Amazon EKS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 372 364
Rank change year-on-year +30 -8 -7
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 53 65 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.28% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.01% 0.86% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 52 101
10th Percentile £435 £525 £428
25th Percentile £450 £596 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +22.45%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £673
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,271 7,576 9,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.03% 33.06% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,742 5,594 7,337
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 219 286
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%
75th Percentile £29.13 £63.75 £30.60
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
North of England +36 17 £606 +10.23% 5
Scotland +33 17 £575 -11.54% 1
North West +35 14 £663 +20.45% 4
South East +14 13 £650 -6.47% 11
Yorkshire +21 3 £488 -11.36% 1
South West +3 3 £500 -14.89% 5
Midlands +23 2 £450 -5.26% 1
West Midlands +15 1 £450 -5.26% 1
East of England +10 1 £600 +8.30% 3
East Midlands - 1 - -
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (9.43%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) JBoss
2 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 51 (96.23%) AWS
2 19 (35.85%) Amazon S3
3 17 (32.08%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (24.53%) OpenShift
5 10 (18.87%) Amazon SQS
5 10 (18.87%) Serverless
5 10 (18.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 9 (16.98%) Route 53
7 8 (15.09%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (15.09%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (13.21%) Azure
8 7 (13.21%) Azure AKS
9 6 (11.32%) GitHub
10 5 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (9.43%) GCP
10 5 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (3.77%) AWS CodePipeline
12 2 (3.77%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (11.32%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.55%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.77%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.77%) MySQL
5 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.89%) Parquet
5 1 (1.89%) Power BI
5 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (30.19%) Jenkins
2 14 (26.42%) GitLab
3 10 (18.87%) Git
4 8 (15.09%) Maven
4 8 (15.09%) webpack
5 7 (13.21%) Gradle
6 3 (5.66%) JUnit
7 2 (3.77%) JIRA
7 2 (3.77%) Snyk
7 2 (3.77%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.89%) JMeter
8 1 (1.89%) Mockito
8 1 (1.89%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.89%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (11.32%) Finance
2 5 (9.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.77%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (22.64%) Developer
3 10 (18.87%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (16.98%) Java Developer
5 8 (15.09%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (15.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Lead
7 5 (9.43%) Senior
7 5 (9.43%) Site Manager
7 5 (9.43%) Site Reliability Manager
8 4 (7.55%) Architect
8 4 (7.55%) Technical Leader
9 3 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Full Stack Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
10 2 (3.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.64%) Node.js
2 11 (20.75%) React
3 10 (18.87%) Spring
4 9 (16.98%) Kafka
5 8 (15.09%) Express.js
5 8 (15.09%) Redux
6 7 (13.21%) Spring Boot
7 6 (11.32%) REST
8 5 (9.43%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (9.43%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (7.55%) Web Services
10 2 (3.77%) Apache Camel
10 2 (3.77%) LDAP
10 2 (3.77%) Mustache
10 2 (3.77%) RESTful
10 2 (3.77%) SOAP
11 1 (1.89%) GraphQL
11 1 (1.89%) gRPC
11 1 (1.89%) jOOQ
11 1 (1.89%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Genomics
4 1 (1.89%) mHealth
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.64%) Linux
2 10 (18.87%) Windows
3 6 (11.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) CI/CD
2 24 (45.28%) DevOps
3 16 (30.19%) Containerisation
4 10 (18.87%) Agile
4 10 (18.87%) Full Stack Development
4 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (18.87%) Test Automation
5 9 (16.98%) End-to-End Testing
5 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (16.98%) Microservices
6 8 (15.09%) API Development
6 8 (15.09%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 8 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (15.09%) Customer Engagement
6 8 (15.09%) Deployment Automation
6 8 (15.09%) ETL
6 8 (15.09%) Front End Development
6 8 (15.09%) QA Automation
7 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (11.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.08%) Python
2 14 (26.42%) Java
3 10 (18.87%) Bash
4 9 (16.98%) Groovy
5 8 (15.09%) Ruby
5 8 (15.09%) Shell Script
6 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.77%) Bicep
8 2 (3.77%) Scala
8 2 (3.77%) SQL
9 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (30.19%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (43.40%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (90.57%) Kubernetes
2 26 (49.06%) Terraform
3 12 (22.64%) Ansible
4 4 (7.55%) Argo
5 2 (3.77%) Istio
5 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.89%) Grafana
6 1 (1.89%) Kibana
6 1 (1.89%) Knative
6 1 (1.89%) linkerd
6 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.89%) Puppet
6 1 (1.89%) SELinux
6 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (3.77%) Oracle
1 2 (3.77%) VMware
2 1 (1.89%) Confluent
2 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
2 1 (1.89%) ForgeRock
2 1 (1.89%) Guidewire
2 1 (1.89%) IBM
2 1 (1.89%) Informatica
2 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.89%) Splunk
2 1 (1.89%) StreamSets
2 1 (1.89%) Zscaler