Amazon EKS Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 111 163
Rank change year-on-year +10 +52 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 18 15 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.02% 0.68% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.36% 1.75% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 5
10th Percentile £520 £445 £455
25th Percentile £613 £523 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £688 £775 £635
90th Percentile - £863 £644
Central London median daily rate £675 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +17.39% +4.55% -

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 762 856 1,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.37% 38.96% 38.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 610 937
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £674 £713
90th Percentile £750 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £554 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +3.01% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the City of London

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the City of London

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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the City of London

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 6 (33.33%) CloudFront
3 6 (33.33%) Route 53
4 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (27.78%) GitHub
4 5 (27.78%) Serverless
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (11.11%) SaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DHCP
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 2 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (38.89%) NoSQL
3 6 (33.33%) DocumentDB
3 6 (33.33%) Redis
3 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
6 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jaeger
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (55.56%) Banking
2 8 (44.44%) Finance
3 6 (33.33%) Retail Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Front Office
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) GraphQL
2 7 (38.89%) RESTful
3 6 (33.33%) .NET
4 5 (27.78%) Node.js
5 3 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (16.67%) React
6 2 (11.11%) Jest
7 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 1 (5.56%) Bootstrap
7 1 (5.56%) Loki
7 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Derivative
1 6 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 6 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 6 (33.33%) SOLID
2 6 (33.33%) TDD
2 6 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) GitOps
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Protective Monitoring
5 2 (11.11%) SDLC
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) C#
2 6 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
5 2 (11.11%) Go
5 2 (11.11%) Perl
5 2 (11.11%) Rust
5 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Terraform
2 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Rancher