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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 226 294
Rank change year-on-year -20 +68 +35
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 173 133 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 1.06% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.27% 2.50% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 113 60
10th Percentile £371 £475 £363
25th Percentile £500 £575 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £625 £556
Median % change year-on-year -14.80% +12.36% -11.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £653
90th Percentile £713 £885 £791
England median daily rate £530 £600 £561
% change year-on-year -11.67% +6.90% -10.20%

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 7,617 5,326 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.78% 42.37% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,248 3,706 4,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 52 68
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.42 £17.32
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +20.83% -40.21%
75th Percentile £53.35 £50.00 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.25 £73.13 £59.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +84.31% +22.77% -35.70%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -2 15 £522 -23.83% 1
Central London -18 13 £544 -19.44% 10
West London - 3 £725 -
East London - 1 £500 -
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 12 (6.94%) Confluence
2 11 (6.36%) nginx
3 5 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) SAS
5 1 (0.58%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.31%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 169 (97.69%) AWS
2 76 (43.93%) Amazon S3
2 76 (43.93%) Serverless
3 74 (42.77%) AWS Lambda
4 63 (36.42%) Amazon EC2
5 59 (34.10%) GitHub
6 58 (33.53%) Amazon ECS
7 47 (27.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (27.17%) GitHub Actions
8 46 (26.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 45 (26.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (14.45%) Azure
11 22 (12.72%) Route 53
12 20 (11.56%) Datadog
13 17 (9.83%) Azure AKS
14 15 (8.67%) AWS CodePipeline
15 13 (7.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 13 (7.51%) Amazon SQS
16 12 (6.94%) GCP
17 11 (6.36%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.72%) DNS
2 14 (8.09%) Firewall
2 14 (8.09%) VPN
3 11 (6.36%) TCP/IP
4 9 (5.20%) OpenVPN
5 5 (2.89%) Network Security
6 4 (2.31%) SSL
7 2 (1.16%) BGP
7 2 (1.16%) OSPF
7 2 (1.16%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.16%) WAN
8 1 (0.58%) DHCP
8 1 (0.58%) ICMP
8 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.81%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (13.29%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.36%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.78%) DynamoDB
4 10 (5.78%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.62%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.05%) DocumentDB
7 6 (3.47%) Flink
7 6 (3.47%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.47%) Redis
8 5 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.89%) MySQL
9 3 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.73%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.16%) Big Data
10 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.58%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 52 (30.06%) GitLab
2 51 (29.48%) Jenkins
3 14 (8.09%) Git
4 12 (6.94%) Bitbucket
4 12 (6.94%) JIRA
5 8 (4.62%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.05%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.89%) MLflow
7 5 (2.89%) Mocha
7 5 (2.89%) MSTest
7 5 (2.89%) tSQLt
8 4 (2.31%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.31%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.73%) Snyk
10 2 (1.16%) GoCD
11 1 (0.58%) git-flow
11 1 (0.58%) Gradle
11 1 (0.58%) JUnit
11 1 (0.58%) Maven
11 1 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 37 (21.39%) Public Sector
2 35 (20.23%) Social Skills
3 28 (16.18%) Finance
4 17 (9.83%) Banking
4 17 (9.83%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.78%) Front Office
7 5 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Games
10 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (21.97%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (20.81%) Senior
3 33 (19.08%) Architect
4 30 (17.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (16.18%) Developer
6 19 (10.98%) AWS Architect
7 18 (10.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 17 (9.83%) Lead
9 16 (9.25%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (8.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (8.09%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (7.51%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (7.51%) Site Engineer
13 12 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (6.36%) Python Developer
15 10 (5.78%) Python Engineer
16 9 (5.20%) Software Engineer
17 8 (4.62%) Data Engineer
17 8 (4.62%) Lead DevOps
17 8 (4.62%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (24.86%) Kafka
2 21 (12.14%) REST
3 19 (10.98%) RESTful
4 18 (10.40%) OpenID
5 16 (9.25%) Node.js
6 14 (8.09%) AWS CDK
6 14 (8.09%) Spring Boot
7 13 (7.51%) OAuth
7 13 (7.51%) Spring
8 12 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (6.36%) OAuth2
10 10 (5.78%) LDAP
10 10 (5.78%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (5.20%) AngularJS
11 9 (5.20%) HTML
12 8 (4.62%) .NET
12 8 (4.62%) React
13 7 (4.05%) FastAPI
14 6 (3.47%) Django
15 5 (2.89%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 48 (27.75%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.78%) Fixed Income
4 9 (5.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (5.20%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.05%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.47%) Equities
7 4 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.73%) Life Science
8 3 (1.73%) PKI
8 3 (1.73%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.16%) Omics
9 2 (1.16%) SCADA
9 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.76%) Linux
2 5 (2.89%) Windows
3 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.16%) Unix
4 1 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (72.83%) CI/CD
2 88 (50.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 80 (46.24%) DevOps
4 74 (42.77%) Containerisation
5 46 (26.59%) Observability
6 44 (25.43%) Platform Engineering
7 35 (20.23%) Microservices
8 32 (18.50%) Agile
9 31 (17.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 30 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (13.87%) Software Engineering
12 22 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (11.56%) DevSecOps
13 20 (11.56%) SDLC
14 18 (10.40%) Cloud Security
15 16 (9.25%) AI
15 16 (9.25%) Event-Driven
15 16 (9.25%) Test Automation
16 15 (8.67%) Roadmaps
16 15 (8.67%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (51.45%) Python
2 39 (22.54%) Java
3 25 (14.45%) Bash
4 19 (10.98%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.83%) SQL
6 8 (4.62%) Go
6 8 (4.62%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.05%) C#
8 5 (2.89%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.89%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.73%) Bicep
10 2 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.58%) C
11 1 (0.58%) Groovy
11 1 (0.58%) Korn
11 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.58%) ProC
11 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (31.79%) Security Cleared
2 48 (27.75%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.87%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (4.05%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.47%) Degree
7 4 (2.31%) CISSP
7 4 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.58%) CCSP
8 1 (0.58%) CEH
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) OSCP
8 1 (0.58%) SANS
8 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (5.78%) QA
2 9 (5.20%) NIST
3 6 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.47%) WCAG
4 5 (2.89%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.31%) NCSC
6 3 (1.73%) SLA
7 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.16%) GRC
8 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 80 (46.24%) Docker
2 10 (5.78%) Squid
3 3 (1.73%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.58%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 123 (71.10%) Terraform
2 89 (51.45%) Kubernetes
3 37 (21.39%) Grafana
4 32 (18.50%) Prometheus
5 22 (12.72%) Ansible
6 16 (9.25%) Argo
7 12 (6.94%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (6.36%) Puppet
9 9 (5.20%) FortiGate
10 7 (4.05%) Consul
11 4 (2.31%) Karpenter
11 4 (2.31%) Kibana
11 4 (2.31%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.73%) Istio
12 3 (1.73%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.73%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.58%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.58%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.58%) Packer
13 1 (0.58%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (7.51%) Dynatrace
2 11 (6.36%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.78%) Splunk
4 9 (5.20%) PagerDuty
4 9 (5.20%) Red Hat
5 8 (4.62%) Databricks
6 7 (4.05%) AppDynamics
6 7 (4.05%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.47%) Qualys
8 5 (2.89%) AVEVA
9 4 (2.31%) Bloomberg
9 4 (2.31%) Charles River
9 4 (2.31%) New Relic
9 4 (2.31%) Oracle
9 4 (2.31%) Tenable
10 3 (1.73%) Google
10 3 (1.73%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.16%) Rapid7
11 2 (1.16%) SAP
11 2 (1.16%) Sybase