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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 243 290
Rank change year-on-year -3 +47 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 128 155 133
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 0.98% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.04% 2.40% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 130 102
10th Percentile £413 £500 £400
25th Percentile £475 £568 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £664 £888 £695
90th Percentile £713 - £863
England median daily rate £550 £675 £569
% change year-on-year -18.52% +18.63% -8.96%

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 6,276 6,454 7,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.26% 40.73% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,264 4,387 5,619
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 40 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.33 £18.65
25th Percentile £22.75 £24.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -7.28% +37.27%
75th Percentile £45.88 £59.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.03 £74.13
England median hourly rate £25.47 £32.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.23% +23.58% +17.78%

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 29 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 29 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 +12 12 £563 -8.16% 8
South London -10 8 £530 -3.42% 1
West London - 1 £725 - 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 6 (4.69%) Confluence
2 5 (3.91%) CMS
2 5 (3.91%) Headless CMS
3 3 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.34%) Traefik
4 2 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.56%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.78%) Apache
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.78%) CICS
5 1 (0.78%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.78%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 119 (92.97%) AWS
2 45 (35.16%) Amazon ECS
3 41 (32.03%) GitHub
4 40 (31.25%) Amazon S3
5 37 (28.91%) Serverless
6 35 (27.34%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (26.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 33 (25.78%) Amazon EC2
9 30 (23.44%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (15.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 18 (14.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (12.50%) Datadog
13 14 (10.94%) Azure
13 14 (10.94%) GCP
14 12 (9.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 10 (7.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 9 (7.03%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (7.03%) Azure AKS
16 9 (7.03%) IaaS
17 8 (6.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.47%) DNS
2 6 (4.69%) Firewall
2 6 (4.69%) VPN
3 3 (2.34%) SNMP
4 2 (1.56%) Calico
4 2 (1.56%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.78%) DHCP
5 1 (0.78%) HTTP
5 1 (0.78%) Internet
5 1 (0.78%) NAS
5 1 (0.78%) Network Security
5 1 (0.78%) SSL
5 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.78%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.78%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (17.97%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.38%) DynamoDB
4 10 (7.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.69%) Flink
7 5 (3.91%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.91%) Redis
8 4 (3.13%) Big Data
8 4 (3.13%) MySQL
8 4 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.34%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.56%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (26.56%) Jenkins
2 22 (17.19%) GitLab
3 14 (10.94%) Git
4 9 (7.03%) JIRA
5 4 (3.13%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.78%) git-flow
7 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (21.88%) Finance
2 20 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.84%) Banking
4 15 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.47%) Front Office
6 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Private Banking
7 2 (1.56%) Publishing
8 1 (0.78%) Games
8 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.78%) Police
8 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (32.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (26.56%) AWS Engineer
3 23 (17.97%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (17.19%) Senior
5 19 (14.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 19 (14.84%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (14.06%) Developer
7 17 (13.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 12 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (9.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.81%) Architect
9 10 (7.81%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.81%) Java Developer
9 10 (7.81%) Site Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Python Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) AWS Architect
12 6 (4.69%) Kafka Engineer
12 6 (4.69%) Lead
13 5 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (3.91%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (23.44%) Kafka
2 14 (10.94%) Spring Boot
3 10 (7.81%) Node.js
4 9 (7.03%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (6.25%) AWS CDK
5 8 (6.25%) Spring
6 7 (5.47%) OAuth
7 6 (4.69%) OAuth2
7 6 (4.69%) OpenID
7 6 (4.69%) REST
7 6 (4.69%) SAML
8 5 (3.91%) JSON
8 5 (3.91%) Keycloak
8 5 (3.91%) YAML
9 4 (3.13%) React
9 4 (3.13%) RESTful
10 3 (2.34%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.34%) HTML
11 2 (1.56%) .NET
11 2 (1.56%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.19%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.03%) Fixed Income
3 6 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.69%) Replication
4 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.34%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.34%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.78%) CUDA
7 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.41%) Linux
2 3 (2.34%) Unix
2 3 (2.34%) VMS
2 3 (2.34%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) AIX
3 1 (0.78%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (0.78%) Android
3 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.78%) Solaris
3 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (66.41%) CI/CD
2 66 (51.56%) DevOps
3 58 (45.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (40.63%) Containerisation
5 33 (25.78%) Microservices
6 29 (22.66%) Observability
6 29 (22.66%) Platform Engineering
7 25 (19.53%) Agile
8 24 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 18 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (12.50%) Configuration Management
11 14 (10.94%) Test Automation
12 13 (10.16%) Software Engineering
13 12 (9.38%) Migration
14 11 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (7.81%) GitOps
15 10 (7.81%) High Availability
15 10 (7.81%) Technical Leadership
16 9 (7.03%) Cloud Security
16 9 (7.03%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (56.25%) Python
2 33 (25.78%) Java
3 29 (22.66%) Bash
4 17 (13.28%) Go
5 14 (10.94%) SQL
6 7 (5.47%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.13%) Groovy
9 3 (2.34%) Ruby
9 3 (2.34%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.56%) Perl
10 2 (1.56%) PromQL
11 1 (0.78%) Bicep
11 1 (0.78%) C#
11 1 (0.78%) COBOL
11 1 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 34 (26.56%) SC Cleared
3 22 (17.19%) AWS Certification
4 11 (8.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.91%) Degree
6 4 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.56%) CISSP
8 2 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.78%) CCSP
9 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.78%) MCP
9 1 (0.78%) OSCP
9 1 (0.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.13%) GDPR
1 4 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.34%) NCSC
2 3 (2.34%) QA
3 2 (1.56%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.56%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.78%) GRC
4 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (44.53%) Docker
2 2 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.78%) etcd
3 1 (0.78%) HDFS
3 1 (0.78%) iptables
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 84 (65.63%) Kubernetes
2 75 (58.59%) Terraform
3 30 (23.44%) Grafana
4 16 (12.50%) Ansible
4 16 (12.50%) Argo
5 13 (10.16%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.59%) Puppet
7 5 (3.91%) Istio
8 4 (3.13%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.13%) Rancher
8 4 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.34%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.56%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.78%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.78%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 8 (6.25%) Splunk
3 7 (5.47%) PagerDuty
4 5 (3.91%) AppDynamics
5 4 (3.13%) Databricks
5 4 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.34%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.34%) Google
6 3 (2.34%) Oracle
7 2 (1.56%) Avaloq
7 2 (1.56%) Confluent
7 2 (1.56%) Qualys
7 2 (1.56%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.78%) Commvault
8 1 (0.78%) Intel
8 1 (0.78%) NetApp
8 1 (0.78%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.78%) SaltStack