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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 246 302
Rank change year-on-year +2 +56 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 194 110 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 0.88% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.42% 2.05% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 86 63
10th Percentile £400 £422 £365
25th Percentile £513 £525 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £813
90th Percentile £738 £731 £885
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%

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 8,002 5,367 6,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.04% 42.92% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,496 3,644 5,122
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 67 70
10th Percentile £21.55 £22.80 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.75 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £32.00 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% +20.82% -49.55%
75th Percentile £56.19 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.65 £70.00 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +68.55% +17.79% -33.85%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +4 12 £519 -
Central London -22 10 £575 -14.81% 2
West London - 5 £725 - 1
East London - 1 £500 - 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 11 (5.67%) Confluence
1 11 (5.67%) nginx
2 6 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.55%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 192 (98.97%) AWS
2 90 (46.39%) AWS Lambda
2 90 (46.39%) Serverless
3 83 (42.78%) Amazon S3
4 70 (36.08%) Amazon ECS
5 69 (35.57%) Amazon EC2
6 58 (29.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 57 (29.38%) GitHub
7 57 (29.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 47 (24.23%) GitHub Actions
9 42 (21.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (11.34%) Route 53
11 21 (10.82%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (9.79%) Datadog
13 18 (9.28%) Azure
14 16 (8.25%) Azure AKS
15 15 (7.73%) Snowflake
16 14 (7.22%) AWS CodePipeline
17 12 (6.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 11 (5.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.31%) DNS
2 19 (9.79%) Firewall
3 15 (7.73%) TCP/IP
3 15 (7.73%) VPN
4 13 (6.70%) Network Security
5 9 (4.64%) OpenVPN
6 3 (1.55%) SSL
7 2 (1.03%) BGP
7 2 (1.03%) OSPF
7 2 (1.03%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.03%) WAN
8 1 (0.52%) Calico
8 1 (0.52%) DHCP
8 1 (0.52%) DSL
8 1 (0.52%) ICMP
8 1 (0.52%) Internet
8 1 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.62%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.67%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.64%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.64%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.12%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (3.61%) MySQL
7 5 (2.58%) DocumentDB
7 5 (2.58%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.58%) Redis
8 4 (2.06%) Big Data
9 3 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.03%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.52%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.52%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 69 (35.57%) GitLab
2 55 (28.35%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.31%) Git
4 14 (7.22%) Bitbucket
5 12 (6.19%) JIRA
6 8 (4.12%) Artifactory
6 8 (4.12%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.12%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.09%) Mocha
7 6 (3.09%) MSTest
7 6 (3.09%) tSQLt
8 5 (2.58%) MLflow
9 2 (1.03%) GoCD
9 2 (1.03%) Snyk
10 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.52%) Gatling
10 1 (0.52%) Gradle
10 1 (0.52%) Maven
10 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 44 (22.68%) Social Skills
2 42 (21.65%) Public Sector
3 28 (14.43%) Finance
4 24 (12.37%) Banking
5 16 (8.25%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.09%) Law
9 4 (2.06%) Front Office
9 4 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.03%) Military
11 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.03%) Publishing
12 1 (0.52%) Games
12 1 (0.52%) Marketing
12 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (28.87%) AWS Engineer
2 45 (23.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (20.62%) Senior
4 32 (16.49%) Architect
5 24 (12.37%) AWS DevOps
5 24 (12.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 24 (12.37%) Developer
6 23 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (10.31%) AWS Architect
7 20 (10.31%) Lead
8 15 (7.73%) Software Engineer
9 13 (6.70%) Python Developer
10 12 (6.19%) Data Engineer
10 12 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (5.67%) AWS Software Engineer
11 11 (5.67%) Python Engineer
12 10 (5.15%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (5.15%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (5.15%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.01%) Kafka
2 26 (13.40%) REST
3 17 (8.76%) AWS CDK
3 17 (8.76%) RESTful
4 16 (8.25%) OpenID
5 14 (7.22%) FastAPI
6 13 (6.70%) AngularJS
6 13 (6.70%) Node.js
6 13 (6.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (6.70%) React
7 11 (5.67%) .NET
7 11 (5.67%) OAuth
7 11 (5.67%) Spring Boot
8 10 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (5.15%) Flask
8 10 (5.15%) LDAP
9 9 (4.64%) OAuth2
10 8 (4.12%) Next.js
10 8 (4.12%) Spring
11 7 (3.61%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (35.57%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.15%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.09%) Equities
6 5 (2.58%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.58%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.55%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.55%) Life Science
8 3 (1.55%) PKI
8 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.03%) SCADA
9 2 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.95%) Linux
2 9 (4.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.09%) Windows
4 3 (1.55%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.03%) Unix
5 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (71.13%) CI/CD
2 103 (53.09%) DevOps
3 102 (52.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (44.33%) Containerisation
5 55 (28.35%) Observability
6 47 (24.23%) Microservices
7 46 (23.71%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (16.49%) Agile
8 32 (16.49%) Software Engineering
9 31 (15.98%) AI
10 27 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (12.37%) Cloud Security
11 24 (12.37%) DevSecOps
12 23 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (10.82%) Event-Driven
13 21 (10.82%) Mentoring
14 18 (9.28%) Roadmaps
14 18 (9.28%) SDLC
14 18 (9.28%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (49.48%) Python
2 30 (15.46%) Bash
2 30 (15.46%) Java
3 16 (8.25%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.22%) TypeScript
5 12 (6.19%) SQL
6 10 (5.15%) C#
7 7 (3.61%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.09%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.06%) Go
9 4 (2.06%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.55%) Bicep
11 2 (1.03%) Cypher
11 2 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.03%) SHACL
12 1 (0.52%) C
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.52%) Haskell
12 1 (0.52%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 70 (36.08%) Security Cleared
2 62 (31.96%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.34%) AWS Certification
4 16 (8.25%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.55%) Degree
7 3 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.03%) CISSP
9 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PMP
9 1 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.70%) QA
2 7 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.09%) NIST
3 6 (3.09%) WCAG
4 4 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.55%) SLA
6 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.52%) GRC
7 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 77 (39.69%) Docker
2 14 (7.22%) Squid
3 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 140 (72.16%) Terraform
2 109 (56.19%) Kubernetes
3 47 (24.23%) Grafana
4 45 (23.20%) Prometheus
5 23 (11.86%) Ansible
6 12 (6.19%) Argo
7 11 (5.67%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (4.64%) FortiGate
9 8 (4.12%) Puppet
10 7 (3.61%) Consul
11 5 (2.58%) Istio
12 4 (2.06%) Suricata
13 3 (1.55%) Progress Chef
14 2 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
15 1 (0.52%) Cilium
15 1 (0.52%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.52%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.52%) Packer
15 1 (0.52%) systemd
Vendors
1 12 (6.19%) Red Hat
2 11 (5.67%) Dynatrace
3 9 (4.64%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.12%) Splunk
5 7 (3.61%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.09%) Databricks
6 6 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.58%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.58%) AVEVA
7 5 (2.58%) New Relic
7 5 (2.58%) Oracle
7 5 (2.58%) Sybase
8 4 (2.06%) Amplitude
9 3 (1.55%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.55%) Charles River
10 2 (1.03%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.03%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.03%) Qualys
10 2 (1.03%) SAP
10 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow