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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 120 128
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 +57
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 10 4 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.58% 0.19% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 0.48% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 17
10th Percentile £428 £499 £348
25th Percentile £525 £517 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% +8.48% -2.33%
75th Percentile £664 £655 £656
90th Percentile £731 £674 £712
Central London median daily rate £575 £570 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% +8.48% -2.33%

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 721 836 1,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.46% 39.38% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 539 780
10th Percentile £351 £400 £350
25th Percentile £429 £472 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £680
90th Percentile £750 £754 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 10
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £16.53
25th Percentile £26.75 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £56.75 £76.13 £46.06
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £54.63
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +84.21% -7.32%

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 7 November 2025.

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 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) CICS
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
2 1 (10.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (50.00%) GitHub
3 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (40.00%) Serverless
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (30.00%) Azure
5 3 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (20.00%) Datadog
6 2 (20.00%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
7 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) NAS
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) CouchDB
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) Redis
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (10.00%) Memcached
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (10.00%) OpenID
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) AIX
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Solaris
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Server Hardening
4 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) COBOL
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Istio
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) NetApp
1 1 (10.00%) Tenable