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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 240 289
Rank change year-on-year +14 +49 +76
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 181 124 108
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.12% 0.96% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.57% 2.28% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 108 81
10th Percentile £364 £492 £400
25th Percentile £465 £575 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £633 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +10.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £625 £706 £683
90th Percentile £713 £888 £825
England median daily rate £525 £630 £572
% change year-on-year -16.67% +10.14% -6.88%

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 7,051 5,445 6,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.77% 41.98% 37.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,843 3,755 4,985
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 43 78
10th Percentile £18.03 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -12.72%
75th Percentile £51.81 £55.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £62.88
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 17 £522 -23.83% 1
Central London -14 16 £544 -19.44% 3
West London - 2 £725 -
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 (7.18%) Confluence
2 10 (5.52%) nginx
3 4 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.55%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.55%) SAS
5 1 (0.55%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.21%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 173 (95.58%) AWS
2 78 (43.09%) Serverless
3 76 (41.99%) AWS Lambda
4 74 (40.88%) Amazon S3
5 67 (37.02%) GitHub
6 63 (34.81%) Amazon EC2
7 59 (32.60%) Amazon ECS
8 52 (28.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 52 (28.73%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (28.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 45 (24.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (14.92%) Azure
12 24 (13.26%) Route 53
13 23 (12.71%) Datadog
14 19 (10.50%) Azure AKS
15 17 (9.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 16 (8.84%) AWS CodePipeline
17 14 (7.73%) GCP
18 13 (7.18%) Amazon Kinesis
19 11 (6.08%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.60%) DNS
2 16 (8.84%) VPN
3 14 (7.73%) Firewall
4 9 (4.97%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.42%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.21%) SSL
7 3 (1.66%) Network Security
8 2 (1.10%) BGP
8 2 (1.10%) Kerberos
8 2 (1.10%) OSPF
8 2 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.10%) WAN
9 1 (0.55%) DHCP
9 1 (0.55%) ICMP
9 1 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.55%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (23.20%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (13.81%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.08%) DynamoDB
4 10 (5.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (5.52%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.97%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.42%) DocumentDB
6 8 (4.42%) Flink
6 8 (4.42%) MySQL
6 8 (4.42%) Redis
7 5 (2.76%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.21%) Big Data
9 3 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.66%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.66%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (32.04%) Jenkins
2 54 (29.83%) GitLab
3 17 (9.39%) Git
4 15 (8.29%) JIRA
5 13 (7.18%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.42%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.76%) MLflow
8 4 (2.21%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.21%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.21%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.66%) Mocha
9 3 (1.66%) MSTest
9 3 (1.66%) Snyk
9 3 (1.66%) tSQLt
10 2 (1.10%) GoCD
10 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.55%) git-flow
11 1 (0.55%) Gradle
11 1 (0.55%) JUnit
11 1 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 36 (19.89%) Public Sector
1 36 (19.89%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.23%) Finance
3 23 (12.71%) Banking
4 17 (9.39%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.63%) Front Office
7 5 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.55%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (22.65%) AWS Engineer
2 39 (21.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (17.13%) Senior
4 30 (16.57%) Architect
5 29 (16.02%) Developer
6 22 (12.15%) AWS DevOps
7 19 (10.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (10.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 17 (9.39%) AWS Architect
9 15 (8.29%) Lead
10 14 (7.73%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (7.18%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (7.18%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (6.63%) Site Engineer
13 11 (6.08%) Python Developer
13 11 (6.08%) Python Engineer
14 8 (4.42%) Senior Developer
14 8 (4.42%) Software Engineer
15 7 (3.87%) Data Engineer
15 7 (3.87%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (25.97%) Kafka
2 21 (11.60%) Node.js
2 21 (11.60%) REST
3 17 (9.39%) OpenID
4 16 (8.84%) AWS CDK
5 15 (8.29%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (7.73%) RESTful
6 14 (7.73%) Spring
6 14 (7.73%) Spring Boot
7 13 (7.18%) OAuth
8 10 (5.52%) OAuth2
9 9 (4.97%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.97%) LDAP
9 9 (4.97%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (4.97%) React
10 8 (4.42%) HTML
11 7 (3.87%) FastAPI
12 6 (3.31%) .NET
12 6 (3.31%) Django
13 5 (2.76%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.65%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.08%) Fixed Income
4 8 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.42%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.87%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.76%) Equities
6 5 (2.76%) Replication
7 3 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.66%) Life Science
8 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.10%) Omics
8 2 (1.10%) PKI
8 2 (1.10%) SCADA
8 2 (1.10%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.13%) Linux
2 6 (3.31%) Windows
3 3 (1.66%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.55%) VMS
4 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (70.17%) CI/CD
2 92 (50.83%) DevOps
3 88 (48.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (41.44%) Containerisation
5 46 (25.41%) Observability
6 42 (23.20%) Platform Engineering
7 36 (19.89%) Microservices
8 33 (18.23%) Agile
9 32 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (16.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 22 (12.15%) Software Engineering
12 21 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (10.50%) Cloud Security
14 17 (9.39%) DevSecOps
14 17 (9.39%) Secrets Management
14 17 (9.39%) Test Automation
15 16 (8.84%) AI
16 15 (8.29%) Configuration Management
16 15 (8.29%) Roadmaps
16 15 (8.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 104 (57.46%) Python
2 43 (23.76%) Java
3 33 (18.23%) Bash
4 19 (10.50%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.39%) SQL
6 10 (5.52%) Go
6 10 (5.52%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.97%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.76%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.66%) C#
9 3 (1.66%) Groovy
9 3 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.66%) Ruby
9 3 (1.66%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.10%) Bicep
10 2 (1.10%) Perl
11 1 (0.55%) C
11 1 (0.55%) PHP
11 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.55%) ProC
Qualifications
1 58 (32.04%) Security Cleared
2 52 (28.73%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.92%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.87%) Degree
6 6 (3.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.76%) CISSP
7 5 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.55%) CCSP
10 1 (0.55%) CEH
10 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.55%) OSCP
10 1 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.97%) NIST
3 8 (4.42%) QA
4 5 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.76%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.76%) WCAG
5 4 (2.21%) NCSC
6 3 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.66%) SLA
7 2 (1.10%) GRC
8 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 86 (47.51%) Docker
2 9 (4.97%) Squid
3 3 (1.66%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 128 (70.72%) Terraform
2 97 (53.59%) Kubernetes
3 37 (20.44%) Grafana
4 30 (16.57%) Prometheus
5 23 (12.71%) Ansible
6 17 (9.39%) Argo
7 13 (7.18%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (6.08%) Puppet
9 8 (4.42%) FortiGate
10 7 (3.87%) Consul
11 5 (2.76%) Karpenter
11 5 (2.76%) Progress Chef
12 4 (2.21%) Kibana
13 3 (1.66%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.66%) Opsgenie
13 3 (1.66%) Rancher
14 2 (1.10%) Istio
15 1 (0.55%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.55%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (8.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.73%) Dynatrace
3 11 (6.08%) Splunk
4 10 (5.52%) Databricks
5 9 (4.97%) PagerDuty
6 8 (4.42%) Atlassian
6 8 (4.42%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.87%) AppDynamics
8 6 (3.31%) Qualys
9 5 (2.76%) AVEVA
9 5 (2.76%) Oracle
9 5 (2.76%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.21%) Bloomberg
10 4 (2.21%) Charles River
10 4 (2.21%) Google
10 4 (2.21%) New Relic
10 4 (2.21%) Tenable
11 3 (1.66%) Cloudera
12 2 (1.10%) Avaloq
12 2 (1.10%) SAP