Amazon EKS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 338 383 378
Rank change year-on-year +45 -5 -33
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 57 69 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.29% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 0.86% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 53 98
10th Percentile £413 £515 £429
25th Percentile £444 £563 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £660 £676 £638
90th Percentile £694 £695 £675
UK median daily rate £531 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -15.00% +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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,471 8,044 9,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.32% 33.23% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,869 5,963 7,284
10th Percentile £213 £243 £206
25th Percentile £375 £406 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 238 293
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.77 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.51 £15.04
Median hourly rate £17.72 £24.31 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.13% +29.65% -3.85%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £59.95 £75.00 £54.85
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North of England +48 17 £606 +10.23% 9
Scotland +20 17 £550 -15.38% 3
South East +18 16 £600 -13.98% 5
North West +24 14 £663 +20.45% 7
South West +9 3 £500 -13.04% 5
Yorkshire - 3 £488 -
Midlands +37 2 £450 -18.18% 2
East of England +11 2 £400 -23.81% 2
West Midlands +30 1 £450 -18.18% 2
East Midlands - 1 - -
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (15.79%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.51%) JBoss
2 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 55 (96.49%) AWS
2 17 (29.82%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (28.07%) Amazon S3
4 13 (22.81%) OpenShift
5 12 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (21.05%) Serverless
6 10 (17.54%) Amazon SQS
6 10 (17.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (15.79%) Route 53
8 8 (14.04%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (14.04%) Azure
9 7 (12.28%) Azure AKS
10 6 (10.53%) GCP
11 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (8.77%) GitHub
11 5 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (3.51%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) Relational Database
2 8 (14.04%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (14.04%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.02%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.51%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.51%) MySQL
6 1 (1.75%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.75%) Parquet
6 1 (1.75%) Power BI
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (40.35%) Jenkins
2 16 (28.07%) GitLab
3 14 (24.56%) Git
4 8 (14.04%) Maven
4 8 (14.04%) webpack
5 7 (12.28%) Gradle
5 7 (12.28%) JUnit
6 4 (7.02%) Selenium
7 3 (5.26%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.51%) Snyk
8 2 (3.51%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.75%) JIRA
9 1 (1.75%) JMeter
9 1 (1.75%) Mockito
9 1 (1.75%) Spinnaker
9 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.75%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.77%) Finance
3 4 (7.02%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (24.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (22.81%) Developer
3 10 (17.54%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Java Developer
4 8 (14.04%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (14.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Lead
6 6 (10.53%) Full Stack Developer
6 6 (10.53%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior
7 5 (8.77%) Site Manager
7 5 (8.77%) Site Reliability Manager
8 4 (7.02%) Technical Leader
9 3 (5.26%) Architect
9 3 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) AWS Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.07%) Node.js
2 14 (24.56%) Spring
3 12 (21.05%) REST
4 11 (19.30%) Spring Boot
4 11 (19.30%) Web Services
5 10 (17.54%) React
6 9 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (15.79%) RESTful
7 8 (14.04%) Express.js
7 8 (14.04%) Kafka
7 8 (14.04%) Redux
8 6 (10.53%) SOAP
9 5 (8.77%) AngularJS
9 5 (8.77%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (7.02%) Hibernate
10 4 (7.02%) J2EE
10 4 (7.02%) JSON
11 3 (5.26%) DOM
11 3 (5.26%) EJB
11 3 (5.26%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.77%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Genomics
4 1 (1.75%) mHealth
4 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.05%) Linux
2 10 (17.54%) Windows
3 6 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 31 (54.39%) DevOps
3 19 (33.33%) Agile
4 17 (29.82%) Containerisation
5 14 (24.56%) Full Stack Development
6 13 (22.81%) Microservices
7 12 (21.05%) Scrum
8 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (17.54%) Test Automation
10 9 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (15.79%) End-to-End Testing
11 8 (14.04%) API Development
11 8 (14.04%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 8 (14.04%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (14.04%) ETL
11 8 (14.04%) Front End Development
11 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (14.04%) QA Automation
11 8 (14.04%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.58%) Python
2 16 (28.07%) Java
3 13 (22.81%) JavaScript
4 12 (21.05%) Bash
5 11 (19.30%) Groovy
6 8 (14.04%) Ruby
6 8 (14.04%) Shell Script
7 5 (8.77%) SQL
8 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
8 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.51%) Bicep
9 2 (3.51%) Scala
10 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (38.60%) Security Cleared
2 21 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (47.37%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 49 (85.96%) Kubernetes
2 30 (52.63%) Terraform
3 17 (29.82%) Ansible
4 4 (7.02%) Argo
5 2 (3.51%) Istio
5 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.75%) Grafana
6 1 (1.75%) Kibana
6 1 (1.75%) Knative
6 1 (1.75%) linkerd
6 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.75%) Puppet
6 1 (1.75%) SELinux
6 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Oracle
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.51%) VMware
3 1 (1.75%) Confluent
3 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.75%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.75%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.75%) IBM
3 1 (1.75%) Informatica
3 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.75%) Splunk
3 1 (1.75%) StreamSets
3 1 (1.75%) Zscaler