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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 232 305
Rank change year-on-year -6 +73 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 189 117 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 0.96% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.41% 2.21% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 92 60
10th Percentile £400 £429 £363
25th Percentile £502 £525 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £556
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +7.87% -11.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £723 £724 £825
England median daily rate £543 £598 £569
% change year-on-year -9.08% +5.05% -9.00%

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 7,856 5,293 6,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.17% 43.23% 39.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,415 3,584 5,081
10th Percentile £351 £350 £350
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 65 69
10th Percentile £20.83 £22.36 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.19 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £58.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +58.00% +16.50% -38.69%

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 10 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 10 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 -2 13 £519 -24.30%
Central London -18 11 £560 -17.11% 12
West London - 6 £725 -
East London - 1 £500 - 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 13 (6.88%) Confluence
2 11 (5.82%) nginx
3 6 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) Apache
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.59%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 187 (98.94%) AWS
2 87 (46.03%) Serverless
3 86 (45.50%) AWS Lambda
4 80 (42.33%) Amazon S3
5 70 (37.04%) Amazon EC2
6 66 (34.92%) Amazon ECS
7 59 (31.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 57 (30.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 56 (29.63%) GitHub
10 45 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 45 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (11.64%) Route 53
12 19 (10.05%) Azure
12 19 (10.05%) Datadog
13 18 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (7.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 14 (7.41%) AWS CodePipeline
14 14 (7.41%) Azure AKS
15 13 (6.88%) Snowflake
16 11 (5.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.11%) DNS
2 19 (10.05%) Firewall
3 15 (7.94%) TCP/IP
3 15 (7.94%) VPN
4 12 (6.35%) Network Security
5 9 (4.76%) OpenVPN
6 5 (2.65%) SSL
7 2 (1.06%) BGP
7 2 (1.06%) OSPF
7 2 (1.06%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.06%) WAN
8 1 (0.53%) Calico
8 1 (0.53%) DHCP
8 1 (0.53%) DSL
8 1 (0.53%) ICMP
8 1 (0.53%) Internet
8 1 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (20.63%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.29%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (3.70%) MySQL
7 6 (3.17%) DocumentDB
7 6 (3.17%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.65%) Redis
9 4 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.59%) Big Data
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.53%) Flink
11 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.53%) OLTP
11 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (35.98%) GitLab
2 52 (27.51%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.52%) Git
4 14 (7.41%) Bitbucket
4 14 (7.41%) JIRA
5 8 (4.23%) Artifactory
5 8 (4.23%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.23%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.17%) Mocha
6 6 (3.17%) MSTest
6 6 (3.17%) tSQLt
7 5 (2.65%) MLflow
8 3 (1.59%) Snyk
9 2 (1.06%) GoCD
10 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.53%) Gatling
10 1 (0.53%) Gradle
10 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.53%) Selenium
10 1 (0.53%) Terragrunt
General
1 43 (22.75%) Public Sector
1 43 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.81%) Finance
3 23 (12.17%) Banking
4 15 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.17%) Law
8 4 (2.12%) Front Office
8 4 (2.12%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.06%) Military
10 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Publishing
11 1 (0.53%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Local Government
11 1 (0.53%) Marketing
11 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (28.04%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (22.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (20.11%) Senior
4 32 (16.93%) Architect
5 27 (14.29%) Developer
6 22 (11.64%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (11.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 21 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (11.11%) Lead
8 20 (10.58%) AWS Architect
9 13 (6.88%) Python Developer
10 12 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.35%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.82%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (5.82%) Data Engineer
11 11 (5.82%) Lead DevOps
12 9 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.52%) Kafka
2 24 (12.70%) REST
3 18 (9.52%) RESTful
4 17 (8.99%) AWS CDK
4 17 (8.99%) OpenID
5 15 (7.94%) Node.js
6 13 (6.88%) AngularJS
6 13 (6.88%) OpenTelemetry
7 12 (6.35%) OAuth
7 12 (6.35%) React
7 12 (6.35%) Spring Boot
8 10 (5.29%) FastAPI
8 10 (5.29%) LDAP
8 10 (5.29%) OAuth2
9 9 (4.76%) .NET
9 9 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (4.76%) Spring
10 8 (4.23%) HTML
11 7 (3.70%) Django
11 7 (3.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 63 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.29%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.17%) Equities
6 5 (2.65%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.12%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.12%) PKI
7 4 (2.12%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.12%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.59%) Life Science
8 3 (1.59%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.06%) SCADA
9 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.81%) Linux
2 9 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.17%) Windows
4 3 (1.59%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.06%) Unix
5 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (73.54%) CI/CD
2 99 (52.38%) DevOps
2 99 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 55 (29.10%) Observability
5 43 (22.75%) Microservices
5 43 (22.75%) Platform Engineering
6 29 (15.34%) Agile
7 28 (14.81%) Software Engineering
8 27 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (13.23%) Cloud Security
10 24 (12.70%) DevSecOps
11 23 (12.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 22 (11.64%) AI
12 22 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 20 (10.58%) SDLC
15 19 (10.05%) Event-Driven
15 19 (10.05%) Secrets Management
16 18 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 94 (49.74%) Python
2 32 (16.93%) Bash
2 32 (16.93%) Java
3 17 (8.99%) JavaScript
4 13 (6.88%) SQL
5 12 (6.35%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.76%) C#
6 9 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.17%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.65%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.12%) Go
10 3 (1.59%) Bicep
11 2 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.53%) C
12 1 (0.53%) Cypher
12 1 (0.53%) Korn
12 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.53%) ProC
12 1 (0.53%) R
12 1 (0.53%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 66 (34.92%) Security Cleared
2 58 (30.69%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.23%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.88%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.59%) CISSP
7 3 (1.59%) Degree
7 3 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.53%) CEH
9 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.53%) PMP
9 1 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.88%) QA
2 8 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.23%) NIST
3 6 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.17%) WCAG
4 4 (2.12%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.59%) SLA
6 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.06%) NCSC
7 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
System Software
1 77 (40.74%) Docker
2 15 (7.94%) Squid
3 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 137 (72.49%) Terraform
2 104 (55.03%) Kubernetes
3 46 (24.34%) Grafana
4 44 (23.28%) Prometheus
5 23 (12.17%) Ansible
6 12 (6.35%) Argo
6 12 (6.35%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (4.76%) FortiGate
8 8 (4.23%) Puppet
9 7 (3.70%) Consul
10 5 (2.65%) Istio
11 4 (2.12%) Suricata
12 3 (1.59%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (1.06%) Karpenter
14 1 (0.53%) Cilium
14 1 (0.53%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.53%) Kibana
14 1 (0.53%) Packer
14 1 (0.53%) systemd
Vendors
1 12 (6.35%) Dynatrace
1 12 (6.35%) Red Hat
2 9 (4.76%) Splunk
3 8 (4.23%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.70%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.17%) Databricks
5 6 (3.17%) Oracle
6 5 (2.65%) AppDynamics
6 5 (2.65%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.65%) New Relic
6 5 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.65%) Sybase
7 4 (2.12%) Qualys
7 4 (2.12%) Tenable
8 3 (1.59%) Amplitude
8 3 (1.59%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.59%) Charles River
9 2 (1.06%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.06%) SAP
9 2 (1.06%) ServiceNow