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 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 403 429 435
Rank change year-on-year +26 +6 -33
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 182 269 488
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.47% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.29% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 208 339
10th Percentile £405 £500 £432
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 £641 £725 £688
90th Percentile £694 £863 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £640 £586
% change year-on-year -6.25% +9.22% +21.45%
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 13,826 20,933 33,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.49% 36.75% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,828 15,157 24,567
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 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 336 412
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
% change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%

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 16 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 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
England +41 127 £563 -10.00% 51
London +30 90 £556 -11.00% 30
Work from Home +39 76 £500 -20.00% 38
UK excluding London +46 53 £600 -6.25% 26
North of England +35 17 £606 +10.23% 5
Scotland +28 17 £575 -11.54% 1
North West +28 14 £663 +20.45% 4
South East +12 13 £650 -6.47% 5
Yorkshire +14 3 £488 -11.36% 1
South West +3 3 £500 -14.89% 7
Midlands +28 2 £450 -5.26% 1
West Midlands +26 1 £450 -5.26%
East of England +6 1 £600 +8.30% 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 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 (8.24%) Confluence
2 7 (3.85%) nginx
2 7 (3.85%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.55%) JBoss
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 178 (97.80%) AWS
2 59 (32.42%) Amazon S3
3 54 (29.67%) Amazon EC2
4 39 (21.43%) Serverless
5 36 (19.78%) Amazon ECS
6 35 (19.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 30 (16.48%) Azure
8 29 (15.93%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (15.93%) Route 53
9 28 (15.38%) GitHub
10 27 (14.84%) OpenShift
11 24 (13.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (13.19%) Amazon ECR
11 24 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (9.89%) Azure AKS
13 18 (9.89%) GCP
14 13 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (4.95%) AWS CloudTrail
15 9 (4.95%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.69%) Network Security
2 11 (6.04%) Firewall
3 5 (2.75%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.10%) SMS
4 2 (1.10%) SSL
4 2 (1.10%) VPN
5 1 (0.55%) IPv4
5 1 (0.55%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.55%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.78%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.59%) DynamoDB
4 11 (6.04%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.95%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.85%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.20%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.20%) MySQL
9 3 (1.65%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.65%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.65%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.10%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.10%) Big Data
10 2 (1.10%) Parquet
10 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 62 (34.07%) Jenkins
2 58 (31.87%) Git
3 35 (19.23%) GitLab
4 22 (12.09%) JIRA
5 13 (7.14%) Maven
6 11 (6.04%) Gradle
7 9 (4.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (4.95%) webpack
8 6 (3.30%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.30%) JUnit
8 6 (3.30%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.75%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.75%) JMeter
9 5 (2.75%) Mocha
10 4 (2.20%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.20%) Mercurial
10 4 (2.20%) Sourcetree
11 3 (1.65%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.65%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.65%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.48%) Finance
3 9 (4.95%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.30%) Banking
6 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.10%) Retail
7 1 (0.55%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 69 (37.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (18.68%) AWS DevOps
4 33 (18.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 33 (18.13%) Developer
5 20 (10.99%) Architect
6 17 (9.34%) Lead
6 17 (9.34%) Senior
7 16 (8.79%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.49%) AWS Architect
9 9 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) Lead DevOps
11 7 (3.85%) AWS Developer
11 7 (3.85%) Consultant
12 6 (3.30%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (3.30%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.30%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.30%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.75%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.74%) Node.js
2 20 (10.99%) REST
3 18 (9.89%) Kafka
4 16 (8.79%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (8.79%) Spring
5 15 (8.24%) React
5 15 (8.24%) Spring Boot
6 10 (5.49%) Web Services
7 9 (4.95%) Express.js
7 9 (4.95%) Redux
8 7 (3.85%) RESTful
9 6 (3.30%) .NET
9 6 (3.30%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.30%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (2.75%) Django
10 5 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.75%) SOAP
10 5 (2.75%) YAML
11 4 (2.20%) Laravel
11 4 (2.20%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.95%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (4.95%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.30%) PKI
5 4 (2.20%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.20%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.65%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.65%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.10%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.55%) mHealth
8 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.33%) Linux
2 14 (7.69%) Windows
3 10 (5.49%) Unix
4 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (59.89%) DevOps
2 95 (52.20%) CI/CD
3 49 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (26.37%) Agile
5 41 (22.53%) Containerisation
6 35 (19.23%) Microservices
7 28 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (14.84%) Test Automation
9 21 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 17 (9.34%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (8.79%) Full Stack Development
12 14 (7.69%) TDD
13 13 (7.14%) Computer Science
13 13 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (6.59%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (6.59%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (6.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (6.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 11 (6.04%) Migration
15 11 (6.04%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 83 (45.60%) Python
2 46 (25.27%) Java
3 32 (17.58%) Bash
4 20 (10.99%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.34%) Go
6 15 (8.24%) SQL
7 13 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 12 (6.59%) Groovy
8 12 (6.59%) Perl
9 10 (5.49%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.40%) Ruby
11 4 (2.20%) C
11 4 (2.20%) C#
11 4 (2.20%) Scala
12 2 (1.10%) Bicep
13 1 (0.55%) C++
13 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 65 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 62 (34.07%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.14%) Degree
4 8 (4.40%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.55%) OCP
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.40%) QA
2 3 (1.65%) MiFID
2 3 (1.65%) SLA
3 2 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 73 (40.11%) Docker
2 3 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.65%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.10%) Squid
3 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) Ceph
4 1 (0.55%) NFS
Systems Management
1 128 (70.33%) Kubernetes
2 98 (53.85%) Terraform
3 31 (17.03%) Ansible
4 23 (12.64%) Prometheus
5 22 (12.09%) Grafana
6 7 (3.85%) Packer
7 6 (3.30%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.30%) Puppet
8 5 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.20%) Argo
9 4 (2.20%) Consul
10 3 (1.65%) Kibana
11 2 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.10%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.10%) Istio
11 2 (1.10%) Salt
12 1 (0.55%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.55%) Knative
12 1 (0.55%) linkerd
12 1 (0.55%) Mesos
Vendors
1 10 (5.49%) Red Hat
2 8 (4.40%) Oracle
3 7 (3.85%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.20%) VMware
5 2 (1.10%) Cisco
5 2 (1.10%) Confluent
5 2 (1.10%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.10%) IBM
5 2 (1.10%) Informatica
5 2 (1.10%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.10%) Qualys
5 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.10%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.10%) SAP
5 2 (1.10%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.55%) Databricks
6 1 (0.55%) Sage
6 1 (0.55%) Splunk
6 1 (0.55%) Zscaler