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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 273 243
Rank change year-on-year +26 -30 +45
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 216 100 138
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 0.74% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.59% 1.71% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 86 95
10th Percentile £425 £422 £500
25th Percentile £500 £516 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £653 £888
90th Percentile £763 £719 -
England median daily rate £563 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -2.17% -11.54% +6.56%

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 8,348 5,834 6,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.00% 43.32% 41.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,734 3,973 4,699
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 46
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £29.28 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +0.67% -23.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £71.13
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -17 18 £700 +8.95% 14
South London -2 9 £600 -14.83%
West London - 9 £725 - 5
East London - 1 £500 - 3
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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 6 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.39%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.93%) Apache
4 2 (0.93%) Camunda
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 214 (99.07%) AWS
2 81 (37.50%) Serverless
3 79 (36.57%) Amazon S3
3 79 (36.57%) GitHub
4 78 (36.11%) AWS Lambda
5 76 (35.19%) Amazon ECS
6 71 (32.87%) Amazon EC2
7 70 (32.41%) GitHub Actions
8 63 (29.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 43 (19.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 40 (18.52%) Azure
11 33 (15.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (11.57%) GCP
13 23 (10.65%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (9.26%) Amazon EventBridge
15 19 (8.80%) Datadog
15 19 (8.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 17 (7.87%) Azure AKS
17 16 (7.41%) Snowflake
18 15 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.09%) Network Security
2 9 (4.17%) Firewall
3 7 (3.24%) DNS
4 6 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.85%) VPN
6 3 (1.39%) SSL
7 2 (0.93%) DSL
8 1 (0.46%) Calico
8 1 (0.46%) Internet
8 1 (0.46%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (20.37%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.87%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.63%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.70%) Redis
5 8 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.31%) Big Data
9 4 (1.85%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.85%) MySQL
9 4 (1.85%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.39%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.39%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.39%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.93%) Power BI
11 2 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 80 (37.04%) GitLab
2 59 (27.31%) Jenkins
3 27 (12.50%) Git
4 11 (5.09%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.70%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.78%) JIRA
7 5 (2.31%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.85%) Maven
9 3 (1.39%) Gradle
9 3 (1.39%) JUnit
9 3 (1.39%) Mocha
9 3 (1.39%) Mockito
9 3 (1.39%) MSTest
9 3 (1.39%) tSQLt
10 2 (0.93%) JMeter
11 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.46%) Selenium
11 1 (0.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 49 (22.69%) Finance
3 37 (17.13%) Public Sector
4 31 (14.35%) Banking
5 13 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.24%) Law
8 6 (2.78%) Back Office
8 6 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.78%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.85%) Military
10 3 (1.39%) Front Office
10 3 (1.39%) Retail
11 2 (0.93%) Billing
11 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.93%) Publishing
12 1 (0.46%) Marketing
12 1 (0.46%) Police
12 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (26.85%) AWS Engineer
1 58 (26.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (20.37%) Senior
3 31 (14.35%) Architect
4 30 (13.89%) AWS DevOps
4 30 (13.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 28 (12.96%) Lead
6 20 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (9.26%) Developer
7 18 (8.33%) AWS Architect
8 13 (6.02%) Lead DevOps
8 13 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.56%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.56%) Software Engineer
10 11 (5.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (5.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (4.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 10 (4.63%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.63%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (4.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (70.83%) Terraform
2 36 (16.67%) Kafka
3 31 (14.35%) REST
4 27 (12.50%) Spring
5 25 (11.57%) Spring Boot
6 21 (9.72%) RESTful
7 14 (6.48%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (6.48%) React
8 13 (6.02%) FastAPI
9 11 (5.09%) Loki
10 10 (4.63%) AngularJS
10 10 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (4.17%) Flask
11 9 (4.17%) Keycloak
11 9 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (3.70%) Model Context Protocol
13 7 (3.24%) .NET
13 7 (3.24%) GraphQL
14 6 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
14 6 (2.78%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 89 (41.20%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.43%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.56%) Virtual Team
4 11 (5.09%) AI Agents
4 11 (5.09%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.24%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.78%) PKI
8 5 (2.31%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.31%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.85%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.39%) Replication
10 3 (1.39%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (14.81%) Linux
2 12 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.70%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.85%) VMS
5 3 (1.39%) Windows
5 3 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (77.31%) CI/CD
2 136 (62.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 123 (56.94%) DevOps
4 98 (45.37%) Containerisation
5 97 (44.91%) Observability
6 66 (30.56%) Microservices
7 50 (23.15%) Agile
8 45 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
9 43 (19.91%) AI
10 41 (18.98%) Event-Driven
11 40 (18.52%) DevSecOps
12 39 (18.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 39 (18.06%) Software Engineering
13 30 (13.89%) Mentoring
14 29 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (12.50%) Secrets Management
15 27 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
16 26 (12.04%) Deployment Automation
16 26 (12.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 112 (51.85%) Python
2 53 (24.54%) Bash
3 44 (20.37%) Java
4 19 (8.80%) SQL
5 13 (6.02%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.56%) Go
7 10 (4.63%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.70%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.24%) C#
10 5 (2.31%) Bicep
11 4 (1.85%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.85%) Scala
12 3 (1.39%) C
12 3 (1.39%) Cypher
12 3 (1.39%) Groovy
12 3 (1.39%) SHACL
12 3 (1.39%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.93%) R
13 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 77 (35.65%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 17 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.24%) Degree
8 5 (2.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.46%) ISEB
10 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.46%) PMP
10 1 (0.46%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.41%) QA
2 3 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.39%) GDPR
2 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.93%) NCSC
4 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (43.06%) Docker
2 6 (2.78%) Squid
2 6 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 138 (63.89%) Kubernetes
2 62 (28.70%) Grafana
3 49 (22.69%) Prometheus
4 30 (13.89%) Ansible
5 25 (11.57%) Argo
6 9 (4.17%) Puppet
7 8 (3.70%) Istio
8 4 (1.85%) Suricata
9 3 (1.39%) Bosun
9 3 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.39%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.39%) Rancher
10 2 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.93%) Cilium
11 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.46%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.46%) Nagios
11 1 (0.46%) Packer
11 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.46%) systemd
Vendors
1 22 (10.19%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.87%) Oracle
3 9 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.24%) New Relic
4 7 (3.24%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.24%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.24%) Splunk
5 6 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.78%) VMware
6 5 (2.31%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.31%) Okta
6 5 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.85%) Sybase
8 3 (1.39%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.93%) BigPanda
9 2 (0.93%) FactSet
10 1 (0.46%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.46%) Databricks
10 1 (0.46%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.46%) Tenable