Amazon EKS Contracts in the South East

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 209 242
Rank change year-on-year +21 +33 -49
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 15 12 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 0.70% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile - £613 £498
25th Percentile £538 £650 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £695 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.67% +15.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £715 £644
90th Percentile - £717 £675
England median daily rate £560 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +11.11%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,382 1,706 2,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 24.89% 29.36% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 1,252 1,797
10th Percentile £250 £252 £200
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £606
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 52 64
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £24.50 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% +16.39% -4.32%
75th Percentile £59.50 £67.81 £37.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the South East

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the South East

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Thames Valley +12 11 £575 -17.86% 2
Berkshire -2 8 - - 2
Buckinghamshire +25 2 £575 -17.86%
Surrey +13 2 £650 +4.00% 1
West Sussex - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £600 -
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (53.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (46.67%) Serverless
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (13.33%) CloudFront
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Azure
6 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (46.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (40.00%) Git
3 5 (33.33%) JUnit
4 2 (13.33%) GitLab
5 1 (6.67%) JMeter
5 1 (6.67%) Mockito
5 1 (6.67%) Spinnaker
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Java Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Spring
1 9 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (46.67%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (46.67%) REST
2 7 (46.67%) Web Services
3 6 (40.00%) Node.js
4 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
4 4 (26.67%) Kafka
4 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (26.67%) RESTful
4 4 (26.67%) SOAP
5 3 (20.00%) J2EE
6 2 (13.33%) Apache Camel
6 2 (13.33%) LDAP
6 2 (13.33%) Mustache
6 2 (13.33%) React
7 1 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
7 1 (6.67%) jQuery
7 1 (6.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Microservices
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Scrum
2 7 (46.67%) TDD
3 6 (40.00%) DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) BDD
4 5 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
4 5 (33.33%) Kanban
5 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
7 1 (6.67%) Architectural Design
7 1 (6.67%) GitOps
7 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (6.67%) Process Management
7 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Scala
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Groovy
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (93.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (46.67%) Ansible
3 6 (40.00%) Terraform
4 1 (6.67%) Grafana
4 1 (6.67%) Kibana
4 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (6.67%) Guidewire
1 1 (6.67%) Splunk