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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 231 294
Rank change year-on-year -16 +63 +30
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 124 153 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 0.98% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 2.41% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 128 96
10th Percentile £409 £509 £400
25th Percentile £472 £573 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £668 £888 £695
90th Percentile £716 - £863
England median daily rate £550 £663 £551
% change year-on-year -16.98% +20.31% -11.89%

All Cloud 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 6,222 6,343 7,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.99% 40.77% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,229 4,324 5,550
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 37 66
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.55 £18.47
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -7.28% +21.77%
75th Percentile £46.56 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.40 £74.38
England median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.00% +11.11%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +10 12 £563 -8.16% 7
South London -10 8 £530 -3.42%
West London - 1 £725 - 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 6 (4.84%) Confluence
2 3 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.42%) Traefik
3 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.61%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.81%) CICS
4 1 (0.81%) CMS
4 1 (0.81%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.81%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.81%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 115 (92.74%) AWS
2 41 (33.06%) Amazon ECS
2 41 (33.06%) GitHub
3 36 (29.03%) Amazon S3
4 34 (27.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 33 (26.61%) Amazon EC2
5 33 (26.61%) Serverless
6 31 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (24.19%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (16.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 18 (14.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (12.90%) Datadog
11 14 (11.29%) Azure
11 14 (11.29%) GCP
12 12 (9.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (8.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 9 (7.26%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (7.26%) Azure AKS
14 9 (7.26%) IaaS
15 8 (6.45%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.65%) DNS
2 6 (4.84%) Firewall
2 6 (4.84%) VPN
3 3 (2.42%) SNMP
4 2 (1.61%) Calico
4 2 (1.61%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.81%) DHCP
5 1 (0.81%) HTTP
5 1 (0.81%) Internet
5 1 (0.81%) NAS
5 1 (0.81%) Network Security
5 1 (0.81%) SSL
5 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.81%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (26.61%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (18.55%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (6.45%) DynamoDB
4 8 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.84%) Flink
6 5 (4.03%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.03%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.03%) Redis
7 4 (3.23%) Big Data
7 4 (3.23%) MySQL
7 4 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.61%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.61%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (27.42%) Jenkins
2 22 (17.74%) GitLab
3 14 (11.29%) Git
4 9 (7.26%) JIRA
5 4 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.81%) git-flow
7 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (22.58%) Finance
2 19 (15.32%) Banking
2 19 (15.32%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.65%) Front Office
5 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.81%) Games
7 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.81%) Police
7 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (33.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (27.42%) AWS Engineer
3 23 (18.55%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (17.74%) Senior
5 19 (15.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 19 (15.32%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (14.52%) Developer
7 17 (13.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 12 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (9.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (8.06%) Architect
9 10 (8.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 10 (8.06%) Java Developer
9 10 (8.06%) Site Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) Python Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) AWS Architect
12 6 (4.84%) Kafka Engineer
12 6 (4.84%) Lead
13 5 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (4.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.19%) Kafka
2 14 (11.29%) Spring Boot
3 10 (8.06%) Node.js
4 9 (7.26%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (6.45%) AWS CDK
5 8 (6.45%) Spring
6 6 (4.84%) REST
7 5 (4.03%) JSON
7 5 (4.03%) Keycloak
7 5 (4.03%) YAML
8 4 (3.23%) React
8 4 (3.23%) RESTful
9 3 (2.42%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.42%) HTML
9 3 (2.42%) OAuth
10 2 (1.61%) .NET
10 2 (1.61%) Django
10 2 (1.61%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.61%) OpenID
10 2 (1.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.26%) Fixed Income
3 6 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.84%) Replication
4 5 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.42%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.42%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.81%) Equities
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.81%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.94%) Linux
2 3 (2.42%) Unix
2 3 (2.42%) VMS
2 3 (2.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.81%) AIX
3 1 (0.81%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Android
3 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.81%) Solaris
3 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (68.55%) CI/CD
2 66 (53.23%) DevOps
3 58 (46.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (41.94%) Containerisation
5 33 (26.61%) Microservices
6 29 (23.39%) Observability
6 29 (23.39%) Platform Engineering
7 25 (20.16%) Agile
8 24 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 18 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (12.90%) Configuration Management
11 14 (11.29%) Test Automation
12 13 (10.48%) Software Engineering
13 12 (9.68%) Migration
14 11 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (8.06%) GitOps
16 9 (7.26%) Cloud Security
16 9 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 9 (7.26%) Secrets Management
17 8 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 72 (58.06%) Python
2 33 (26.61%) Java
3 29 (23.39%) Bash
4 17 (13.71%) Go
5 14 (11.29%) SQL
6 7 (5.65%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.84%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.84%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.23%) Groovy
9 3 (2.42%) Ruby
9 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.61%) Perl
10 2 (1.61%) PromQL
11 1 (0.81%) Bicep
11 1 (0.81%) C#
11 1 (0.81%) COBOL
11 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 34 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.52%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.03%) Degree
6 4 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.61%) CISSP
8 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.81%) CCSP
9 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.81%) MCP
9 1 (0.81%) OSCP
9 1 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.23%) GDPR
1 4 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.42%) NCSC
2 3 (2.42%) QA
3 2 (1.61%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.61%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.81%) GRC
4 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (45.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.81%) etcd
3 1 (0.81%) HDFS
3 1 (0.81%) iptables
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 84 (67.74%) Kubernetes
2 75 (60.48%) Terraform
3 30 (24.19%) Grafana
4 16 (12.90%) Ansible
4 16 (12.90%) Argo
5 13 (10.48%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.87%) Puppet
7 5 (4.03%) Istio
8 4 (3.23%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.23%) Rancher
8 4 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.61%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.81%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.45%) Dynatrace
2 8 (6.45%) Splunk
3 7 (5.65%) PagerDuty
4 5 (4.03%) AppDynamics
5 4 (3.23%) Databricks
5 4 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.42%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.42%) Google
6 3 (2.42%) Oracle
7 2 (1.61%) Avaloq
7 2 (1.61%) Confluent
7 2 (1.61%) Qualys
7 2 (1.61%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.81%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.81%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.81%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.81%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.81%) Veracode