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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 250 275
Rank change year-on-year -12 +25 +57
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 100 137 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.74% 0.84% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 2.04% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 94 138
10th Percentile £421 £500 £406
25th Percentile £525 £529 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £653 £888 £784
90th Percentile £720 - £863
England median daily rate £575 £650 £610
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.56% -2.40%

All Cloud 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 5,816 6,704 8,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.25% 41.16% 39.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,957 4,691 6,392
10th Percentile £339 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 46 63
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.16 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.80 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -23.96% +15.71%
75th Percentile £47.50 £52.50 £69.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.13 £89.31
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +5 10 £643 +12.82% 6
South London -19 3 £705 +28.38%
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.00%) CMS
1 5 (5.00%) Headless CMS
2 4 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.00%) Confluence
3 3 (3.00%) Traefik
4 2 (2.00%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.00%) Apache
5 1 (1.00%) CICS
5 1 (1.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 91 (91.00%) AWS
2 40 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 38 (38.00%) Amazon S3
3 38 (38.00%) Serverless
4 34 (34.00%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (26.00%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (21.00%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (14.00%) GitHub
8 12 (12.00%) GCP
8 12 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (11.00%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (8.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 8 (8.00%) AWS KMS
12 7 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (6.00%) Azure AKS
14 5 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
15 4 (4.00%) Azure
15 4 (4.00%) Datadog
16 3 (3.00%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.00%) DNS
2 6 (6.00%) HTTP
2 6 (6.00%) Internet
2 6 (6.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.00%) Firewall
4 3 (3.00%) SNMP
4 3 (3.00%) VPN
5 2 (2.00%) Calico
6 1 (1.00%) DHCP
6 1 (1.00%) NAS
6 1 (1.00%) Network Security
6 1 (1.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (35.00%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (11.00%) DynamoDB
3 10 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.00%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.00%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.00%) Hasura
7 1 (1.00%) Redis
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.00%) GitLab
3 6 (6.00%) JIRA
4 4 (4.00%) Git
5 2 (2.00%) JMeter
5 2 (2.00%) JUnit
5 2 (2.00%) Mockito
6 1 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.00%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 29 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 27 (27.00%) Public Sector
3 20 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.00%) Finance
5 4 (4.00%) Banking
5 4 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.00%) Publishing
7 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Police
7 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (25.00%) Architect
3 23 (23.00%) AWS Architect
4 22 (22.00%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (18.00%) Senior
6 13 (13.00%) Developer
7 12 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (11.00%) AWS DevOps
8 11 (11.00%) Java Developer
9 10 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (9.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (9.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 6 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (5.00%) Designer
12 5 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (5.00%) Solutions Designer
13 4 (4.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.00%) Spring Boot
2 10 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (10.00%) Kafka
3 7 (7.00%) AWS CDK
4 6 (6.00%) Spring
5 5 (5.00%) OAuth
5 5 (5.00%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.00%) OpenID
5 5 (5.00%) SAML
6 4 (4.00%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.00%) JSON
7 3 (3.00%) Node.js
7 3 (3.00%) REST
7 3 (3.00%) YAML
8 2 (2.00%) .NET
8 2 (2.00%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (2.00%) Hibernate
8 2 (2.00%) HTML
8 2 (2.00%) jQuery
8 2 (2.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.00%) NHS
5 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.00%) Replication
5 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.00%) Unix
2 2 (2.00%) VMS
3 1 (1.00%) AIX
3 1 (1.00%) Android
3 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.00%) Solaris
3 1 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 46 (46.00%) Containerisation
3 36 (36.00%) DevOps
4 35 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (31.00%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (22.00%) High Availability
7 20 (20.00%) Microservices
7 20 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (16.00%) Open Source
9 14 (14.00%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (13.00%) Agile
10 13 (13.00%) Migration
10 13 (13.00%) Observability
11 9 (9.00%) Configuration Management
11 9 (9.00%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (8.00%) Mentoring
12 8 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (7.00%) Deployment Automation
14 6 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 6 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.00%) Python
2 20 (20.00%) Java
3 17 (17.00%) Go
4 13 (13.00%) Bash
5 9 (9.00%) SQL
6 6 (6.00%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.00%) Rust
8 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.00%) Groovy
9 2 (2.00%) PromQL
10 1 (1.00%) C#
10 1 (1.00%) COBOL
10 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 47 (47.00%) Security Cleared
2 43 (43.00%) SC Cleared
3 33 (33.00%) AWS Certification
4 24 (24.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.00%) GDPR
2 3 (3.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (3.00%) QA
3 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.00%) NCSC
4 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (33.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) etcd
2 1 (1.00%) iptables
2 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (63.00%) Kubernetes
2 43 (43.00%) Terraform
3 20 (20.00%) Grafana
4 13 (13.00%) Ansible
5 12 (12.00%) Prometheus
6 8 (8.00%) Puppet
7 7 (7.00%) Progress Chef
8 5 (5.00%) Argo
9 4 (4.00%) Istio
10 2 (2.00%) Kibana
10 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (1.00%) Podman
11 1 (1.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (8.00%) Splunk
2 7 (7.00%) Dynatrace
3 6 (6.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.00%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.00%) Confluent
5 2 (2.00%) Google
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.00%) NetApp
6 1 (1.00%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.00%) Tenable
6 1 (1.00%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.00%) VMware