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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 114 155
Rank change year-on-year +9 +41 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 15 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.85% 0.43% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 1.03% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 8
10th Percentile £503 £409 £321
25th Percentile £613 £445 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £688 £651 £595
90th Percentile £708 £733 £670
Central London median daily rate £675 £505 £538
% change year-on-year +33.66% -6.05% -2.27%

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 749 872 1,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.48% 41.21% 40.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 610 907
10th Percentile £363 £363 £285
25th Percentile £463 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £700
90th Percentile £751 £768 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £543 £575
% change year-on-year +1.38% -5.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £24.02 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £14.88 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £24.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.86% -63.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%

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 1 July 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 (6.67%) CMS
1 1 (6.67%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (40.00%) Serverless
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 5 (33.33%) GitHub
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (20.00%) CloudFront
5 3 (20.00%) Route 53
6 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (13.33%) SaaS
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DHCP
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (20.00%) DocumentDB
2 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Redis
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jaeger
1 1 (6.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (46.67%) Banking
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Front Office
3 3 (20.00%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) .NET
1 5 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 4 (26.67%) Node.js
3 3 (20.00%) RESTful
4 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (13.33%) Jest
4 2 (13.33%) React
5 1 (6.67%) Loki
5 1 (6.67%) OAuth
5 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
5 1 (6.67%) OpenID
5 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Derivative
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 3 (20.00%) SOLID
3 3 (20.00%) TDD
3 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) SDLC
5 1 (6.67%) GitOps
5 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (13.33%) Go
4 2 (13.33%) Perl
4 2 (13.33%) Rust
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus