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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 104 118
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 +35
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 12 15 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.49% 0.85% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 2.00% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 3
10th Percentile £518 £503 £409
25th Percentile £527 £613 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £510
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +32.35% -5.12%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £651
90th Percentile £655 £708 £733
Central London median daily rate £575 £675 £505
% change year-on-year -14.81% +33.66% -6.05%

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 936 751 876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.41% 42.74% 40.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 482 612
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.95%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £671
90th Percentile £750 £751 £774
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £541
% change year-on-year - +1.62% -5.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 6
10th Percentile £22.38 £24.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.18 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £38.58 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year +33.35% +55.86% -63.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.37 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.35 £96.63 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £34.65 £24.75
% change year-on-year +66.71% +40.00% -52.86%

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 29 June 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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (25.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) Azure
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (8.33%) Datadog
5 1 (8.33%) dbt
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (8.33%) Prefect
5 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) Pinecone
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) MLflow
2 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Front Office
4 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Electronics Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
1 3 (25.00%) JMS
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
1 3 (25.00%) Middleware
1 3 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (8.33%) Flask
2 1 (8.33%) Hugging Face
2 1 (8.33%) LangChain
2 1 (8.33%) LangGraph
2 1 (8.33%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (8.33%) NumPy
2 1 (8.33%) Pandas
2 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (25.00%) Equities
2 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Microservices
2 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
4 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
4 3 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) Order Management
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Runbook
4 3 (25.00%) Smart Order Routing
5 2 (16.67%) AI
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 2 (16.67%) Generative AI
5 2 (16.67%) MLOps
6 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Splunk
2 3 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 3 (25.00%) Bloomberg
2 3 (25.00%) Charles River
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft