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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 236 276
Rank change year-on-year -10 +40 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 138 151 127
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 1.00% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.18% 2.44% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 130 95
10th Percentile £413 £500 £400
25th Percentile £494 £561 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £653 £888 £691
90th Percentile £713 - £833
England median daily rate £550 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -8.00%

All Cloud 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 6,342 6,188 7,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.10% 41.17% 38.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,331 4,188 5,315
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 43 63
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.19
25th Percentile £23.75 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -16.00% +22.95%
75th Percentile £49.06 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £73.50
England median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 +11 15 £556 -17.59% 4
South London -12 9 £530 -4.29% 1
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 8 (5.80%) Confluence
2 3 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.17%) Traefik
3 2 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.45%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.72%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.72%) CICS
4 1 (0.72%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.72%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 129 (93.48%) AWS
2 48 (34.78%) GitHub
3 42 (30.43%) Amazon ECS
4 41 (29.71%) Amazon S3
5 40 (28.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 39 (28.26%) Amazon EC2
6 39 (28.26%) Serverless
7 36 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (20.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 24 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (15.22%) Azure
11 19 (13.77%) GCP
12 16 (11.59%) Datadog
13 13 (9.42%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 12 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 11 (7.97%) Amazon Kinesis
16 10 (7.25%) AWS KMS
16 10 (7.25%) Azure AKS
17 9 (6.52%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.25%) DNS
2 6 (4.35%) Firewall
2 6 (4.35%) VPN
3 3 (2.17%) SNMP
3 3 (2.17%) SSL
4 2 (1.45%) Calico
4 2 (1.45%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.72%) HTTP
5 1 (0.72%) Internet
5 1 (0.72%) NAS
5 1 (0.72%) Network Security
5 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.72%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.36%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (5.80%) Flink
4 8 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.07%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.62%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.62%) Redis
8 4 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.90%) Big Data
8 4 (2.90%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.90%) MySQL
8 4 (2.90%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.17%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 31 (22.46%) GitLab
3 14 (10.14%) Git
4 11 (7.97%) JIRA
5 4 (2.90%) Terragrunt
6 3 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.72%) git-flow
8 1 (0.72%) JUnit
8 1 (0.72%) Snyk
8 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (22.46%) Finance
2 21 (15.22%) Public Sector
3 20 (14.49%) Banking
4 18 (13.04%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.52%) Front Office
6 8 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Games
9 1 (0.72%) Local Government
9 1 (0.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 45 (32.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (23.91%) AWS Engineer
3 24 (17.39%) Senior
4 23 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
5 22 (15.94%) Developer
6 20 (14.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 19 (13.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 18 (13.04%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (12.32%) Architect
10 11 (7.97%) AWS Architect
10 11 (7.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (7.97%) Site Engineer
11 10 (7.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (7.25%) Java Developer
12 9 (6.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 8 (5.80%) Lead
13 8 (5.80%) Python Engineer
14 7 (5.07%) Cloud Architect
15 6 (4.35%) Kafka Engineer
15 6 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (25.36%) Kafka
2 15 (10.87%) Spring Boot
3 13 (9.42%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (8.70%) Node.js
5 9 (6.52%) Spring
6 8 (5.80%) AWS CDK
7 6 (4.35%) React
7 6 (4.35%) REST
8 5 (3.62%) Keycloak
8 5 (3.62%) RESTful
9 4 (2.90%) HTML
9 4 (2.90%) JSON
9 4 (2.90%) YAML
10 3 (2.17%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.17%) OAuth
10 3 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (1.45%) Django
11 2 (1.45%) FastAPI
11 2 (1.45%) Flask
11 2 (1.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.25%) Fixed Income
3 7 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.35%) Replication
5 5 (3.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.90%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.45%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.45%) PKI
9 1 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.72%) CUDA
9 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.94%) Linux
2 3 (2.17%) Unix
2 3 (2.17%) VMS
2 3 (2.17%) Windows
3 1 (0.72%) AIX
3 1 (0.72%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (0.72%) Android
3 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.72%) Solaris
3 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (71.74%) CI/CD
2 72 (52.17%) DevOps
3 66 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (39.86%) Containerisation
5 36 (26.09%) Observability
6 33 (23.91%) Microservices
7 31 (22.46%) Platform Engineering
8 27 (19.57%) Agile
8 27 (19.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 18 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (10.87%) Configuration Management
10 15 (10.87%) GitOps
10 15 (10.87%) Test Automation
11 14 (10.14%) Software Engineering
12 13 (9.42%) Cloud Security
13 12 (8.70%) Migration
14 11 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (7.97%) DevSecOps
15 10 (7.25%) Investment Management
15 10 (7.25%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (56.52%) Python
2 35 (25.36%) Java
3 32 (23.19%) Bash
4 19 (13.77%) Go
5 16 (11.59%) SQL
6 9 (6.52%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.52%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.90%) Groovy
8 4 (2.90%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.17%) Ruby
10 2 (1.45%) Perl
10 2 (1.45%) PromQL
11 1 (0.72%) Bicep
11 1 (0.72%) C
11 1 (0.72%) Korn
11 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.72%) PHP
11 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.72%) ProC
Qualifications
1 44 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 39 (28.26%) SC Cleared
3 21 (15.22%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.07%) Degree
6 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.17%) CISSP
9 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.72%) CCSP
10 1 (0.72%) CEH
10 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.72%) MCP
10 1 (0.72%) OSCP
10 1 (0.72%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.62%) NCSC
3 4 (2.90%) GDPR
3 4 (2.90%) NIST
4 3 (2.17%) QA
5 2 (1.45%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.72%) GRC
6 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 66 (47.83%) Docker
2 2 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.72%) etcd
3 1 (0.72%) HDFS
3 1 (0.72%) Squid
3 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 93 (67.39%) Kubernetes
2 86 (62.32%) Terraform
3 33 (23.91%) Grafana
4 20 (14.49%) Ansible
5 19 (13.77%) Argo
6 16 (11.59%) Prometheus
7 10 (7.25%) Puppet
8 5 (3.62%) Istio
8 5 (3.62%) Karpenter
8 5 (3.62%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.90%) Kibana
9 4 (2.90%) Rancher
10 3 (2.17%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (2.17%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.45%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.72%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (7.97%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.52%) Dynatrace
2 9 (6.52%) Splunk
3 7 (5.07%) PagerDuty
4 5 (3.62%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.90%) Databricks
5 4 (2.90%) Google
5 4 (2.90%) Oracle
5 4 (2.90%) Qualys
5 4 (2.90%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.17%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.17%) Tenable
7 2 (1.45%) Avaloq
7 2 (1.45%) Confluent
7 2 (1.45%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.45%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.72%) Commvault
8 1 (0.72%) Intel
8 1 (0.72%) NetApp