Amazon EKS Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 266 296 352
Rank change year-on-year +30 +56 -53
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 80 180 287
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.69% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 1.75% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 139 221
10th Percentile £405 £500 £450
25th Percentile £413 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +11.63%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £671
90th Percentile £688 £863 £688
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,606 10,302 18,596
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.26% 39.43% 41.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,002 7,557 13,876
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 127 174
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.45 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.31 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +91.30% -17.86%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £62.45 £81.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £34.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.95% +59.99% -4.44%

Amazon EKS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EKS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

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 6 (7.50%) Confluence
2 3 (3.75%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 74 (92.50%) AWS
2 28 (35.00%) Amazon EC2
3 23 (28.75%) Amazon S3
4 20 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 18 (22.50%) Serverless
6 15 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (17.50%) Azure
7 14 (17.50%) Route 53
8 13 (16.25%) OpenShift
9 10 (12.50%) GitHub
9 10 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (11.25%) GCP
11 8 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (10.00%) Azure AKS
12 7 (8.75%) IaaS
13 6 (7.50%) PaaS
14 5 (6.25%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.25%) Network Security
2 5 (6.25%) Firewall
2 5 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.50%) VPN
4 1 (1.25%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.75%) Big Data
4 3 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.75%) MySQL
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.50%) Apache Hive
5 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (38.75%) Jenkins
2 21 (26.25%) Git
3 18 (22.50%) GitLab
4 7 (8.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (7.50%) JIRA
6 3 (3.75%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.75%) JMeter
6 3 (3.75%) JUnit
6 3 (3.75%) Maven
6 3 (3.75%) webpack
7 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.50%) Gradle
7 2 (2.50%) Mocha
7 2 (2.50%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.50%) Selenium
7 2 (2.50%) Snyk
7 2 (2.50%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.50%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Finance
3 4 (5.00%) Banking
3 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (45.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (16.25%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
3 12 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 11 (13.75%) Architect
5 10 (12.50%) Senior
6 7 (8.75%) Developer
6 7 (8.75%) Lead
7 5 (6.25%) AWS Architect
7 5 (6.25%) Consultant
7 5 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
8 4 (5.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.75%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (10.00%) Node.js
2 6 (7.50%) Kafka
2 6 (7.50%) React
3 5 (6.25%) REST
3 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.00%) Spring
5 3 (3.75%) CSS
5 3 (3.75%) Express.js
5 3 (3.75%) Redux
6 2 (2.50%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.50%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.50%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.50%) Chai
6 2 (2.50%) JAX-RS
6 2 (2.50%) LDAP
6 2 (2.50%) MSMQ
6 2 (2.50%) SOAP
6 2 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.75%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.75%) PKI
3 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.25%) Genomics
5 1 (1.25%) mHealth
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.25%) Linux
2 7 (8.75%) Windows
3 4 (5.00%) Unix
4 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (71.25%) DevOps
2 44 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 32 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (28.75%) Agile
5 15 (18.75%) Microservices
6 13 (16.25%) Migration
7 12 (15.00%) Containerisation
8 9 (11.25%) Configuration Management
8 9 (11.25%) GitOps
8 9 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (11.25%) Use Case
9 8 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 7 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.75%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (8.75%) Full Stack Development
10 7 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (8.75%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (8.75%) Service Design
10 7 (8.75%) Task Automation
11 6 (7.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 34 (42.50%) Python
2 16 (20.00%) Java
3 15 (18.75%) Bash
4 14 (17.50%) Go
5 10 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 10 (12.50%) Perl
6 7 (8.75%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.75%) C
8 2 (2.50%) Bicep
8 2 (2.50%) C#
8 2 (2.50%) Groovy
8 2 (2.50%) SQL
9 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.50%) Degree
4 4 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.50%) QA
1 2 (2.50%) SLA
2 1 (1.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (31.25%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.50%) Squid
2 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (66.25%) Kubernetes
2 43 (53.75%) Terraform
3 12 (15.00%) Grafana
4 11 (13.75%) Ansible
4 11 (13.75%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.50%) Progress Chef
5 6 (7.50%) Puppet
6 3 (3.75%) Argo
6 3 (3.75%) Consul
6 3 (3.75%) Packer
7 2 (2.50%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.50%) Kibana
7 2 (2.50%) Salt
8 1 (1.25%) Istio
8 1 (1.25%) Knative
8 1 (1.25%) logstash
8 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 4 (5.00%) VMware
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle
4 2 (2.50%) Cisco
4 2 (2.50%) Confluent
4 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.50%) IBM
4 2 (2.50%) Informatica
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.50%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.50%) Qualys
4 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.50%) SaltStack
4 2 (2.50%) SAP
4 2 (2.50%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.25%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.25%) Splunk
5 1 (1.25%) Zscaler