £762 £753 £775
London median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 5
10th Percentile £19.28 £18.87 -
25th Percentile £21.75 £25.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £46.88 £54.46 -
90th Percentile £64.88 £65.57 £69.50
London median hourly rate £28.55 £27.40 £31.00
% change year-on-year +4.20% -11.61% -23.46%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -6 20 £688 +15.30% 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) GitHub
3 8 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 8 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (35.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (35.00%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (35.00%) Serverless
5 6 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (30.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 6 (30.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 6 (30.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (15.00%) Azure
6 3 (15.00%) GCP
6 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
7 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (5.00%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (5.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (5.00%) Chroma
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) Milvus
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Pinecone
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) GitLab
2 6 (30.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Back Office
3 5 (25.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Front Office
5 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Senior
2 7 (35.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Data Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Architect
7 2 (10.00%) Analyst
7 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
7 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
7 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
8 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Java Architect
8 1 (5.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (15.00%) Kafka
3 3 (15.00%) Spring
4 2 (10.00%) REST
4 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.00%) Flask
5 1 (5.00%) gRPC
5 1 (5.00%) Hugging Face
5 1 (5.00%) LangChain
5 1 (5.00%) LangGraph
5 1 (5.00%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (5.00%) PySpark
5 1 (5.00%) React
5 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.00%) PropTech
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (65.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (55.00%) Event-Driven
3 11 (55.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 9 (45.00%) Microservices
5 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
5 7 (35.00%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (35.00%) DevOps
6 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (30.00%) Data Engineering
7 5 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (20.00%) Migration
8 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (15.00%) Agile
9 3 (15.00%) Analytics
9 3 (15.00%) ETL
9 3 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Bosun
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) New Relic