Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 114 115
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +68
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 15 8 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.82% 0.39% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 0.99% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 17
10th Percentile £486 £511 £348
25th Percentile £511 £554 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.59% +28.57% -17.32%
75th Percentile £643 £688 £675
90th Percentile £675 - £753
Central London median daily rate £556 £675 £525
% change year-on-year -17.59% +28.57% -10.45%

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 760 806 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.48% 38.97% 40.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 513 728
10th Percentile £325 £400 £361
25th Percentile £420 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £762 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £27.53 - -
25th Percentile £32.25 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +347.37% -7.32%
75th Percentile £44.72 £92.50 £43.38
90th Percentile £51.20 - £58.75
Central London median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -15.04% +84.21% -7.32%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EKS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the City of London

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the City of London

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (46.67%) GitHub
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (33.33%) Azure
4 5 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (26.67%) Serverless
6 3 (20.00%) GCP
7 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (13.33%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (13.33%) Datadog
7 2 (13.33%) IaaS
7 2 (13.33%) PaaS
7 2 (13.33%) SaaS
7 2 (13.33%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) NAS
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.67%) CouchDB
3 1 (6.67%) OLTP
3 1 (6.67%) Redis
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) GitLab
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Local Government
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) Memcached
1 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Code
3 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.67%) NHS
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) AIX
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Solaris
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
4 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Observability
6 2 (13.33%) API Development
6 2 (13.33%) Architectural Design
6 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
6 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (13.33%) ETL
6 2 (13.33%) High Availability
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Server Hardening
6 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) C
5 1 (6.67%) COBOL
5 1 (6.67%) Korn
5 1 (6.67%) PHP
5 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.67%) ProC
5 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (6.67%) CCSP
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.67%) CISSP
1 1 (6.67%) OSCP
1 1 (6.67%) SANS
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NCSC
2 1 (6.67%) GRC
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (26.67%) Ansible
4 2 (13.33%) Grafana
4 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.67%) Argo
5 1 (6.67%) Istio
5 1 (6.67%) Karpenter
5 1 (6.67%) Kibana
5 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (13.33%) Google
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (6.67%) NetApp
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Rapid7
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Tenable