Amazon EKS Contracts in the Midlands

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 137 157 178
Rank change year-on-year +20 +21 -19
Contract jobs citing Amazon EKS 4 1 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.14% 0.031% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.55% 0.091% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 20
10th Percentile £460 - £414
25th Percentile £474 - £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £444
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% +7.04% -10.35%
75th Percentile £518 - £563
90th Percentile £522 - £691
England median daily rate £575 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -8.00% +2.04% +11.36%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 725 1,103 1,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.59% 34.27% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 783 1,208
10th Percentile £198 £213 £198
25th Percentile £319 £363 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £595 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 29
10th Percentile - £14.01 £13.13
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.05
Median hourly rate £21.23 £22.50 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% +16.88% +30.51%
75th Percentile £26.50 £26.48 £23.75
90th Percentile £32.00 £46.00 £26.08
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the Midlands

Amazon EKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EKS in the Midlands

Amazon EKS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region 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
West Midlands +20 3 £505 +6.32% 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Django
1 2 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (50.00%) Flask
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) gRPC
2 1 (25.00%) JMS
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) RAML
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Web Development
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Canary Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Istio
3 1 (25.00%) linkerd
3 1 (25.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat