Amazon EKS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 136 157
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 -11
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 7 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.27% 0.49% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 1.64% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 3
10th Percentile - £670 £502
25th Percentile £538 £695 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £510
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +37.25% -3.13%
75th Percentile £613 £715 £568
90th Percentile - £717 £602
South East median daily rate £650 £695 £588
% change year-on-year -6.47% +18.30% +11.90%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 735 852 1,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.83% 29.75% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 617 869
10th Percentile £282 £313 £192
25th Percentile £413 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 15
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.15 £14.51
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £26.58 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.21% +26.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £60.83 £58.50 £39.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £75.24
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +30.95% -2.44%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the Thames Valley

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the Thames Valley

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire -8 4 - - 2
Buckinghamshire +25 2 £575 -19.58%
Oxfordshire - 1 £600 -
Amazon EKS
South East

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (42.86%) OpenStack
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) JUnit
4 1 (14.29%) GitLab
4 1 (14.29%) JMeter
4 1 (14.29%) Mockito
4 1 (14.29%) Spinnaker
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 4 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 4 (57.14%) REST
2 4 (57.14%) Web Services
3 3 (42.86%) Node.js
4 2 (28.57%) Apache Camel
4 2 (28.57%) Mustache
4 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (28.57%) React
5 1 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) jQuery
5 1 (14.29%) RESTful
5 1 (14.29%) SOAP
5 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Process Management
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Scala
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Kibana
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk