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 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 132 141
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 9 5 19
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.47% 0.21% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 0.53% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 16
10th Percentile £411 £495 £344
25th Percentile £484 £505 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £527 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.25% -2.05% -1.15%
75th Percentile £692 £644 £661
90th Percentile £742 £670 £714
London median daily rate £575 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% -3.85%

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 766 939 1,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.27% 39.87% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 624 878
10th Percentile £339 £389 £325
25th Percentile £442 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £766 £775
London median daily rate £530 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 7
10th Percentile £18.87 - £15.10
25th Percentile £25.25 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +55.56% -1.10%
75th Percentile £54.46 - £43.38
90th Percentile £65.57 £69.50 £50.25
London median hourly rate £27.00 £31.25 £44.00
% change year-on-year -13.60% -28.98% +25.71%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +2 9 £596 +13.25% 11
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%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) CICS
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (44.44%) Serverless
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (33.33%) Azure
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
6 1 (11.11%) Datadog
6 1 (11.11%) IaaS
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (11.11%) PaaS
6 1 (11.11%) SaaS
6 1 (11.11%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) NAS
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) CouchDB
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 1 (11.11%) Memcached
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) AIX
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Solaris
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
4 1 (11.11%) Inventory Management
4 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Secrets Management
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) COBOL
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Istio
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
1 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) NetApp
1 1 (11.11%) Tenable