AWS DevOps Contracts

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 322 340
Rank change year-on-year -104 +18 -61
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 158 468 727
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.78% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.82% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 379 583
10th Percentile £425 £475 £481
25th Percentile £456 £511 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £800 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.27% - +11.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps.

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps.

Hourly rate trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
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 AWS DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 -100 127 £550 -8.33% 37
London -69 85 £550 -8.33% 14
Work from Home -19 76 £550 -8.33% 20
UK excluding London -14 47 £521 -5.27% 26
North of England +24 29 £550 - 9
North West +17 25 £550 +10.00% 5
Scotland +26 9 £516 +0.73% 1
Yorkshire +17 4 £500 -16.67% 3
Midlands +38 3 £450 -10.00% 4
South East -12 3 £650 +10.64% 8
East Midlands +13 2 £450 -14.29% 1
South West -1 2 £475 -9.52% 3
West Midlands +32 1 £350 -22.22% 3
Wales - 1 £643 -

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 158 (100.00%) AWS
1 158 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (71.52%) Terraform
3 97 (61.39%) CI/CD
4 84 (53.16%) Kubernetes
5 79 (50.00%) Python
6 69 (43.67%) Docker
7 63 (39.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 62 (39.24%) Security Cleared
9 60 (37.97%) SC Cleared
10 57 (36.08%) Serverless
11 53 (33.54%) AWS Lambda
12 50 (31.65%) Ansible
13 45 (28.48%) Containerisation
14 44 (27.85%) Bash
15 43 (27.22%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (24.68%) Amazon S3
16 39 (24.68%) Jenkins
17 36 (22.78%) Linux
18 35 (22.15%) GitLab
18 35 (22.15%) Amazon EKS
19 33 (20.89%) Amazon ECS
20 30 (18.99%) AWS CloudFormation
20 30 (18.99%) Agile
20 30 (18.99%) Git
21 29 (18.35%) Amazon RDS
22 27 (17.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 25 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
24 22 (13.92%) Public Sector
24 22 (13.92%) GitHub

AWS DevOps Skill Set
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 5 (3.16%) Confluence
1 5 (3.16%) nginx
2 2 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 158 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (36.08%) Serverless
3 53 (33.54%) AWS Lambda
4 43 (27.22%) Amazon EC2
5 39 (24.68%) Amazon S3
6 35 (22.15%) Amazon EKS
7 33 (20.89%) Amazon ECS
8 30 (18.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (17.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 22 (13.92%) GitHub
11 20 (12.66%) Azure
11 20 (12.66%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (10.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (8.23%) Route 53
14 12 (7.59%) OpenShift
15 11 (6.96%) AWS CodePipeline
16 10 (6.33%) SaaS
17 9 (5.70%) AWS CloudTrail
17 9 (5.70%) AWS Control Tower
17 9 (5.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.70%) Firewall
2 7 (4.43%) Network Security
3 5 (3.16%) DNS
4 3 (1.90%) DHCP
4 3 (1.90%) LAN
4 3 (1.90%) WLAN
5 2 (1.27%) VPN
6 1 (0.63%) IPv4
6 1 (0.63%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.35%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (8.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.16%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.90%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.90%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.90%) MySQL
7 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.63%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (24.68%) Jenkins
2 35 (22.15%) GitLab
3 30 (18.99%) Git
4 7 (4.43%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.16%) JIRA
5 5 (3.16%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.90%) Maven
7 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.63%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.63%) Gradle
7 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (13.92%) Public Sector
2 18 (11.39%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.76%) Finance
4 8 (5.06%) Law
5 6 (3.80%) Banking
6 3 (1.90%) Retail
7 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Front Office
8 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Marketing
8 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.96%) AWS CDK
1 11 (6.96%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (5.06%) Node.js
3 6 (3.80%) AWS SAM
4 4 (2.53%) .NET
4 4 (2.53%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.90%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.27%) Kafka
6 2 (1.27%) React
7 1 (0.63%) ADO
7 1 (0.63%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.63%) Flask
7 1 (0.63%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.63%) J2EE
7 1 (0.63%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.63%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (0.63%) LDAP
7 1 (0.63%) Next.js
7 1 (0.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.49%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.53%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.53%) PKI
4 3 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.27%) Life Science
5 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.27%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.27%) Tandem
6 1 (0.63%) Clustering
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (22.78%) Linux
2 10 (6.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.43%) Windows
4 6 (3.80%) Ubuntu
5 5 (3.16%) Unix
6 2 (1.27%) VMS
6 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.63%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (100.00%) DevOps
2 97 (61.39%) CI/CD
3 63 (39.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (28.48%) Containerisation
5 30 (18.99%) Agile
6 25 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (8.23%) DevSecOps
7 13 (8.23%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (8.23%) Test Automation
8 12 (7.59%) Software Delivery
9 11 (6.96%) Microservices
10 10 (6.33%) Observability
11 8 (5.06%) Computer Science
11 8 (5.06%) Configuration Management
11 8 (5.06%) Kanban
11 8 (5.06%) Migration
11 8 (5.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (4.43%) High Availability
12 7 (4.43%) Infrastructure Management
12 7 (4.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 79 (50.00%) Python
2 44 (27.85%) Bash
3 15 (9.49%) JavaScript
4 14 (8.86%) Go
5 10 (6.33%) Java
5 10 (6.33%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.06%) Groovy
7 6 (3.80%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.16%) SQL
9 4 (2.53%) Ruby
10 3 (1.90%) C#
10 3 (1.90%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.27%) R
11 2 (1.27%) Scala
12 1 (0.63%) Bicep
12 1 (0.63%) C
12 1 (0.63%) C++
12 1 (0.63%) Perl
12 1 (0.63%) PHP
12 1 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 62 (39.24%) Security Cleared
2 60 (37.97%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.03%) AWS Certification
4 13 (8.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 10 (6.33%) Degree
6 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.27%) GDPR
1 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.27%) NIST
2 1 (0.63%) NCSC
2 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 69 (43.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 113 (71.52%) Terraform
2 84 (53.16%) Kubernetes
3 50 (31.65%) Ansible
4 16 (10.13%) Grafana
5 9 (5.70%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.80%) Kibana
7 3 (1.90%) Consul
7 3 (1.90%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.27%) Packer
9 1 (0.63%) Argo
9 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.63%) Graylog
9 1 (0.63%) logstash
9 1 (0.63%) Nagios
9 1 (0.63%) Puppet
9 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (5.06%) Splunk
2 6 (3.80%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.53%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.90%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.90%) VMware
5 2 (1.27%) Databricks
5 2 (1.27%) Google
5 2 (1.27%) MKS
5 2 (1.27%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.63%) Ariba
6 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.63%) Brio
6 1 (0.63%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.63%) Cylance
6 1 (0.63%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.63%) ICL
6 1 (0.63%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.63%) SAP
6 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.63%) Teradata