Amazon EKS Contracts in the Midlands

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Amazon EKS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 162 188
Rank change year-on-year +28 +26 -38
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 2 2 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.072% 0.058% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.16% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 15
10th Percentile - £486 £413
25th Percentile - £502 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £535 £432
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% +23.84% -13.60%
75th Percentile - £574 £453
90th Percentile - £594 £531
England median daily rate £563 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +11.11%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

Amazon EKS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 685 1,220 1,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.78% 35.49% 33.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 876 1,214
10th Percentile £200 £213 £208
25th Percentile £325 £374 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £575
90th Percentile £684 £675 £667
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 34
10th Percentile - £14.76 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.10
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.86 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% +9.00% +15.35%
75th Percentile £27.00 £24.47 £20.88
90th Percentile £48.17 £26.48 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -2.33%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the Midlands

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the Midlands

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +27 1 £450 -15.89% 4
East Midlands - 1 - -
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) gRPC
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) RAML
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Istio
2 1 (50.00%) linkerd
2 1 (50.00%) SELinux
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat