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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 253 275
Rank change year-on-year +16 +22 +36
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 201 118 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 0.87% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.44% 2.02% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 94 77
10th Percentile £400 £463 £480
25th Percentile £506 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £674 £665 £888
90th Percentile £774 £738 -
England median daily rate £568 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -1.30% -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 8,233 5,829 6,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.47% 42.87% 40.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,621 3,994 4,860
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 83 53
10th Percentile £19.38 £22.60 £20.80
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +2.00% -44.39%
75th Percentile £55.56 £45.63 £40.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £67.11 £65.30
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% +14.32% -33.33%

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 29 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 29 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 £638 +2.00% 5
South London -11 10 £516 -26.82%
West London - 9 £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 13 (6.47%) Confluence
2 6 (2.99%) nginx
2 6 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.50%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (1.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 197 (98.01%) AWS
2 75 (37.31%) Serverless
3 74 (36.82%) AWS Lambda
4 73 (36.32%) Amazon S3
5 69 (34.33%) Amazon ECS
6 63 (31.34%) Amazon EC2
7 62 (30.85%) GitHub
8 52 (25.87%) GitHub Actions
9 48 (23.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (21.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 27 (13.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (13.43%) Azure
12 24 (11.94%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (8.96%) Datadog
14 17 (8.46%) GCP
14 17 (8.46%) Snowflake
15 14 (6.97%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (6.97%) Azure AKS
16 13 (6.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 10 (4.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.47%) Firewall
2 10 (4.98%) DNS
2 10 (4.98%) Network Security
2 10 (4.98%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.98%) VPN
4 4 (1.99%) OpenVPN
5 3 (1.49%) SSL
6 2 (1.00%) DSL
7 1 (0.50%) Calico
7 1 (0.50%) DHCP
7 1 (0.50%) ICMP
7 1 (0.50%) Internet
7 1 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.42%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.47%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.98%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.49%) Big Data
5 5 (2.49%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.99%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.99%) Redis
7 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.49%) MySQL
7 3 (1.49%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.00%) Power BI
8 2 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.50%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 69 (34.33%) GitLab
2 50 (24.88%) Jenkins
3 23 (11.44%) Git
4 11 (5.47%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.98%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.48%) Artifactory
6 7 (3.48%) JIRA
7 6 (2.99%) Mocha
7 6 (2.99%) MSTest
7 6 (2.99%) tSQLt
8 4 (1.99%) MLflow
9 2 (1.00%) Maven
9 2 (1.00%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.50%) Gatling
10 1 (0.50%) Gradle
10 1 (0.50%) JMeter
10 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 42 (20.90%) Public Sector
2 41 (20.40%) Finance
3 40 (19.90%) Social Skills
4 30 (14.93%) Banking
5 14 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.98%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.99%) Law
9 5 (2.49%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.49%) Front Office
10 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.49%) Retail
11 2 (1.00%) Back Office
11 2 (1.00%) Military
11 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Publishing
12 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.50%) Games
12 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (26.87%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (23.88%) Senior
3 46 (22.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (13.43%) Architect
5 23 (11.44%) AWS DevOps
5 23 (11.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 23 (11.44%) Developer
5 23 (11.44%) Lead
6 19 (9.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (6.97%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (6.97%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 13 (6.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 12 (5.97%) AWS Architect
9 12 (5.97%) Lead DevOps
10 11 (5.47%) Site Engineer
11 10 (4.98%) AWS Software Engineer
11 10 (4.98%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (4.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.43%) REST
2 27 (13.43%) Kafka
3 16 (7.96%) RESTful
4 14 (6.97%) FastAPI
4 14 (6.97%) React
4 14 (6.97%) Spring Boot
5 13 (6.47%) Spring
6 12 (5.97%) .NET
6 12 (5.97%) AngularJS
6 12 (5.97%) Node.js
6 12 (5.97%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (5.47%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (4.48%) AWS CDK
8 9 (4.48%) Flask
8 9 (4.48%) Loki
9 6 (2.99%) CSS
9 6 (2.99%) HTML
9 6 (2.99%) Langfuse
9 6 (2.99%) OpenID
10 5 (2.49%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (35.32%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.44%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.98%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.48%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.98%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.48%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.49%) Equities
8 5 (2.49%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.99%) PKI
9 4 (1.99%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.49%) Life Science
10 3 (1.49%) Taxonomies
11 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.00%) Omics
11 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.93%) Linux
2 10 (4.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.48%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.00%) Unix
4 2 (1.00%) Windows
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (73.63%) CI/CD
2 107 (53.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 104 (51.74%) DevOps
4 89 (44.28%) Containerisation
5 70 (34.83%) Observability
6 59 (29.35%) Microservices
7 43 (21.39%) Platform Engineering
8 36 (17.91%) Agile
8 36 (17.91%) AI
8 36 (17.91%) Software Engineering
9 30 (14.93%) DevSecOps
10 27 (13.43%) Event-Driven
11 25 (12.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 25 (12.44%) Mentoring
11 25 (12.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 24 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (10.95%) Secrets Management
14 21 (10.45%) Cloud Security
14 21 (10.45%) LLM
14 21 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (52.74%) Python
2 46 (22.89%) Bash
3 35 (17.41%) Java
4 17 (8.46%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.96%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.97%) SQL
7 10 (4.98%) C#
7 10 (4.98%) Go
8 8 (3.98%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.99%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.99%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.49%) Cypher
11 3 (1.49%) SHACL
12 2 (1.00%) Bicep
12 2 (1.00%) R
13 1 (0.50%) C
13 1 (0.50%) C++
13 1 (0.50%) Haskell
13 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.50%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 77 (38.31%) Security Cleared
2 67 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.96%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.96%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.49%) Degree
8 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
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 6 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.99%) WCAG
3 3 (1.49%) SLA
4 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.00%) NIST
5 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (42.29%) Docker
2 9 (4.48%) Squid
3 3 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 135 (67.16%) Terraform
2 119 (59.20%) Kubernetes
3 56 (27.86%) Grafana
4 42 (20.90%) Prometheus
5 25 (12.44%) Ansible
5 25 (12.44%) Argo
6 7 (3.48%) Istio
7 5 (2.49%) Puppet
8 4 (1.99%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.99%) Suricata
9 3 (1.49%) Bosun
10 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.00%) Cilium
10 2 (1.00%) Consul
10 2 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.50%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.50%) Packer
11 1 (0.50%) systemd
11 1 (0.50%) yum
Vendors
1 12 (5.97%) Microsoft
1 12 (5.97%) Oracle
2 8 (3.98%) New Relic
2 8 (3.98%) Splunk
3 7 (3.48%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.48%) Red Hat
3 7 (3.48%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.49%) Amplitude
4 5 (2.49%) Sybase
5 4 (1.99%) Databricks
5 4 (1.99%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.49%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.49%) VMware
7 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.00%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.00%) Charles River
7 2 (1.00%) FactSet
7 2 (1.00%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.00%) PagerDuty