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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 221 306
Rank change year-on-year -12 +85 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 178 131 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 1.05% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.34% 2.46% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 109 58
10th Percentile £400 £463 £363
25th Percentile £506 £550 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £556
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +9.21% -11.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £647
90th Percentile £713 £875 £779
England median daily rate £535 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -10.83% +6.67% -10.00%

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 7,595 5,317 6,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.31% 42.50% 38.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,257 3,671 4,982
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 53 70
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.76 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -45.26%
75th Percentile £52.96 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.00 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £41.78 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +63.84% +19.33% -37.15%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 15 £519 -24.30% 1
Central London -18 13 £560 -17.11% 15
West London - 6 £725 - 1
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 (7.30%) Confluence
2 11 (6.18%) nginx
3 5 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.25%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 176 (98.88%) AWS
2 80 (44.94%) Serverless
3 78 (43.82%) AWS Lambda
4 73 (41.01%) Amazon S3
5 68 (38.20%) Amazon EC2
6 57 (32.02%) GitHub
7 56 (31.46%) Amazon ECS
8 51 (28.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 51 (28.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 45 (25.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 45 (25.28%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (12.36%) Azure
10 22 (12.36%) Route 53
11 16 (8.99%) Azure AKS
12 15 (8.43%) AWS CodePipeline
12 15 (8.43%) Datadog
13 13 (7.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 12 (6.74%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (6.74%) GCP
15 9 (5.06%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.36%) DNS
2 18 (10.11%) Firewall
3 15 (8.43%) TCP/IP
4 14 (7.87%) VPN
5 10 (5.62%) Network Security
6 9 (5.06%) OpenVPN
7 4 (2.25%) SSL
8 2 (1.12%) BGP
8 2 (1.12%) OSPF
8 2 (1.12%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.12%) WAN
9 1 (0.56%) DHCP
9 1 (0.56%) ICMP
9 1 (0.56%) Internet
9 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.54%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.62%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.49%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (3.93%) DocumentDB
6 7 (3.93%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.93%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.37%) MySQL
7 6 (3.37%) Redis
8 4 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.25%) Flink
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.56%) Big Data
10 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.56%) Impala
Development Applications
1 56 (31.46%) GitLab
2 47 (26.40%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.11%) Git
4 14 (7.87%) JIRA
5 13 (7.30%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.49%) Artifactory
6 8 (4.49%) SonarQube
7 7 (3.93%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.81%) MLflow
8 5 (2.81%) Mocha
8 5 (2.81%) MSTest
8 5 (2.81%) tSQLt
9 4 (2.25%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.69%) Snyk
11 2 (1.12%) GoCD
12 1 (0.56%) Gatling
12 1 (0.56%) Gradle
12 1 (0.56%) JMeter
12 1 (0.56%) JUnit
12 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 42 (23.60%) Public Sector
2 37 (20.79%) Social Skills
3 23 (12.92%) Finance
4 17 (9.55%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (8.43%) Banking
6 13 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.49%) Front Office
8 4 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Games
11 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (25.84%) AWS Engineer
2 33 (18.54%) Architect
2 33 (18.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (17.98%) Senior
4 30 (16.85%) Developer
5 20 (11.24%) AWS Architect
6 18 (10.11%) Lead
7 16 (8.99%) AWS DevOps
7 16 (8.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 16 (8.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (7.87%) Cloud Architect
9 13 (7.30%) Python Developer
9 13 (7.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 11 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.62%) Python Engineer
11 10 (5.62%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) AWS Software Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Lead DevOps
12 8 (4.49%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (22.47%) Kafka
2 21 (11.80%) REST
3 19 (10.67%) RESTful
4 18 (10.11%) Node.js
5 17 (9.55%) OpenID
6 14 (7.87%) AWS CDK
7 12 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (6.74%) OAuth
7 12 (6.74%) Spring Boot
8 11 (6.18%) AngularJS
8 11 (6.18%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (6.18%) React
9 10 (5.62%) LDAP
9 10 (5.62%) OAuth2
9 10 (5.62%) Spring
10 9 (5.06%) FastAPI
10 9 (5.06%) HTML
11 8 (4.49%) .NET
11 8 (4.49%) Django
12 7 (3.93%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 52 (29.21%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.62%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.93%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.93%) Fixed Income
6 6 (3.37%) Equities
7 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.25%) PKI
7 4 (2.25%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.69%) Life Science
9 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.12%) Omics
9 2 (1.12%) SCADA
9 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.48%) Linux
2 5 (2.81%) Windows
3 3 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.12%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.12%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (73.60%) CI/CD
2 87 (48.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 85 (47.75%) DevOps
4 71 (39.89%) Containerisation
5 44 (24.72%) Observability
6 41 (23.03%) Platform Engineering
7 30 (16.85%) Agile
7 30 (16.85%) Microservices
8 26 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (13.48%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.36%) DevSecOps
11 21 (11.80%) Cloud Security
11 21 (11.80%) SDLC
11 21 (11.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 19 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (9.55%) Event-Driven
13 17 (9.55%) Roadmaps
14 16 (8.99%) Mentoring
14 16 (8.99%) Test Automation
15 15 (8.43%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (48.31%) Python
2 33 (18.54%) Java
3 26 (14.61%) Bash
4 19 (10.67%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.99%) SQL
6 10 (5.62%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.49%) C#
7 8 (4.49%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.37%) Go
9 5 (2.81%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.81%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.69%) Bicep
11 2 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.56%) Groovy
12 1 (0.56%) Korn
12 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.56%) ProC
Qualifications
1 64 (35.96%) Security Cleared
2 55 (30.90%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.80%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.06%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.69%) CISSP
7 3 (1.69%) Degree
8 1 (0.56%) CEH
8 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.56%) PMP
8 1 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.62%) QA
2 9 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.49%) NIST
4 6 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.37%) WCAG
5 4 (2.25%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.69%) NCSC
6 3 (1.69%) SLA
7 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.56%) GRC
System Software
1 74 (41.57%) Docker
2 15 (8.43%) Squid
3 3 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 126 (70.79%) Terraform
2 92 (51.69%) Kubernetes
3 40 (22.47%) Grafana
4 34 (19.10%) Prometheus
5 21 (11.80%) Ansible
6 12 (6.74%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (6.18%) Argo
8 9 (5.06%) FortiGate
8 9 (5.06%) Puppet
9 7 (3.93%) Consul
10 4 (2.25%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.25%) Kibana
10 4 (2.25%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.25%) Suricata
11 3 (1.69%) Istio
12 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.56%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.56%) Packer
12 1 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (7.30%) Dynatrace
2 9 (5.06%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.06%) Red Hat
3 8 (4.49%) Splunk
4 7 (3.93%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.37%) AppDynamics
5 6 (3.37%) Databricks
6 5 (2.81%) AVEVA
7 4 (2.25%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.25%) Charles River
7 4 (2.25%) New Relic
7 4 (2.25%) Oracle
7 4 (2.25%) PagerDuty
7 4 (2.25%) Qualys
7 4 (2.25%) Tenable
8 3 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.12%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.12%) SAP
9 2 (1.12%) Sybase