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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 110 116
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 +51
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 16 9 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.85% 0.48% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 1.20% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 15
10th Percentile £473 £515 £391
25th Percentile £510 £568 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +28.57% -17.32%
75th Percentile £613 £688 £625
90th Percentile £655 - £760
Central London median daily rate £556 £675 £525
% change year-on-year -17.59% +28.57% -18.29%

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 775 748 957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.31% 39.66% 38.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 474 696
10th Percentile £340 £400 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
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 6 0 11
10th Percentile £26.66 - -
25th Percentile £34.19 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £46.11 - £43.38
90th Percentile £49.83 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%

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 25 January 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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (6.25%) Fidessa
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (43.75%) GitHub
3 6 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
4 5 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (31.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (25.00%) Azure
6 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (18.75%) GCP
6 3 (18.75%) Serverless
7 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
7 2 (12.50%) Datadog
7 2 (12.50%) Sumo Logic
8 1 (6.25%) Apigee
8 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (6.25%) CouchDB
3 1 (6.25%) OLTP
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) GitLab
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) MLflow
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Front Office
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
5 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (6.25%) JMS
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Memcached
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) NumPy
2 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (6.25%) Pandas
2 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Equities
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Code
3 1 (6.25%) NHS
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Android
1 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
4 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Observability
6 3 (18.75%) Microservices
7 2 (12.50%) AI
7 2 (12.50%) Architectural Design
7 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
7 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (12.50%) ETL
7 2 (12.50%) High Availability
7 2 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 2 (12.50%) Server Hardening
7 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Bash
4 3 (18.75%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) C
5 1 (6.25%) Korn
5 1 (6.25%) PHP
5 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.25%) ProC
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (6.25%) CCSP
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.25%) CISSP
1 1 (6.25%) OSCP
1 1 (6.25%) SANS
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GRC
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Terraform
2 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (25.00%) Ansible
4 3 (18.75%) Grafana
5 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (6.25%) Argo
6 1 (6.25%) Istio
6 1 (6.25%) Karpenter
6 1 (6.25%) Kibana
6 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) AppDynamics
1 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 2 (12.50%) Google
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.25%) Charles River
2 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Rapid7
2 1 (6.25%) Tenable