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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 243 282
Rank change year-on-year +5 +39 +30
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 201 122 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 0.90% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.45% 2.10% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 97 76
10th Percentile £403 £448 £395
25th Percentile £513 £525 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -1.64% -2.40%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £875
90th Percentile £775 £738 £888
England median daily rate £560 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -2.61% -2.13% -6.00%

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 8,198 5,812 6,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 42.87% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,588 3,964 5,014
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 82 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.55 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.83 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.73% -49.80%
75th Percentile £54.88 £46.56 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £67.31 £66.10
England median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -16 15 £575 -14.81% 8
South London -3 13 £519 -26.40%
West London - 6 £725 - 2
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 18 (8.96%) Confluence
2 11 (5.47%) nginx
3 6 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.50%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (1.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 197 (98.01%) AWS
2 80 (39.80%) Amazon S3
3 79 (39.30%) Serverless
4 78 (38.81%) AWS Lambda
5 69 (34.33%) Amazon ECS
6 67 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
7 56 (27.86%) GitHub
8 49 (24.38%) GitHub Actions
9 48 (23.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 48 (23.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 28 (13.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (12.94%) Azure
12 22 (10.95%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (8.46%) Snowflake
14 16 (7.96%) Azure AKS
14 16 (7.96%) Datadog
15 13 (6.47%) Route 53
16 12 (5.97%) Amazon EventBridge
16 12 (5.97%) GCP
17 10 (4.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.46%) Firewall
2 15 (7.46%) TCP/IP
3 14 (6.97%) DNS
4 13 (6.47%) VPN
5 11 (5.47%) Network Security
6 9 (4.48%) OpenVPN
7 2 (1.00%) DSL
7 2 (1.00%) SSL
8 1 (0.50%) Calico
8 1 (0.50%) DHCP
8 1 (0.50%) ICMP
8 1 (0.50%) Internet
8 1 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.42%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (3.98%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.98%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.99%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.49%) Big Data
7 4 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.49%) MySQL
8 3 (1.49%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.00%) Power BI
9 2 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.50%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.50%) Redis
10 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.50%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 66 (32.84%) GitLab
2 47 (23.38%) Jenkins
3 23 (11.44%) Git
4 16 (7.96%) Bitbucket
5 12 (5.97%) JIRA
6 8 (3.98%) Artifactory
6 8 (3.98%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.98%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.99%) Mocha
7 6 (2.99%) MSTest
7 6 (2.99%) tSQLt
8 4 (1.99%) MLflow
9 2 (1.00%) Maven
10 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.50%) Gatling
10 1 (0.50%) Gradle
10 1 (0.50%) JMeter
10 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 47 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.39%) Public Sector
3 39 (19.40%) Finance
4 28 (13.93%) Banking
5 17 (8.46%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.99%) Law
9 5 (2.49%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.49%) Front Office
10 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.00%) Back Office
11 2 (1.00%) Military
11 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Publishing
12 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.50%) Billing
12 1 (0.50%) Games
12 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (27.86%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (23.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (22.39%) Senior
4 31 (15.42%) Architect
5 24 (11.94%) AWS DevOps
5 24 (11.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 24 (11.94%) Lead
6 19 (9.45%) Developer
7 18 (8.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (6.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 14 (6.97%) AWS Architect
8 14 (6.97%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (6.47%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.97%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (5.47%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 10 (4.98%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (4.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.98%) Technical Architect
13 9 (4.48%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.44%) Kafka
1 23 (11.44%) REST
2 14 (6.97%) React
3 13 (6.47%) FastAPI
4 12 (5.97%) .NET
4 12 (5.97%) AngularJS
4 12 (5.97%) Node.js
4 12 (5.97%) RESTful
5 11 (5.47%) OpenID
6 10 (4.98%) AWS CDK
6 10 (4.98%) LDAP
6 10 (4.98%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (4.48%) Loki
7 9 (4.48%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (3.98%) Flask
9 7 (3.48%) Spring
10 6 (2.99%) CSS
10 6 (2.99%) HTML
10 6 (2.99%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 67 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.48%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.48%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.49%) Equities
7 5 (2.49%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.99%) PKI
8 4 (1.99%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.49%) Life Science
9 3 (1.49%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.43%) Linux
2 10 (4.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.49%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.00%) Unix
4 2 (1.00%) Windows
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (69.15%) CI/CD
2 105 (52.24%) DevOps
3 104 (51.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (40.80%) Containerisation
5 61 (30.35%) Observability
6 52 (25.87%) Microservices
7 45 (22.39%) Platform Engineering
8 34 (16.92%) AI
9 33 (16.42%) Agile
9 33 (16.42%) Software Engineering
10 32 (15.92%) DevSecOps
11 23 (11.44%) Cloud Security
11 23 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (10.95%) Event-Driven
12 22 (10.95%) Secrets Management
13 21 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 21 (10.45%) LLM
13 21 (10.45%) Mentoring
13 21 (10.45%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 100 (49.75%) Python
2 41 (20.40%) Bash
3 25 (12.44%) Java
4 17 (8.46%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.96%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.98%) C#
7 9 (4.48%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.98%) SQL
9 6 (2.99%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.49%) Go
11 4 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.49%) Cypher
12 3 (1.49%) SHACL
13 2 (1.00%) Bicep
13 2 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (1.00%) R
14 1 (0.50%) C
14 1 (0.50%) C++
14 1 (0.50%) Haskell
14 1 (0.50%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 78 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 70 (34.83%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.96%) AWS Certification
4 15 (7.46%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.49%) Degree
8 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.00%) CISSP
8 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PMP
9 1 (0.50%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.48%) QA
2 6 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.99%) WCAG
3 4 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.49%) SLA
5 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.00%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.50%) GRC
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 80 (39.80%) Docker
2 14 (6.97%) Squid
3 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 134 (66.67%) Terraform
2 114 (56.72%) Kubernetes
3 56 (27.86%) Grafana
4 39 (19.40%) Prometheus
5 23 (11.44%) Argo
6 22 (10.95%) Ansible
7 11 (5.47%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (4.48%) FortiGate
9 7 (3.48%) Consul
10 5 (2.49%) Istio
10 5 (2.49%) Puppet
11 4 (1.99%) Suricata
12 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.50%) Cilium
13 1 (0.50%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.50%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.50%) Packer
13 1 (0.50%) systemd
13 1 (0.50%) yum
Vendors
1 15 (7.46%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.97%) Dynatrace
2 12 (5.97%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.47%) Oracle
4 7 (3.48%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.48%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.48%) Splunk
5 5 (2.49%) Amplitude
5 5 (2.49%) Sybase
6 4 (1.99%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.99%) Databricks
6 4 (1.99%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.00%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.00%) Charles River
8 2 (1.00%) FactSet
8 2 (1.00%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.00%) New Relic
8 2 (1.00%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.00%) Ping Identity