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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 441 432
Rank change year-on-year +30 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 176 273 501
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.48% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.32% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 214 344
10th Percentile £405 £500 £446
25th Percentile £444 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £634 £725 £688
90th Percentile £694 £863 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £640 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +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 13,894 20,672 33,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.50% 36.44% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,901 14,946 24,764
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 331 401
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £36.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -40.64% +60.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £40.00 £66.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £66.75 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £26.48 £20.00
% change year-on-year -33.08% +32.40% -

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 May 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 May 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 +13 120 £563 -10.00% 78
London +10 85 £550 -12.00% 58
Work from Home +27 70 £500 -20.00% 48
UK excluding London +32 52 £600 -6.25% 47
Scotland +32 17 £550 -15.38% 2
North of England +43 16 £663 +20.45% 9
South East +13 14 £650 -6.47% 24
North West +41 13 £663 +23.26% 7
Yorkshire +16 3 £488 -11.36% 2
Midlands +29 2 £450 -5.26% 1
South West 0 2 £500 -14.89% 5
West Midlands +20 1 £450 -5.26% 1
East of England +9 1 £600 +8.30% 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 10 (5.68%) Confluence
2 7 (3.98%) nginx
2 7 (3.98%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) JBoss
4 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 172 (97.73%) AWS
2 61 (34.66%) Amazon S3
3 54 (30.68%) Amazon EC2
4 36 (20.45%) Serverless
5 35 (19.89%) Amazon ECS
6 31 (17.61%) GitHub
7 30 (17.05%) Azure
7 30 (17.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 27 (15.34%) Route 53
9 26 (14.77%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (14.77%) OpenShift
10 24 (13.64%) Amazon ECR
10 24 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (13.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (10.80%) Azure AKS
14 18 (10.23%) GCP
15 15 (8.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (5.68%) AWS CloudTrail
16 10 (5.68%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.95%) Network Security
2 11 (6.25%) Firewall
3 5 (2.84%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.70%) SSL
5 2 (1.14%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.14%) SMS
5 2 (1.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.57%) IPv4
6 1 (0.57%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.89%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.82%) DynamoDB
4 11 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.11%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.98%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.98%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (2.27%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.70%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.14%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.14%) MySQL
9 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.57%) Looker
10 1 (0.57%) Parquet
10 1 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 62 (35.23%) Jenkins
2 58 (32.95%) Git
3 36 (20.45%) GitLab
4 15 (8.52%) JIRA
5 12 (6.82%) Maven
6 10 (5.68%) Gradle
7 9 (5.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (5.11%) webpack
8 6 (3.41%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.41%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.84%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.84%) JUnit
10 4 (2.27%) JMeter
10 4 (2.27%) Mercurial
10 4 (2.27%) Mocha
10 4 (2.27%) Sourcetree
10 4 (2.27%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.27%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.70%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.14%) TestNG
General
1 32 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.05%) Finance
3 9 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.98%) Banking
6 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.57%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.57%) Law
7 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (38.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (20.45%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (20.45%) Developer
3 33 (18.75%) AWS DevOps
4 32 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 18 (10.23%) Java Developer
6 17 (9.66%) Lead
7 15 (8.52%) Senior
8 13 (7.39%) Architect
9 9 (5.11%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Consultant
10 8 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
11 7 (3.98%) AWS Developer
11 7 (3.98%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.41%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (3.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.84%) AWS Architect
13 5 (2.84%) Site Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.64%) Node.js
2 20 (11.36%) Kafka
3 18 (10.23%) REST
4 16 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (9.09%) Spring
5 15 (8.52%) React
6 14 (7.95%) Spring Boot
7 10 (5.68%) Web Services
8 9 (5.11%) Express.js
8 9 (5.11%) Redux
9 7 (3.98%) Lambda Expressions
9 7 (3.98%) RESTful
10 6 (3.41%) .NET
10 6 (3.41%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.84%) Django
11 5 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.27%) .NET Core
12 4 (2.27%) Laravel
12 4 (2.27%) SOAP
12 4 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (5.11%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.41%) PKI
5 4 (2.27%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (2.27%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.70%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.70%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.14%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.14%) Replication
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.57%) mHealth
8 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.02%) Linux
2 13 (7.39%) Windows
3 11 (6.25%) Unix
4 3 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (58.52%) DevOps
2 91 (51.70%) CI/CD
3 47 (26.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (23.86%) Agile
5 40 (22.73%) Containerisation
6 33 (18.75%) Microservices
7 29 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (14.77%) Test Automation
9 17 (9.66%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
11 14 (7.95%) GitOps
11 14 (7.95%) Migration
11 14 (7.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (7.95%) TDD
12 13 (7.39%) Computer Science
13 12 (6.82%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (6.82%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 11 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
14 11 (6.25%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 84 (47.73%) Python
2 48 (27.27%) Java
3 32 (18.18%) Bash
4 19 (10.80%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.66%) SQL
6 14 (7.95%) Go
6 14 (7.95%) Groovy
6 14 (7.95%) Shell Script
7 12 (6.82%) Perl
8 8 (4.55%) Ruby
8 8 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.27%) C
9 4 (2.27%) C#
9 4 (2.27%) Scala
10 2 (1.14%) Bicep
11 1 (0.57%) C++
11 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 58 (32.95%) Security Cleared
2 56 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.39%) Degree
4 8 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) OCP
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.68%) QA
2 3 (1.70%) MiFID
2 3 (1.70%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.70%) SLA
3 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 74 (42.05%) Docker
2 5 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.14%) Squid
4 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.57%) Ceph
5 1 (0.57%) NFS
Systems Management
1 131 (74.43%) Kubernetes
2 97 (55.11%) Terraform
3 32 (18.18%) Ansible
4 24 (13.64%) Prometheus
5 23 (13.07%) Grafana
6 6 (3.41%) Packer
7 5 (2.84%) Argo
7 5 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.27%) Puppet
9 3 (1.70%) Kibana
10 2 (1.14%) Consul
10 2 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.14%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.14%) Istio
10 2 (1.14%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.14%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.14%) Salt
11 1 (0.57%) linkerd
11 1 (0.57%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 9 (5.11%) Oracle
3 7 (3.98%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.98%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.27%) VMware
5 3 (1.70%) Confluent
6 2 (1.14%) Cisco
6 2 (1.14%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.14%) IBM
6 2 (1.14%) Informatica
6 2 (1.14%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.14%) Qualys
6 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.14%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.14%) SAP
6 2 (1.14%) Solace
6 2 (1.14%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.57%) Splunk
7 1 (0.57%) WSO2