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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 232 280
Rank change year-on-year -4 +48 +61
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 152 131 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 0.94% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.34% 2.27% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 114 90
10th Percentile £400 £496 £412
25th Percentile £480 £568 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £653 £753 £695
90th Percentile £713 £888 £826
England median daily rate £550 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -12.70% +9.57% -8.00%

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 6,485 5,767 6,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.40% 41.25% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,459 3,862 4,988
10th Percentile £350 £351 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £780 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 48 69
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.61 £30.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% -5.25% +25.75%
75th Percentile £56.38 £45.65 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.13 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.46 £23.22
% change year-on-year +5.43% +22.57% +0.28%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +10 17 £556 -17.59% 8
South London -14 8 £530 -4.29% 4
West London - 2 £725 -
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 9 (5.92%) Confluence
2 3 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.97%) Traefik
3 2 (1.32%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.66%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (1.32%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 143 (94.08%) AWS
2 66 (43.42%) GitHub
3 60 (39.47%) Amazon S3
4 55 (36.18%) Serverless
5 53 (34.87%) Amazon ECS
6 52 (34.21%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (33.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 51 (33.55%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (26.97%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (24.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (23.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 22 (14.47%) Datadog
12 21 (13.82%) Azure
13 16 (10.53%) Route 53
14 15 (9.87%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (9.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 12 (7.89%) AWS CodePipeline
16 12 (7.89%) GCP
17 11 (7.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
17 11 (7.24%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.55%) DNS
2 8 (5.26%) VPN
3 6 (3.95%) Firewall
4 4 (2.63%) SSL
5 3 (1.97%) Network Security
5 3 (1.97%) SNMP
6 2 (1.32%) BGP
6 2 (1.32%) Calico
6 2 (1.32%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.32%) OSPF
6 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.32%) WAN
7 1 (0.66%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (28.95%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (19.08%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (7.24%) DynamoDB
4 11 (7.24%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.92%) Redis
6 8 (5.26%) DocumentDB
6 8 (5.26%) Flink
6 8 (5.26%) MySQL
7 7 (4.61%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.29%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.63%) Big Data
9 4 (2.63%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.97%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 41 (26.97%) GitLab
3 14 (9.21%) Git
4 12 (7.89%) JIRA
5 4 (2.63%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.97%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.32%) GoCD
7 2 (1.32%) Snyk
7 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.66%) git-flow
8 1 (0.66%) JUnit
8 1 (0.66%) MLflow
8 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (20.39%) Finance
2 23 (15.13%) Social Skills
3 22 (14.47%) Banking
4 19 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.58%) Front Office
6 7 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.32%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Games
11 1 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (27.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (23.03%) AWS Engineer
3 22 (14.47%) AWS DevOps
3 22 (14.47%) Developer
3 22 (14.47%) Senior
4 19 (12.50%) Architect
5 18 (11.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 18 (11.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 16 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (9.21%) AWS Architect
7 14 (9.21%) Lead
8 12 (7.89%) Cloud Architect
9 11 (7.24%) Python Engineer
10 10 (6.58%) Python Developer
11 9 (5.92%) Data Engineer
11 9 (5.92%) Site Engineer
12 8 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.61%) Lead Data Engineer
14 6 (3.95%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (32.89%) Kafka
2 15 (9.87%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (9.87%) Spring
2 15 (9.87%) Spring Boot
3 14 (9.21%) Node.js
3 14 (9.21%) REST
4 12 (7.89%) AWS CDK
5 11 (7.24%) RESTful
6 9 (5.92%) OAuth
6 9 (5.92%) React
7 7 (4.61%) OAuth2
7 7 (4.61%) OpenID
7 7 (4.61%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (3.95%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.95%) Django
8 6 (3.95%) FastAPI
9 5 (3.29%) Flask
9 5 (3.29%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.29%) JPA
9 5 (3.29%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 36 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.58%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.95%) Replication
5 5 (3.29%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.97%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.32%) Equities
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.32%) PKI
7 2 (1.32%) SCADA
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.45%) Linux
2 6 (3.95%) Windows
3 3 (1.97%) Unix
3 3 (1.97%) VMS
4 1 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Android
4 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (71.71%) CI/CD
2 81 (53.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 77 (50.66%) DevOps
4 63 (41.45%) Containerisation
5 43 (28.29%) Observability
6 37 (24.34%) Platform Engineering
7 35 (23.03%) Microservices
8 30 (19.74%) Agile
9 29 (19.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 18 (11.84%) Cloud Security
10 18 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (11.84%) Test Automation
11 17 (11.18%) Software Engineering
12 16 (10.53%) DevSecOps
12 16 (10.53%) Secrets Management
13 15 (9.87%) Configuration Management
13 15 (9.87%) GitOps
14 13 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (8.55%) Event-Driven
15 11 (7.24%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 92 (60.53%) Python
2 40 (26.32%) Java
3 31 (20.39%) Bash
4 19 (12.50%) SQL
5 14 (9.21%) Go
6 10 (6.58%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.58%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.95%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.63%) Groovy
8 4 (2.63%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.97%) Ruby
10 2 (1.32%) Bicep
10 2 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.32%) Perl
11 1 (0.66%) C
11 1 (0.66%) C#
11 1 (0.66%) Korn
11 1 (0.66%) PHP
11 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.66%) ProC
Qualifications
1 44 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 39 (25.66%) SC Cleared
3 27 (17.76%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (4.61%) Degree
6 6 (3.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.63%) CISSP
9 3 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.97%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.66%) CCSP
11 1 (0.66%) CEH
11 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.66%) MCP
11 1 (0.66%) OSCP
11 1 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.92%) NIST
3 8 (5.26%) QA
4 5 (3.29%) NCSC
4 5 (3.29%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.97%) GDPR
6 2 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.66%) GRC
7 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
System Software
1 81 (53.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.66%) etcd
3 1 (0.66%) HDFS
3 1 (0.66%) Squid
3 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 108 (71.05%) Terraform
2 90 (59.21%) Kubernetes
3 29 (19.08%) Grafana
4 21 (13.82%) Ansible
5 20 (13.16%) Prometheus
6 19 (12.50%) Argo
7 12 (7.89%) Puppet
8 6 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (3.29%) Istio
9 5 (3.29%) Karpenter
9 5 (3.29%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.63%) Kibana
10 4 (2.63%) Rancher
11 3 (1.97%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.97%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.66%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 12 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.26%) Dynatrace
2 8 (5.26%) Splunk
3 7 (4.61%) PagerDuty
4 6 (3.95%) AppDynamics
4 6 (3.95%) Databricks
5 5 (3.29%) AVEVA
5 5 (3.29%) Qualys
6 4 (2.63%) Google
6 4 (2.63%) Oracle
6 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.63%) Tenable
7 3 (1.97%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.97%) New Relic
8 2 (1.32%) Avaloq
8 2 (1.32%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.32%) Confluent
8 2 (1.32%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.32%) SAP
8 2 (1.32%) Solace