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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 111 119
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 16 15 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.66% 0.80% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.89% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 3
10th Percentile £513 £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 £725 £688 £651
90th Percentile £733 £778 £733
Central London median daily rate £613 £675 £505
% change year-on-year -9.26% +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 944 794 893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.75% 42.37% 41.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 517 622
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £19.50 £24.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.18 £16.31
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +42.87% -60.00%
75th Percentile £62.36 £63.37 £44.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £96.63 £71.38
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%

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 13 July 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 3 (18.75%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (18.75%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (25.00%) GitHub
3 4 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
4 3 (18.75%) Serverless
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 1 (6.25%) Datadog
6 1 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (6.25%) Prefect
6 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (6.25%) Pinecone
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 3 (18.75%) Front Office
5 2 (12.50%) Back Office
6 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Electronics Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (18.75%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (18.75%) JMS
2 3 (18.75%) Middleware
2 3 (18.75%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
4 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.25%) Flask
4 1 (6.25%) Hugging Face
4 1 (6.25%) LangChain
4 1 (6.25%) LangGraph
4 1 (6.25%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
3 3 (18.75%) Equities
3 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
4 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Microservices
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Algorithmic Trading
5 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) Order Management
5 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Runbook
5 3 (18.75%) Smart Order Routing
6 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Splunk
2 3 (18.75%) AppDynamics
2 3 (18.75%) Bloomberg
2 3 (18.75%) Charles River
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft