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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 261 255
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 209 101 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 0.75% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.52% 1.74% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 86 94
10th Percentile £425 £422 £500
25th Percentile £508 £525 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £680 £653 £888
90th Percentile £768 £719 -
England median daily rate £571 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -0.65% -11.54% +6.56%

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 8,282 5,820 6,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.03% 43.33% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,667 3,960 4,663
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 94 48
10th Percentile £17.88 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.67% -23.01%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -21 17 £700 +8.95% 14
South London -1 9 £600 -14.83%
West London - 9 £725 - 3
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 (5.74%) Confluence
2 6 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.96%) Apache
4 2 (0.96%) Camunda
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 207 (99.04%) AWS
2 78 (37.32%) Serverless
3 76 (36.36%) Amazon S3
4 75 (35.89%) Amazon ECS
4 75 (35.89%) AWS Lambda
4 75 (35.89%) GitHub
5 68 (32.54%) Amazon EC2
6 66 (31.58%) GitHub Actions
7 61 (29.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 41 (19.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 35 (16.75%) Azure
10 31 (14.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (11.00%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (10.53%) GCP
13 19 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
14 18 (8.61%) Datadog
14 18 (8.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 16 (7.66%) Snowflake
16 15 (7.18%) Azure AKS
17 13 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.26%) Network Security
2 9 (4.31%) Firewall
3 7 (3.35%) DNS
4 6 (2.87%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.91%) VPN
6 3 (1.44%) SSL
7 2 (0.96%) DSL
8 1 (0.48%) Calico
8 1 (0.48%) Internet
8 1 (0.48%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.62%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (14.35%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (7.66%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.31%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.35%) Redis
5 7 (3.35%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.39%) Big Data
8 4 (1.91%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.91%) MySQL
9 3 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.44%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.44%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.96%) Power BI
10 2 (0.96%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 76 (36.36%) GitLab
2 56 (26.79%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.96%) Git
4 10 (4.78%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.35%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.87%) JIRA
7 5 (2.39%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.44%) Maven
8 3 (1.44%) Mocha
8 3 (1.44%) MSTest
8 3 (1.44%) tSQLt
9 2 (0.96%) Gradle
9 2 (0.96%) JMeter
9 2 (0.96%) JUnit
9 2 (0.96%) Mockito
10 1 (0.48%) Gatling
10 1 (0.48%) git-flow
10 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.48%) RhodeCode
10 1 (0.48%) Spinnaker
General
1 47 (22.49%) Finance
1 47 (22.49%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.70%) Public Sector
3 29 (13.88%) Banking
4 11 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.35%) Law
7 6 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.39%) Back Office
8 5 (2.39%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.91%) Military
10 3 (1.44%) Front Office
10 3 (1.44%) Retail
11 2 (0.96%) Billing
11 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.96%) Publishing
12 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.48%) Automotive
12 1 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 56 (26.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (26.32%) AWS Engineer
3 44 (21.05%) Senior
4 30 (14.35%) Architect
5 28 (13.40%) AWS DevOps
5 28 (13.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 27 (12.92%) Lead
7 20 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 19 (9.09%) Developer
9 18 (8.61%) AWS Architect
10 12 (5.74%) Lead DevOps
10 12 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.74%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Data Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (4.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.31%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (70.33%) Terraform
2 34 (16.27%) Kafka
3 30 (14.35%) REST
4 26 (12.44%) Spring
5 24 (11.48%) Spring Boot
6 20 (9.57%) RESTful
7 14 (6.70%) React
8 13 (6.22%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (6.22%) FastAPI
9 11 (5.26%) Loki
10 10 (4.78%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.31%) Flask
11 9 (4.31%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (3.83%) Keycloak
12 8 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (3.35%) .NET
13 7 (3.35%) Model Context Protocol
14 6 (2.87%) AWS CDK
14 6 (2.87%) GraphQL
14 6 (2.87%) Langfuse
Miscellaneous
1 88 (42.11%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.88%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.26%) Virtual Team
4 10 (4.78%) AI Agents
5 9 (4.31%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.87%) PKI
6 6 (2.87%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.39%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.39%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.44%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.44%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.96%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.83%) Linux
2 12 (5.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.83%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.44%) VMS
5 2 (0.96%) Windows
5 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (76.56%) CI/CD
2 131 (62.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 119 (56.94%) DevOps
4 96 (45.93%) Containerisation
5 91 (43.54%) Observability
6 66 (31.58%) Microservices
7 47 (22.49%) Agile
8 43 (20.57%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (20.10%) AI
10 40 (19.14%) DevSecOps
11 39 (18.66%) Event-Driven
12 38 (18.18%) Software Engineering
13 37 (17.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 28 (13.40%) Mentoring
14 28 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (12.44%) Deployment Automation
16 26 (12.44%) Secrets Management
16 26 (12.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 26 (12.44%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 107 (51.20%) Python
2 51 (24.40%) Bash
3 43 (20.57%) Java
4 18 (8.61%) SQL
5 13 (6.22%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.31%) Go
6 9 (4.31%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.83%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.35%) C#
9 4 (1.91%) Bicep
10 3 (1.44%) Cypher
10 3 (1.44%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.44%) Scala
10 3 (1.44%) SHACL
10 3 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.96%) C
11 2 (0.96%) Groovy
11 2 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.96%) R
11 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (41.63%) Security Cleared
2 74 (35.41%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.00%) AWS Certification
4 17 (8.13%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.87%) Degree
8 4 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.48%) ISEB
9 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.48%) PMP
9 1 (0.48%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.18%) QA
2 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.44%) GDPR
2 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.96%) NCSC
4 1 (0.48%) NIST
System Software
1 91 (43.54%) Docker
2 6 (2.87%) Squid
3 5 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 132 (63.16%) Kubernetes
2 59 (28.23%) Grafana
3 46 (22.01%) Prometheus
4 29 (13.88%) Ansible
5 25 (11.96%) Argo
6 8 (3.83%) Istio
7 7 (3.35%) Puppet
8 4 (1.91%) Suricata
9 3 (1.44%) Bosun
9 3 (1.44%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.96%) Cilium
10 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.96%) Rancher
11 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.48%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.48%) Packer
11 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.48%) systemd
11 1 (0.48%) yum
Vendors
1 21 (10.05%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.66%) Oracle
3 7 (3.35%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.35%) New Relic
3 7 (3.35%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.87%) OpenAI
4 6 (2.87%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.87%) Splunk
5 5 (2.39%) Amplitude
5 5 (2.39%) VMware
6 4 (1.91%) Okta
6 4 (1.91%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.91%) Sybase
7 2 (0.96%) BigPanda
7 2 (0.96%) FactSet
7 2 (0.96%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.48%) Apple
8 1 (0.48%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.48%) Databricks
8 1 (0.48%) Tenable