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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 109 116
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +57
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 17 9 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.89% 0.49% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 1.21% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 15
10th Percentile £473 £610 £391
25th Percentile £510 £663 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +28.57% -17.32%
75th Percentile £613 £688 £625
90th Percentile £655 - £760
Central London median daily rate £544 £675 £525
% change year-on-year -19.44% +28.57% -17.32%

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 799 746 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.68% 40.92% 38.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 470 660
10th Percentile £327 £400 £363
25th Percentile £423 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
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 11
10th Percentile £27.83 - £12.75
25th Percentile £35.88 £46.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +150.00% -51.28%
75th Percentile £49.83 £48.75 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.19 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +84.21% -36.67%

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 15 February 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (11.76%) Fidessa
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (41.18%) GitHub
4 6 (35.29%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
5 5 (29.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (17.65%) Azure
7 3 (17.65%) GCP
7 3 (17.65%) Serverless
8 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (11.76%) Datadog
8 2 (11.76%) Sumo Logic
9 1 (5.88%) Apigee
9 1 (5.88%) PaaS
9 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (11.76%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.88%) CouchDB
3 1 (5.88%) OLTP
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) GitLab
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) MLflow
3 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Banking
5 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Front Office
5 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.88%) Local Government
6 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Electronics Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (11.76%) JMS
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.88%) Memcached
3 1 (5.88%) NumPy
3 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.88%) Pandas
3 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Equities
2 2 (11.76%) Fixed Income
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.88%) NHS
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
1 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
1 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
3 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Microservices
4 4 (23.53%) Observability
5 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) API Development
6 2 (11.76%) Architectural Design
6 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
6 2 (11.76%) Generative AI
6 2 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (11.76%) Order Management
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Runbook
6 2 (11.76%) Server Hardening
6 2 (11.76%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Bash
3 4 (23.53%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) C
4 1 (5.88%) Korn
4 1 (5.88%) PHP
4 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) ProC
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (5.88%) CCSP
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) OSCP
2 1 (5.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) NCSC
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
3 3 (17.65%) Grafana
4 1 (5.88%) Argo
4 1 (5.88%) Karpenter
4 1 (5.88%) Kibana
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) AppDynamics
1 3 (17.65%) Splunk
2 2 (11.76%) Bloomberg
2 2 (11.76%) Charles River
2 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Rapid7