Amazon EKS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 136 149
Rank change year-on-year +20 +13 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 17 28 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.77% 0.98% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.30% 2.74% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 22
10th Percentile £411 - £519
25th Percentile £436 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £556
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +16.85% +5.95%
75th Percentile £634 £676 £634
90th Percentile - - £670
UK median daily rate £531 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -15.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 740 1,022 1,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.33% 35.82% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 767 781
10th Percentile £261 £252 £281
25th Percentile £400 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £573
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 20
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.69 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.67 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £24.85 £76.00 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £34.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.95% +59.99% -4.44%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in Scotland

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in Scotland

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in Scotland

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 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
Edinburgh +41 10 £623 - 1
Glasgow -12 7 £463 -28.85% 1
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) OpenShift
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 7 (41.18%) Git
2 7 (41.18%) Maven
3 6 (35.29%) Gradle
4 4 (23.53%) Selenium
5 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
6 2 (11.76%) GitLab
7 1 (5.88%) JIRA
7 1 (5.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (11.76%) Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Site Manager
1 5 (29.41%) Site Reliability Manager
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Developer
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) DOM
1 3 (17.65%) EJB
1 3 (17.65%) Hibernate
1 3 (17.65%) Java EE
1 3 (17.65%) JAX-RS
1 3 (17.65%) JDBC
1 3 (17.65%) JPA
1 3 (17.65%) JSON
1 3 (17.65%) Kafka
1 3 (17.65%) RESTful
1 3 (17.65%) Spring
1 3 (17.65%) Web Services
2 2 (11.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (47.06%) Deployment Automation
2 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (41.18%) DevOps
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Application Security
4 6 (35.29%) OWASP
4 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (29.41%) Service-Level Objective
5 5 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
6 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 3 (17.65%) MVC
6 3 (17.65%) OO
6 3 (17.65%) Scrum
6 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
7 2 (11.76%) Push Notifications
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) Bash
2 8 (47.06%) Groovy
2 8 (47.06%) Ruby
3 7 (41.18%) Shell Script
4 5 (29.41%) Java
5 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
6 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
6 3 (17.65%) SQL
7 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
1 12 (70.59%) Terraform
2 8 (47.06%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Argo
3 1 (5.88%) Istio
3 1 (5.88%) Knative
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Confluent
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Informatica
3 1 (5.88%) StreamSets