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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 221 311
Rank change year-on-year -20 +90 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 175 122 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 1.01% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.28% 2.36% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 100 57
10th Percentile £400 £459 £363
25th Percentile £508 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £638
90th Percentile £719 £792 £780
England median daily rate £543 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -9.58% +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 7,680 5,172 6,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.15% 42.65% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,313 3,553 4,993
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -1.54% -0.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 53 68
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.57 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £53.94 £43.75 £38.28
90th Percentile £73.23 £67.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%

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 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 23 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 -7 14 £519 -24.30% 1
Central London -16 13 £560 -17.11% 16
West London - 6 £725 - 2
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 13 (7.43%) Confluence
2 11 (6.29%) nginx
3 5 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) SAS
4 1 (0.57%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.71%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 173 (98.86%) AWS
2 81 (46.29%) Serverless
3 79 (45.14%) AWS Lambda
4 73 (41.71%) Amazon S3
5 67 (38.29%) Amazon EC2
6 57 (32.57%) Amazon ECS
7 55 (31.43%) GitHub
8 52 (29.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 51 (29.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 43 (24.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (12.57%) Route 53
13 21 (12.00%) Azure
14 16 (9.14%) Azure AKS
15 15 (8.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 14 (8.00%) AWS CodePipeline
16 14 (8.00%) Datadog
17 12 (6.86%) Amazon SQS
18 10 (5.71%) GCP
19 9 (5.14%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.57%) DNS
2 18 (10.29%) Firewall
3 15 (8.57%) TCP/IP
4 14 (8.00%) VPN
5 10 (5.71%) Network Security
6 9 (5.14%) OpenVPN
7 4 (2.29%) 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%) Internet
9 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (18.29%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.71%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.57%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (4.00%) DocumentDB
6 7 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.43%) MySQL
8 5 (2.86%) Redis
9 4 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.71%) Flink
11 1 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.57%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.57%) OLTP
11 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 54 (30.86%) GitLab
2 43 (24.57%) Jenkins
3 16 (9.14%) Git
4 14 (8.00%) JIRA
5 13 (7.43%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.57%) Artifactory
6 8 (4.57%) SonarQube
7 7 (4.00%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.86%) MLflow
8 5 (2.86%) Mocha
8 5 (2.86%) MSTest
8 5 (2.86%) tSQLt
9 4 (2.29%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.71%) Snyk
11 2 (1.14%) GoCD
12 1 (0.57%) Gatling
12 1 (0.57%) Gradle
12 1 (0.57%) JMeter
12 1 (0.57%) JUnit
12 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 41 (23.43%) Public Sector
2 38 (21.71%) Social Skills
3 24 (13.71%) Finance
4 19 (10.86%) Banking
5 16 (9.14%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.43%) Front Office
8 4 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.29%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Games
11 1 (0.57%) Law
11 1 (0.57%) Local Government
11 1 (0.57%) Marketing
11 1 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 44 (25.14%) AWS Engineer
2 35 (20.00%) Architect
3 34 (19.43%) Senior
4 32 (18.29%) Developer
5 30 (17.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (12.57%) AWS Architect
7 18 (10.29%) Lead
8 16 (9.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (8.57%) Cloud Architect
9 15 (8.57%) Python Developer
10 14 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.71%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.57%) Data Engineer
13 8 (4.57%) Lead DevOps
13 8 (4.57%) Python Engineer
13 8 (4.57%) Senior Developer
13 8 (4.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (20.57%) Kafka
2 20 (11.43%) REST
2 20 (11.43%) RESTful
3 18 (10.29%) Node.js
4 17 (9.71%) OpenID
5 14 (8.00%) AWS CDK
6 12 (6.86%) OAuth
6 12 (6.86%) OpenTelemetry
6 12 (6.86%) React
6 12 (6.86%) Spring Boot
7 11 (6.29%) AngularJS
7 11 (6.29%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (5.71%) LDAP
8 10 (5.71%) OAuth2
8 10 (5.71%) Spring
9 9 (5.14%) FastAPI
9 9 (5.14%) HTML
10 8 (4.57%) .NET
10 8 (4.57%) Django
11 7 (4.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 50 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.86%) Equities
5 5 (2.86%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.29%) PKI
6 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.71%) Life Science
8 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.14%) Omics
8 2 (1.14%) SCADA
8 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.71%) Linux
2 6 (3.43%) Windows
3 4 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.14%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.14%) Unix
4 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (73.14%) CI/CD
2 84 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 81 (46.29%) DevOps
4 67 (38.29%) Containerisation
5 43 (24.57%) Observability
6 37 (21.14%) Platform Engineering
7 31 (17.71%) Microservices
8 27 (15.43%) Agile
9 24 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (13.71%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.57%) DevSecOps
11 21 (12.00%) Cloud Security
11 21 (12.00%) SDLC
12 20 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 18 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (9.71%) Event-Driven
14 17 (9.71%) Roadmaps
15 15 (8.57%) Mentoring
16 14 (8.00%) Secrets Management
16 14 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 83 (47.43%) Python
2 30 (17.14%) Java
3 25 (14.29%) Bash
4 19 (10.86%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.00%) SQL
6 11 (6.29%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.14%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.57%) C#
9 5 (2.86%) Go
9 5 (2.86%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.86%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.71%) Bicep
11 2 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.57%) C
12 1 (0.57%) Korn
12 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.57%) ProC
Qualifications
1 62 (35.43%) Security Cleared
2 54 (30.86%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.00%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.14%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.71%) CISSP
8 2 (1.14%) Degree
9 1 (0.57%) CEH
9 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.57%) PMP
9 1 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.71%) QA
2 9 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.57%) NIST
4 6 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.43%) WCAG
5 4 (2.29%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.71%) NCSC
6 3 (1.71%) SLA
7 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.57%) GRC
System Software
1 70 (40.00%) Docker
2 15 (8.57%) Squid
3 3 (1.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 123 (70.29%) Terraform
2 90 (51.43%) Kubernetes
3 39 (22.29%) Grafana
4 35 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 20 (11.43%) Ansible
6 12 (6.86%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (6.29%) Argo
8 9 (5.14%) FortiGate
9 8 (4.57%) Puppet
10 7 (4.00%) Consul
11 4 (2.29%) Istio
11 4 (2.29%) Karpenter
11 4 (2.29%) Kibana
11 4 (2.29%) Suricata
12 3 (1.71%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.57%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.57%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (6.86%) Dynatrace
2 10 (5.71%) Red Hat
3 7 (4.00%) Atlassian
3 7 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.00%) Splunk
4 6 (3.43%) Databricks
5 5 (2.86%) AppDynamics
5 5 (2.86%) AVEVA
5 5 (2.86%) Oracle
6 4 (2.29%) New Relic
6 4 (2.29%) Qualys
6 4 (2.29%) Tenable
7 3 (1.71%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.71%) Charles River
7 3 (1.71%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.71%) Sybase
8 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.14%) SAP
8 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.14%) Solace