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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 227 316
Rank change year-on-year -22 +89 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 174 122 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 1.01% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.27% 2.36% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 100 55
10th Percentile £400 £459 £363
25th Percentile £511 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £631
90th Percentile £719 £792 £775
England median daily rate £543 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -9.46% +6.67% -10.00%

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 7,665 5,164 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.10% 42.67% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,305 3,535 5,006
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 54 67
10th Percentile £20.86 £22.71 £17.16
25th Percentile £26.76 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +11.67% -50.48%
75th Percentile £54.13 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -3 14 £519 -24.30% 1
Central London -23 13 £560 -17.11% 8
West London - 6 £725 - 1
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 12 (6.90%) Confluence
2 11 (6.32%) nginx
3 6 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) SAS
4 1 (0.57%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.72%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 172 (98.85%) AWS
2 82 (47.13%) Serverless
3 80 (45.98%) AWS Lambda
4 74 (42.53%) Amazon S3
5 68 (39.08%) Amazon EC2
6 57 (32.76%) Amazon ECS
7 54 (31.03%) GitHub
8 53 (30.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 52 (29.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 43 (24.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (24.14%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (12.64%) Route 53
13 21 (12.07%) Azure
14 16 (9.20%) Azure AKS
15 15 (8.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 15 (8.62%) Datadog
16 14 (8.05%) AWS CodePipeline
17 12 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
18 11 (6.32%) GCP
19 9 (5.17%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.64%) DNS
2 18 (10.34%) Firewall
3 15 (8.62%) TCP/IP
4 14 (8.05%) VPN
5 10 (5.75%) Network Security
6 9 (5.17%) OpenVPN
7 3 (1.72%) SSL
8 2 (1.15%) BGP
8 2 (1.15%) OSPF
8 2 (1.15%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.15%) WAN
9 1 (0.57%) DHCP
9 1 (0.57%) ICMP
9 1 (0.57%) Internet
9 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (18.39%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.75%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.02%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.45%) DocumentDB
6 6 (3.45%) MySQL
6 6 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.87%) Redis
8 4 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.72%) Flink
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.57%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.57%) OLTP
10 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 55 (31.61%) GitLab
2 44 (25.29%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.62%) Git
4 13 (7.47%) Bitbucket
4 13 (7.47%) JIRA
5 8 (4.60%) Artifactory
5 8 (4.60%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.02%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.87%) MLflow
7 5 (2.87%) Mocha
7 5 (2.87%) MSTest
7 5 (2.87%) tSQLt
8 4 (2.30%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.72%) Snyk
10 2 (1.15%) GoCD
11 1 (0.57%) Gatling
11 1 (0.57%) Gradle
11 1 (0.57%) JMeter
11 1 (0.57%) JUnit
11 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 40 (22.99%) Public Sector
2 38 (21.84%) Social Skills
3 24 (13.79%) Finance
4 19 (10.92%) Banking
5 16 (9.20%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.45%) Front Office
8 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.30%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Games
11 1 (0.57%) Law
11 1 (0.57%) Local Government
11 1 (0.57%) Marketing
11 1 (0.57%) Military
11 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (25.29%) AWS Engineer
2 35 (20.11%) Architect
2 35 (20.11%) Senior
3 30 (17.24%) Developer
3 30 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (12.64%) AWS Architect
5 18 (10.34%) Lead
6 16 (9.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (8.62%) Cloud Architect
7 15 (8.62%) Python Developer
8 14 (8.05%) AWS DevOps
8 14 (8.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.75%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Lead DevOps
11 8 (4.60%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 8 (4.60%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (19.54%) Kafka
2 18 (10.34%) REST
2 18 (10.34%) RESTful
3 17 (9.77%) OpenID
4 16 (9.20%) Node.js
5 14 (8.05%) AWS CDK
6 12 (6.90%) OAuth
6 12 (6.90%) OpenTelemetry
6 12 (6.90%) React
7 11 (6.32%) AngularJS
7 11 (6.32%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (5.75%) LDAP
8 10 (5.75%) OAuth2
8 10 (5.75%) Spring Boot
9 9 (5.17%) FastAPI
10 8 (4.60%) .NET
10 8 (4.60%) Django
10 8 (4.60%) Spring
11 7 (4.02%) HTML
11 7 (4.02%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 50 (28.74%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.75%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.87%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.87%) Equities
5 5 (2.87%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.30%) PKI
6 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.72%) Life Science
8 2 (1.15%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.15%) Omics
8 2 (1.15%) SCADA
8 2 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.79%) Linux
2 6 (3.45%) Windows
3 4 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.15%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.15%) Unix
4 2 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (72.99%) CI/CD
2 85 (48.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 80 (45.98%) DevOps
4 65 (37.36%) Containerisation
5 43 (24.71%) Observability
6 38 (21.84%) Platform Engineering
7 29 (16.67%) Microservices
8 27 (15.52%) Agile
9 25 (14.37%) Software Engineering
10 24 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (12.64%) DevSecOps
12 21 (12.07%) Cloud Security
12 21 (12.07%) SDLC
12 21 (12.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 18 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (9.77%) Roadmaps
15 15 (8.62%) Event-Driven
15 15 (8.62%) Mentoring
15 15 (8.62%) Secrets Management
16 14 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 84 (48.28%) Python
2 30 (17.24%) Java
3 25 (14.37%) Bash
4 17 (9.77%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.05%) SQL
6 11 (6.32%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.17%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.60%) C#
9 5 (2.87%) Go
9 5 (2.87%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.87%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.72%) Bicep
11 2 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.57%) C
12 1 (0.57%) Korn
12 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.57%) ProC
Qualifications
1 60 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 52 (29.89%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.07%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.17%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.72%) CISSP
8 2 (1.15%) Degree
9 1 (0.57%) CEH
9 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.57%) PMP
9 1 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.75%) QA
2 9 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.60%) NIST
4 6 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.45%) WCAG
5 4 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.72%) NCSC
6 3 (1.72%) SLA
7 2 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.57%) GRC
System Software
1 69 (39.66%) Docker
2 15 (8.62%) Squid
3 3 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 124 (71.26%) Terraform
2 89 (51.15%) Kubernetes
3 40 (22.99%) Grafana
4 36 (20.69%) Prometheus
5 20 (11.49%) Ansible
6 12 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (6.32%) Argo
8 9 (5.17%) FortiGate
9 8 (4.60%) Puppet
10 7 (4.02%) Consul
11 4 (2.30%) Istio
11 4 (2.30%) Karpenter
11 4 (2.30%) Kibana
11 4 (2.30%) Suricata
12 3 (1.72%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.57%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.57%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (6.90%) Dynatrace
2 10 (5.75%) Red Hat
3 8 (4.60%) Splunk
4 7 (4.02%) Atlassian
4 7 (4.02%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.45%) Databricks
6 5 (2.87%) AppDynamics
6 5 (2.87%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.87%) Oracle
7 4 (2.30%) New Relic
7 4 (2.30%) Qualys
7 4 (2.30%) Tenable
8 3 (1.72%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.72%) Charles River
8 3 (1.72%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.72%) Sybase
9 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.15%) SAP
9 2 (1.15%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.15%) Solace