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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 111 122
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 18 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.81% 0.58% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.96% 1.43% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 3
10th Percentile £531 £495 £509
25th Percentile £563 £525 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £643 £527
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% +22.03% -4.27%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £585
90th Percentile £760 £783 £620
Central London median daily rate £700 £643 £527
% change year-on-year +8.95% +22.03% -4.27%

All Cloud Computing 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 917 698 850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.19% 40.32% 40.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 485 560
10th Percentile £359 £336 £384
25th Percentile £456 £435 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -0.44%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.75 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.71 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £61.16 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £88.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%

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 21 September 2026.

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:

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 SQS
7 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
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%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
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
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