Amazon EKS Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 240 302
Rank change year-on-year +1 +62 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 188 117 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 0.96% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.37% 2.22% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 92 64
10th Percentile £400 £429 £367
25th Percentile £500 £525 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.49% -9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £747
90th Percentile £724 £724 £875
England median daily rate £550 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% -8.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,935 5,269 6,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.14% 43.02% 39.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,458 3,566 5,088
10th Percentile £356 £351 £350
25th Percentile £426 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 63 68
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.60 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -50.48%
75th Percentile £56.00 £48.13 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £72.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +61.02% +18.83% -38.69%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in London

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in London

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EKS within the London region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South London +2 13 £519 -24.30%
Central London -26 10 £575 -14.81% 5
West London - 6 £725 - 4
East London - 1 £500 - 1
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 13 (6.91%) Confluence
2 11 (5.85%) nginx
3 6 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) Apache
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.60%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 186 (98.94%) AWS
2 87 (46.28%) Serverless
3 86 (45.74%) AWS Lambda
4 80 (42.55%) Amazon S3
5 70 (37.23%) Amazon EC2
6 65 (34.57%) Amazon ECS
7 59 (31.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 57 (30.32%) GitHub
8 57 (30.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 46 (24.47%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (23.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (11.70%) Route 53
12 19 (10.11%) Datadog
13 18 (9.57%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (9.57%) Azure
14 14 (7.45%) AWS CodePipeline
14 14 (7.45%) Azure AKS
15 13 (6.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 13 (6.91%) Snowflake
16 11 (5.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.17%) DNS
2 19 (10.11%) Firewall
3 15 (7.98%) TCP/IP
3 15 (7.98%) VPN
4 12 (6.38%) Network Security
5 9 (4.79%) OpenVPN
6 5 (2.66%) SSL
7 2 (1.06%) BGP
7 2 (1.06%) OSPF
7 2 (1.06%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.06%) WAN
8 1 (0.53%) Calico
8 1 (0.53%) DHCP
8 1 (0.53%) DSL
8 1 (0.53%) ICMP
8 1 (0.53%) Internet
8 1 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (20.74%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.32%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.26%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.72%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (3.72%) MySQL
7 6 (3.19%) DocumentDB
7 6 (3.19%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.66%) Redis
9 4 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.60%) Big Data
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.53%) Flink
11 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 67 (35.64%) GitLab
2 52 (27.66%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.57%) Git
4 14 (7.45%) Bitbucket
4 14 (7.45%) JIRA
5 8 (4.26%) Artifactory
5 8 (4.26%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.26%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.19%) Mocha
6 6 (3.19%) MSTest
6 6 (3.19%) tSQLt
7 5 (2.66%) MLflow
8 3 (1.60%) Snyk
9 2 (1.06%) GoCD
10 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.53%) Gatling
10 1 (0.53%) Gradle
10 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.53%) Selenium
10 1 (0.53%) Terragrunt
General
1 43 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.81%) Public Sector
3 28 (14.89%) Finance
4 23 (12.23%) Banking
5 15 (7.98%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.19%) Law
9 4 (2.13%) Front Office
9 4 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.06%) Military
11 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Publishing
12 1 (0.53%) Games
12 1 (0.53%) Marketing
12 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (28.19%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (22.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (20.21%) Senior
4 31 (16.49%) Architect
5 26 (13.83%) Developer
6 22 (11.70%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (11.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 21 (11.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (11.17%) Lead
8 20 (10.64%) AWS Architect
9 13 (6.91%) Python Developer
10 12 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.38%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.85%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (5.85%) Data Engineer
11 11 (5.85%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (5.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (4.79%) AWS Software Engineer
13 9 (4.79%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (4.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.62%) Kafka
2 24 (12.77%) REST
3 18 (9.57%) RESTful
4 17 (9.04%) AWS CDK
4 17 (9.04%) OpenID
5 15 (7.98%) Node.js
6 13 (6.91%) AngularJS
6 13 (6.91%) OpenTelemetry
7 12 (6.38%) OAuth
7 12 (6.38%) React
7 12 (6.38%) Spring Boot
8 10 (5.32%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (5.32%) FastAPI
8 10 (5.32%) LDAP
8 10 (5.32%) OAuth2
9 9 (4.79%) .NET
9 9 (4.79%) Spring
10 8 (4.26%) HTML
11 7 (3.72%) Django
11 7 (3.72%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 63 (33.51%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.32%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.19%) Equities
6 5 (2.66%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.13%) PKI
7 4 (2.13%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.13%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.60%) Life Science
8 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.06%) SCADA
9 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.43%) Linux
2 9 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.19%) Windows
4 3 (1.60%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.06%) Unix
5 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (73.40%) CI/CD
2 99 (52.66%) DevOps
2 99 (52.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 83 (44.15%) Containerisation
4 55 (29.26%) Observability
5 43 (22.87%) Microservices
5 43 (22.87%) Platform Engineering
6 30 (15.96%) Agile
7 28 (14.89%) Software Engineering
8 27 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (13.30%) Cloud Security
10 24 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 23 (12.23%) DevSecOps
12 22 (11.70%) AI
12 22 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (11.17%) Mentoring
14 19 (10.11%) Event-Driven
14 19 (10.11%) SDLC
14 19 (10.11%) Secrets Management
15 18 (9.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 94 (50.00%) Python
2 32 (17.02%) Java
3 31 (16.49%) Bash
4 17 (9.04%) JavaScript
5 12 (6.38%) SQL
5 12 (6.38%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.79%) C#
6 9 (4.79%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.19%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.13%) Go
8 4 (2.13%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.60%) Bicep
10 2 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.53%) Cypher
11 1 (0.53%) R
11 1 (0.53%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 65 (34.57%) Security Cleared
2 57 (30.32%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.77%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.91%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.60%) CISSP
7 3 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.06%) Degree
9 1 (0.53%) CEH
9 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.53%) PMP
9 1 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.91%) QA
2 8 (4.26%) NIST
3 7 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.19%) WCAG
5 4 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.60%) SLA
7 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.53%) GRC
8 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 78 (41.49%) Docker
2 15 (7.98%) Squid
3 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 138 (73.40%) Terraform
2 105 (55.85%) Kubernetes
3 47 (25.00%) Grafana
4 44 (23.40%) Prometheus
5 23 (12.23%) Ansible
6 13 (6.91%) Argo
7 12 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (4.79%) FortiGate
9 8 (4.26%) Puppet
10 7 (3.72%) Consul
11 5 (2.66%) Istio
12 4 (2.13%) Suricata
13 3 (1.60%) Progress Chef
14 2 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (1.06%) Karpenter
15 1 (0.53%) Cilium
15 1 (0.53%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.53%) Kibana
15 1 (0.53%) Packer
15 1 (0.53%) systemd
Vendors
1 12 (6.38%) Red Hat
2 11 (5.85%) Dynatrace
3 9 (4.79%) Splunk
4 8 (4.26%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.72%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.19%) Databricks
7 5 (2.66%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.66%) AVEVA
7 5 (2.66%) New Relic
7 5 (2.66%) Oracle
7 5 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.66%) Sybase
8 4 (2.13%) Qualys
8 4 (2.13%) Tenable
9 3 (1.60%) Amplitude
9 3 (1.60%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.60%) Charles River
10 2 (1.06%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.06%) SAP
10 2 (1.06%) ServiceNow