Amazon EKS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 264 303
Rank change year-on-year +51 +39 +61
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 91 81 178
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.92% 0.53% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.31% 1.46% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 61 137
10th Percentile £463 £405 £500
25th Percentile £519 £413 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £600 £775
90th Percentile £888 £688 £863
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Amazon EKS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon EKS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EKS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 17 (18.68%) Apache
1 17 (18.68%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.20%) nginx
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 88 (96.70%) AWS
2 41 (45.05%) AWS CloudFormation
3 36 (39.56%) Amazon EC2
4 31 (34.07%) Serverless
5 30 (32.97%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
7 25 (27.47%) Amazon S3
8 21 (23.08%) GCP
9 20 (21.98%) GitHub
10 17 (18.68%) Dagster
10 17 (18.68%) dbt
10 17 (18.68%) Snowflake
11 10 (10.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (9.89%) AWS CodePipeline
13 8 (8.79%) Azure AKS
14 7 (7.69%) SaaS
15 6 (6.59%) AWS Fargate
15 6 (6.59%) PaaS
16 4 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.09%) DNS
2 10 (10.99%) HTTP
2 10 (10.99%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.69%) Internet
4 4 (4.40%) Firewall
5 2 (2.20%) SSL
6 1 (1.10%) DHCP
6 1 (1.10%) FTP
6 1 (1.10%) VPN
6 1 (1.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (36.26%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (18.68%) Amazon Athena
2 17 (18.68%) Apache Arrow
2 17 (18.68%) Apache Iceberg
2 17 (18.68%) Apache Ignite
2 17 (18.68%) Data Lake
2 17 (18.68%) Dremio
3 9 (9.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.20%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.10%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (29.67%) Jenkins
2 11 (12.09%) GitLab
3 4 (4.40%) Git
3 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.30%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.20%) JIRA
5 2 (2.20%) Terragrunt
5 2 (2.20%) Toad
6 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.10%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.10%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.10%) JMeter
6 1 (1.10%) JProfiler
6 1 (1.10%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.10%) Mockito
6 1 (1.10%) Spinnaker
6 1 (1.10%) Vagrant
General
1 23 (25.27%) Public Sector
2 22 (24.18%) Social Skills
3 19 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (20.88%) Finance
4 17 (18.68%) Banking
4 17 (18.68%) Front Office
4 17 (18.68%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (39.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (37.36%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (31.87%) Architect
4 24 (26.37%) Senior
5 23 (25.27%) AWS Architect
6 17 (18.68%) AWS DevOps
6 17 (18.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 17 (18.68%) AWS Software Engineer
6 17 (18.68%) Software Engineer
7 14 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 11 (12.09%) Java Engineer
8 11 (12.09%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (9.89%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (7.69%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (6.59%) Python Engineer
11 6 (6.59%) Python Software Engineer
11 6 (6.59%) Senior Java Engineer
11 6 (6.59%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 5 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.68%) gRPC
1 17 (18.68%) NumPy
1 17 (18.68%) Pandas
1 17 (18.68%) Protocol Buffers
1 17 (18.68%) PySpark
1 17 (18.68%) SciPy
2 15 (16.48%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (7.69%) REST
4 4 (4.40%) .NET
5 3 (3.30%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.30%) Node.js
6 2 (2.20%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.20%) Kafka
6 2 (2.20%) OAuth
6 2 (2.20%) OpenID
6 2 (2.20%) SAML
6 2 (2.20%) Spring
7 1 (1.10%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.10%) RESTful
7 1 (1.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.68%) Derivative
1 17 (18.68%) Equities
1 17 (18.68%) Fixed Income
1 17 (18.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 17 (18.68%) Hedge funds
2 6 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (6.59%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.10%) PKI
5 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.58%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) Unix
3 2 (2.20%) Windows
4 1 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (47.25%) DevOps
2 39 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
4 30 (32.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (31.87%) Agile
6 26 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (24.18%) High Availability
7 22 (24.18%) Migration
7 22 (24.18%) Software Engineering
8 20 (21.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (19.78%) Open Source
10 17 (18.68%) Asset Management
11 13 (14.29%) Configuration Management
12 11 (12.09%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (12.09%) Cost Management
12 11 (12.09%) Microservices
13 9 (9.89%) Observability
14 8 (8.79%) Deployment Automation
14 8 (8.79%) Roadmaps
15 6 (6.59%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.56%) Python
2 24 (26.37%) Java
3 22 (24.18%) JavaScript
4 17 (18.68%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.79%) Bash
6 7 (7.69%) Go
7 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.30%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.30%) SQL
8 2 (2.20%) Groovy
8 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.10%) C#
9 1 (1.10%) Perl
9 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (50.55%) Security Cleared
2 44 (48.35%) SC Cleared
3 21 (23.08%) AWS Certification
3 21 (23.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.40%) OCP
4 4 (4.40%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) Degree
5 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.10%) GDPR
1 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.10%) NCSC
1 1 (1.10%) NIST
1 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (25.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (49.45%) Kubernetes
2 43 (47.25%) Terraform
3 19 (20.88%) Ansible
4 18 (19.78%) Grafana
5 17 (18.68%) Prometheus
6 10 (10.99%) Progress Chef
6 10 (10.99%) Puppet
7 2 (2.20%) Argo
7 2 (2.20%) Kibana
7 2 (2.20%) logstash
8 1 (1.10%) Consul
8 1 (1.10%) Packer
8 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (9.89%) Red Hat
2 2 (2.20%) Google
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle
3 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.10%) Okta
3 1 (1.10%) Splunk
3 1 (1.10%) Talend
3 1 (1.10%) Trayport