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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 247 314
Rank change year-on-year +19 +67 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 191 112 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 0.90% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.40% 2.10% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 88 61
10th Percentile £400 £423 £363
25th Percentile £506 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £775
90th Percentile £733 £729 £875
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -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 7,961 5,341 6,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.04% 42.99% 39.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,464 3,627 5,108
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £430 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 68 70
10th Percentile £20.85 £22.50 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +15.29% -49.55%
75th Percentile £55.38 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.05 £69.38 £55.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%

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 June 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 June 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 +4 13 £519 -
Central London -27 9 £575 -14.81% 5
West London - 5 £725 - 1
East London - 1 £500 - 2
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 (6.28%) Confluence
2 11 (5.76%) nginx
3 6 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.09%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.57%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 189 (98.95%) AWS
2 87 (45.55%) AWS Lambda
2 87 (45.55%) Serverless
3 80 (41.88%) Amazon S3
4 68 (35.60%) Amazon EC2
5 67 (35.08%) Amazon ECS
6 58 (30.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 57 (29.84%) GitHub
8 56 (29.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 47 (24.61%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (21.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (11.52%) Route 53
12 21 (10.99%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (9.95%) Datadog
14 17 (8.90%) Azure
15 15 (7.85%) Azure AKS
16 14 (7.33%) AWS CodePipeline
16 14 (7.33%) Snowflake
17 12 (6.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 10 (5.24%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.47%) DNS
2 19 (9.95%) Firewall
3 15 (7.85%) TCP/IP
3 15 (7.85%) VPN
4 13 (6.81%) Network Security
5 9 (4.71%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.09%) SSL
7 2 (1.05%) BGP
7 2 (1.05%) OSPF
7 2 (1.05%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.05%) WAN
8 1 (0.52%) Calico
8 1 (0.52%) DHCP
8 1 (0.52%) DSL
8 1 (0.52%) ICMP
8 1 (0.52%) Internet
8 1 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (20.42%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (12.57%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.76%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.19%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.19%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.66%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (3.66%) MySQL
7 5 (2.62%) DocumentDB
7 5 (2.62%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.62%) Redis
8 4 (2.09%) Big Data
9 3 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.52%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (36.65%) GitLab
2 55 (28.80%) Jenkins
3 19 (9.95%) Git
4 14 (7.33%) Bitbucket
5 13 (6.81%) JIRA
6 8 (4.19%) Artifactory
6 8 (4.19%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.19%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.14%) Mocha
7 6 (3.14%) MSTest
7 6 (3.14%) tSQLt
8 5 (2.62%) MLflow
9 2 (1.05%) GoCD
9 2 (1.05%) Snyk
10 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.52%) Gatling
10 1 (0.52%) Gradle
10 1 (0.52%) JUnit
10 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 44 (23.04%) Social Skills
2 42 (21.99%) Public Sector
3 28 (14.66%) Finance
4 24 (12.57%) Banking
5 16 (8.38%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.14%) Law
9 4 (2.09%) Front Office
9 4 (2.09%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.05%) Military
11 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.05%) Publishing
12 1 (0.52%) Games
12 1 (0.52%) Marketing
12 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (28.80%) AWS Engineer
2 45 (23.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (20.42%) Senior
4 30 (15.71%) Architect
5 24 (12.57%) AWS DevOps
5 24 (12.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 24 (12.57%) Developer
6 23 (12.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (10.47%) Lead
8 19 (9.95%) AWS Architect
9 15 (7.85%) Software Engineer
10 13 (6.81%) Python Developer
11 12 (6.28%) Data Engineer
11 12 (6.28%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.76%) AWS Software Engineer
12 11 (5.76%) Python Engineer
13 10 (5.24%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (5.24%) Lead DevOps
13 10 (5.24%) Python Software Engineer
14 9 (4.71%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.28%) Kafka
2 26 (13.61%) REST
3 17 (8.90%) AWS CDK
3 17 (8.90%) OpenID
3 17 (8.90%) RESTful
4 13 (6.81%) AngularJS
4 13 (6.81%) FastAPI
4 13 (6.81%) Node.js
5 12 (6.28%) OAuth
5 12 (6.28%) OpenTelemetry
5 12 (6.28%) React
6 11 (5.76%) Spring Boot
7 10 (5.24%) .NET
7 10 (5.24%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (5.24%) LDAP
7 10 (5.24%) OAuth2
8 9 (4.71%) Flask
9 8 (4.19%) Next.js
9 8 (4.19%) Spring
10 7 (3.66%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (35.60%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.47%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.24%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.14%) Equities
6 5 (2.62%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.62%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.09%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.09%) PKI
7 4 (2.09%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.57%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.57%) Life Science
8 3 (1.57%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.71%) Linux
2 9 (4.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.14%) Windows
4 3 (1.57%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.05%) Unix
5 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (72.25%) CI/CD
2 103 (53.93%) DevOps
3 102 (53.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (45.03%) Containerisation
5 54 (28.27%) Observability
6 46 (24.08%) Microservices
7 45 (23.56%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (16.75%) Agile
9 31 (16.23%) Software Engineering
10 28 (14.66%) AI
11 27 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (12.57%) Cloud Security
12 24 (12.57%) DevSecOps
13 23 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (12.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 21 (10.99%) Event-Driven
14 21 (10.99%) Mentoring
15 18 (9.42%) Roadmaps
15 18 (9.42%) SDLC
15 18 (9.42%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (50.26%) Python
2 31 (16.23%) Bash
3 30 (15.71%) Java
4 15 (7.85%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.81%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.28%) SQL
7 10 (5.24%) C#
8 8 (4.19%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.14%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.09%) Go
10 4 (2.09%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.57%) Bicep
12 2 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.52%) C
13 1 (0.52%) C++
13 1 (0.52%) Cypher
13 1 (0.52%) Haskell
13 1 (0.52%) R
13 1 (0.52%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 69 (36.13%) Security Cleared
2 61 (31.94%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.52%) AWS Certification
4 15 (7.85%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.05%) CISSP
8 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.05%) Degree
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PMP
9 1 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.81%) QA
2 7 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.14%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.14%) NIST
3 6 (3.14%) WCAG
4 4 (2.09%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.57%) SLA
6 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.52%) GRC
7 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 78 (40.84%) Docker
2 15 (7.85%) Squid
3 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 140 (73.30%) Terraform
2 109 (57.07%) Kubernetes
3 47 (24.61%) Grafana
4 45 (23.56%) Prometheus
5 23 (12.04%) Ansible
6 12 (6.28%) Argo
6 12 (6.28%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (4.71%) FortiGate
8 8 (4.19%) Puppet
9 7 (3.66%) Consul
10 5 (2.62%) Istio
11 4 (2.09%) Suricata
12 3 (1.57%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.52%) Cilium
14 1 (0.52%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.52%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.52%) Packer
14 1 (0.52%) systemd
Vendors
1 12 (6.28%) Red Hat
2 11 (5.76%) Dynatrace
3 9 (4.71%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.19%) Splunk
5 7 (3.66%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.14%) Databricks
6 6 (3.14%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.62%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.62%) AVEVA
7 5 (2.62%) New Relic
7 5 (2.62%) Oracle
7 5 (2.62%) Sybase
8 4 (2.09%) Amplitude
9 3 (1.57%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.57%) Charles River
10 2 (1.05%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.05%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.05%) Qualys
10 2 (1.05%) SAP
10 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow