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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 223 300
Rank change year-on-year -15 +77 +30
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 176 137 91
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 1.10% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 2.59% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 116 58
10th Percentile £395 £475 £363
25th Percentile £500 £575 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £556
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.36% -11.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £647
90th Percentile £713 £881 £779
England median daily rate £530 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -11.67% +6.67% -10.00%

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 7,542 5,295 6,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.48% 42.42% 38.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,206 3,671 4,992
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £19.56 £22.58 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -48.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +76.47% +21.43% -36.84%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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
South London 0 16 £519 -24.30% 1
Central London -18 14 £563 -16.67% 13
West London - 5 £725 -
East London - 1 £500 - 2
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 (7.39%) Confluence
2 11 (6.25%) nginx
3 5 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) SAS
5 1 (0.57%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.27%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 172 (97.73%) AWS
2 79 (44.89%) Serverless
3 77 (43.75%) AWS Lambda
4 74 (42.05%) Amazon S3
5 66 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
6 61 (34.66%) GitHub
7 57 (32.39%) Amazon ECS
8 50 (28.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 50 (28.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 48 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (24.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (14.20%) Azure
12 22 (12.50%) Route 53
13 19 (10.80%) Datadog
14 17 (9.66%) Azure AKS
15 15 (8.52%) AWS CodePipeline
16 13 (7.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 12 (6.82%) Amazon SQS
17 12 (6.82%) GCP
18 10 (5.68%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.50%) DNS
2 16 (9.09%) Firewall
3 14 (7.95%) VPN
4 13 (7.39%) TCP/IP
5 9 (5.11%) OpenVPN
6 8 (4.55%) Network Security
7 4 (2.27%) SSL
8 2 (1.14%) BGP
8 2 (1.14%) OSPF
8 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.14%) WAN
9 1 (0.57%) DHCP
9 1 (0.57%) ICMP
9 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (11.93%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 10 (5.68%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.98%) DocumentDB
7 6 (3.41%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.41%) Redis
8 5 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.84%) Flink
8 5 (2.84%) MySQL
9 3 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.70%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.14%) Big Data
11 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.57%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.57%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 55 (31.25%) GitLab
2 51 (28.98%) Jenkins
3 16 (9.09%) Git
4 13 (7.39%) Bitbucket
4 13 (7.39%) JIRA
5 8 (4.55%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.98%) Cucumber
7 6 (3.41%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.84%) MLflow
8 5 (2.84%) Mocha
8 5 (2.84%) MSTest
8 5 (2.84%) tSQLt
9 4 (2.27%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.70%) Snyk
11 2 (1.14%) GoCD
12 1 (0.57%) Gatling
12 1 (0.57%) git-flow
12 1 (0.57%) Gradle
12 1 (0.57%) JUnit
12 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 39 (22.16%) Public Sector
2 35 (19.89%) Social Skills
3 28 (15.91%) Finance
4 17 (9.66%) Banking
4 17 (9.66%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.11%) Front Office
7 5 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Games
11 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Local Government
11 1 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (23.30%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (20.45%) Senior
3 34 (19.32%) Architect
4 30 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (15.91%) Developer
6 20 (11.36%) AWS Architect
7 18 (10.23%) Lead
8 17 (9.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 16 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (8.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (8.52%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (7.95%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (7.39%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (6.25%) Python Developer
14 10 (5.68%) Site Engineer
15 9 (5.11%) Python Engineer
16 8 (4.55%) Data Engineer
16 8 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
16 8 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
16 8 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (23.30%) Kafka
2 21 (11.93%) REST
3 19 (10.80%) RESTful
4 18 (10.23%) OpenID
5 16 (9.09%) Node.js
6 14 (7.95%) AWS CDK
6 14 (7.95%) Spring Boot
7 13 (7.39%) OAuth
7 13 (7.39%) Spring
8 12 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (6.25%) OAuth2
9 11 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (5.68%) LDAP
11 9 (5.11%) .NET
11 9 (5.11%) AngularJS
11 9 (5.11%) HTML
12 8 (4.55%) React
13 7 (3.98%) FastAPI
14 6 (3.41%) Django
15 5 (2.84%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 46 (26.14%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.68%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.11%) Fixed Income
5 7 (3.98%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.41%) Equities
7 4 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.70%) Life Science
8 3 (1.70%) PKI
9 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.14%) Omics
9 2 (1.14%) SCADA
9 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.77%) Linux
2 5 (2.84%) Windows
3 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.14%) Unix
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (73.30%) CI/CD
2 87 (49.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (47.73%) DevOps
4 73 (41.48%) Containerisation
5 47 (26.70%) Observability
6 44 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 36 (20.45%) Microservices
8 30 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (16.48%) Agile
10 28 (15.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 23 (13.07%) Software Engineering
12 22 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (12.50%) DevSecOps
13 21 (11.93%) SDLC
14 19 (10.80%) Cloud Security
15 17 (9.66%) Event-Driven
15 17 (9.66%) Test Automation
16 16 (9.09%) AI
16 16 (9.09%) Roadmaps
17 15 (8.52%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (50.00%) Python
2 38 (21.59%) Java
3 26 (14.77%) Bash
4 19 (10.80%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.66%) SQL
6 8 (4.55%) C#
6 8 (4.55%) Go
6 8 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.84%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.84%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.70%) Bicep
9 2 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.57%) C
10 1 (0.57%) Groovy
10 1 (0.57%) Korn
10 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.57%) ProC
10 1 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (32.95%) Security Cleared
2 50 (28.41%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.07%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.98%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.27%) CISSP
7 4 (2.27%) Degree
7 4 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.57%) CCSP
9 1 (0.57%) CEH
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.57%) OSCP
9 1 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.57%) SANS
9 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (5.68%) QA
2 9 (5.11%) NIST
3 6 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.41%) WCAG
4 5 (2.84%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.27%) NCSC
6 3 (1.70%) SLA
7 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.14%) GRC
8 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 77 (43.75%) Docker
2 12 (6.82%) Squid
3 3 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 124 (70.45%) Terraform
2 92 (52.27%) Kubernetes
3 38 (21.59%) Grafana
4 33 (18.75%) Prometheus
5 20 (11.36%) Ansible
6 15 (8.52%) Argo
7 12 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (5.11%) FortiGate
8 9 (5.11%) Puppet
9 7 (3.98%) Consul
10 4 (2.27%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.27%) Kibana
10 4 (2.27%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.70%) Istio
11 3 (1.70%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.70%) Opsgenie
12 2 (1.14%) Suricata
13 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.57%) Packer
13 1 (0.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (7.39%) Dynatrace
2 10 (5.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.68%) Splunk
3 9 (5.11%) Red Hat
4 8 (4.55%) Databricks
5 7 (3.98%) AppDynamics
5 7 (3.98%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.41%) PagerDuty
6 6 (3.41%) Qualys
7 5 (2.84%) AVEVA
8 4 (2.27%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.27%) Charles River
8 4 (2.27%) New Relic
8 4 (2.27%) Oracle
8 4 (2.27%) Tenable
9 3 (1.70%) Google
9 3 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.14%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.14%) SAP
10 2 (1.14%) Sybase