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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 120 139
Rank change year-on-year +13 +19 +35
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 10 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 0.38% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 0.94% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile £495 £511 £325
25th Percentile £525 £521 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +3.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £680 £679
90th Percentile £783 £744 £725
Central London median daily rate £643 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +12.82% +3.55% -4.35%

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 705 851 1,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.22% 40.43% 41.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 563 852
10th Percentile £332 £377 £325
25th Percentile £434 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% -0.87%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £752 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £557 £563
% change year-on-year -1.17% -1.07% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 6
10th Percentile £23.75 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.71 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +30.12% -17.00%
75th Percentile £61.16 £59.75 £34.44
90th Percentile £88.75 £79.40 £45.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -17.00%

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
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 19 September 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 (10.00%) CICS
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (60.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (20.00%) Azure
5 2 (20.00%) SaaS
5 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) IaaS
6 1 (10.00%) PaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
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 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jaeger
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (10.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (10.00%) Jest
1 1 (10.00%) Loki
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (10.00%) OpenID
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
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 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) ArchiMate
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) COBOL
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Rust
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
3 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Istio
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (10.00%) NetApp
1 1 (10.00%) Tenable