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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 260 250
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +52
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 198 106 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 0.78% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.38% 1.81% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 87 92
10th Percentile £412 £423 £475
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £653 £888
90th Percentile £775 £718 -
England median daily rate £573 £575 £638
% change year-on-year -0.43% -9.80% +2.00%

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 8,335 5,844 6,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.50% 43.09% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,680 4,001 4,772
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 90 49
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.95 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £72.68 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.36 £26.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.22% +4.60% -22.62%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -7 16 £700 +12.00% 4
West London - 9 £725 - 5
South London -4 7 £556 -21.04%
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 12 (6.06%) Confluence
2 6 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) nginx
5 1 (0.51%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.51%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 194 (97.98%) AWS
2 73 (36.87%) Amazon ECS
2 73 (36.87%) Amazon S3
2 73 (36.87%) Serverless
3 71 (35.86%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (32.83%) Amazon EC2
5 64 (32.32%) GitHub
6 55 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
7 51 (25.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 41 (20.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 29 (14.65%) Azure
10 24 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (11.62%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (11.11%) GCP
13 20 (10.10%) Datadog
14 17 (8.59%) Snowflake
15 16 (8.08%) Amazon EventBridge
15 16 (8.08%) Azure AKS
15 16 (8.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 10 (5.05%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.56%) Network Security
2 10 (5.05%) Firewall
3 7 (3.54%) DNS
3 7 (3.54%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.53%) VPN
5 3 (1.52%) SSL
6 2 (1.01%) DSL
6 2 (1.01%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.51%) Calico
7 1 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.53%) Big Data
5 5 (2.53%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.53%) Redis
6 4 (2.02%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.52%) MySQL
7 3 (1.52%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.01%) Power BI
8 2 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.51%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.51%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 75 (37.88%) GitLab
2 48 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 24 (12.12%) Git
4 9 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.03%) JIRA
6 5 (2.53%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.02%) Mocha
7 4 (2.02%) MSTest
7 4 (2.02%) tSQLt
8 2 (1.01%) Maven
9 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.51%) Gatling
9 1 (0.51%) git-flow
9 1 (0.51%) Gradle
9 1 (0.51%) MLflow
9 1 (0.51%) RhodeCode
9 1 (0.51%) Selenium
9 1 (0.51%) Snyk
9 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (22.73%) Finance
2 40 (20.20%) Social Skills
3 37 (18.69%) Public Sector
4 32 (16.16%) Banking
5 9 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.03%) Law
8 5 (2.53%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.52%) Back Office
9 3 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.52%) Retail
10 2 (1.01%) Billing
10 2 (1.01%) Front Office
10 2 (1.01%) Military
10 2 (1.01%) Publishing
11 1 (0.51%) Games
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
2 51 (25.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (23.23%) Senior
4 25 (12.63%) AWS DevOps
4 25 (12.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 24 (12.12%) Architect
5 24 (12.12%) Lead
6 23 (11.62%) Developer
7 18 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (7.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (6.57%) Lead DevOps
9 13 (6.57%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (6.57%) Software Engineer
10 12 (6.06%) AWS Architect
10 12 (6.06%) Site Engineer
11 11 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 10 (5.05%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.15%) REST
2 28 (14.14%) Kafka
3 18 (9.09%) Spring
4 16 (8.08%) Spring Boot
5 15 (7.58%) RESTful
6 14 (7.07%) FastAPI
6 14 (7.07%) React
7 12 (6.06%) AngularJS
7 12 (6.06%) OpenTelemetry
8 10 (5.05%) .NET
8 10 (5.05%) Flask
8 10 (5.05%) Loki
9 9 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (4.55%) Node.js
10 6 (3.03%) AWS CDK
10 6 (3.03%) Langfuse
11 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (2.53%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (2.53%) Next.js
11 5 (2.53%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 78 (39.39%) Cloud Native
2 27 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.05%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.05%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.05%) Virtual Team
4 8 (4.04%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.53%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.53%) PKI
6 5 (2.53%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.02%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.52%) Equities
8 3 (1.52%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.01%) Autonomous Agent
9 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.14%) Linux
2 10 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.54%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.52%) VMS
5 2 (1.01%) Windows
5 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (74.75%) CI/CD
2 111 (56.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 107 (54.04%) DevOps
4 85 (42.93%) Containerisation
5 79 (39.90%) Observability
6 63 (31.82%) Microservices
7 43 (21.72%) Platform Engineering
8 36 (18.18%) Agile
8 36 (18.18%) AI
9 35 (17.68%) Software Engineering
10 32 (16.16%) DevSecOps
10 32 (16.16%) Event-Driven
11 30 (15.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 27 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 25 (12.63%) Mentoring
14 24 (12.12%) Secrets Management
15 23 (11.62%) Deployment Automation
15 23 (11.62%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (11.11%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 105 (53.03%) Python
2 47 (23.74%) Bash
3 39 (19.70%) Java
4 14 (7.07%) SQL
4 14 (7.07%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.04%) C#
7 8 (4.04%) Go
8 4 (2.02%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.52%) Cypher
9 3 (1.52%) SHACL
10 2 (1.01%) Bicep
10 2 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.01%) R
11 1 (0.51%) C++
11 1 (0.51%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.51%) Haskell
11 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.51%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 73 (36.87%) Security Cleared
2 59 (29.80%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.10%) AWS Certification
4 16 (8.08%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.02%) Degree
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.51%) PMP
9 1 (0.51%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.05%) QA
2 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.52%) SLA
2 3 (1.52%) WCAG
3 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.01%) NIST
4 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.51%) NCSC
System Software
1 84 (42.42%) Docker
2 7 (3.54%) Squid
3 5 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 137 (69.19%) Terraform
2 120 (60.61%) Kubernetes
3 53 (26.77%) Grafana
4 40 (20.20%) Prometheus
5 25 (12.63%) Ansible
6 24 (12.12%) Argo
7 7 (3.54%) Istio
8 5 (2.53%) Puppet
9 4 (2.02%) Suricata
10 3 (1.52%) Bosun
10 3 (1.52%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.01%) Cilium
11 2 (1.01%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.51%) Consul
12 1 (0.51%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.51%) Nagios
12 1 (0.51%) Packer
12 1 (0.51%) systemd
Vendors
1 16 (8.08%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.57%) Oracle
3 10 (5.05%) Splunk
4 8 (4.04%) New Relic
5 7 (3.54%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.53%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.53%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.02%) Okta
8 4 (2.02%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.02%) Sybase
9 3 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.52%) VMware
10 2 (1.01%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.01%) FactSet
10 2 (1.01%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.01%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.01%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.51%) BigPanda
11 1 (0.51%) Tenable