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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 230 276
Rank change year-on-year +9 +46 +91
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 183 121 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 0.91% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.64% 2.19% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 107 86
10th Percentile £368 £491 £403
25th Percentile £472 £575 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £635 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.32% +10.43% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £695
90th Percentile £713 £888 £825
England median daily rate £530 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -15.87% +9.57% -6.12%

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 6,928 5,534 6,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.96% 41.76% 37.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,750 3,750 4,984
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
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 100 47 77
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.35 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +5.47% -12.59%
75th Percentile £52.56 £57.25 £53.25
90th Percentile £72.75 £75.25 £63.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.45% +28.69% -14.52%

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 2 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 2 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
Central London -3 17 £525 -22.22% 15
South London -5 17 £522 -19.11% 3
West London - 2 £725 - 1
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 (9.29%) Confluence
2 10 (5.46%) nginx
3 4 (2.19%) Traefik
4 3 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.55%) Apache
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.19%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 174 (95.08%) AWS
2 75 (40.98%) Serverless
3 74 (40.44%) Amazon S3
4 72 (39.34%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (38.25%) GitHub
6 60 (32.79%) Amazon ECS
7 59 (32.24%) Amazon EC2
8 55 (30.05%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (28.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (25.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 42 (22.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (15.30%) Azure
13 24 (13.11%) Route 53
14 20 (10.93%) Datadog
15 19 (10.38%) Azure AKS
16 17 (9.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 16 (8.74%) AWS CodePipeline
18 13 (7.10%) Amazon Kinesis
19 12 (6.56%) GCP
20 11 (6.01%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.48%) DNS
2 17 (9.29%) VPN
3 15 (8.20%) Firewall
4 9 (4.92%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.37%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.19%) SSL
7 3 (1.64%) Network Security
7 3 (1.64%) SNMP
8 2 (1.09%) BGP
8 2 (1.09%) Calico
8 2 (1.09%) Kerberos
8 2 (1.09%) OSPF
8 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.09%) 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 43 (23.50%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.01%) DynamoDB
4 10 (5.46%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (5.46%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.92%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.37%) DocumentDB
6 8 (4.37%) Flink
6 8 (4.37%) MySQL
6 8 (4.37%) Redis
7 5 (2.73%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.19%) Big Data
9 3 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.64%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.64%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (28.96%) Jenkins
2 48 (26.23%) GitLab
3 20 (10.93%) JIRA
4 17 (9.29%) Git
5 13 (7.10%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.37%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.19%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.19%) MLflow
7 4 (2.19%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.64%) Mocha
8 3 (1.64%) MSTest
8 3 (1.64%) Snyk
8 3 (1.64%) tSQLt
9 2 (1.09%) GoCD
9 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.55%) git-flow
10 1 (0.55%) JUnit
General
1 39 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.58%) Public Sector
3 32 (17.49%) Finance
4 22 (12.02%) Banking
5 16 (8.74%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.56%) Front Office
8 5 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Games
11 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (21.31%) AWS Engineer
1 39 (21.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (16.39%) Architect
3 29 (15.85%) Developer
4 27 (14.75%) Senior
5 22 (12.02%) AWS DevOps
6 19 (10.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 17 (9.29%) AWS Architect
8 16 (8.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 15 (8.20%) Lead
10 14 (7.65%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (7.10%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (6.01%) Python Developer
12 11 (6.01%) Python Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) Site Engineer
14 8 (4.37%) Senior Developer
14 8 (4.37%) Software Engineer
15 7 (3.83%) Data Engineer
15 7 (3.83%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (25.68%) Kafka
2 21 (11.48%) Node.js
2 21 (11.48%) REST
3 17 (9.29%) OpenID
4 16 (8.74%) AWS CDK
5 15 (8.20%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (7.65%) RESTful
6 14 (7.65%) Spring
6 14 (7.65%) Spring Boot
7 13 (7.10%) OAuth
8 10 (5.46%) OAuth2
8 10 (5.46%) React
9 9 (4.92%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.92%) LDAP
9 9 (4.92%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (4.37%) HTML
11 7 (3.83%) .NET
11 7 (3.83%) FastAPI
12 6 (3.28%) Django
13 5 (2.73%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.40%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.01%) Fixed Income
4 9 (4.92%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.83%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.73%) Equities
7 5 (2.73%) Replication
8 4 (2.19%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.64%) Life Science
10 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.09%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.09%) Omics
10 2 (1.09%) PKI
10 2 (1.09%) SCADA
11 1 (0.55%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.94%) Linux
2 6 (3.28%) Windows
3 3 (1.64%) Unix
3 3 (1.64%) VMS
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%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (67.76%) CI/CD
2 93 (50.82%) DevOps
3 90 (49.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (42.08%) Containerisation
5 44 (24.04%) Observability
6 42 (22.95%) Platform Engineering
7 37 (20.22%) Agile
7 37 (20.22%) Microservices
8 31 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (14.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 23 (12.57%) Software Engineering
11 21 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (11.48%) DevSecOps
12 20 (10.93%) Cloud Security
13 16 (8.74%) Secrets Management
13 16 (8.74%) Test Automation
14 15 (8.20%) AI
14 15 (8.20%) Configuration Management
14 15 (8.20%) Roadmaps
14 15 (8.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 106 (57.92%) Python
2 46 (25.14%) Java
3 34 (18.58%) Bash
4 20 (10.93%) SQL
5 19 (10.38%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.10%) Go
7 11 (6.01%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.46%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.28%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.19%) C#
11 3 (1.64%) Groovy
11 3 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.64%) Ruby
11 3 (1.64%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.09%) Bicep
12 2 (1.09%) Perl
13 1 (0.55%) C
13 1 (0.55%) PHP
13 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.55%) ProC
Qualifications
1 63 (34.43%) Security Cleared
2 57 (31.15%) SC Cleared
3 29 (15.85%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.83%) Degree
6 6 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.73%) CISSP
7 5 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.09%) 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 12 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.92%) NIST
3 8 (4.37%) QA
4 5 (2.73%) NCSC
4 5 (2.73%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.19%) WCAG
6 3 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.09%) GDPR
7 2 (1.09%) GRC
8 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 88 (48.09%) Docker
2 9 (4.92%) Squid
3 3 (1.64%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.55%) etcd
5 1 (0.55%) HDFS
5 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 125 (68.31%) Terraform
2 104 (56.83%) Kubernetes
3 36 (19.67%) Grafana
4 27 (14.75%) Prometheus
5 22 (12.02%) Ansible
6 19 (10.38%) Argo
7 13 (7.10%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (6.01%) Puppet
9 8 (4.37%) FortiGate
10 7 (3.83%) Consul
11 5 (2.73%) Istio
11 5 (2.73%) Karpenter
11 5 (2.73%) Progress Chef
12 4 (2.19%) Kibana
13 3 (1.64%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.64%) Opsgenie
13 3 (1.64%) Rancher
14 1 (0.55%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.55%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 17 (9.29%) Dynatrace
2 15 (8.20%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.46%) AppDynamics
4 9 (4.92%) Databricks
4 9 (4.92%) PagerDuty
5 8 (4.37%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.37%) Red Hat
5 8 (4.37%) Splunk
6 6 (3.28%) Qualys
7 5 (2.73%) AVEVA
7 5 (2.73%) Oracle
7 5 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.19%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.19%) Charles River
8 4 (2.19%) Google
8 4 (2.19%) New Relic
8 4 (2.19%) Tenable
9 3 (1.64%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.09%) Avaloq
10 2 (1.09%) SAP