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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 246 287
Rank change year-on-year +1 +41 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 207 120 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.05% 0.88% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.52% 2.07% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 95 76
10th Percentile £400 £425 £381
25th Percentile £513 £519 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £669 £672 £875
90th Percentile £775 £728 £888
England median daily rate £560 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -2.61% - -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 8,216 5,790 6,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.51% 42.69% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,621 3,951 5,076
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 81 62
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.05
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.01 £22.68
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -53.04%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -9 15 £575 -14.81% 8
South London -3 13 £519 -26.40%
West London - 6 £725 - 3
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 17 (8.21%) Confluence
2 11 (5.31%) nginx
3 6 (2.90%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.48%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.97%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 203 (98.07%) AWS
2 86 (41.55%) Amazon S3
3 84 (40.58%) Serverless
4 83 (40.10%) AWS Lambda
5 72 (34.78%) Amazon ECS
6 70 (33.82%) Amazon EC2
7 57 (27.54%) GitHub
8 53 (25.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 53 (25.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 50 (24.15%) GitHub Actions
10 33 (15.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (12.08%) Azure
12 22 (10.63%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (8.70%) Route 53
14 17 (8.21%) Snowflake
15 16 (7.73%) Azure AKS
15 16 (7.73%) Datadog
16 12 (5.80%) Amazon EventBridge
16 12 (5.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 12 (5.80%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.18%) Firewall
2 16 (7.73%) DNS
3 15 (7.25%) TCP/IP
3 15 (7.25%) VPN
4 13 (6.28%) Network Security
5 9 (4.35%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.97%) BGP
6 2 (0.97%) DSL
6 2 (0.97%) OSPF
6 2 (0.97%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.97%) SSL
6 2 (0.97%) WAN
7 1 (0.48%) Calico
7 1 (0.48%) DHCP
7 1 (0.48%) ICMP
7 1 (0.48%) Internet
7 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (3.86%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.86%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.90%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.42%) Big Data
7 4 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.45%) MySQL
8 3 (1.45%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.97%) Power BI
9 2 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.48%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.48%) Redis
10 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.48%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 66 (31.88%) GitLab
2 50 (24.15%) Jenkins
3 23 (11.11%) Git
4 16 (7.73%) Bitbucket
5 12 (5.80%) JIRA
6 8 (3.86%) Artifactory
6 8 (3.86%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.86%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.90%) Mocha
7 6 (2.90%) MSTest
7 6 (2.90%) tSQLt
8 4 (1.93%) MLflow
9 2 (0.97%) Maven
10 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.48%) Gatling
10 1 (0.48%) Gradle
10 1 (0.48%) JMeter
10 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.48%) Selenium
10 1 (0.48%) Snyk
General
1 49 (23.67%) Social Skills
2 44 (21.26%) Public Sector
3 39 (18.84%) Finance
4 28 (13.53%) Banking
5 17 (8.21%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.90%) Law
9 5 (2.42%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.45%) Front Office
10 3 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.97%) Back Office
11 2 (0.97%) Military
11 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.97%) Publishing
12 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.48%) Billing
12 1 (0.48%) Games
12 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (27.54%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (23.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (22.22%) Senior
4 33 (15.94%) Architect
5 25 (12.08%) Lead
6 24 (11.59%) AWS DevOps
6 24 (11.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 21 (10.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 19 (9.18%) Developer
9 16 (7.73%) AWS Architect
10 14 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (6.28%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.80%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (5.31%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 10 (4.83%) Data Engineer
14 10 (4.83%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (4.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.83%) Technical Architect
15 9 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.08%) Kafka
2 23 (11.11%) REST
3 14 (6.76%) React
4 13 (6.28%) FastAPI
5 12 (5.80%) .NET
5 12 (5.80%) AngularJS
5 12 (5.80%) AWS CDK
5 12 (5.80%) Node.js
5 12 (5.80%) RESTful
6 11 (5.31%) OpenID
7 10 (4.83%) LDAP
7 10 (4.83%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (4.35%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.86%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (3.86%) Flask
9 8 (3.86%) Loki
10 7 (3.38%) Spring
11 6 (2.90%) CSS
11 6 (2.90%) HTML
11 6 (2.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 72 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.80%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.38%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.90%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.42%) Equities
7 5 (2.42%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.42%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.93%) PKI
8 4 (1.93%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.45%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.45%) Life Science
9 3 (1.45%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.04%) Linux
2 10 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.45%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.97%) Unix
4 2 (0.97%) Windows
4 2 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (69.08%) CI/CD
2 108 (52.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 107 (51.69%) DevOps
4 85 (41.06%) Containerisation
5 60 (28.99%) Observability
6 52 (25.12%) Microservices
7 47 (22.71%) Platform Engineering
8 34 (16.43%) AI
9 33 (15.94%) Agile
9 33 (15.94%) Software Engineering
10 31 (14.98%) DevSecOps
11 26 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (11.59%) Mentoring
13 23 (11.11%) Cloud Security
14 22 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (10.63%) Event-Driven
15 21 (10.14%) LLM
15 21 (10.14%) Secrets Management
16 20 (9.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 20 (9.66%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 103 (49.76%) Python
2 40 (19.32%) Bash
3 25 (12.08%) Java
4 17 (8.21%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.73%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.83%) C#
7 9 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.86%) SQL
9 6 (2.90%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.42%) Go
11 4 (1.93%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.45%) Cypher
12 3 (1.45%) SHACL
13 2 (0.97%) Bicep
13 2 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.97%) R
14 1 (0.48%) C
14 1 (0.48%) C++
14 1 (0.48%) Haskell
14 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 77 (37.20%) Security Cleared
2 69 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.66%) AWS Certification
4 15 (7.25%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.45%) Degree
8 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.97%) CISSP
8 2 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.48%) PMP
9 1 (0.48%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.35%) QA
2 6 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.90%) WCAG
3 4 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.45%) SLA
5 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.97%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 82 (39.61%) Docker
2 14 (6.76%) Squid
3 2 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 140 (67.63%) Terraform
2 114 (55.07%) Kubernetes
3 55 (26.57%) Grafana
4 42 (20.29%) Prometheus
5 22 (10.63%) Ansible
5 22 (10.63%) Argo
6 11 (5.31%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (4.35%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.38%) Consul
9 5 (2.42%) Istio
9 5 (2.42%) Puppet
10 4 (1.93%) Suricata
11 2 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.48%) Cilium
12 1 (0.48%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.48%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.48%) Packer
12 1 (0.48%) systemd
12 1 (0.48%) yum
Vendors
1 14 (6.76%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.80%) Dynatrace
2 12 (5.80%) Red Hat
3 10 (4.83%) Oracle
4 7 (3.38%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.38%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.38%) Splunk
5 6 (2.90%) Databricks
6 5 (2.42%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.42%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.42%) Sybase
7 4 (1.93%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.93%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.45%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.97%) FactSet
9 2 (0.97%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.97%) New Relic
9 2 (0.97%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.97%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.97%) Solace