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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 266 252
Rank change year-on-year +16 -14 +46
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 203 114 132
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 0.84% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.45% 1.95% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 90 87
10th Percentile £400 £424 £465
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £678 £665 £875
90th Percentile £771 £738 £888
England median daily rate £574 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.22% -4.17% -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 8,295 5,846 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 42.92% 40.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,667 4,015 4,830
10th Percentile £363 £339 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 85 52
10th Percentile £19.40 £22.70 £20.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -48.37%
75th Percentile £56.63 £46.75 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.70 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year +48.07% +5.67% -29.79%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 16 £700 +12.00% 9
South London -7 10 £516 -26.82%
West London - 9 £725 - 4
East London - 1 £500 -
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 14 (6.90%) Confluence
2 6 (2.96%) nginx
2 6 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) Apache
5 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.49%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.99%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 199 (98.03%) AWS
2 76 (37.44%) Amazon S3
3 75 (36.95%) Serverless
4 74 (36.45%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (34.98%) Amazon ECS
6 65 (32.02%) GitHub
7 64 (31.53%) Amazon EC2
8 54 (26.60%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (25.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 44 (21.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 26 (12.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (12.81%) Azure
12 23 (11.33%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (9.36%) GCP
14 18 (8.87%) Datadog
15 17 (8.37%) Snowflake
16 15 (7.39%) Amazon EventBridge
17 14 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 13 (6.40%) Azure AKS
19 10 (4.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.91%) Firewall
2 10 (4.93%) DNS
2 10 (4.93%) Network Security
2 10 (4.93%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.94%) VPN
4 4 (1.97%) OpenVPN
5 3 (1.48%) SSL
6 2 (0.99%) DSL
7 1 (0.49%) Calico
7 1 (0.49%) DHCP
7 1 (0.49%) ICMP
7 1 (0.49%) Internet
7 1 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.73%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.91%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.96%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.46%) Big Data
6 5 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.46%) Redis
7 4 (1.97%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.48%) MySQL
8 3 (1.48%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.99%) Power BI
9 2 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.49%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 72 (35.47%) GitLab
2 49 (24.14%) Jenkins
3 25 (12.32%) Git
4 13 (6.40%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.94%) JIRA
6 7 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.96%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.46%) Mocha
8 5 (2.46%) MSTest
8 5 (2.46%) tSQLt
9 3 (1.48%) MLflow
10 2 (0.99%) Maven
10 2 (0.99%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.49%) Gatling
11 1 (0.49%) git-flow
11 1 (0.49%) Gradle
11 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.49%) RhodeCode
11 1 (0.49%) Selenium
11 1 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 42 (20.69%) Finance
2 41 (20.20%) Public Sector
3 40 (19.70%) Social Skills
4 31 (15.27%) Banking
5 12 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.93%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.96%) Law
9 5 (2.46%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.48%) Back Office
10 3 (1.48%) Front Office
10 3 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.48%) Retail
11 2 (0.99%) Billing
11 2 (0.99%) Military
11 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.99%) Publishing
12 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 53 (26.11%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (23.65%) Senior
3 46 (22.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (12.81%) Architect
4 26 (12.81%) Developer
5 24 (11.82%) AWS DevOps
5 24 (11.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 23 (11.33%) Lead
7 19 (9.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (6.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (6.40%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 12 (5.91%) AWS Architect
10 12 (5.91%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (5.42%) Site Engineer
12 10 (4.93%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 10 (4.93%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (4.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.43%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.78%) REST
2 27 (13.30%) Kafka
3 16 (7.88%) Spring
4 15 (7.39%) RESTful
4 15 (7.39%) Spring Boot
5 14 (6.90%) FastAPI
6 13 (6.40%) Node.js
6 13 (6.40%) React
7 12 (5.91%) AngularJS
7 12 (5.91%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (5.42%) .NET
9 10 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (4.93%) Loki
10 9 (4.43%) Flask
11 8 (3.94%) AWS CDK
12 6 (2.96%) Langfuse
12 6 (2.96%) OpenID
13 5 (2.46%) CSS
13 5 (2.46%) HTML
13 5 (2.46%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (35.47%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.32%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.43%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.45%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.46%) PKI
7 5 (2.46%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.97%) Equities
8 4 (1.97%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.97%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.48%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.99%) Life Science
10 2 (0.99%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.78%) Linux
2 10 (4.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.45%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.99%) Unix
4 2 (0.99%) Windows
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (73.89%) CI/CD
2 107 (52.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 104 (51.23%) DevOps
4 88 (43.35%) Containerisation
5 71 (34.98%) Observability
6 59 (29.06%) Microservices
7 44 (21.67%) Platform Engineering
8 37 (18.23%) Agile
9 36 (17.73%) AI
10 35 (17.24%) Software Engineering
11 30 (14.78%) DevSecOps
12 28 (13.79%) Event-Driven
13 26 (12.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 25 (12.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (11.33%) Mentoring
15 23 (11.33%) Secrets Management
16 22 (10.84%) Cloud Security
16 22 (10.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 22 (10.84%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 105 (51.72%) Python
2 47 (23.15%) Bash
3 36 (17.73%) Java
4 17 (8.37%) TypeScript
5 16 (7.88%) JavaScript
6 13 (6.40%) SQL
7 9 (4.43%) C#
7 9 (4.43%) Go
8 8 (3.94%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.46%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.97%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.48%) Cypher
11 3 (1.48%) SHACL
12 2 (0.99%) Bicep
12 2 (0.99%) R
13 1 (0.49%) C
13 1 (0.49%) C++
13 1 (0.49%) Haskell
13 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.49%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 76 (37.44%) Security Cleared
2 65 (32.02%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.87%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.88%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.97%) Degree
8 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.49%) PMP
9 1 (0.49%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.43%) QA
2 6 (2.96%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.96%) WCAG
3 3 (1.48%) SLA
4 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.99%) NIST
5 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 88 (43.35%) Docker
2 9 (4.43%) Squid
3 3 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 136 (67.00%) Terraform
2 119 (58.62%) Kubernetes
3 56 (27.59%) Grafana
4 42 (20.69%) Prometheus
5 25 (12.32%) Ansible
5 25 (12.32%) Argo
6 7 (3.45%) Istio
7 5 (2.46%) Puppet
8 4 (1.97%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.97%) Suricata
9 3 (1.48%) Bosun
10 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.99%) Cilium
10 2 (0.99%) Consul
10 2 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.49%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.49%) Packer
11 1 (0.49%) systemd
11 1 (0.49%) yum
Vendors
1 13 (6.40%) Oracle
2 12 (5.91%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.94%) New Relic
3 8 (3.94%) Splunk
4 7 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.46%) Amplitude
6 4 (1.97%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.97%) Sybase
7 3 (1.48%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.48%) Databricks
7 3 (1.48%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.48%) VMware
8 2 (0.99%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.99%) Charles River
8 2 (0.99%) FactSet
8 2 (0.99%) ForgeRock
8 2 (0.99%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.99%) Ping Identity