Amazon EKS Contracts

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 441 439
Rank change year-on-year +43 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 189 269 476
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.48% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.33% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 215 323
10th Percentile £405 £500 £445
25th Percentile £450 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £675 £744 £688
90th Percentile £778 £863 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £611 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -2.20% +4.17% +14.29%
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 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

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 12 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 12 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 +6 135 £575 -8.00% 67
London +9 99 £569 -9.00% 45
Work from Home +32 77 £500 -20.00% 47
UK excluding London +18 53 £611 -2.20% 22
Scotland +48 16 £586 -10.84%
South East +12 16 £650 -6.47% 3
North of England +20 14 £663 +20.45% 8
North West +22 12 £663 +26.19% 6
Midlands +20 4 £505 +6.32% 2
West Midlands +20 3 £505 +6.32% 1
Yorkshire +10 2 £488 -11.36% 2
South West -5 2 £500 -16.67% 5
East of England -2 1 £600 +23.08% 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 12 (6.35%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (5.82%) Confluence
3 8 (4.23%) Apache
4 7 (3.70%) nginx
4 7 (3.70%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.53%) JBoss
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 185 (97.88%) AWS
2 65 (34.39%) Amazon EC2
3 62 (32.80%) Amazon S3
4 44 (23.28%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (20.11%) Serverless
6 34 (17.99%) GitHub
7 30 (15.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 29 (15.34%) Azure
9 28 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (14.29%) Route 53
11 26 (13.76%) GCP
11 26 (13.76%) OpenShift
12 24 (12.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (12.70%) Amazon ECR
12 24 (12.70%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (12.17%) Azure AKS
14 22 (11.64%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (5.82%) Snowflake
17 10 (5.29%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.41%) Network Security
2 11 (5.82%) Firewall
3 5 (2.65%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.12%) SSL
5 3 (1.59%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.06%) SMS
6 2 (1.06%) VPN
7 1 (0.53%) IPv4
7 1 (0.53%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (19.58%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (8.99%) Amazon Athena
3 15 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.35%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.82%) NoSQL
6 10 (5.29%) Data Lake
7 9 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (4.23%) Apache Arrow
8 8 (4.23%) Apache Ignite
8 8 (4.23%) Dremio
9 7 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.70%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.70%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (2.12%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.06%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.06%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.06%) MySQL
11 2 (1.06%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 67 (35.45%) Jenkins
2 59 (31.22%) Git
3 38 (20.11%) GitLab
4 16 (8.47%) JIRA
5 10 (5.29%) Maven
6 9 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (4.76%) webpack
7 8 (4.23%) Gradle
8 6 (3.17%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.17%) SonarQube
8 6 (3.17%) TeamCity
9 5 (2.65%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.65%) Terragrunt
10 4 (2.12%) Artifactory
10 4 (2.12%) JMeter
10 4 (2.12%) JUnit
10 4 (2.12%) Mercurial
10 4 (2.12%) Sourcetree
11 3 (1.59%) Mocha
12 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
General
1 39 (20.63%) Finance
2 33 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 18 (9.52%) Banking
4 9 (4.76%) Front Office
5 8 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.23%) Investment Banking
6 7 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (34.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (23.28%) Developer
3 40 (21.16%) AWS Engineer
4 32 (16.93%) AWS DevOps
5 31 (16.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 22 (11.64%) Java Developer
7 20 (10.58%) Lead
8 17 (8.99%) Architect
8 17 (8.99%) Senior
9 12 (6.35%) AWS Developer
10 9 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.23%) Consultant
11 8 (4.23%) Python Developer
11 8 (4.23%) Senior Developer
11 8 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.70%) AWS Architect
13 6 (3.17%) Full Stack Developer
13 6 (3.17%) Lead DevOps
13 6 (3.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.70%) Node.js
2 22 (11.64%) Kafka
3 18 (9.52%) REST
4 16 (8.47%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (8.47%) React
5 15 (7.94%) Spring
6 13 (6.88%) Spring Boot
7 10 (5.29%) gRPC
7 10 (5.29%) Web Services
8 9 (4.76%) Express.js
8 9 (4.76%) Redux
9 8 (4.23%) NumPy
9 8 (4.23%) Pandas
9 8 (4.23%) Protocol Buffers
9 8 (4.23%) PySpark
9 8 (4.23%) SciPy
10 7 (3.70%) Django
10 7 (3.70%) Lambda Expressions
10 7 (3.70%) RESTful
11 6 (3.17%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (5.29%) Hedge funds
2 9 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.23%) Derivative
3 8 (4.23%) Equities
3 8 (4.23%) Fixed Income
3 8 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.17%) PKI
6 4 (2.12%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.12%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.59%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.59%) Replication
8 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (20.63%) Linux
2 13 (6.88%) Windows
3 12 (6.35%) Unix
4 4 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (56.08%) DevOps
2 89 (47.09%) CI/CD
3 50 (26.46%) Agile
4 47 (24.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (21.69%) Containerisation
6 31 (16.40%) Microservices
7 29 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 23 (12.17%) Migration
10 20 (10.58%) Software Engineering
11 17 (8.99%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (8.99%) TDD
12 16 (8.47%) Full Stack Development
12 16 (8.47%) GitOps
13 13 (6.88%) Computer Science
13 13 (6.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (6.35%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (6.35%) Platform Engineering
15 11 (5.82%) End-to-End Testing
15 11 (5.82%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 98 (51.85%) Python
2 59 (31.22%) Java
3 31 (16.40%) Bash
4 29 (15.34%) JavaScript
5 28 (14.81%) SQL
6 20 (10.58%) Groovy
7 17 (8.99%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.94%) Shell Script
9 14 (7.41%) Go
10 12 (6.35%) Perl
11 8 (4.23%) Ruby
12 4 (2.12%) C#
13 3 (1.59%) C
13 3 (1.59%) Scala
14 2 (1.06%) Bicep
15 1 (0.53%) C++
15 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 58 (30.69%) Security Cleared
2 55 (29.10%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.88%) Degree
4 9 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.29%) QA
2 4 (2.12%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.59%) MiFID
3 3 (1.59%) SLA
4 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 78 (41.27%) Docker
2 6 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.59%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.06%) Squid
4 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.53%) Ceph
5 1 (0.53%) NFS
Systems Management
1 132 (69.84%) Kubernetes
2 98 (51.85%) Terraform
3 37 (19.58%) Ansible
4 25 (13.23%) Grafana
4 25 (13.23%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.23%) Packer
6 6 (3.17%) Argo
7 5 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.12%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (2.12%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.12%) Puppet
9 3 (1.59%) Kibana
10 2 (1.06%) Consul
10 2 (1.06%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.06%) Istio
10 2 (1.06%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.06%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.06%) Salt
11 1 (0.53%) linkerd
11 1 (0.53%) Mesos
Vendors
1 12 (6.35%) Red Hat
2 8 (4.23%) Bloomberg
2 8 (4.23%) Oracle
2 8 (4.23%) Reuters
3 7 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.12%) Confluent
4 4 (2.12%) Solace
4 4 (2.12%) VMware
5 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.06%) Cisco
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%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.06%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.53%) Databricks
6 1 (0.53%) Zscaler