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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 104 117
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 15 15 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.63% 0.80% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.91% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 2
10th Percentile £523 £503 £531
25th Percentile £554 £613 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £675 £643
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.06% +19.53%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £719
90th Percentile £736 £778 £760
Central London median daily rate £638 £675 £510
% change year-on-year -5.56% +32.35% -5.12%

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 939 785 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.42% 41.62% 41.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 512 596
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £671
90th Percentile £750 £756 £752
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 4
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 £17.03
25th Percentile £22.67 £25.18 £23.44
Median hourly rate £33.75 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +42.87% -36.47%
75th Percentile £63.68 £63.37 £43.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £72.85
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -22.86%

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 27 July 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 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (13.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (20.00%) Serverless
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (6.67%) Azure
6 1 (6.67%) Datadog
6 1 (6.67%) dbt
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) Pinecone
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Power BI
3 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Maven
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Back Office
4 2 (13.33%) Front Office
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Electronics Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (13.33%) JMS
3 2 (13.33%) Middleware
3 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.67%) Flask
4 1 (6.67%) Hugging Face
4 1 (6.67%) LangChain
4 1 (6.67%) LangGraph
4 1 (6.67%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Equities
3 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Microservices
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 5 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
7 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (20.00%) Observability
8 2 (13.33%) Agile
8 2 (13.33%) Algorithmic Trading
8 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (13.33%) Order Management
8 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (13.33%) Runbook
8 2 (13.33%) Scrum
8 2 (13.33%) Smart Order Routing
8 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (6.67%) PMP
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Grafana
4 1 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Bosun
4 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) AppDynamics
2 2 (13.33%) Bloomberg
2 2 (13.33%) Charles River
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) New Relic