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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 244 268
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 206 124 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 0.91% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.48% 2.12% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 99 78
10th Percentile £400 £455 £409
25th Percentile £508 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £875
90th Percentile £769 £738 £888
England median daily rate £563 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -2.17% -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 8,310 5,862 6,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.56% 42.91% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,670 4,012 4,921
10th Percentile £363 £343 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £639 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 83 57
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.60 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.89 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -49.77%
75th Percentile £55.19 £48.13 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £72.50 £66.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -33.33%

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 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 26 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 -17 16 £575 -14.81% 5
South London -9 10 £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 (6.31%) Confluence
2 6 (2.91%) nginx
2 6 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.49%) Apache
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.49%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.97%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 202 (98.06%) AWS
2 76 (36.89%) Serverless
3 75 (36.41%) AWS Lambda
4 74 (35.92%) Amazon S3
5 72 (34.95%) Amazon ECS
6 64 (31.07%) Amazon EC2
7 63 (30.58%) GitHub
8 53 (25.73%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (24.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 45 (21.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 29 (14.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (13.59%) Azure
13 24 (11.65%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (8.25%) Datadog
14 17 (8.25%) Snowflake
15 16 (7.77%) Azure AKS
15 16 (7.77%) GCP
16 14 (6.80%) Amazon EventBridge
17 13 (6.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 10 (4.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.31%) Firewall
2 11 (5.34%) Network Security
3 10 (4.85%) DNS
3 10 (4.85%) TCP/IP
4 8 (3.88%) VPN
5 4 (1.94%) OpenVPN
6 3 (1.46%) SSL
7 2 (0.97%) DSL
8 1 (0.49%) Calico
8 1 (0.49%) DHCP
8 1 (0.49%) ICMP
8 1 (0.49%) Internet
8 1 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.50%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (11.65%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.34%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.88%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.43%) Big Data
5 5 (2.43%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.94%) Redis
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.46%) MySQL
7 3 (1.46%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.97%) Power BI
8 2 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.49%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 69 (33.50%) GitLab
2 51 (24.76%) Jenkins
3 23 (11.17%) Git
4 11 (5.34%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.88%) Artifactory
5 8 (3.88%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.40%) JIRA
7 6 (2.91%) Mocha
7 6 (2.91%) MSTest
7 6 (2.91%) tSQLt
8 4 (1.94%) MLflow
9 3 (1.46%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.97%) Maven
11 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.49%) Gatling
11 1 (0.49%) Gradle
11 1 (0.49%) JMeter
11 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.49%) Selenium
11 1 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 45 (21.84%) Public Sector
2 43 (20.87%) Social Skills
3 41 (19.90%) Finance
4 30 (14.56%) Banking
5 14 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.34%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.91%) Law
9 5 (2.43%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.46%) Front Office
10 3 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.46%) Retail
11 2 (0.97%) Back Office
11 2 (0.97%) Military
11 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.97%) Publishing
12 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.49%) Games
12 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (27.18%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (23.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 48 (23.30%) Senior
3 29 (14.08%) Architect
4 24 (11.65%) AWS DevOps
4 24 (11.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 23 (11.17%) Developer
5 23 (11.17%) Lead
6 19 (9.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (7.28%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (6.80%) Software Engineer
9 13 (6.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 13 (6.31%) AWS Architect
10 12 (5.83%) Lead DevOps
10 12 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (4.85%) AWS Software Engineer
11 10 (4.85%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 10 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (4.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.08%) REST
2 26 (12.62%) Kafka
3 16 (7.77%) RESTful
4 14 (6.80%) FastAPI
4 14 (6.80%) React
4 14 (6.80%) Spring Boot
5 13 (6.31%) Spring
6 12 (5.83%) .NET
6 12 (5.83%) AngularJS
6 12 (5.83%) Node.js
6 12 (5.83%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (4.85%) AWS CDK
7 10 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (4.37%) Flask
8 9 (4.37%) Loki
9 6 (2.91%) CSS
9 6 (2.91%) HTML
9 6 (2.91%) Langfuse
9 6 (2.91%) OpenID
10 5 (2.43%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 72 (34.95%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.14%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.83%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.37%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.40%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.43%) Equities
8 5 (2.43%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.43%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.94%) PKI
9 4 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.46%) Life Science
10 3 (1.46%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.97%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.08%) Linux
2 10 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.91%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.97%) Unix
4 2 (0.97%) Windows
4 2 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (72.82%) CI/CD
2 112 (54.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 107 (51.94%) DevOps
4 90 (43.69%) Containerisation
5 70 (33.98%) Observability
6 59 (28.64%) Microservices
7 46 (22.33%) Platform Engineering
8 37 (17.96%) Agile
9 36 (17.48%) AI
9 36 (17.48%) Software Engineering
10 33 (16.02%) DevSecOps
11 28 (13.59%) Event-Driven
12 26 (12.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 25 (12.14%) Mentoring
14 24 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (11.17%) Secrets Management
15 23 (11.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 22 (10.68%) Cloud Security
16 22 (10.68%) Runbook
17 21 (10.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 104 (50.49%) Python
2 44 (21.36%) Bash
3 34 (16.50%) Java
4 17 (8.25%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.77%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.34%) SQL
7 10 (4.85%) C#
8 8 (3.88%) Go
8 8 (3.88%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.91%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.94%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.46%) Cypher
11 3 (1.46%) SHACL
12 2 (0.97%) Bicep
12 2 (0.97%) R
13 1 (0.49%) C
13 1 (0.49%) C++
13 1 (0.49%) Haskell
13 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.49%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 80 (38.83%) Security Cleared
2 70 (33.98%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.22%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.77%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.46%) Degree
8 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.49%) CISSP
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 10 (4.85%) QA
2 6 (2.91%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.91%) WCAG
3 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.46%) SLA
4 2 (0.97%) NIST
5 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.49%) GRC
5 1 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 86 (41.75%) Docker
2 9 (4.37%) Squid
3 2 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 139 (67.48%) Terraform
2 121 (58.74%) Kubernetes
3 55 (26.70%) Grafana
4 40 (19.42%) Prometheus
5 26 (12.62%) Argo
6 25 (12.14%) Ansible
7 7 (3.40%) Istio
8 5 (2.43%) Puppet
8 5 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.94%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.94%) Suricata
10 3 (1.46%) Bosun
11 2 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.97%) Cilium
11 2 (0.97%) Consul
11 2 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.49%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.49%) Packer
12 1 (0.49%) systemd
12 1 (0.49%) yum
Vendors
1 13 (6.31%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.83%) Oracle
3 8 (3.88%) Splunk
4 7 (3.40%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.40%) New Relic
4 7 (3.40%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.40%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.43%) Amplitude
5 5 (2.43%) Sybase
6 4 (1.94%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.94%) Databricks
6 4 (1.94%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.46%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.97%) Charles River
8 2 (0.97%) FactSet
8 2 (0.97%) ForgeRock
8 2 (0.97%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.97%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.97%) VMware