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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 114 119
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 16 14 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.67% 0.74% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.80% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 4
10th Percentile £524 £500 £511
25th Percentile £563 £521 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £570
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +9.75% +5.95%
75th Percentile £725 £709 £680
90th Percentile £763 £779 £744
Central London median daily rate £700 £625 £527
% change year-on-year +12.00% +18.71% -2.05%

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 949 776 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.89% 41.25% 40.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 513 587
10th Percentile £363 £355 £383
25th Percentile £460 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £755 £765
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +28.33% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.57 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £97.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £34.33 £27.00
% change year-on-year +5.61% +27.13% -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 10 August 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 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (6.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
3 5 (31.25%) GitHub
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (25.00%) Serverless
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (18.75%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (6.25%) Azure
6 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 1 (6.25%) dbt
6 1 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) Prefect
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Pinecone
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) Git
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Back Office
3 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Front Office
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (18.75%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (6.25%) Flask
4 1 (6.25%) Hugging Face
4 1 (6.25%) JMS
4 1 (6.25%) LangChain
4 1 (6.25%) LangGraph
4 1 (6.25%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (6.25%) Middleware
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
2 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.25%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (56.25%) Microservices
3 7 (43.75%) Event-Driven
3 7 (43.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (25.00%) Migration
6 4 (25.00%) Observability
7 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
7 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (12.50%) Agile
8 2 (12.50%) AI
8 2 (12.50%) Coaching
8 2 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
1 1 (6.25%) PMP
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Terraform
2 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Bosun
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
2 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.25%) Charles River
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) New Relic