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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 217 301
Rank change year-on-year -22 +84 +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 176 135 93
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 1.07% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.32% 2.51% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 115 59
10th Percentile £368 £475 £363
25th Percentile £491 £575 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £630 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.48% +12.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £635 £700 £656
90th Percentile £713 £883 £795
England median daily rate £530 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -11.67% +7.14% -10.40%

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 5,373 6,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.08% 42.42% 37.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,233 3,733 4,924
10th Percentile £350 £356 £341
25th Percentile £425 £440 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 54 72
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -37.50%
75th Percentile £51.10 £53.75 £38.28
90th Percentile £70.75 £71.88 £62.13
England median hourly rate £43.15 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +63.13% +27.35% -35.70%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 16 £522 -23.83%
Central London -16 14 £563 -16.67% 10
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 12 (6.82%) Confluence
2 11 (6.25%) nginx
3 5 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) SAS
5 1 (0.57%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.27%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 172 (97.73%) AWS
2 77 (43.75%) Amazon S3
2 77 (43.75%) Serverless
3 75 (42.61%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (36.93%) Amazon EC2
5 62 (35.23%) GitHub
6 59 (33.52%) Amazon ECS
7 51 (28.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 49 (27.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (27.84%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (14.77%) Azure
11 24 (13.64%) Route 53
12 21 (11.93%) Datadog
13 17 (9.66%) Azure AKS
14 15 (8.52%) AWS CodePipeline
15 13 (7.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 13 (7.39%) GCP
16 12 (6.82%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.50%) DNS
2 16 (9.09%) Firewall
2 16 (9.09%) VPN
3 11 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 9 (5.11%) OpenVPN
5 5 (2.84%) Network Security
6 4 (2.27%) SSL
7 2 (1.14%) BGP
7 2 (1.14%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.14%) OSPF
7 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.14%) WAN
8 1 (0.57%) DHCP
8 1 (0.57%) ICMP
8 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (13.07%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.68%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.68%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (5.11%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.55%) DocumentDB
5 8 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.98%) Flink
7 6 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (3.41%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.41%) MySQL
7 6 (3.41%) Redis
8 5 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.70%) Big Data
9 3 (1.70%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.70%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.57%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 55 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 53 (30.11%) GitLab
3 16 (9.09%) Git
4 14 (7.95%) Bitbucket
4 14 (7.95%) JIRA
5 8 (4.55%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.84%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.84%) MLflow
7 4 (2.27%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.27%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.70%) Mocha
8 3 (1.70%) MSTest
8 3 (1.70%) Snyk
8 3 (1.70%) tSQLt
9 2 (1.14%) GoCD
9 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.57%) git-flow
10 1 (0.57%) Gradle
10 1 (0.57%) JUnit
10 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 37 (21.02%) Public Sector
2 34 (19.32%) Social Skills
3 30 (17.05%) Finance
4 20 (11.36%) Banking
5 17 (9.66%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (6.25%) Front Office
8 5 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Games
11 1 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (22.73%) AWS Engineer
2 34 (19.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (19.32%) Senior
3 33 (18.75%) Architect
4 28 (15.91%) Developer
5 19 (10.80%) AWS Architect
5 19 (10.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 17 (9.66%) AWS DevOps
7 16 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.52%) Lead
9 14 (7.95%) Cloud Architect
9 14 (7.95%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (7.39%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (7.39%) Site Engineer
11 11 (6.25%) Python Developer
11 11 (6.25%) Python Engineer
12 8 (4.55%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
13 7 (3.98%) Software Engineer
13 7 (3.98%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (24.43%) Kafka
2 22 (12.50%) REST
3 18 (10.23%) Node.js
3 18 (10.23%) OpenID
4 17 (9.66%) RESTful
5 14 (7.95%) AWS CDK
6 13 (7.39%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (7.39%) OAuth
6 13 (7.39%) Spring
6 13 (7.39%) Spring Boot
7 11 (6.25%) OAuth2
8 10 (5.68%) LDAP
8 10 (5.68%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (4.55%) React
10 7 (3.98%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.98%) FastAPI
10 7 (3.98%) HTML
11 6 (3.41%) .NET
11 6 (3.41%) Django
12 5 (2.84%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 47 (26.70%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.68%) Fixed Income
4 9 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (5.11%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.98%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.84%) Equities
7 3 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.70%) Life Science
7 3 (1.70%) PKI
7 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.14%) Omics
8 2 (1.14%) Replication
8 2 (1.14%) SCADA
8 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.05%) Linux
2 5 (2.84%) Windows
3 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.14%) Unix
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (71.59%) CI/CD
2 87 (49.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 85 (48.30%) DevOps
4 77 (43.75%) Containerisation
5 45 (25.57%) Observability
5 45 (25.57%) Platform Engineering
6 35 (19.89%) Microservices
7 32 (18.18%) Agile
7 32 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 29 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 21 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (11.36%) DevSecOps
12 18 (10.23%) SDLC
13 17 (9.66%) Cloud Security
14 16 (9.09%) AI
14 16 (9.09%) Event-Driven
15 15 (8.52%) Roadmaps
15 15 (8.52%) Secrets Management
15 15 (8.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 94 (53.41%) Python
2 41 (23.30%) Java
3 25 (14.20%) Bash
4 17 (9.66%) JavaScript
5 16 (9.09%) SQL
6 9 (5.11%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.55%) Go
7 8 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.84%) C#
8 5 (2.84%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.70%) Bicep
9 3 (1.70%) Ruby
9 3 (1.70%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.14%) Perl
11 1 (0.57%) C
11 1 (0.57%) Groovy
11 1 (0.57%) Korn
11 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.57%) ProC
Qualifications
1 54 (30.68%) Security Cleared
2 48 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.77%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.98%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.41%) Degree
7 4 (2.27%) CISSP
7 4 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.57%) CCSP
9 1 (0.57%) CEH
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.57%) OSCP
9 1 (0.57%) SANS
9 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.11%) NIST
2 9 (5.11%) QA
3 6 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.41%) WCAG
4 5 (2.84%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.27%) NCSC
6 3 (1.70%) SLA
7 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.14%) GRC
8 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 84 (47.73%) Docker
2 10 (5.68%) Squid
3 3 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 125 (71.02%) Terraform
2 91 (51.70%) Kubernetes
3 37 (21.02%) Grafana
4 32 (18.18%) Prometheus
5 23 (13.07%) Ansible
6 17 (9.66%) Argo
7 12 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (6.25%) Puppet
9 9 (5.11%) FortiGate
10 7 (3.98%) Consul
11 4 (2.27%) Karpenter
11 4 (2.27%) Kibana
11 4 (2.27%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.70%) Istio
12 3 (1.70%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.70%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.57%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.57%) Packer
13 1 (0.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (7.39%) Dynatrace
2 12 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.68%) Splunk
4 9 (5.11%) PagerDuty
4 9 (5.11%) Red Hat
5 8 (4.55%) Databricks
6 7 (3.98%) AppDynamics
6 7 (3.98%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.41%) Oracle
7 6 (3.41%) Qualys
8 5 (2.84%) AVEVA
9 4 (2.27%) Bloomberg
9 4 (2.27%) Charles River
9 4 (2.27%) New Relic
9 4 (2.27%) Tenable
10 3 (1.70%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.70%) Google
10 3 (1.70%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.14%) Rapid7
11 2 (1.14%) SAP