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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 241 279
Rank change year-on-year +17 +38 +67
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 162 114 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 0.83% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.50% 2.01% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 104 93
10th Percentile £400 £489 £400
25th Percentile £494 £575 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £648 £725 £695
90th Percentile £713 £888 £825
England median daily rate £530 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -15.87% +9.57% -6.12%

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 6,484 5,667 6,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.23% 41.44% 37.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,443 3,750 5,147
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 47 79
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.69 £31.35 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% +2.77% -5.43%
75th Percentile £54.31 £54.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £76.50 £68.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £33.73 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.65% +22.22% -10.00%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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
Central London +4 17 £544 -19.44% 8
South London -1 12 £530 -25.35% 2
West London - 2 £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 14 (8.64%) Confluence
2 5 (3.09%) nginx
3 3 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.85%) Traefik
4 2 (1.23%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.62%) Apache
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (1.23%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 153 (94.44%) AWS
2 68 (41.98%) Amazon S3
3 67 (41.36%) GitHub
4 63 (38.89%) Serverless
5 60 (37.04%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (34.57%) Amazon ECS
7 52 (32.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (32.10%) GitHub Actions
8 48 (29.63%) Amazon EC2
9 42 (25.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 40 (24.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (13.58%) Datadog
12 21 (12.96%) Azure
12 21 (12.96%) Route 53
13 15 (9.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 15 (9.26%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (8.02%) AWS CodePipeline
15 12 (7.41%) Azure AKS
16 11 (6.79%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 11 (6.79%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.11%) DNS
2 13 (8.02%) VPN
3 11 (6.79%) Firewall
4 5 (3.09%) OpenVPN
4 5 (3.09%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.47%) Network Security
5 4 (2.47%) SSL
6 3 (1.85%) SNMP
7 2 (1.23%) BGP
7 2 (1.23%) Calico
7 2 (1.23%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.23%) OSPF
7 2 (1.23%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.23%) WAN
8 1 (0.62%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (17.90%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (7.41%) DynamoDB
5 11 (6.79%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.56%) Redis
7 8 (4.94%) DocumentDB
7 8 (4.94%) Flink
7 8 (4.94%) MySQL
8 7 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (4.32%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.09%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.47%) Big Data
10 4 (2.47%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.85%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (30.86%) Jenkins
2 42 (25.93%) GitLab
3 17 (10.49%) JIRA
4 14 (8.64%) Git
5 8 (4.94%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.70%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.47%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.23%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.23%) GoCD
8 2 (1.23%) Snyk
8 2 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.62%) git-flow
9 1 (0.62%) JUnit
9 1 (0.62%) MLflow
General
1 32 (19.75%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.52%) Finance
3 23 (14.20%) Public Sector
4 22 (13.58%) Banking
5 12 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (6.17%) Front Office
7 7 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.23%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Games
10 1 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (26.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (16.05%) Architect
4 23 (14.20%) AWS DevOps
5 22 (13.58%) Senior
6 21 (12.96%) Developer
7 19 (11.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 18 (11.11%) AWS Architect
8 18 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 15 (9.26%) Cloud Architect
9 15 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (8.64%) Lead
11 11 (6.79%) Python Engineer
12 10 (6.17%) Python Developer
13 9 (5.56%) Data Engineer
13 9 (5.56%) Site Engineer
14 7 (4.32%) Lead Data Engineer
15 6 (3.70%) Kafka Engineer
15 6 (3.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (31.48%) Kafka
2 15 (9.26%) Spring
3 14 (8.64%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (8.64%) Node.js
3 14 (8.64%) REST
3 14 (8.64%) Spring Boot
4 12 (7.41%) AWS CDK
4 12 (7.41%) OpenID
5 11 (6.79%) RESTful
6 10 (6.17%) OAuth
7 9 (5.56%) React
8 7 (4.32%) OAuth2
8 7 (4.32%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (3.70%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.70%) Django
9 6 (3.70%) FastAPI
10 5 (3.09%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.09%) HTML
10 5 (3.09%) JPA
10 5 (3.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (24.07%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.17%) Fixed Income
4 8 (4.94%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.70%) Replication
6 5 (3.09%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.23%) Equities
9 2 (1.23%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.23%) PKI
9 2 (1.23%) SCADA
10 1 (0.62%) CUDA
10 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.05%) Linux
2 6 (3.70%) Windows
3 3 (1.85%) Unix
3 3 (1.85%) VMS
4 1 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.62%) Android
4 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (67.28%) CI/CD
2 87 (53.70%) DevOps
3 83 (51.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (39.51%) Containerisation
5 42 (25.93%) Observability
6 39 (24.07%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (20.99%) Microservices
8 31 (19.14%) Agile
9 28 (17.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 21 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (11.73%) Cloud Security
11 19 (11.73%) DevSecOps
12 18 (11.11%) Test Automation
13 17 (10.49%) Software Engineering
14 16 (9.88%) Secrets Management
15 15 (9.26%) Configuration Management
16 14 (8.64%) Event-Driven
16 14 (8.64%) GitOps
16 14 (8.64%) Roadmaps
17 13 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 92 (56.79%) Python
2 39 (24.07%) Java
3 32 (19.75%) Bash
4 19 (11.73%) SQL
5 13 (8.02%) Go
6 11 (6.79%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.17%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.70%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.47%) Groovy
9 4 (2.47%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.85%) Ruby
11 2 (1.23%) Bicep
11 2 (1.23%) Perl
12 1 (0.62%) C
12 1 (0.62%) C#
12 1 (0.62%) Korn
12 1 (0.62%) PHP
12 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.62%) ProC
Qualifications
1 52 (32.10%) Security Cleared
2 47 (29.01%) SC Cleared
3 27 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 10 (6.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (4.32%) Degree
6 6 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.09%) CISSP
7 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.62%) CCSP
10 1 (0.62%) CEH
10 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.62%) OSCP
10 1 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.56%) NIST
3 7 (4.32%) QA
4 5 (3.09%) NCSC
4 5 (3.09%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.85%) GDPR
6 2 (1.23%) GRC
7 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.62%) HIPAA
System Software
1 82 (50.62%) Docker
2 6 (3.70%) Squid
3 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.62%) etcd
4 1 (0.62%) HDFS
4 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 116 (71.60%) Terraform
2 96 (59.26%) Kubernetes
3 31 (19.14%) Grafana
4 24 (14.81%) Prometheus
5 21 (12.96%) Ansible
6 19 (11.73%) Argo
7 12 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (6.79%) Puppet
9 5 (3.09%) Consul
9 5 (3.09%) FortiGate
9 5 (3.09%) Karpenter
9 5 (3.09%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.47%) Istio
10 4 (2.47%) Kibana
10 4 (2.47%) Rancher
11 3 (1.85%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.85%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.62%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (8.64%) Dynatrace
1 14 (8.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.94%) Splunk
3 7 (4.32%) AppDynamics
3 7 (4.32%) PagerDuty
4 6 (3.70%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.70%) Databricks
5 5 (3.09%) AVEVA
5 5 (3.09%) Qualys
5 5 (3.09%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.47%) Google
6 4 (2.47%) Oracle
6 4 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.85%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.85%) New Relic
7 3 (1.85%) Tenable
8 2 (1.23%) Avaloq
8 2 (1.23%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.23%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.23%) SAP