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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 252 283
Rank change year-on-year +8 +31 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 200 123 114
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 0.90% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.43% 2.11% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 98 77
10th Percentile £400 £451 £397
25th Percentile £513 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £673 £875
90th Percentile £775 £738 £888
England median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -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 8,218 5,823 6,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 42.81% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,600 3,975 4,975
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 81 59
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £22.19
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -50.91%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £67.50 £66.20
England median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -37.14%

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 23 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 23 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 -16 16 £575 -14.81% 7
South London -8 9 £516 -26.82%
West London - 8 £725 - 2
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 (6.50%) Confluence
2 6 (3.00%) nginx
2 6 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.50%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (1.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 196 (98.00%) AWS
2 73 (36.50%) Serverless
3 72 (36.00%) Amazon S3
3 72 (36.00%) AWS Lambda
4 69 (34.50%) Amazon ECS
5 62 (31.00%) Amazon EC2
6 60 (30.00%) GitHub
7 50 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
8 48 (24.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 43 (21.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 28 (14.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (12.50%) Azure
12 23 (11.50%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (8.50%) Datadog
13 17 (8.50%) Snowflake
14 15 (7.50%) Azure AKS
15 14 (7.00%) GCP
16 13 (6.50%) Amazon EventBridge
16 13 (6.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 9 (4.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.00%) Firewall
2 11 (5.50%) Network Security
3 10 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.50%) DNS
5 8 (4.00%) VPN
6 4 (2.00%) OpenVPN
7 2 (1.00%) DSL
7 2 (1.00%) SSL
8 1 (0.50%) Calico
8 1 (0.50%) DHCP
8 1 (0.50%) ICMP
8 1 (0.50%) Internet
8 1 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.50%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.50%) Big Data
5 5 (2.50%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.00%) Redis
7 3 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.50%) MySQL
7 3 (1.50%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.50%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
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 68 (34.00%) GitLab
2 49 (24.50%) Jenkins
3 23 (11.50%) Git
4 11 (5.50%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.00%) Artifactory
5 8 (4.00%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.50%) JIRA
7 6 (3.00%) Mocha
7 6 (3.00%) MSTest
7 6 (3.00%) tSQLt
8 4 (2.00%) MLflow
9 3 (1.50%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.00%) Maven
11 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.50%) Gatling
11 1 (0.50%) Gradle
11 1 (0.50%) JMeter
11 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.50%) Selenium
11 1 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 44 (22.00%) Public Sector
2 41 (20.50%) Social Skills
3 40 (20.00%) Finance
4 29 (14.50%) Banking
5 14 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.00%) Law
9 5 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.50%) Front Office
10 3 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.50%) 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 55 (27.50%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (23.50%) Senior
4 27 (13.50%) Architect
5 24 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
5 24 (12.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 23 (11.50%) Developer
6 23 (11.50%) Lead
7 18 (9.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (6.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 13 (6.50%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (6.50%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.00%) Lead DevOps
9 12 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 11 (5.50%) AWS Architect
11 10 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 10 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.00%) Site Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (14.00%) REST
2 26 (13.00%) Kafka
3 15 (7.50%) RESTful
4 14 (7.00%) React
5 13 (6.50%) FastAPI
5 13 (6.50%) Spring Boot
6 12 (6.00%) .NET
6 12 (6.00%) AngularJS
6 12 (6.00%) Node.js
6 12 (6.00%) Spring
7 10 (5.00%) AWS CDK
7 10 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (4.50%) Loki
9 8 (4.00%) Flask
10 6 (3.00%) CSS
10 6 (3.00%) HTML
10 6 (3.00%) Langfuse
10 6 (3.00%) OpenID
11 5 (2.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 70 (35.00%) Cloud Native
2 24 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.50%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.50%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.50%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.50%) Equities
7 5 (2.50%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.00%) PKI
8 4 (2.00%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.50%) Life Science
9 3 (1.50%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.50%) Linux
2 10 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.00%) 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
1 145 (72.50%) CI/CD
2 107 (53.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 104 (52.00%) DevOps
4 86 (43.00%) Containerisation
5 66 (33.00%) Observability
6 56 (28.00%) Microservices
7 44 (22.00%) Platform Engineering
8 35 (17.50%) Agile
8 35 (17.50%) AI
9 34 (17.00%) Software Engineering
10 31 (15.50%) DevSecOps
11 26 (13.00%) Event-Driven
12 24 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 24 (12.00%) Mentoring
13 23 (11.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 22 (11.00%) Cloud Security
14 22 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (11.00%) Secrets Management
15 21 (10.50%) Runbook
15 21 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (50.00%) Python
2 43 (21.50%) Bash
3 32 (16.00%) Java
4 17 (8.50%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.50%) SQL
7 10 (5.00%) C#
8 9 (4.50%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.50%) Go
10 6 (3.00%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.00%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.50%) Cypher
12 3 (1.50%) SHACL
13 2 (1.00%) Bicep
13 2 (1.00%) R
14 1 (0.50%) C
14 1 (0.50%) C++
14 1 (0.50%) Haskell
14 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.50%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 75 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 65 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 15 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.50%) Degree
8 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.50%) CISSP
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 9 (4.50%) QA
2 6 (3.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.00%) WCAG
3 3 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.50%) SLA
4 2 (1.00%) NIST
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.50%) GRC
5 1 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 83 (41.50%) Docker
2 9 (4.50%) Squid
3 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 134 (67.00%) Terraform
2 116 (58.00%) Kubernetes
3 52 (26.00%) Grafana
4 36 (18.00%) Prometheus
5 24 (12.00%) Ansible
6 23 (11.50%) Argo
7 5 (2.50%) Istio
7 5 (2.50%) Puppet
7 5 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.00%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.00%) Suricata
9 3 (1.50%) Bosun
10 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.00%) Consul
10 2 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.50%) Cilium
11 1 (0.50%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.50%) Packer
11 1 (0.50%) systemd
11 1 (0.50%) yum
Vendors
1 13 (6.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.00%) Oracle
3 7 (3.50%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.50%) New Relic
3 7 (3.50%) Red Hat
3 7 (3.50%) Salesforce
3 7 (3.50%) Splunk
4 5 (2.50%) Amplitude
4 5 (2.50%) Sybase
5 4 (2.00%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.00%) Databricks
5 4 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.50%) ServiceNow
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
7 2 (1.00%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.00%) VMware