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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 230 276
Rank change year-on-year -6 +46 +49
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 140 139 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 0.97% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.21% 2.37% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 119 89
10th Percentile £409 £500 £411
25th Percentile £494 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £665 £861 £695
90th Percentile £716 £888 £848
England median daily rate £553 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -12.30% +9.57% -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 6,329 5,867 6,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.23% 41.01% 37.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,331 3,961 5,081
10th Percentile £344 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 43 63
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.45 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.80 £20.88
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.16% -12.99% +31.96%
75th Percentile £54.31 £49.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.75 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.36 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.87% +26.47% -2.17%

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 January 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 January 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 +5 16 £556 -17.59% 13
South London -15 8 £530 -4.29% 2
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 (5.71%) Confluence
2 3 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.14%) Traefik
3 2 (1.43%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.71%) Apache
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.71%) CICS
4 1 (0.71%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.71%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 131 (93.57%) AWS
2 54 (38.57%) GitHub
3 48 (34.29%) Amazon S3
4 45 (32.14%) Amazon ECS
4 45 (32.14%) Serverless
5 42 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (29.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 40 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
7 40 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 26 (18.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (14.29%) Azure
11 18 (12.86%) Datadog
12 16 (11.43%) GCP
13 14 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (8.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 10 (7.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 10 (7.14%) Azure AKS
15 10 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 10 (7.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.86%) DNS
2 6 (4.29%) VPN
3 4 (2.86%) Firewall
4 3 (2.14%) SNMP
4 3 (2.14%) SSL
5 2 (1.43%) Calico
5 2 (1.43%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.71%) HTTP
6 1 (0.71%) Internet
6 1 (0.71%) NAS
6 1 (0.71%) Network Security
6 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.71%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (6.43%) DynamoDB
4 9 (6.43%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.71%) Flink
5 8 (5.71%) Redis
5 8 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.00%) MySQL
7 6 (4.29%) DocumentDB
8 4 (2.86%) Big Data
8 4 (2.86%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 35 (25.00%) GitLab
3 14 (10.00%) Git
4 11 (7.86%) JIRA
5 4 (2.86%) Terragrunt
6 3 (2.14%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.43%) GoCD
7 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.71%) git-flow
8 1 (0.71%) JUnit
8 1 (0.71%) MLflow
8 1 (0.71%) Snyk
8 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (22.86%) Finance
2 22 (15.71%) Banking
3 20 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 16 (11.43%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.43%) Front Office
6 7 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.43%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Games
9 1 (0.71%) Local Government
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (29.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (24.29%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (17.86%) Developer
4 22 (15.71%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (15.71%) Senior
5 19 (13.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 18 (12.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 17 (12.14%) Architect
7 17 (12.14%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (7.86%) AWS Architect
8 11 (7.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Python Developer
9 10 (7.14%) Python Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Site Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (6.43%) Lead
11 8 (5.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.71%) Java Developer
12 6 (4.29%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (28.57%) Kafka
2 17 (12.14%) Spring Boot
3 13 (9.29%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (9.29%) Spring
4 12 (8.57%) Node.js
5 11 (7.86%) REST
6 9 (6.43%) React
6 9 (6.43%) RESTful
7 7 (5.00%) AWS CDK
7 7 (5.00%) OAuth
8 6 (4.29%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.29%) Django
8 6 (4.29%) FastAPI
8 6 (4.29%) OAuth2
8 6 (4.29%) OpenID
8 6 (4.29%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (3.57%) Flask
9 5 (3.57%) Keycloak
10 4 (2.86%) JSON
10 4 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.71%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.14%) Fixed Income
3 6 (4.29%) Replication
4 5 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.86%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.43%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.43%) PKI
8 1 (0.71%) CUDA
8 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.71%) Equities
8 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.71%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (2.14%) Unix
2 3 (2.14%) VMS
2 3 (2.14%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) AIX
3 1 (0.71%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (0.71%) Android
3 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.71%) Solaris
3 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (72.86%) CI/CD
2 73 (52.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 72 (51.43%) DevOps
4 57 (40.71%) Containerisation
5 40 (28.57%) Observability
6 35 (25.00%) Microservices
7 32 (22.86%) Platform Engineering
8 30 (21.43%) Agile
9 29 (20.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 17 (12.14%) Software Engineering
11 16 (11.43%) Cloud Security
11 16 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (11.43%) Test Automation
12 15 (10.71%) GitOps
13 14 (10.00%) Configuration Management
13 14 (10.00%) DevSecOps
13 14 (10.00%) Secrets Management
14 11 (7.86%) AI
15 10 (7.14%) Investment Management
15 10 (7.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 84 (60.00%) Python
2 37 (26.43%) Java
3 30 (21.43%) Bash
4 19 (13.57%) SQL
5 16 (11.43%) Go
6 9 (6.43%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.43%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.29%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.86%) Groovy
8 4 (2.86%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.14%) Ruby
10 2 (1.43%) Perl
11 1 (0.71%) Bicep
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) C#
11 1 (0.71%) COBOL
11 1 (0.71%) Korn
11 1 (0.71%) PHP
11 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.71%) ProC
Qualifications
1 42 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 37 (26.43%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.57%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.00%) Degree
5 5 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.14%) CISSP
7 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.71%) CCSP
9 1 (0.71%) CEH
9 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.71%) MCP
9 1 (0.71%) OSCP
9 1 (0.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.00%) NIST
3 6 (4.29%) QA
4 5 (3.57%) NCSC
5 4 (2.86%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.14%) GDPR
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.71%) GRC
7 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
System Software
1 71 (50.71%) Docker
2 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.71%) etcd
3 1 (0.71%) HDFS
3 1 (0.71%) Squid
3 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 93 (66.43%) Terraform
2 90 (64.29%) Kubernetes
3 31 (22.14%) Grafana
4 19 (13.57%) Ansible
4 19 (13.57%) Argo
5 15 (10.71%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.14%) Puppet
7 5 (3.57%) Istio
7 5 (3.57%) Karpenter
7 5 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.86%) Kibana
8 4 (2.86%) Rancher
9 3 (2.14%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (2.14%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.43%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.71%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (7.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.43%) Dynatrace
3 8 (5.71%) Splunk
4 7 (5.00%) PagerDuty
5 5 (3.57%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.86%) Databricks
6 4 (2.86%) Google
6 4 (2.86%) Oracle
6 4 (2.86%) Qualys
6 4 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.14%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.14%) Tenable
8 2 (1.43%) Avaloq
8 2 (1.43%) Confluent
8 2 (1.43%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.43%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.71%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.71%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.71%) Veracode