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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 243 281
Rank change year-on-year -31 +38 +50
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 106 137 144
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 0.88% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 2.14% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 109 114
10th Percentile £400 £500 £402
25th Percentile £463 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £658 £888 £695
90th Percentile £713 - £863
England median daily rate £550 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -8.00%

All Cloud 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 6,240 6,397 7,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.36% 40.90% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,224 4,352 5,664
10th Percentile £350 £350 £336
25th Percentile £425 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.62%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 35 70
10th Percentile £18.28 £22.04 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.19 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.38
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -8.79% +51.98%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £65.10 £85.16
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +45.45%

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 2025. 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
Central London +17 11 £563 -8.16% 35
South London -13 6 £530 -3.42% 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 5 (4.72%) CMS
1 5 (4.72%) Confluence
1 5 (4.72%) Headless CMS
2 3 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.83%) Traefik
3 2 (1.89%) Apache
3 2 (1.89%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.94%) CICS
4 1 (0.94%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 94 (88.68%) AWS
2 35 (33.02%) Amazon ECS
3 33 (31.13%) Amazon S3
4 31 (29.25%) GitHub
5 29 (27.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 29 (27.36%) Serverless
6 28 (26.42%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (23.58%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (21.70%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (15.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (12.26%) GCP
11 12 (11.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (10.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (10.38%) Azure
12 11 (10.38%) Datadog
13 10 (9.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 10 (9.43%) Azure AKS
14 7 (6.60%) AWS KMS
14 7 (6.60%) Route 53
15 6 (5.66%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.60%) DNS
2 6 (5.66%) Firewall
3 5 (4.72%) VPN
4 3 (2.83%) SNMP
5 2 (1.89%) Calico
6 1 (0.94%) DHCP
6 1 (0.94%) HTTP
6 1 (0.94%) Internet
6 1 (0.94%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.94%) NAS
6 1 (0.94%) Network Security
6 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.94%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (23.58%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (16.04%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (10.38%) DynamoDB
4 9 (8.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (5.66%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.77%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.77%) Flink
7 4 (3.77%) MySQL
7 4 (3.77%) Redis
8 3 (2.83%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.89%) Big Data
9 2 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.89%) Tableau
10 1 (0.94%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.94%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 25 (23.58%) Jenkins
2 14 (13.21%) GitLab
3 11 (10.38%) Git
4 9 (8.49%) JIRA
5 4 (3.77%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.94%) git-flow
7 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.04%) Finance
3 15 (14.15%) Banking
4 11 (10.38%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.77%) Front Office
7 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.89%) Publishing
9 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Games
9 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Police
9 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (32.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (26.42%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (17.92%) Senior
4 17 (16.04%) AWS DevOps
5 16 (15.09%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (13.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 13 (12.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (12.26%) Developer
8 12 (11.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (10.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (9.43%) Architect
10 10 (9.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 10 (9.43%) Java Developer
11 8 (7.55%) AWS Architect
11 8 (7.55%) Site Engineer
12 5 (4.72%) Designer
12 5 (4.72%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (4.72%) Solutions Designer
13 4 (3.77%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.87%) Kafka
2 12 (11.32%) Spring Boot
3 8 (7.55%) AWS CDK
3 8 (7.55%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (6.60%) Node.js
4 7 (6.60%) OAuth
5 6 (5.66%) OAuth2
5 6 (5.66%) OpenID
5 6 (5.66%) SAML
5 6 (5.66%) Spring
6 4 (3.77%) JSON
6 4 (3.77%) React
6 4 (3.77%) YAML
7 3 (2.83%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.83%) Keycloak
8 2 (1.89%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.89%) REST
8 2 (1.89%) RESTful
9 1 (0.94%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.04%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.72%) Fixed Income
2 5 (4.72%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.72%) Replication
3 4 (3.77%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.83%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.94%) CUDA
6 1 (0.94%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.94%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.94%) NHS
6 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.94%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.98%) Linux
2 3 (2.83%) Unix
2 3 (2.83%) VMS
3 2 (1.89%) Windows
4 1 (0.94%) AIX
4 1 (0.94%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.94%) Android
4 1 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.94%) Solaris
4 1 (0.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (64.15%) CI/CD
2 52 (49.06%) DevOps
3 45 (42.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (37.74%) Containerisation
5 25 (23.58%) Microservices
6 22 (20.75%) Observability
7 21 (19.81%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (18.87%) Agile
9 19 (17.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (11.32%) Migration
12 11 (10.38%) Configuration Management
12 11 (10.38%) Software Engineering
13 8 (7.55%) Cloud Security
13 8 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (7.55%) Secrets Management
13 8 (7.55%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (7.55%) Test Automation
14 7 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (6.60%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 57 (53.77%) Python
2 25 (23.58%) Java
3 24 (22.64%) Bash
4 17 (16.04%) Go
5 11 (10.38%) SQL
6 5 (4.72%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.72%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.77%) Groovy
7 4 (3.77%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.83%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.89%) Perl
9 2 (1.89%) PromQL
9 2 (1.89%) Ruby
9 2 (1.89%) Rust
10 1 (0.94%) Bicep
10 1 (0.94%) C#
10 1 (0.94%) COBOL
10 1 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (33.02%) Security Cleared
2 30 (28.30%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.92%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.83%) Degree
6 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.94%) CISSP
6 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) GDPR
1 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.89%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.89%) NCSC
2 2 (1.89%) QA
3 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (40.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.94%) etcd
3 1 (0.94%) iptables
3 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (68.87%) Kubernetes
2 58 (54.72%) Terraform
3 25 (23.58%) Grafana
4 14 (13.21%) Ansible
4 14 (13.21%) Argo
5 11 (10.38%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.55%) Puppet
7 5 (4.72%) Istio
8 4 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.83%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.83%) Rancher
10 2 (1.89%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.94%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.94%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (6.60%) Dynatrace
1 7 (6.60%) Microsoft
1 7 (6.60%) Splunk
2 5 (4.72%) PagerDuty
3 4 (3.77%) AppDynamics
3 4 (3.77%) Google
4 3 (2.83%) Oracle
4 3 (2.83%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.89%) Avaloq
5 2 (1.89%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.89%) Confluent
5 2 (1.89%) Databricks
5 2 (1.89%) Qualys
6 1 (0.94%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.94%) Black Duck
6 1 (0.94%) Intel
6 1 (0.94%) NetApp
6 1 (0.94%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.94%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.94%) VMware