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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 421 433
Rank change year-on-year +19 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 179 273 486
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.48% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.33% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 216 332
10th Percentile £405 £500 £433
25th Percentile £444 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £634 £741 £688
90th Percentile £694 £863 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £633 £600
% change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% +17.65%
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 13,976 20,555 33,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.43% 36.46% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,930 14,875 24,662
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 330 390
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%
75th Percentile £42.50 £69.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.12 £69.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.50 £19.17
% change year-on-year -35.27% +43.47% -4.16%

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 2 June 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 2 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
England +6 124 £563 -10.00% 71
London +14 89 £550 -12.00% 50
Work from Home +18 70 £500 -20.00% 40
UK excluding London +39 51 £600 -5.14% 22
Scotland +39 16 £586 -10.84% 1
North of England +36 16 £663 +20.45% 9
South East +6 14 £650 -6.47% 2
North West +24 13 £663 +26.19% 7
Yorkshire +20 3 £488 -11.36% 2
Midlands +26 2 £450 -5.26% 2
South West +2 2 £500 -14.89% 3
West Midlands +15 1 £450 -5.26% 2
East of England +3 1 £600 +8.30% 2
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 11 (6.15%) Confluence
2 7 (3.91%) nginx
2 7 (3.91%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 175 (97.77%) AWS
2 61 (34.08%) Amazon S3
3 55 (30.73%) Amazon EC2
4 36 (20.11%) Serverless
5 35 (19.55%) Amazon ECS
6 32 (17.88%) GitHub
7 30 (16.76%) Azure
7 30 (16.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 27 (15.08%) Route 53
9 26 (14.53%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (13.97%) OpenShift
11 24 (13.41%) Amazon ECR
11 24 (13.41%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (12.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (12.29%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (11.17%) Azure AKS
15 18 (10.06%) GCP
16 15 (8.38%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (5.59%) AWS CloudTrail
17 10 (5.59%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.82%) Network Security
2 11 (6.15%) Firewall
3 5 (2.79%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.68%) SSL
5 2 (1.12%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.12%) SMS
5 2 (1.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.56%) IPv4
6 1 (0.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.11%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.70%) DynamoDB
4 11 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.03%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.91%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.91%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.23%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (2.23%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.68%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.12%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.12%) MySQL
9 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.56%) Looker
10 1 (0.56%) Parquet
10 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 64 (35.75%) Jenkins
2 59 (32.96%) Git
3 38 (21.23%) GitLab
4 16 (8.94%) JIRA
5 12 (6.70%) Maven
6 10 (5.59%) Gradle
7 9 (5.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (5.03%) webpack
8 6 (3.35%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.35%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.79%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.79%) JMeter
9 5 (2.79%) JUnit
9 5 (2.79%) TeamCity
9 5 (2.79%) Terragrunt
10 4 (2.23%) Mercurial
10 4 (2.23%) Mocha
10 4 (2.23%) Sourcetree
11 3 (1.68%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.12%) TestNG
General
1 32 (17.88%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.32%) Finance
3 9 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.03%) Banking
3 9 (5.03%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.56%) Dutch Language
5 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.56%) Law
5 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (37.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (20.67%) AWS Engineer
2 37 (20.67%) Developer
3 33 (18.44%) AWS DevOps
4 32 (17.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 18 (10.06%) Java Developer
5 18 (10.06%) Lead
6 16 (8.94%) Senior
7 13 (7.26%) Architect
8 9 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Consultant
9 8 (4.47%) Lead DevOps
10 7 (3.91%) AWS Developer
10 7 (3.91%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.35%) Full Stack Developer
11 6 (3.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.35%) Technical Leader
12 5 (2.79%) Python Developer
12 5 (2.79%) Site Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.97%) Node.js
2 21 (11.73%) Kafka
3 19 (10.61%) REST
4 16 (8.94%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (8.94%) Spring
5 15 (8.38%) React
6 14 (7.82%) Spring Boot
7 10 (5.59%) Web Services
8 9 (5.03%) Express.js
8 9 (5.03%) Redux
9 7 (3.91%) Lambda Expressions
9 7 (3.91%) RESTful
10 6 (3.35%) .NET
10 6 (3.35%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.79%) Django
12 4 (2.23%) .NET Core
12 4 (2.23%) Laravel
12 4 (2.23%) SOAP
12 4 (2.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (5.03%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.47%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.35%) PKI
5 4 (2.23%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (2.23%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.68%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.12%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.12%) Replication
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) mHealth
8 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.56%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.23%) Linux
2 13 (7.26%) Windows
3 11 (6.15%) Unix
4 3 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (58.10%) DevOps
2 91 (50.84%) CI/CD
3 47 (26.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (24.02%) Agile
5 41 (22.91%) Containerisation
6 33 (18.44%) Microservices
7 29 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (15.08%) Test Automation
9 17 (9.50%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (8.94%) Full Stack Development
11 15 (8.38%) GitOps
11 15 (8.38%) Migration
12 14 (7.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (7.82%) TDD
13 13 (7.26%) Computer Science
14 12 (6.70%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (6.70%) Platform Engineering
15 11 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 11 (6.15%) Requirements Gathering
15 11 (6.15%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 86 (48.04%) Python
2 49 (27.37%) Java
3 32 (17.88%) Bash
4 21 (11.73%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.06%) SQL
6 16 (8.94%) Groovy
7 14 (7.82%) Go
7 14 (7.82%) Shell Script
8 12 (6.70%) Perl
9 9 (5.03%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.47%) Ruby
11 4 (2.23%) C
11 4 (2.23%) C#
11 4 (2.23%) Scala
12 2 (1.12%) Bicep
13 1 (0.56%) C++
13 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (32.96%) Security Cleared
2 56 (31.28%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.26%) Degree
4 9 (5.03%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) OCP
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.59%) QA
2 3 (1.68%) MiFID
2 3 (1.68%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.68%) SLA
3 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 76 (42.46%) Docker
2 5 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.68%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.12%) Squid
4 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) Ceph
5 1 (0.56%) NFS
Systems Management
1 133 (74.30%) Kubernetes
2 98 (54.75%) Terraform
3 33 (18.44%) Ansible
4 24 (13.41%) Grafana
4 24 (13.41%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.91%) Packer
6 5 (2.79%) Argo
6 5 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.23%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.23%) Puppet
8 3 (1.68%) Kibana
9 2 (1.12%) Consul
9 2 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.12%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.12%) Istio
9 2 (1.12%) Karpenter
9 2 (1.12%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.12%) Salt
10 1 (0.56%) linkerd
10 1 (0.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (6.15%) Red Hat
2 9 (5.03%) Oracle
3 8 (4.47%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.91%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.23%) VMware
6 3 (1.68%) Confluent
6 3 (1.68%) Solace
7 2 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.12%) Cisco
7 2 (1.12%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.12%) IBM
7 2 (1.12%) Informatica
7 2 (1.12%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.12%) Qualys
7 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.12%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.12%) SAP
7 2 (1.12%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.56%) Splunk
8 1 (0.56%) WSO2