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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 279 256
Rank change year-on-year +39 -23 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 227 88 138
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.12% 0.65% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.73% 1.51% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 72 97
10th Percentile £425 £401 £500
25th Percentile £500 £511 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -17.86% +12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £671 £888
90th Percentile £761 £736 -
England median daily rate £570 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -0.87% -11.54% +8.33%

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 8,325 5,844 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.93% 43.39% 40.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,736 3,967 4,542
10th Percentile £358 £339 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -3.34%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.15 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.95 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -9.84% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -23 18 £700 +8.95% 18
South London -1 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 13 (5.73%) Confluence
2 6 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.88%) Camunda
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Gliffy
1 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 225 (99.12%) AWS
2 83 (36.56%) Amazon S3
2 83 (36.56%) GitHub
3 82 (36.12%) Serverless
4 80 (35.24%) Amazon ECS
5 79 (34.80%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (33.04%) Amazon EC2
7 73 (32.16%) GitHub Actions
8 68 (29.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 45 (19.82%) Azure
9 45 (19.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 35 (15.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (11.01%) Amazon SQS
11 25 (11.01%) GCP
12 22 (9.69%) Amazon EventBridge
13 19 (8.37%) Datadog
13 19 (8.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 18 (7.93%) Azure AKS
14 18 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (7.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.29%) Network Security
2 7 (3.08%) Firewall
3 5 (2.20%) DNS
4 4 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.32%) SSL
5 3 (1.32%) VPN
6 2 (0.88%) DSL
7 1 (0.44%) Calico
7 1 (0.44%) Internet
7 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (21.15%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (15.42%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.37%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.41%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.52%) Redis
5 8 (3.52%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.64%) MySQL
8 5 (2.20%) Big Data
9 4 (1.76%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.76%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.32%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.32%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 86 (37.89%) GitLab
2 64 (28.19%) Jenkins
3 31 (13.66%) Git
4 12 (5.29%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.41%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.08%) JIRA
7 5 (2.20%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.20%) Maven
8 4 (1.76%) JUnit
8 4 (1.76%) Mockito
9 3 (1.32%) Gradle
9 3 (1.32%) JMeter
9 3 (1.32%) Mocha
9 3 (1.32%) MSTest
9 3 (1.32%) tSQLt
10 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.88%) Postman
10 2 (0.88%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.88%) Selenium
10 2 (0.88%) SpecFlow
General
1 53 (23.35%) Social Skills
2 52 (22.91%) Finance
3 39 (17.18%) Public Sector
4 33 (14.54%) Banking
5 13 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.08%) Law
8 6 (2.64%) Back Office
8 6 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.64%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.76%) Military
9 4 (1.76%) Retail
10 3 (1.32%) Front Office
11 2 (0.88%) Billing
11 2 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.88%) Police
11 2 (0.88%) Publishing
12 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (29.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 59 (25.99%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (20.70%) Senior
4 32 (14.10%) Architect
5 31 (13.66%) AWS DevOps
5 31 (13.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 29 (12.78%) Lead
7 21 (9.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (8.81%) Developer
9 19 (8.37%) AWS Architect
10 14 (6.17%) Lead DevOps
10 14 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.73%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (5.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.29%) Software Engineer
13 11 (4.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 11 (4.85%) Data Engineer
13 11 (4.85%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 11 (4.85%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.41%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (71.81%) Terraform
2 41 (18.06%) Kafka
3 34 (14.98%) REST
4 28 (12.33%) Spring
5 26 (11.45%) Spring Boot
6 23 (10.13%) RESTful
7 15 (6.61%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (6.17%) FastAPI
9 13 (5.73%) React
10 12 (5.29%) Keycloak
11 11 (4.85%) Loki
12 10 (4.41%) AngularJS
12 10 (4.41%) Flask
12 10 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (3.96%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (3.52%) Model Context Protocol
15 7 (3.08%) .NET
15 7 (3.08%) GraphQL
15 7 (3.08%) JWT
16 6 (2.64%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 100 (44.05%) Cloud Native
2 34 (14.98%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.29%) AI Agents
4 12 (5.29%) Virtual Team
5 10 (4.41%) PKI
6 9 (3.96%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.08%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.20%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.20%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.76%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.32%) Replication
11 3 (1.32%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.86%) Linux
2 14 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (4.41%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.76%) VMS
5 3 (1.32%) Windows
5 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (78.85%) CI/CD
2 146 (64.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 133 (58.59%) DevOps
4 104 (45.81%) Observability
5 103 (45.37%) Containerisation
6 72 (31.72%) Microservices
7 56 (24.67%) Agile
8 50 (22.03%) Platform Engineering
9 46 (20.26%) AI
9 46 (20.26%) DevSecOps
10 43 (18.94%) Event-Driven
11 42 (18.50%) Software Engineering
12 41 (18.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 32 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (13.66%) Cloud Security
15 30 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (13.22%) Mentoring
15 30 (13.22%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (12.78%) Secrets Management
16 29 (12.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 120 (52.86%) Python
2 57 (25.11%) Bash
3 46 (20.26%) Java
4 19 (8.37%) SQL
5 15 (6.61%) Go
6 12 (5.29%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.52%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.08%) C#
10 5 (2.20%) Bicep
11 4 (1.76%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.76%) Scala
12 3 (1.32%) C
12 3 (1.32%) Cypher
12 3 (1.32%) Groovy
12 3 (1.32%) Lua
12 3 (1.32%) SHACL
12 3 (1.32%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 96 (42.29%) Security Cleared
2 82 (36.12%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.89%) AWS Certification
4 19 (8.37%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.08%) Degree
8 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.88%) ISEB
10 2 (0.88%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.44%) PMP
11 1 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.05%) QA
2 3 (1.32%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.32%) GDPR
2 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.88%) NCSC
4 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 99 (43.61%) Docker
2 6 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.20%) Squid
4 4 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 150 (66.08%) Kubernetes
2 65 (28.63%) Grafana
3 52 (22.91%) Prometheus
4 33 (14.54%) Ansible
5 26 (11.45%) Argo
6 11 (4.85%) Puppet
7 9 (3.96%) Istio
8 4 (1.76%) Suricata
9 3 (1.32%) Bosun
9 3 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.32%) Rancher
10 2 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.88%) Cilium
11 1 (0.44%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.44%) Nagios
11 1 (0.44%) Packer
11 1 (0.44%) systemd
11 1 (0.44%) yum
Vendors
1 22 (9.69%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.49%) Oracle
3 8 (3.52%) Dynatrace
3 8 (3.52%) Splunk
4 7 (3.08%) New Relic
4 7 (3.08%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.64%) VMware
6 5 (2.20%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.20%) Okta
6 5 (2.20%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.76%) Sybase
8 3 (1.32%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.88%) BigPanda
9 2 (0.88%) Databricks
9 2 (0.88%) FactSet
10 1 (0.44%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.44%) Sparx
10 1 (0.44%) Tenable