Amazon EKS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 299 356
Rank change year-on-year +36 +57 -53
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 78 172 278
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.69% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 1.73% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 133 213
10th Percentile £405 £500 £450
25th Percentile £416 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £597 £863 £675
90th Percentile £679 - £700
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
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 median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,447 9,934 18,168
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.13% 39.60% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,923 7,315 13,601
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +64.89% -17.09%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

Amazon EKS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EKS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon EKS.

Amazon EKS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Amazon EKS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (3.85%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 74 (94.87%) AWS
2 27 (34.62%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (30.77%) Amazon S3
4 19 (24.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 18 (23.08%) Serverless
6 15 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (17.95%) Route 53
8 13 (16.67%) OpenShift
9 12 (15.38%) Azure
10 10 (12.82%) GitHub
10 10 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (11.54%) GCP
12 8 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (7.69%) Azure AKS
14 5 (6.41%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (6.41%) IaaS
15 4 (5.13%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.54%) Network Security
2 5 (6.41%) Firewall
2 5 (6.41%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.56%) VPN
4 1 (1.28%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.51%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (6.41%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.85%) MySQL
5 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (2.56%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.56%) Big Data
6 2 (2.56%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.56%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.56%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (41.03%) Jenkins
2 21 (26.92%) Git
3 18 (23.08%) GitLab
4 7 (8.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (8.97%) JIRA
5 3 (3.85%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.85%) JMeter
5 3 (3.85%) JUnit
5 3 (3.85%) Maven
5 3 (3.85%) webpack
6 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.56%) Gradle
6 2 (2.56%) Mocha
6 2 (2.56%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.56%) Selenium
6 2 (2.56%) SoapUI
6 2 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.56%) TestNG
6 2 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.54%) Finance
3 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.28%) Dutch Language
5 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (17.95%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 12 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (11.54%) Senior
5 8 (10.26%) Architect
6 7 (8.97%) Developer
6 7 (8.97%) Lead
7 5 (6.41%) Consultant
7 5 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) AWS Architect
8 4 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Lead DevOps
8 4 (5.13%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Full Stack Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes Consultant
9 3 (3.85%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (10.26%) Node.js
2 6 (7.69%) Kafka
2 6 (7.69%) React
3 5 (6.41%) REST
3 5 (6.41%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.13%) Spring
5 3 (3.85%) CSS
5 3 (3.85%) Express.js
5 3 (3.85%) Redux
6 2 (2.56%) .NET
6 2 (2.56%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.56%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.56%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.56%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.56%) Chai
6 2 (2.56%) JAX-RS
6 2 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.56%) SOAP
6 2 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (3.85%) PKI
2 3 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.28%) Genomics
4 1 (1.28%) mHealth
4 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.95%) Linux
2 7 (8.97%) Windows
3 4 (5.13%) Unix
4 2 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (70.51%) DevOps
2 43 (55.13%) CI/CD
3 29 (37.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (30.77%) Agile
5 12 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 12 (15.38%) Microservices
6 11 (14.10%) Migration
7 9 (11.54%) GitOps
7 9 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (10.26%) Configuration Management
8 8 (10.26%) Test Automation
9 7 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (8.97%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (8.97%) Full Stack Development
9 7 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (8.97%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (8.97%) Service Design
9 7 (8.97%) Task Automation
9 7 (8.97%) Use Case
10 6 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (43.59%) Python
2 16 (20.51%) Java
3 15 (19.23%) Bash
4 14 (17.95%) Go
5 10 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 10 (12.82%) Perl
6 7 (8.97%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.85%) C
8 2 (2.56%) Bicep
8 2 (2.56%) C#
8 2 (2.56%) Groovy
8 2 (2.56%) SQL
9 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 26 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.69%) Degree
4 4 (5.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.56%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.56%) QA
1 2 (2.56%) SLA
2 1 (1.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (32.05%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.56%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.56%) Squid
2 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 43 (55.13%) Terraform
3 12 (15.38%) Grafana
4 11 (14.10%) Prometheus
5 10 (12.82%) Ansible
6 5 (6.41%) Progress Chef
6 5 (6.41%) Puppet
7 3 (3.85%) Argo
8 2 (2.56%) Consul
8 2 (2.56%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.56%) Kibana
8 2 (2.56%) Packer
8 2 (2.56%) Salt
9 1 (1.28%) Istio
9 1 (1.28%) Knative
9 1 (1.28%) logstash
9 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (6.41%) Red Hat
2 4 (5.13%) VMware
3 3 (3.85%) Oracle
4 2 (2.56%) Cisco
4 2 (2.56%) Confluent
4 2 (2.56%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.56%) IBM
4 2 (2.56%) Informatica
4 2 (2.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.56%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.56%) Qualys
4 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.56%) SaltStack
4 2 (2.56%) SAP
4 2 (2.56%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.28%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.28%) Splunk
5 1 (1.28%) Zscaler