Amazon EKS Contracts

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 450 440
Rank change year-on-year +35 -10 -19
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 185 284 492
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.47% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.29% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 211 350
10th Percentile £400 £500 £450
25th Percentile £425 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £634 £715 £675
90th Percentile £694 £863 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +50 129 £560 -10.40% 57
London +32 93 £563 -10.00% 30
Work from Home +34 80 £500 -20.00% 41
UK excluding London +49 53 £575 -8.00% 29
North of England +41 17 £606 +10.23% 8
South East +29 15 £600 -13.67% 7
Scotland +20 15 £611 -5.96% 2
North West +21 14 £663 +20.45% 6
South West +14 3 £500 -13.04% 6
Yorkshire - 3 £488 -
Midlands +22 2 £450 -18.18% 3
West Midlands +28 1 £450 -18.18% 3
East of England +12 1 £400 -23.81% 2
East Midlands - 1 - -

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (8.11%) Confluence
2 10 (5.41%) OpenStack
3 6 (3.24%) nginx
4 3 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.54%) JBoss
6 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 177 (95.68%) AWS
2 56 (30.27%) Amazon S3
3 55 (29.73%) Amazon EC2
4 42 (22.70%) Serverless
5 38 (20.54%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 36 (19.46%) Azure
8 29 (15.68%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (14.59%) GitHub
9 27 (14.59%) Route 53
10 26 (14.05%) OpenShift
11 25 (13.51%) Amazon ECR
11 25 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (12.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (10.81%) Azure AKS
14 16 (8.65%) GCP
15 12 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (5.41%) AWS CloudTrail
16 10 (5.41%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.11%) Network Security
2 11 (5.95%) Firewall
3 5 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.62%) SSL
5 2 (1.08%) SMS
5 2 (1.08%) VPN
6 1 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.54%) IPv4
6 1 (0.54%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.54%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (18.38%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.49%) DynamoDB
3 12 (6.49%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.86%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.78%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (3.78%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.16%) MySQL
8 3 (1.62%) Big Data
8 3 (1.62%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.62%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.08%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.08%) Parquet
10 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.54%) Power BI
10 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 66 (35.68%) Jenkins
2 59 (31.89%) Git
3 37 (20.00%) GitLab
4 18 (9.73%) JIRA
5 13 (7.03%) Maven
6 11 (5.95%) Gradle
7 9 (4.86%) JUnit
7 9 (4.86%) webpack
8 8 (4.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (3.24%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.70%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.70%) Mocha
11 4 (2.16%) Cypress.io
11 4 (2.16%) JMeter
11 4 (2.16%) Mercurial
11 4 (2.16%) Selenium
11 4 (2.16%) SonarQube
11 4 (2.16%) Sourcetree
12 3 (1.62%) TestNG
12 3 (1.62%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.14%) Finance
3 11 (5.95%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.24%) Banking
6 3 (1.62%) Retail
7 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.54%) Law
8 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (36.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (22.16%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (18.38%) AWS DevOps
4 33 (17.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 33 (17.84%) Developer
5 24 (12.97%) Architect
6 19 (10.27%) Senior
7 16 (8.65%) Lead
8 15 (8.11%) Java Developer
9 11 (5.95%) AWS Architect
9 11 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.86%) Full Stack Developer
11 9 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (4.32%) Lead DevOps
13 7 (3.78%) AWS Developer
13 7 (3.78%) Senior Developer
14 6 (3.24%) Consultant
14 6 (3.24%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.24%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.59%) Node.js
2 22 (11.89%) REST
3 19 (10.27%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (10.27%) Spring Boot
4 18 (9.73%) Spring
5 17 (9.19%) Kafka
6 15 (8.11%) React
7 13 (7.03%) Web Services
8 10 (5.41%) RESTful
9 9 (4.86%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.86%) Express.js
9 9 (4.86%) Redux
10 8 (4.32%) SOAP
11 6 (3.24%) .NET
11 6 (3.24%) Lambda Expressions
12 5 (2.70%) Django
12 5 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.70%) YAML
13 4 (2.16%) .NET Core
13 4 (2.16%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (4.86%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.78%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.24%) PKI
5 4 (2.16%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.16%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.62%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.62%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.62%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.08%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.54%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (18.92%) Linux
2 14 (7.57%) Windows
3 10 (5.41%) Unix
4 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (64.86%) DevOps
2 95 (51.35%) CI/CD
3 57 (30.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (28.65%) Agile
5 43 (23.24%) Containerisation
5 43 (23.24%) Microservices
6 29 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (14.59%) Test Automation
8 21 (11.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 19 (10.27%) Full Stack Development
10 18 (9.73%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (9.73%) TDD
11 14 (7.57%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (7.03%) Computer Science
12 13 (7.03%) Migration
13 12 (6.49%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (6.49%) GitOps
13 12 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (6.49%) Scrum
13 12 (6.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (44.86%) Python
2 46 (24.86%) Java
3 32 (17.30%) Bash
4 23 (12.43%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.65%) Go
5 16 (8.65%) SQL
6 13 (7.03%) Shell Script
7 12 (6.49%) Groovy
8 11 (5.95%) Perl
9 9 (4.86%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.32%) Ruby
11 4 (2.16%) C
11 4 (2.16%) C#
12 3 (1.62%) Scala
13 2 (1.08%) Bicep
14 1 (0.54%) C++
14 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 66 (35.68%) Security Cleared
2 63 (34.05%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.03%) Degree
4 8 (4.32%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) OCP
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.86%) QA
2 3 (1.62%) MiFID
2 3 (1.62%) SLA
3 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 73 (39.46%) Docker
2 3 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.62%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.08%) Squid
3 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) Ceph
4 1 (0.54%) NFS
Systems Management
1 125 (67.57%) Kubernetes
2 101 (54.59%) Terraform
3 37 (20.00%) Ansible
4 21 (11.35%) Grafana
4 21 (11.35%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.78%) Packer
5 7 (3.78%) Progress Chef
5 7 (3.78%) Puppet
6 4 (2.16%) Argo
6 4 (2.16%) Consul
7 3 (1.62%) Kibana
7 3 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.08%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.08%) Istio
8 2 (1.08%) Salt
9 1 (0.54%) Knative
9 1 (0.54%) linkerd
9 1 (0.54%) logstash
9 1 (0.54%) SELinux
Vendors
1 8 (4.32%) Microsoft
1 8 (4.32%) Oracle
1 8 (4.32%) Red Hat
2 5 (2.70%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.16%) VMware
4 2 (1.08%) Cisco
4 2 (1.08%) Confluent
4 2 (1.08%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.08%) IBM
4 2 (1.08%) Informatica
4 2 (1.08%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.08%) Qualys
4 2 (1.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.08%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.08%) SAP
4 2 (1.08%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.54%) Databricks
5 1 (0.54%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.54%) Zscaler