Amazon EKS Contracts in England

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 406 456 428
Rank change year-on-year +50 -28 -21
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 129 211 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.42% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.14% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 163 268
10th Percentile £382 £500 £450
25th Percentile £463 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +11.63%
75th Percentile £674 £825 £675
90th Percentile £753 £863 £750
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
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in England

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in England

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in England

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region 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
London +32 93 £563 -10.00% 29
North of England +41 17 £606 +10.23% 8
South East +29 15 £600 -13.67% 8
North West +21 14 £663 +20.45% 6
South West +14 3 £500 -13.04% 5
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
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (9.30%) Confluence
2 9 (6.98%) OpenStack
3 6 (4.65%) nginx
4 3 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.78%) JBoss
5 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 127 (98.45%) AWS
2 41 (31.78%) Amazon EC2
2 41 (31.78%) Amazon S3
3 35 (27.13%) Serverless
4 28 (21.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 27 (20.93%) Amazon ECS
6 25 (19.38%) Azure
7 24 (18.60%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (17.83%) Amazon ECR
9 21 (16.28%) GitHub
9 21 (16.28%) Route 53
10 19 (14.73%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (12.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (12.40%) Azure AKS
12 15 (11.63%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (8.53%) GCP
14 10 (7.75%) AWS CodePipeline
15 9 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (6.20%) AWS CloudTrail
17 7 (5.43%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.98%) Network Security
2 5 (3.88%) Firewall
3 3 (2.33%) SSL
4 2 (1.55%) SMS
4 2 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.55%) VPN
5 1 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.78%) IPv4
5 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.78%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.16%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (10.85%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.30%) DynamoDB
3 12 (9.30%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (6.20%) Relational Database
6 7 (5.43%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.10%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.10%) MySQL
8 3 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.33%) Big Data
8 3 (2.33%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.55%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.55%) Parquet
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.78%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.78%) Power BI
10 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (29.46%) Jenkins
2 36 (27.91%) Git
3 25 (19.38%) GitLab
4 15 (11.63%) JIRA
5 9 (6.98%) webpack
6 7 (5.43%) JUnit
7 6 (4.65%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.88%) CircleCI
9 4 (3.10%) Maven
9 4 (3.10%) Mercurial
9 4 (3.10%) SonarQube
9 4 (3.10%) Sourcetree
10 3 (2.33%) Gradle
10 3 (2.33%) Mocha
11 2 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.55%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.55%) JMeter
11 2 (1.55%) Snyk
11 2 (1.55%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
General
1 25 (19.38%) Finance
2 24 (18.60%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.88%) Banking
5 3 (2.33%) Retail
6 2 (1.55%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.78%) Law
7 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (31.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (24.81%) Developer
3 31 (24.03%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (20.93%) AWS DevOps
5 26 (20.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 19 (14.73%) Senior
7 18 (13.95%) Architect
8 14 (10.85%) Java Developer
8 14 (10.85%) Lead
9 9 (6.98%) AWS Architect
9 9 (6.98%) Full Stack Developer
9 9 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) AWS Developer
10 7 (5.43%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.65%) Lead DevOps
11 6 (4.65%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.88%) Full Stack Java Developer
12 5 (3.88%) Python Developer
12 5 (3.88%) Senior Architect
12 5 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.60%) Node.js
2 19 (14.73%) REST
3 16 (12.40%) Spring Boot
4 14 (10.85%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (10.85%) Kafka
4 14 (10.85%) React
4 14 (10.85%) Spring
5 12 (9.30%) Web Services
6 10 (7.75%) RESTful
7 9 (6.98%) AngularJS
7 9 (6.98%) Express.js
7 9 (6.98%) Redux
8 6 (4.65%) .NET
8 6 (4.65%) Lambda Expressions
8 6 (4.65%) SOAP
9 5 (3.88%) Django
9 5 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.88%) YAML
10 4 (3.10%) .NET Core
10 4 (3.10%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (6.20%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.65%) PKI
4 4 (3.10%) Credit Risk
4 4 (3.10%) Market Risk
5 3 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.55%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.55%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.55%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Genomics
7 1 (0.78%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.78%) mHealth
7 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.78%) Replication
7 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.78%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 25 (19.38%) Linux
2 4 (3.10%) Unix
2 4 (3.10%) Windows
3 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (59.69%) DevOps
2 64 (49.61%) CI/CD
3 35 (27.13%) Agile
3 35 (27.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (27.13%) Microservices
4 32 (24.81%) Containerisation
5 24 (18.60%) Test Automation
6 21 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (14.73%) Full Stack Development
8 18 (13.95%) TDD
9 13 (10.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (7.75%) ETL
12 10 (7.75%) Scrum
13 9 (6.98%) API Development
13 9 (6.98%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 9 (6.98%) Customer Engagement
13 9 (6.98%) End-to-End Testing
13 9 (6.98%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 49 (37.98%) Python
2 34 (26.36%) Java
3 19 (14.73%) JavaScript
4 16 (12.40%) SQL
5 13 (10.08%) Bash
6 10 (7.75%) Go
7 8 (6.20%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.65%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.10%) C#
9 4 (3.10%) Groovy
10 3 (2.33%) Scala
11 2 (1.55%) Bicep
11 2 (1.55%) C
11 2 (1.55%) Perl
12 1 (0.78%) C++
12 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 54 (41.86%) Security Cleared
2 52 (40.31%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.20%) Degree
4 5 (3.88%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) OCP
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.98%) QA
2 3 (2.33%) MiFID
2 3 (2.33%) SLA
3 2 (1.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.55%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.78%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.78%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (41.09%) Docker
2 3 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.55%) Squid
3 2 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) Ceph
4 1 (0.78%) NFS
Systems Management
1 82 (63.57%) Kubernetes
2 64 (49.61%) Terraform
3 26 (20.16%) Ansible
4 14 (10.85%) Grafana
4 14 (10.85%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.43%) Packer
5 7 (5.43%) Progress Chef
5 7 (5.43%) Puppet
6 4 (3.10%) Consul
7 3 (2.33%) Argo
7 3 (2.33%) Kibana
7 3 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.55%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.55%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.55%) Salt
9 1 (0.78%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.78%) Istio
9 1 (0.78%) linkerd
9 1 (0.78%) logstash
9 1 (0.78%) Mesos
Vendors
1 6 (4.65%) Oracle
2 5 (3.88%) Dynatrace
2 5 (3.88%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.88%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.10%) VMware
4 2 (1.55%) Cisco
4 2 (1.55%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.55%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.55%) Qualys
4 2 (1.55%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.78%) Confluent
5 1 (0.78%) Databricks
5 1 (0.78%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.78%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.78%) IBM
5 1 (0.78%) Sage
5 1 (0.78%) Splunk
5 1 (0.78%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.78%) WSO2
5 1 (0.78%) Zscaler