Amazon EKS Contracts in London

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 296 337
Rank change year-on-year +76 +41 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 133 95 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.06% 0.53% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.50% 1.41% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 61 122
10th Percentile £475 £363 £513
25th Percentile £575 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £863
90th Percentile £885 £788 -
England median daily rate £600 £561 £625
% change year-on-year +6.90% -10.20% +4.17%

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 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in London

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in London over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +6 18 £675 +17.39% 8
South London -5 4 £685 +82.67% 2
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 25 (18.80%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (15.79%) Apache
3 6 (4.51%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.76%) Confluence
5 2 (1.50%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 128 (96.24%) AWS
2 57 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 47 (35.34%) Amazon S3
4 39 (29.32%) Amazon ECS
5 37 (27.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 37 (27.82%) Serverless
6 32 (24.06%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (18.05%) GCP
8 19 (14.29%) Snowflake
9 18 (13.53%) Dagster
9 18 (13.53%) dbt
10 15 (11.28%) GitHub
11 14 (10.53%) Route 53
12 12 (9.02%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 12 (9.02%) CloudFront
13 9 (6.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (6.02%) Azure AKS
14 8 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (4.51%) AWS CodePipeline
16 5 (3.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.77%) DNS
1 9 (6.77%) TCP/IP
2 8 (6.02%) HTTP
3 7 (5.26%) Internet
4 4 (3.01%) Firewall
4 4 (3.01%) VPN
5 2 (1.50%) DHCP
6 1 (0.75%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (13.53%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (13.53%) Data Lake
4 17 (12.78%) Apache Arrow
4 17 (12.78%) Apache Iceberg
4 17 (12.78%) Apache Ignite
4 17 (12.78%) Dremio
5 14 (10.53%) NoSQL
6 13 (9.77%) DocumentDB
7 12 (9.02%) Redis
8 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
9 4 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (3.01%) Big Data
9 4 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.26%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.26%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (17.29%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.27%) GitLab
3 5 (3.76%) Git
3 5 (3.76%) JIRA
4 3 (2.26%) JMeter
5 2 (1.50%) JUnit
5 2 (1.50%) Mockito
6 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.75%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.75%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.75%) JProfiler
6 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.75%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.75%) Toad
General
1 42 (31.58%) Finance
2 34 (25.56%) Banking
3 31 (23.31%) Public Sector
4 25 (18.80%) Social Skills
5 23 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (15.04%) Front Office
7 18 (13.53%) Investment Banking
8 12 (9.02%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Marketing
10 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (32.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (27.82%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (22.56%) Architect
4 26 (19.55%) Senior
5 25 (18.80%) AWS Architect
6 23 (17.29%) Software Engineer
7 18 (13.53%) AWS DevOps
7 18 (13.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 17 (12.78%) AWS Software Engineer
8 17 (12.78%) Developer
9 13 (9.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (8.27%) Java Engineer
10 11 (8.27%) Java Software Engineer
11 10 (7.52%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (7.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (5.26%) Python Engineer
13 6 (4.51%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 6 (4.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 6 (4.51%) Python Software Engineer
13 6 (4.51%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.78%) gRPC
1 17 (12.78%) NumPy
1 17 (12.78%) Pandas
1 17 (12.78%) Protocol Buffers
1 17 (12.78%) PySpark
1 17 (12.78%) SciPy
2 15 (11.28%) GraphQL
3 14 (10.53%) RESTful
4 12 (9.02%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (8.27%) .NET
6 7 (5.26%) REST
6 7 (5.26%) Spring
7 6 (4.51%) Node.js
7 6 (4.51%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.01%) React
9 3 (2.26%) JSON
9 3 (2.26%) Web Services
9 3 (2.26%) WireMock
10 2 (1.50%) AWS CDK
10 2 (1.50%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.80%) Derivative
2 17 (12.78%) Equities
2 17 (12.78%) Fixed Income
2 17 (12.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (12.78%) Hedge funds
3 8 (6.02%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.26%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.50%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.53%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.85%) DevOps
2 47 (35.34%) CI/CD
3 46 (34.59%) Containerisation
4 39 (29.32%) Agile
4 39 (29.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (21.80%) Asset Management
7 25 (18.80%) Software Engineering
8 20 (15.04%) High Availability
8 20 (15.04%) Migration
9 19 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (13.53%) Open Source
11 12 (9.02%) SOLID
12 11 (8.27%) Configuration Management
12 11 (8.27%) Cost Management
13 10 (7.52%) Deployment Automation
14 9 (6.77%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (6.77%) Microservices
14 9 (6.77%) Platform Engineering
15 8 (6.02%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 53 (39.85%) Python
2 37 (27.82%) Java
3 26 (19.55%) JavaScript
4 19 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 13 (9.77%) C#
5 13 (9.77%) Go
5 13 (9.77%) SQL
6 10 (7.52%) Bash
7 6 (4.51%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.01%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.01%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.50%) Perl
9 2 (1.50%) Rust
10 1 (0.75%) Groovy
10 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (35.34%) Security Cleared
2 45 (33.83%) SC Cleared
3 24 (18.05%) AWS Certification
4 22 (16.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.76%) Degree
6 3 (2.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.26%) OCP
6 3 (2.26%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.26%) QA
2 2 (1.50%) GDPR
2 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.50%) NCSC
3 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (24.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (48.12%) Kubernetes
2 46 (34.59%) Terraform
3 19 (14.29%) Ansible
4 12 (9.02%) Grafana
4 12 (9.02%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 7 (5.26%) Puppet
6 2 (1.50%) Argo
6 2 (1.50%) Kibana
6 2 (1.50%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.50%) Packer
7 1 (0.75%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.75%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (5.26%) Red Hat
2 6 (4.51%) Splunk
3 3 (2.26%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.50%) VMware
5 1 (0.75%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.75%) Databricks
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle
5 1 (0.75%) Pega
5 1 (0.75%) Trayport
5 1 (0.75%) Virgin Media