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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 260 256
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +42
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 201 109 139
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 0.81% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.41% 1.88% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 90 94
10th Percentile £413 £418 £475
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £653 £888
90th Percentile £771 £714 -
England median daily rate £563 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -2.17% -11.54% +4.00%

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 8,337 5,789 6,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.56% 43.10% 40.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,706 3,960 4,768
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 90 48
10th Percentile £19.18 £22.95 £21.55
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +4.63% -49.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £39.69 £39.25
90th Percentile £77.29 £67.95 £60.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.86%

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 August 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 20 August 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 -11 15 £700 +12.00% 5
West London - 9 £725 - 2
South London -1 7 £556 -21.04%
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 (5.97%) Confluence
2 6 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.00%) Camunda
4 2 (1.00%) nginx
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 197 (98.01%) AWS
2 73 (36.32%) Amazon S3
2 73 (36.32%) Serverless
3 71 (35.32%) Amazon ECS
3 71 (35.32%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (32.34%) Amazon EC2
5 64 (31.84%) GitHub
6 55 (27.36%) GitHub Actions
7 52 (25.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 40 (19.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 31 (15.42%) Azure
10 24 (11.94%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (11.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (11.44%) GCP
12 20 (9.95%) Datadog
13 18 (8.96%) Snowflake
14 17 (8.46%) Amazon EventBridge
14 17 (8.46%) Azure AKS
14 17 (8.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 11 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.47%) Network Security
2 10 (4.98%) Firewall
3 7 (3.48%) DNS
3 7 (3.48%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.49%) VPN
5 3 (1.49%) SSL
6 2 (1.00%) DSL
6 2 (1.00%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.50%) Calico
7 1 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.41%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.97%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.98%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.48%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.49%) Big Data
6 5 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.49%) Redis
7 4 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.99%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.49%) MySQL
8 3 (1.49%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.00%) Power BI
9 2 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.50%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 76 (37.81%) GitLab
2 49 (24.38%) Jenkins
3 24 (11.94%) Git
4 9 (4.48%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.48%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.99%) JIRA
7 5 (2.49%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.99%) Mocha
8 4 (1.99%) MSTest
8 4 (1.99%) tSQLt
9 2 (1.00%) JMeter
9 2 (1.00%) Maven
9 2 (1.00%) Selenium
10 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.50%) git-flow
10 1 (0.50%) Gradle
10 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 46 (22.89%) Finance
2 41 (20.40%) Social Skills
3 39 (19.40%) Public Sector
4 32 (15.92%) Banking
5 8 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.99%) Law
8 5 (2.49%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.49%) Back Office
9 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.49%) Retail
10 2 (1.00%) Billing
10 2 (1.00%) Military
10 2 (1.00%) Publishing
11 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.50%) Front Office
11 1 (0.50%) Games
11 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (25.87%) AWS Engineer
2 51 (25.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (22.89%) Senior
4 25 (12.44%) Architect
4 25 (12.44%) Developer
5 24 (11.94%) AWS DevOps
5 24 (11.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 24 (11.94%) Lead
6 18 (8.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (6.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 13 (6.47%) AWS Architect
8 13 (6.47%) Lead DevOps
8 13 (6.47%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.97%) Site Engineer
10 11 (5.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (5.47%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (5.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.98%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.98%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (69.15%) Terraform
2 30 (14.93%) REST
3 27 (13.43%) Kafka
4 20 (9.95%) Spring
5 18 (8.96%) Spring Boot
6 17 (8.46%) RESTful
7 15 (7.46%) React
8 14 (6.97%) FastAPI
9 12 (5.97%) AngularJS
9 12 (5.97%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (4.98%) .NET
10 10 (4.98%) Flask
10 10 (4.98%) Loki
11 9 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (4.48%) Node.js
12 6 (2.99%) Langfuse
13 5 (2.49%) AWS CDK
13 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Graph
13 5 (2.49%) Model Context Protocol
13 5 (2.49%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 83 (41.29%) Cloud Native
2 28 (13.93%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.98%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.98%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.98%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.98%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.49%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.49%) PKI
6 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.99%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.93%) Linux
2 10 (4.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.48%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.49%) VMS
5 2 (1.00%) Windows
5 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (75.62%) CI/CD
2 113 (56.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 107 (53.23%) DevOps
4 88 (43.78%) Containerisation
5 80 (39.80%) Observability
6 64 (31.84%) Microservices
7 43 (21.39%) Platform Engineering
8 38 (18.91%) Agile
8 38 (18.91%) Software Engineering
9 37 (18.41%) AI
10 35 (17.41%) Event-Driven
11 34 (16.92%) DevSecOps
12 33 (16.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 27 (13.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 26 (12.94%) Mentoring
15 23 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (11.44%) Deployment Automation
15 23 (11.44%) Secrets Management
15 23 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (11.44%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 105 (52.24%) Python
2 46 (22.89%) Bash
3 38 (18.91%) Java
4 15 (7.46%) SQL
4 15 (7.46%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.47%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.48%) Go
6 9 (4.48%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.98%) C#
8 4 (1.99%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.49%) Cypher
9 3 (1.49%) SHACL
10 2 (1.00%) Bicep
10 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.00%) R
11 1 (0.50%) C
11 1 (0.50%) C++
11 1 (0.50%) Haskell
11 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.50%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 76 (37.81%) Security Cleared
2 61 (30.35%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.95%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.96%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.99%) Degree
8 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.50%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PMP
9 1 (0.50%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.98%) QA
2 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.49%) SLA
2 3 (1.49%) WCAG
3 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.50%) NCSC
4 1 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 86 (42.79%) Docker
2 7 (3.48%) Squid
3 5 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 124 (61.69%) Kubernetes
2 52 (25.87%) Grafana
3 40 (19.90%) Prometheus
4 26 (12.94%) Ansible
5 24 (11.94%) Argo
6 9 (4.48%) Istio
7 5 (2.49%) Puppet
8 4 (1.99%) Suricata
9 3 (1.49%) Bosun
9 3 (1.49%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.00%) Cilium
10 2 (1.00%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.50%) Consul
11 1 (0.50%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.50%) Nagios
11 1 (0.50%) Packer
11 1 (0.50%) systemd
11 1 (0.50%) yum
Vendors
1 19 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.47%) Oracle
3 9 (4.48%) Splunk
4 8 (3.98%) New Relic
5 7 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.99%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.49%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.49%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.99%) Okta
8 4 (1.99%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.99%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.99%) Sybase
9 3 (1.49%) VMware
10 2 (1.00%) FactSet
10 2 (1.00%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.00%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.00%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.50%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.50%) Databricks