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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 238 284
Rank change year-on-year -45 +46 +45
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 91 137 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.88% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 2.13% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 108 128
10th Percentile £416 £500 £411
25th Percentile £494 £538 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £667 £888 £725
90th Percentile £720 - £863
England median daily rate £575 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 5,895 6,444 7,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.92% 41.20% 38.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,990 4,389 5,882
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £763 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 35 65
10th Percentile £18.62 £22.72 £17.40
25th Percentile £24.00 £23.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -9.68% +21.09%
75th Percentile £43.38 £55.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £72.15 £89.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% +30.91% +22.22%

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 +4 9 £596 +13.25% 25
South London -17 2 £705 +28.38%
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 (5.49%) CMS
1 5 (5.49%) Confluence
1 5 (5.49%) Headless CMS
2 4 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.30%) Traefik
4 2 (2.20%) Apache
4 2 (2.20%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.10%) CICS
5 1 (1.10%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 81 (89.01%) AWS
2 29 (31.87%) Amazon ECS
3 27 (29.67%) Amazon S3
4 26 (28.57%) Serverless
5 25 (27.47%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (25.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (24.18%) GitHub
8 19 (20.88%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (16.48%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (13.19%) GCP
12 11 (12.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 10 (10.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (10.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (8.79%) AWS KMS
14 8 (8.79%) Azure
14 8 (8.79%) Azure AKS
15 7 (7.69%) Datadog
16 5 (5.49%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 5 (5.49%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.79%) DNS
2 4 (4.40%) Firewall
3 3 (3.30%) SNMP
3 3 (3.30%) VPN
4 2 (2.20%) Calico
4 2 (2.20%) HTTP
4 2 (2.20%) Internet
4 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.10%) DHCP
5 1 (1.10%) NAS
5 1 (1.10%) Network Security
5 1 (1.10%) SMS
5 1 (1.10%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.88%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 10 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (9.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.40%) Redis
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.30%) MySQL
7 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.20%) Tableau
9 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.10%) Big Data
9 1 (1.10%) CouchDB
9 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (20.88%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.89%) GitLab
3 7 (7.69%) Git
3 7 (7.69%) JIRA
4 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (18.68%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.19%) Finance
3 11 (12.09%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.89%) Banking
5 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Private Banking
6 2 (2.20%) Publishing
7 1 (1.10%) Front Office
7 1 (1.10%) Games
7 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Police
7 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (25.27%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (16.48%) Senior
4 14 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (13.19%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (13.19%) Developer
6 11 (12.09%) Architect
6 11 (12.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (10.99%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 10 (10.99%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (10.99%) Java Developer
8 9 (9.89%) AWS Architect
9 8 (8.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (5.49%) Designer
11 5 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (5.49%) Solutions Designer
12 4 (4.40%) AWS Solution Architect
12 4 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
12 4 (4.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.48%) Kafka
2 10 (10.99%) Spring Boot
3 9 (9.89%) AWS CDK
4 8 (8.79%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (6.59%) Node.js
5 6 (6.59%) OAuth
6 5 (5.49%) OAuth2
6 5 (5.49%) OpenID
6 5 (5.49%) SAML
7 4 (4.40%) React
7 4 (4.40%) Spring
8 3 (3.30%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.30%) Keycloak
8 3 (3.30%) YAML
9 2 (2.20%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.20%) JSON
9 2 (2.20%) RESTful
10 1 (1.10%) Django
10 1 (1.10%) HTML
10 1 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.68%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.40%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (4.40%) Replication
4 3 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.30%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.10%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.19%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) Unix
2 3 (3.30%) VMS
3 2 (2.20%) Windows
4 1 (1.10%) AIX
4 1 (1.10%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Android
4 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Solaris
4 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 43 (47.25%) DevOps
3 40 (43.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (36.26%) Containerisation
5 20 (21.98%) Microservices
6 19 (20.88%) Observability
7 17 (18.68%) Platform Engineering
8 14 (15.38%) Agile
8 14 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (14.29%) Migration
10 10 (10.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (9.89%) Cloud Security
12 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (8.79%) Mentoring
12 8 (8.79%) Software Engineering
12 8 (8.79%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (8.79%) Test Automation
13 7 (7.69%) Change Management
13 7 (7.69%) High Availability
13 7 (7.69%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (47.25%) Python
2 20 (21.98%) Bash
2 20 (21.98%) Java
3 16 (17.58%) Go
4 10 (10.99%) SQL
5 5 (5.49%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.40%) Groovy
6 4 (4.40%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.30%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.20%) PromQL
8 2 (2.20%) Rust
9 1 (1.10%) Bicep
9 1 (1.10%) C#
9 1 (1.10%) COBOL
9 1 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 30 (32.97%) SC Cleared
3 18 (19.78%) AWS Certification
4 9 (9.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.10%) CISSP
6 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.10%) Degree
6 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) GDPR
2 3 (3.30%) HIPAA
2 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.20%) NCSC
3 2 (2.20%) QA
4 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (38.46%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) etcd
2 1 (1.10%) iptables
2 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (73.63%) Kubernetes
2 49 (53.85%) Terraform
3 19 (20.88%) Grafana
4 10 (10.99%) Ansible
4 10 (10.99%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.69%) Argo
6 5 (5.49%) Puppet
7 4 (4.40%) Istio
7 4 (4.40%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (3.30%) Rancher
9 1 (1.10%) Karpenter
9 1 (1.10%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 6 (6.59%) Splunk
3 4 (4.40%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.30%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.30%) Google
4 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.20%) Avaloq
5 2 (2.20%) Confluent
5 2 (2.20%) Databricks
5 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.10%) NetApp
6 1 (1.10%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.10%) Tenable
6 1 (1.10%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.10%) VMware