Amazon EKS Contracts

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK

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

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 441 437
Rank change year-on-year +31 -4 -19
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 188 280 494
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.47% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.28% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 208 351
10th Percentile £400 £500 £450
25th Percentile £425 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £635 £716 £675
90th Percentile £694 £863 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £640 £600
% change year-on-year -8.20% +6.67% +20.00%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,062 21,949 34,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.32% 36.88% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,984 15,862 24,903
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 345 427
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.99%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.46
90th Percentile £61.60 £77.20 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -5.06%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +57 131 £563 -10.00% 69
London +35 94 £563 -10.00% 42
Work from Home +32 81 £500 -20.00% 39
UK excluding London +35 53 £588 -8.20% 27
North of England +39 17 £606 -1.02% 9
South East +22 16 £625 -10.07% 5
North West +34 14 £663 +20.45% 7
Scotland +24 14 £611 -5.96% 2
Yorkshire +29 3 £488 -27.78%
South West +10 3 £500 -13.04% 4
Midlands +28 2 £450 -15.89% 4
West Midlands +27 1 £450 -15.89% 4
East of England +5 1 £400 -27.80% 1
East Midlands - 1 - -

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (7.98%) Confluence
2 10 (5.32%) OpenStack
3 6 (3.19%) nginx
4 3 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 180 (95.74%) AWS
2 59 (31.38%) Amazon S3
3 54 (28.72%) Amazon EC2
4 43 (22.87%) Serverless
5 37 (19.68%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (19.15%) Azure
6 36 (19.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 30 (15.96%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (15.43%) Route 53
9 28 (14.89%) GitHub
10 27 (14.36%) Amazon ECR
11 26 (13.83%) OpenShift
12 25 (13.30%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (12.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (11.17%) Azure AKS
15 20 (10.64%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (9.04%) GCP
17 11 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
18 10 (5.32%) AWS CodePipeline
19 9 (4.79%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.45%) Network Security
2 11 (5.85%) Firewall
3 5 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.06%) SMS
4 2 (1.06%) SSL
4 2 (1.06%) VPN
5 1 (0.53%) IPv4
5 1 (0.53%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.53%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.62%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.38%) DynamoDB
3 12 (6.38%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.32%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (3.72%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.66%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.13%) MySQL
10 3 (1.60%) Big Data
10 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.60%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.06%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.06%) Parquet
11 2 (1.06%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 66 (35.11%) Jenkins
2 60 (31.91%) Git
3 36 (19.15%) GitLab
4 19 (10.11%) JIRA
5 13 (6.91%) Maven
6 11 (5.85%) Gradle
7 9 (4.79%) JUnit
7 9 (4.79%) webpack
8 8 (4.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (3.19%) Bitbucket
9 6 (3.19%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.66%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.66%) Mocha
11 4 (2.13%) Cypress.io
11 4 (2.13%) JMeter
11 4 (2.13%) Mercurial
11 4 (2.13%) Sourcetree
12 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.60%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.60%) TestNG
General
1 36 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.43%) Finance
3 12 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.19%) Banking
6 3 (1.60%) Retail
7 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.53%) Law
8 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (36.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (22.34%) AWS Engineer
3 35 (18.62%) AWS DevOps
4 34 (18.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 34 (18.09%) Developer
5 24 (12.77%) Architect
6 19 (10.11%) Senior
7 16 (8.51%) Java Developer
7 16 (8.51%) Lead
8 11 (5.85%) AWS Architect
9 10 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.79%) Full Stack Developer
10 9 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.26%) Lead DevOps
12 7 (3.72%) AWS Developer
12 7 (3.72%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.19%) Consultant
13 6 (3.19%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.19%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.36%) Node.js
2 22 (11.70%) REST
3 19 (10.11%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (10.11%) Spring Boot
4 18 (9.57%) Spring
5 17 (9.04%) Kafka
6 15 (7.98%) React
7 13 (6.91%) Web Services
8 10 (5.32%) RESTful
9 9 (4.79%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.79%) Express.js
9 9 (4.79%) Redux
10 8 (4.26%) SOAP
11 6 (3.19%) .NET
11 6 (3.19%) Lambda Expressions
12 5 (2.66%) Django
12 5 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.66%) YAML
13 4 (2.13%) .NET Core
13 4 (2.13%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (4.79%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.19%) PKI
5 4 (2.13%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.13%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.60%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.06%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.53%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (19.15%) Linux
2 13 (6.91%) Windows
3 10 (5.32%) Unix
4 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (63.83%) DevOps
2 94 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 56 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (28.19%) Agile
5 43 (22.87%) Microservices
6 42 (22.34%) Containerisation
7 28 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (14.36%) Test Automation
9 21 (11.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 19 (10.11%) Full Stack Development
11 18 (9.57%) TDD
12 17 (9.04%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (7.45%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (6.91%) Migration
15 12 (6.38%) Computer Science
15 12 (6.38%) Deployment Automation
15 12 (6.38%) GitOps
15 12 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (6.38%) Scrum
15 12 (6.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (44.68%) Python
2 47 (25.00%) Java
3 32 (17.02%) Bash
4 23 (12.23%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.04%) Go
6 16 (8.51%) SQL
7 13 (6.91%) Shell Script
8 12 (6.38%) Groovy
9 11 (5.85%) Perl
10 9 (4.79%) TypeScript
11 8 (4.26%) Ruby
12 4 (2.13%) C
12 4 (2.13%) C#
12 4 (2.13%) Scala
13 2 (1.06%) Bicep
14 1 (0.53%) C++
14 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 68 (36.17%) Security Cleared
2 65 (34.57%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.38%) Degree
4 7 (3.72%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) OCP
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.79%) QA
2 3 (1.60%) MiFID
2 3 (1.60%) SLA
3 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (39.36%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.60%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.06%) Squid
3 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) Ceph
4 1 (0.53%) NFS
Systems Management
1 130 (69.15%) Kubernetes
2 102 (54.26%) Terraform
3 35 (18.62%) Ansible
4 23 (12.23%) Prometheus
5 21 (11.17%) Grafana
6 7 (3.72%) Packer
6 7 (3.72%) Progress Chef
6 7 (3.72%) Puppet
7 5 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.13%) Argo
8 4 (2.13%) Consul
9 3 (1.60%) Kibana
10 2 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.06%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.06%) Istio
10 2 (1.06%) Salt
11 1 (0.53%) Knative
11 1 (0.53%) linkerd
11 1 (0.53%) logstash
11 1 (0.53%) SELinux
Vendors
1 10 (5.32%) Red Hat
2 8 (4.26%) Oracle
3 7 (3.72%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.72%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.13%) VMware
5 2 (1.06%) Cisco
5 2 (1.06%) Confluent
5 2 (1.06%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.06%) IBM
5 2 (1.06%) Informatica
5 2 (1.06%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.06%) Qualys
5 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.06%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.06%) SAP
5 2 (1.06%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.53%) Databricks
6 1 (0.53%) Splunk
6 1 (0.53%) Zscaler