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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 431 433
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 -11
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 186 270 478
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.48% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.33% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 215 325
10th Percentile £405 £500 £432
25th Percentile £444 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £610
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +2.46% +10.91%
75th Percentile £661 £813 £688
90th Percentile £720 £863 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £641 £600
% change year-on-year -6.43% +6.88% +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 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 14,077 20,332 33,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.38% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,953 14,710 24,762
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 £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 332 387
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.98 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.64% +79.77% +0.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £68.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £28.16 £19.09
% change year-on-year -32.53% +47.51% -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 7 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 7 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 +3 132 £569 -9.00% 54
London +2 94 £556 -11.00% 36
Work from Home +37 73 £500 -20.00% 34
UK excluding London +48 54 £600 -6.43% 21
Scotland +40 16 £586 -10.84%
North of England +26 16 £663 +20.45% 7
South East +8 15 £650 -6.47% 4
North West +27 13 £663 +26.19% 5
Midlands +23 4 £505 +6.32% 2
West Midlands +16 3 £505 +6.32% 1
Yorkshire +14 3 £488 -11.36% 2
South West +7 2 £500 -16.67% 4
East of England +4 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 11 (5.91%) Confluence
2 8 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.76%) nginx
3 7 (3.76%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.15%) Apache
5 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.54%) JBoss
6 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 182 (97.85%) AWS
2 62 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 60 (32.26%) Amazon EC2
4 40 (21.51%) Amazon ECS
5 37 (19.89%) Serverless
6 33 (17.74%) GitHub
7 30 (16.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 29 (15.59%) Azure
9 27 (14.52%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (14.52%) Route 53
10 26 (13.98%) OpenShift
11 24 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (12.90%) Amazon ECR
11 24 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (11.83%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (11.83%) Azure AKS
12 22 (11.83%) GCP
13 15 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (5.38%) AWS CloudTrail
14 10 (5.38%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.53%) Network Security
2 11 (5.91%) Firewall
3 5 (2.69%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.15%) SSL
5 3 (1.61%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.08%) SMS
6 2 (1.08%) VPN
7 1 (0.54%) IPv4
7 1 (0.54%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (19.89%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.99%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (6.45%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.91%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (3.76%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.76%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.23%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.15%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (2.15%) Apache Arrow
9 4 (2.15%) Apache Ignite
9 4 (2.15%) Dremio
9 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.08%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.08%) MySQL
10 2 (1.08%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 66 (35.48%) Jenkins
2 59 (31.72%) Git
3 37 (19.89%) GitLab
4 16 (8.60%) JIRA
5 10 (5.38%) Maven
6 9 (4.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (4.84%) webpack
7 8 (4.30%) Gradle
8 6 (3.23%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.23%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.69%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.69%) TeamCity
9 5 (2.69%) Terragrunt
10 4 (2.15%) Artifactory
10 4 (2.15%) JMeter
10 4 (2.15%) JUnit
10 4 (2.15%) Mercurial
10 4 (2.15%) Sourcetree
11 3 (1.61%) Mocha
12 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
General
1 35 (18.82%) Finance
2 33 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 13 (6.99%) Banking
4 9 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.69%) Front Office
7 4 (2.15%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (37.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (21.51%) Developer
3 39 (20.97%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (17.74%) AWS DevOps
5 32 (17.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 20 (10.75%) Java Developer
6 20 (10.75%) Lead
7 17 (9.14%) Senior
8 15 (8.06%) Architect
9 10 (5.38%) AWS Developer
10 9 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Consultant
11 8 (4.30%) Lead DevOps
11 8 (4.30%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.76%) Python Developer
13 6 (3.23%) AWS Architect
13 6 (3.23%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (3.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.90%) Node.js
2 22 (11.83%) Kafka
3 18 (9.68%) REST
4 16 (8.60%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (8.60%) React
5 15 (8.06%) Spring
6 13 (6.99%) Spring Boot
7 10 (5.38%) Web Services
8 9 (4.84%) Express.js
8 9 (4.84%) Redux
9 7 (3.76%) Django
9 7 (3.76%) Lambda Expressions
9 7 (3.76%) RESTful
10 6 (3.23%) .NET
10 6 (3.23%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.23%) gRPC
10 6 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.69%) PySpark
12 4 (2.15%) .NET Core
12 4 (2.15%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.84%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.30%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.23%) PKI
6 4 (2.15%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.15%) Derivative
6 4 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.15%) Equities
6 4 (2.15%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.15%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.61%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.61%) Replication
8 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (22.04%) Linux
2 13 (6.99%) Windows
3 12 (6.45%) Unix
4 4 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (58.06%) DevOps
2 91 (48.92%) CI/CD
3 47 (25.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (24.19%) Agile
5 41 (22.04%) Containerisation
6 31 (16.67%) Microservices
7 29 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (14.52%) Test Automation
9 19 (10.22%) Migration
10 17 (9.14%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (9.14%) TDD
11 16 (8.60%) Full Stack Development
11 16 (8.60%) GitOps
11 16 (8.60%) Software Engineering
12 14 (7.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (6.99%) Computer Science
14 12 (6.45%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
15 11 (5.91%) End-to-End Testing
15 11 (5.91%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 94 (50.54%) Python
2 53 (28.49%) Java
3 33 (17.74%) Bash
4 24 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 23 (12.37%) SQL
6 19 (10.22%) Groovy
7 15 (8.06%) Shell Script
8 14 (7.53%) Go
9 13 (6.99%) TypeScript
10 12 (6.45%) Perl
11 8 (4.30%) Ruby
12 4 (2.15%) C#
13 3 (1.61%) C
13 3 (1.61%) Scala
14 2 (1.08%) Bicep
15 1 (0.54%) C++
15 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 57 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.99%) Degree
4 9 (4.84%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.38%) QA
2 4 (2.15%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.61%) MiFID
3 3 (1.61%) SLA
4 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 79 (42.47%) Docker
2 6 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.61%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.08%) Squid
4 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.54%) Ceph
5 1 (0.54%) NFS
Systems Management
1 134 (72.04%) Kubernetes
2 101 (54.30%) Terraform
3 36 (19.35%) Ansible
4 25 (13.44%) Grafana
4 25 (13.44%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.30%) Packer
6 6 (3.23%) Argo
7 5 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.15%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.15%) Puppet
9 3 (1.61%) Kibana
10 2 (1.08%) Consul
10 2 (1.08%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.08%) Istio
10 2 (1.08%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.08%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.08%) Salt
11 1 (0.54%) linkerd
11 1 (0.54%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (6.45%) Red Hat
2 8 (4.30%) Oracle
3 7 (3.76%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.15%) Bloomberg
4 4 (2.15%) Confluent
4 4 (2.15%) Reuters
4 4 (2.15%) VMware
5 3 (1.61%) Solace
6 2 (1.08%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.08%) Cisco
6 2 (1.08%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.08%) IBM
6 2 (1.08%) Informatica
6 2 (1.08%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.08%) Qualys
6 2 (1.08%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.08%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.54%) Splunk
7 1 (0.54%) WSO2