Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 15 23
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 1 14 14
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.12% 11.20% 8.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 20.59% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 £538 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £549 £564
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% -2.70% -16.51%
75th Percentile £519 £614 £605
90th Percentile - £784 £645
South London median daily rate £530 £554 £583
% change year-on-year -4.29% -5.02% -13.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 62 68 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 69.66% 54.40% 57.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 50 69
10th Percentile £474 £380 £368
25th Percentile £500 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £495 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% -12.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £638
90th Percentile £626 £676 £675
South London median daily rate £505 £481 £523
% change year-on-year +4.94% -7.89% -5.43%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EKS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in Croydon

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Amazon EKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform