Amazon EKS Contracts in the South East

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 192 230
Rank change year-on-year +12 +38 -23
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 13 14 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.24% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 0.83% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 9
10th Percentile £538 £613 £495
25th Percentile £569 £631 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £695 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% +15.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £715 £625
90th Percentile - - £655
England median daily rate £563 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +11.63%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,304 1,679 2,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.97% 30.05% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 895 1,227 1,777
10th Percentile £250 £252 £205
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 50 59
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.21 £13.19
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.65 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +12.35% -2.21%
75th Percentile £54.75 £68.44 £30.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.08 £56.63
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the South East

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the South East

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Thames Valley -5 7 £575 -17.86% 2
Surrey +15 4 £650 +4.00% 1
Berkshire -14 4 - - 2
Buckinghamshire +25 2 £575 -18.73%
East Sussex - 1 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £600 -
West Sussex - 1 - -
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (38.46%) OpenStack
2 1 (7.69%) JBoss
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
2 6 (46.15%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (15.38%) CloudFront
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.69%) Azure
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) JUnit
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) JMeter
4 1 (7.69%) Mockito
4 1 (7.69%) Spinnaker
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Spring
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
2 4 (30.77%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (30.77%) Kafka
2 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (30.77%) REST
2 4 (30.77%) Web Services
3 3 (23.08%) Node.js
4 2 (15.38%) Apache Camel
4 2 (15.38%) LDAP
4 2 (15.38%) Mustache
4 2 (15.38%) React
5 1 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 1 (7.69%) HTML
5 1 (7.69%) jQuery
5 1 (7.69%) RESTful
5 1 (7.69%) SOAP
5 1 (7.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Microservices
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Scrum
2 4 (30.77%) TDD
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) BDD
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (15.38%) Kanban
5 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Process Management
5 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) SDLC
5 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Scala
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Terraform
3 4 (30.77%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Kibana
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
1 1 (7.69%) Guidewire
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk