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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 251 294
Rank change year-on-year +19 +43 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 208 117 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 0.89% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.57% 2.06% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 92 71
10th Percentile £400 £425 £377
25th Percentile £513 £513 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £657 £675 £875
90th Percentile £775 £724 £888
England median daily rate £555 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -3.48% - -8.00%

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 8,100 5,680 7,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.87% 42.97% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,561 3,850 5,155
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 77 66
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.80 £18.89
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.15 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.50 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +12.70% +16.80% -49.82%
75th Percentile £55.19 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £67.50 £56.25
England median hourly rate £40.53 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +58.94% +15.91% -31.89%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -22 13 £575 -14.81% 15
South London +4 12 £519 -26.40%
West London - 6 £725 - 6
East London - 1 £500 -
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 17 (8.17%) Confluence
2 11 (5.29%) nginx
3 6 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.48%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 205 (98.56%) AWS
2 84 (40.38%) Amazon S3
2 84 (40.38%) AWS Lambda
2 84 (40.38%) Serverless
3 75 (36.06%) Amazon ECS
4 67 (32.21%) Amazon EC2
5 62 (29.81%) GitHub
6 57 (27.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 54 (25.96%) GitHub Actions
7 54 (25.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 41 (19.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (12.02%) Azure
10 20 (9.62%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (9.13%) Route 53
12 18 (8.65%) Datadog
13 17 (8.17%) Snowflake
14 16 (7.69%) Azure AKS
15 14 (6.73%) AWS CodePipeline
16 12 (5.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 12 (5.77%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.13%) Firewall
2 17 (8.17%) DNS
3 15 (7.21%) TCP/IP
3 15 (7.21%) VPN
4 13 (6.25%) Network Security
5 9 (4.33%) OpenVPN
6 3 (1.44%) SSL
7 2 (0.96%) BGP
7 2 (0.96%) DSL
7 2 (0.96%) OSPF
7 2 (0.96%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.96%) WAN
8 1 (0.48%) Calico
8 1 (0.48%) DHCP
8 1 (0.48%) ICMP
8 1 (0.48%) Internet
8 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.83%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.33%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.85%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.40%) Big Data
6 4 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.92%) MySQL
7 3 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.44%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.96%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.96%) Power BI
8 2 (0.96%) Redis
8 2 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.48%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.48%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 68 (32.69%) GitLab
2 53 (25.48%) Jenkins
3 22 (10.58%) Git
4 14 (6.73%) Bitbucket
5 13 (6.25%) JIRA
6 8 (3.85%) Artifactory
6 8 (3.85%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.85%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.88%) Mocha
7 6 (2.88%) MSTest
7 6 (2.88%) tSQLt
8 4 (1.92%) MLflow
9 2 (0.96%) Maven
9 2 (0.96%) Snyk
10 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.48%) Gatling
10 1 (0.48%) Gradle
10 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 51 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 43 (20.67%) Public Sector
3 34 (16.35%) Finance
4 26 (12.50%) Banking
5 19 (9.13%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.88%) Law
9 5 (2.40%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.92%) Front Office
10 4 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.96%) Military
12 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.96%) Publishing
13 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.48%) Games
13 1 (0.48%) Marketing
13 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (26.44%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (20.67%) Senior
4 33 (15.87%) Architect
5 26 (12.50%) Lead
6 25 (12.02%) AWS DevOps
6 25 (12.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 21 (10.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 19 (9.13%) Developer
9 17 (8.17%) AWS Architect
10 14 (6.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 13 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (5.77%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (5.77%) Software Engineer
13 11 (5.29%) Data Engineer
14 10 (4.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 10 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.81%) Technical Architect
15 9 (4.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.94%) Kafka
2 23 (11.06%) REST
3 17 (8.17%) AWS CDK
4 13 (6.25%) Node.js
4 13 (6.25%) RESTful
5 12 (5.77%) .NET
5 12 (5.77%) FastAPI
5 12 (5.77%) OpenID
5 12 (5.77%) React
6 11 (5.29%) AngularJS
6 11 (5.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (4.81%) LDAP
8 8 (3.85%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.37%) Flask
9 7 (3.37%) HTML
9 7 (3.37%) Loki
9 7 (3.37%) OAuth
10 6 (2.88%) CSS
10 6 (2.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 68 (32.69%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.29%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.33%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.88%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.88%) Equities
7 5 (2.40%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.40%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.44%) Life Science
9 3 (1.44%) PKI
9 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.44%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.96%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.42%) Linux
2 9 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.88%) Windows
4 3 (1.44%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.96%) Unix
5 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 109 (52.40%) DevOps
3 107 (51.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (41.83%) Containerisation
5 61 (29.33%) Observability
6 49 (23.56%) Microservices
7 46 (22.12%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (15.38%) AI
9 30 (14.42%) Agile
9 30 (14.42%) Software Engineering
10 28 (13.46%) DevSecOps
11 27 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (11.06%) Cloud Security
13 23 (11.06%) Mentoring
14 21 (10.10%) Runbook
14 21 (10.10%) Secrets Management
14 21 (10.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (9.62%) LLM
16 19 (9.13%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 102 (49.04%) Python
2 40 (19.23%) Bash
3 28 (13.46%) Java
4 17 (8.17%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.81%) C#
7 9 (4.33%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.85%) SQL
9 6 (2.88%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.40%) Go
11 4 (1.92%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.44%) Bicep
12 3 (1.44%) Cypher
12 3 (1.44%) SHACL
13 2 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.96%) R
14 1 (0.48%) C++
14 1 (0.48%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.48%) Haskell
14 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 77 (37.02%) Security Cleared
2 68 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.58%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.73%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.44%) Degree
7 3 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.96%) CISSP
8 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.48%) PMP
9 1 (0.48%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.81%) QA
2 6 (2.88%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.88%) WCAG
3 5 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.92%) NIST
5 3 (1.44%) SLA
6 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
7 1 (0.48%) NCSC
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (39.90%) Docker
2 14 (6.73%) Squid
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 144 (69.23%) Terraform
2 114 (54.81%) Kubernetes
3 55 (26.44%) Grafana
4 46 (22.12%) Prometheus
5 24 (11.54%) Ansible
6 20 (9.62%) Argo
7 11 (5.29%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (4.33%) FortiGate
9 8 (3.85%) Puppet
10 7 (3.37%) Consul
11 5 (2.40%) Istio
12 4 (1.92%) Suricata
13 3 (1.44%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
15 1 (0.48%) Cilium
15 1 (0.48%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.48%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.48%) Packer
15 1 (0.48%) systemd
Vendors
1 13 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.77%) Dynatrace
2 12 (5.77%) Red Hat
3 9 (4.33%) Oracle
4 8 (3.85%) Splunk
5 7 (3.37%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.88%) Databricks
7 5 (2.40%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.40%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.40%) AVEVA
7 5 (2.40%) New Relic
7 5 (2.40%) Sybase
8 4 (1.92%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.44%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.44%) Charles River
10 2 (0.96%) FactSet
10 2 (0.96%) Qualys
10 2 (0.96%) SAP
10 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow