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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 269 301
Rank change year-on-year +62 +32 +62
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 94 78 168
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.95% 0.52% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.39% 1.43% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 58 131
10th Percentile £464 £405 £500
25th Percentile £522 £416 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £597 £863
90th Percentile £888 £679 -
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 5,444 9,900
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.75% 36.19% 39.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,923 7,297
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.27% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 89 127
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.25 £17.00 £21.15
Median hourly rate £34.65 £26.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.27% -51.85% +54.29%
75th Percentile £71.88 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £93.30 £72.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.98% -38.94% +55.90%

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 11 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 (18.09%) Apache
1 17 (18.09%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.13%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 90 (95.74%) AWS
2 42 (44.68%) AWS CloudFormation
3 38 (40.43%) Amazon EC2
4 33 (35.11%) Serverless
5 32 (34.04%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (31.91%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (27.66%) Amazon S3
8 21 (22.34%) GCP
9 20 (21.28%) GitHub
10 17 (18.09%) Dagster
10 17 (18.09%) dbt
10 17 (18.09%) Snowflake
11 11 (11.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (10.64%) AWS CodePipeline
12 10 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (8.51%) Azure AKS
13 8 (8.51%) SaaS
14 7 (7.45%) AWS Fargate
15 6 (6.38%) PaaS
16 5 (5.32%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.77%) DNS
2 11 (11.70%) HTTP
2 11 (11.70%) TCP/IP
3 8 (8.51%) Internet
4 4 (4.26%) Firewall
5 2 (2.13%) SSL
6 1 (1.06%) DHCP
6 1 (1.06%) FTP
6 1 (1.06%) SMS
6 1 (1.06%) VPN
6 1 (1.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (37.23%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (18.09%) Amazon Athena
2 17 (18.09%) Apache Arrow
2 17 (18.09%) Apache Iceberg
2 17 (18.09%) Apache Ignite
2 17 (18.09%) Data Lake
2 17 (18.09%) Dremio
3 10 (10.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.19%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.13%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.06%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (31.91%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.70%) GitLab
3 5 (5.32%) Git
4 4 (4.26%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.19%) CircleCI
5 3 (3.19%) JIRA
6 2 (2.13%) Terragrunt
6 2 (2.13%) Toad
7 1 (1.06%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.06%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.06%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.06%) JMeter
7 1 (1.06%) JProfiler
7 1 (1.06%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.06%) Mockito
7 1 (1.06%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.06%) Vagrant
General
1 24 (25.53%) Public Sector
2 23 (24.47%) Social Skills
3 20 (21.28%) Finance
4 19 (20.21%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (18.09%) Banking
5 17 (18.09%) Front Office
5 17 (18.09%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.06%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (38.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (37.23%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (30.85%) Architect
4 27 (28.72%) Senior
5 23 (24.47%) AWS Architect
6 17 (18.09%) AWS DevOps
6 17 (18.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 17 (18.09%) AWS Software Engineer
6 17 (18.09%) Software Engineer
7 15 (15.96%) Senior DevOps
7 15 (15.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 11 (11.70%) Java Engineer
8 11 (11.70%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (9.57%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (7.45%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (6.38%) Python Engineer
11 6 (6.38%) Python Software Engineer
11 6 (6.38%) Senior Java Engineer
11 6 (6.38%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 5 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.09%) gRPC
1 17 (18.09%) NumPy
1 17 (18.09%) Pandas
1 17 (18.09%) Protocol Buffers
1 17 (18.09%) PySpark
1 17 (18.09%) SciPy
2 16 (17.02%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (7.45%) REST
4 4 (4.26%) .NET
4 4 (4.26%) AWS CDK
4 4 (4.26%) Node.js
5 3 (3.19%) React
5 3 (3.19%) Spring
6 2 (2.13%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.13%) Kafka
6 2 (2.13%) OAuth
6 2 (2.13%) OpenID
6 2 (2.13%) RESTful
6 2 (2.13%) SAML
6 2 (2.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.09%) Derivative
1 17 (18.09%) Equities
1 17 (18.09%) Fixed Income
1 17 (18.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 17 (18.09%) Hedge funds
2 7 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.06%) PKI
4 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.09%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Unix
3 2 (2.13%) Windows
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (47.87%) DevOps
2 42 (44.68%) Containerisation
3 36 (38.30%) CI/CD
4 32 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (31.91%) Agile
6 28 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (25.53%) Migration
8 23 (24.47%) High Availability
9 22 (23.40%) Software Engineering
10 21 (22.34%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (20.21%) Open Source
12 17 (18.09%) Asset Management
13 15 (15.96%) Configuration Management
14 12 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (12.77%) Cost Management
14 12 (12.77%) Microservices
15 9 (9.57%) Deployment Automation
15 9 (9.57%) Observability
16 8 (8.51%) Roadmaps
17 7 (7.45%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.43%) Python
2 27 (28.72%) Java
3 23 (24.47%) JavaScript
4 18 (19.15%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.51%) Bash
6 7 (7.45%) Go
7 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.26%) SQL
8 3 (3.19%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.13%) C#
9 2 (2.13%) Groovy
9 2 (2.13%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.06%) Perl
10 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 45 (47.87%) SC Cleared
3 22 (23.40%) AWS Certification
3 22 (23.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.26%) OCP
4 4 (4.26%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) Degree
5 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.06%) GDPR
1 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.06%) NCSC
1 1 (1.06%) NIST
1 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (27.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (51.06%) Kubernetes
2 44 (46.81%) Terraform
3 21 (22.34%) Ansible
4 19 (20.21%) Grafana
5 18 (19.15%) Prometheus
6 11 (11.70%) Progress Chef
6 11 (11.70%) Puppet
7 2 (2.13%) Argo
7 2 (2.13%) Kibana
7 2 (2.13%) logstash
8 1 (1.06%) Consul
8 1 (1.06%) Packer
8 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (11.70%) Red Hat
2 2 (2.13%) Google
2 2 (2.13%) Oracle
3 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.06%) Okta
3 1 (1.06%) Splunk
3 1 (1.06%) Talend
3 1 (1.06%) Trayport