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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 99 112
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 +45
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 12 17 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.52% 0.97% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 2.24% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £512 £510 £445
25th Percentile £513 £613 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.41% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £775
90th Percentile £614 - £863
Central London median daily rate £560 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -17.11% +17.39% +4.55%

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 894 759 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.84% 43.45% 39.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 480 601
10th Percentile £350 £365 £363
25th Percentile £450 £459 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -8.86%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £665
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% +71.44% -72.99%
75th Percentile £57.83 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -72.73%

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
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
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (8.33%) Apigee
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (8.33%) Azure
5 1 (8.33%) Datadog
5 1 (8.33%) dbt
5 1 (8.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (8.33%) OLTP
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) GitLab
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) MLflow
3 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (8.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Front Office
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Electronics Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
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%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) NumPy
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
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
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (8.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (8.33%) Legacy Code
4 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (33.33%) Observability
3 3 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) Order Management
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Runbook
3 3 (25.00%) Smart Order Routing
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 2 (16.67%) Generative AI
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (8.33%) Data Science
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) Korn
4 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.33%) ProC
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (8.33%) PMP
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Grafana
3 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (8.33%) Ansible
5 1 (8.33%) Argo
5 1 (8.33%) Karpenter
5 1 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Splunk
2 3 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 3 (25.00%) Bloomberg
2 3 (25.00%) Charles River
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle