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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 243 281
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 +63
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 170 112 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 0.83% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.59% 1.99% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 102 90
10th Percentile £400 £494 £390
25th Percentile £494 £575 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £650 £572
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% +13.64% -8.48%
75th Percentile £648 £725 £695
90th Percentile £713 £888 £825
England median daily rate £530 £630 £569
% change year-on-year -15.87% +10.72% -7.10%

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 6,572 5,638 6,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.23% 41.60% 37.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,499 3,739 5,144
10th Percentile £347 £354 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 48 78
10th Percentile £18.06 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £21.12 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.08 £32.75 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +8.77% +5.65%
75th Percentile £55.44 £56.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £69.38 £60.75
England median hourly rate £35.81 £27.50 £22.23
% change year-on-year +30.22% +23.73% -11.10%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -3 18 £544 -19.44% 7
South London 0 12 £530 -17.83% 3
West London - 2 £725 - 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 14 (8.24%) Confluence
2 6 (3.53%) nginx
3 3 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.76%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.76%) Traefik
4 2 (1.18%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.59%) Apache
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.59%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.76%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 161 (94.71%) AWS
2 69 (40.59%) Amazon S3
3 68 (40.00%) GitHub
4 66 (38.82%) Serverless
5 63 (37.06%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (34.12%) Amazon ECS
7 53 (31.18%) GitHub Actions
8 52 (30.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
10 43 (25.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 40 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (14.71%) Azure
13 22 (12.94%) Datadog
13 22 (12.94%) Route 53
14 16 (9.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 15 (8.82%) Amazon Kinesis
15 15 (8.82%) Azure AKS
16 13 (7.65%) AWS CodePipeline
17 11 (6.47%) Amazon ElastiCache
17 11 (6.47%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.18%) DNS
2 14 (8.24%) VPN
3 13 (7.65%) Firewall
4 6 (3.53%) OpenVPN
4 6 (3.53%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.35%) Network Security
5 4 (2.35%) SSL
6 3 (1.76%) SNMP
7 2 (1.18%) BGP
7 2 (1.18%) Calico
7 2 (1.18%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.18%) OSPF
7 2 (1.18%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.18%) WAN
8 1 (0.59%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (26.47%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.65%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (7.06%) DynamoDB
5 11 (6.47%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.29%) Redis
7 8 (4.71%) DocumentDB
7 8 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (4.71%) Flink
7 8 (4.71%) MySQL
7 8 (4.71%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.94%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.35%) Big Data
9 4 (2.35%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.76%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (30.59%) Jenkins
2 44 (25.88%) GitLab
3 17 (10.00%) JIRA
4 16 (9.41%) Git
5 8 (4.71%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.53%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.35%) MLflow
7 4 (2.35%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.76%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.18%) GoCD
9 2 (1.18%) Snyk
9 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.59%) git-flow
10 1 (0.59%) JUnit
10 1 (0.59%) Mocha
10 1 (0.59%) MSTest
10 1 (0.59%) tSQLt
General
1 34 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.24%) Finance
3 25 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 22 (12.94%) Banking
5 13 (7.65%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (6.47%) Front Office
7 10 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.18%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.59%) Games
11 1 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 44 (25.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (22.35%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (16.47%) Architect
4 23 (13.53%) AWS DevOps
4 23 (13.53%) Senior
5 21 (12.35%) Developer
6 19 (11.18%) AWS Architect
6 19 (11.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 18 (10.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 15 (8.82%) Cloud Architect
8 15 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (8.24%) Lead
10 11 (6.47%) Python Engineer
11 10 (5.88%) Python Developer
12 9 (5.29%) Data Engineer
12 9 (5.29%) Site Engineer
13 7 (4.12%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (4.12%) Software Engineer
14 6 (3.53%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (30.59%) Kafka
2 16 (9.41%) REST
3 15 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (8.82%) Spring
3 15 (8.82%) Spring Boot
4 14 (8.24%) Node.js
5 13 (7.65%) OpenID
6 12 (7.06%) AWS CDK
6 12 (7.06%) RESTful
7 11 (6.47%) OAuth
8 10 (5.88%) React
9 8 (4.71%) OAuth2
10 7 (4.12%) AngularJS
10 7 (4.12%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (3.53%) Django
11 6 (3.53%) FastAPI
11 6 (3.53%) HTML
11 6 (3.53%) LDAP
12 5 (2.94%) Hibernate
12 5 (2.94%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 41 (24.12%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.47%) Fixed Income
4 8 (4.71%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.53%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.53%) Replication
7 4 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.35%) Equities
7 4 (2.35%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.76%) Life Science
9 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.18%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.18%) Omics
9 2 (1.18%) PKI
9 2 (1.18%) SCADA
9 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.88%) Linux
2 6 (3.53%) Windows
3 3 (1.76%) Unix
3 3 (1.76%) VMS
4 1 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.59%) Android
4 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (67.06%) CI/CD
2 90 (52.94%) DevOps
3 87 (51.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 43 (25.29%) Observability
6 39 (22.94%) Platform Engineering
7 37 (21.76%) Microservices
8 32 (18.82%) Agile
9 28 (16.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 24 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (11.76%) DevSecOps
12 19 (11.18%) Cloud Security
13 18 (10.59%) Software Engineering
13 18 (10.59%) Test Automation
14 16 (9.41%) Secrets Management
15 15 (8.82%) AI
15 15 (8.82%) Configuration Management
15 15 (8.82%) GitOps
15 15 (8.82%) Roadmaps
16 14 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 98 (57.65%) Python
2 42 (24.71%) Java
3 33 (19.41%) Bash
4 20 (11.76%) SQL
5 14 (8.24%) Go
6 11 (6.47%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.47%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.53%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.35%) Groovy
8 4 (2.35%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.76%) Ruby
10 2 (1.18%) Bicep
10 2 (1.18%) C#
10 2 (1.18%) Perl
11 1 (0.59%) C
11 1 (0.59%) PHP
11 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.59%) ProC
11 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 50 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 27 (15.88%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (4.12%) Degree
6 6 (3.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (2.94%) CISSP
7 5 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.59%) CCSP
10 1 (0.59%) CEH
10 1 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.59%) OSCP
10 1 (0.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.29%) NIST
3 8 (4.71%) QA
4 5 (2.94%) NCSC
4 5 (2.94%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.76%) GDPR
6 2 (1.18%) GRC
7 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
System Software
1 82 (48.24%) Docker
2 7 (4.12%) Squid
3 3 (1.76%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.59%) etcd
5 1 (0.59%) HDFS
5 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 119 (70.00%) Terraform
2 101 (59.41%) Kubernetes
3 34 (20.00%) Grafana
4 26 (15.29%) Prometheus
5 21 (12.35%) Ansible
6 20 (11.76%) Argo
7 13 (7.65%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (6.47%) Puppet
9 6 (3.53%) FortiGate
10 5 (2.94%) Consul
10 5 (2.94%) Karpenter
10 5 (2.94%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.35%) Istio
11 4 (2.35%) Kibana
11 4 (2.35%) Rancher
12 3 (1.76%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.76%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.59%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (8.82%) Dynatrace
1 15 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.29%) Databricks
2 9 (5.29%) Splunk
3 8 (4.71%) AppDynamics
4 7 (4.12%) PagerDuty
5 6 (3.53%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.53%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.94%) AVEVA
6 5 (2.94%) Qualys
7 4 (2.35%) Google
7 4 (2.35%) Oracle
7 4 (2.35%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.76%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.76%) Charles River
8 3 (1.76%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.76%) New Relic
8 3 (1.76%) Tenable
9 2 (1.18%) Avaloq
9 2 (1.18%) Globalscape