AWS DevOps Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Web Services DevOps
England > North of England

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the North of England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 157 213
Rank change year-on-year -1 +56 -78
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 26 53 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.55% 0.91% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.96% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 46 32
10th Percentile £444 £475 £431
25th Percentile £448 £488 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £575
90th Percentile £750 £669 £617
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,371 5,522 6,965
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.31% 97.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,902 5,114
10th Percentile £263 £282 £200
25th Percentile £385 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £685 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 162 289
10th Percentile £11.01 £14.03 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.64 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.63 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +69.27% +4.39%
75th Percentile £46.00 £50.06 £29.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £50.91
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the North of England

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in the North of England

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in the North of England

AWS DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS DevOps within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
North West +16 23 £550 +10.00% 5
Yorkshire +2 3 £519 -13.54% 3
AWS DevOps
England

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, AWS DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) AWS
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
1 26 (100.00%) Terraform
2 23 (88.46%) CI/CD
3 22 (84.62%) Kubernetes
4 21 (80.77%) Docker
5 19 (73.08%) Python
6 16 (61.54%) Containerisation
7 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (53.85%) Bash
7 14 (53.85%) Git
8 12 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (34.62%) AWS Certification
9 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (34.62%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (34.62%) Serverless
9 9 (34.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (30.77%) GitLab
10 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
10 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
11 7 (26.92%) Amazon S3
11 7 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (26.92%) Ansible
12 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Management
12 6 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (23.08%) Software Delivery
12 6 (23.08%) Network Security
13 5 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (19.23%) Jenkins

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (34.62%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (34.62%) Serverless
4 7 (26.92%) Amazon S3
4 7 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (15.38%) Snowflake
8 3 (11.54%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (11.54%) GitHub
9 2 (7.69%) Azure
9 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 1 (3.85%) GCP
10 1 (3.85%) Pulumi
10 1 (3.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (11.54%) Data Lake
2 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) Git
2 8 (30.77%) GitLab
3 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (11.54%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
1 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
1 1 (3.85%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (88.46%) CI/CD
3 16 (61.54%) Containerisation
4 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (23.08%) Software Delivery
7 4 (15.38%) Agile
7 4 (15.38%) Kanban
7 4 (15.38%) Refactoring
7 4 (15.38%) Scrum
7 4 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (15.38%) Software Deployment
7 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Cloud Operations
8 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
8 3 (11.54%) High Availability
8 3 (11.54%) IT Strategy
8 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (11.54%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) Python
2 14 (53.85%) Bash
3 4 (15.38%) Go
4 3 (11.54%) Ruby
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
5 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) Bicep
6 1 (3.85%) Java
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) AWS Certification
1 9 (34.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
1 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (80.77%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (100.00%) Terraform
2 22 (84.62%) Kubernetes
3 7 (26.92%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Splunk
2 1 (3.85%) Atlassian