AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Work from Home

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Work from Home is £544 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 266 301
Rank change year-on-year -2 +35 -21
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 75 206 383
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.84% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.88% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 174 309
10th Percentile £425 £493 £463
25th Percentile £500 £528 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £625 £560
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +11.61% +1.82%
75th Percentile £606 £763 £625
90th Percentile £661 £863 £688
UK median daily rate £531 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.46% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS DevOps Engineer.

AWS DevOps Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

AWS DevOps Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, AWS DevOps Engineer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 75 (100.00%) AWS
1 75 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (70.67%) Terraform
3 40 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 35 (46.67%) Kubernetes
4 35 (46.67%) Security Cleared
4 35 (46.67%) Python
5 33 (44.00%) SC Cleared
6 29 (38.67%) Docker
7 26 (34.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (33.33%) Ansible
9 24 (32.00%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (32.00%) Serverless
10 20 (26.67%) Linux
11 19 (25.33%) Bash
11 19 (25.33%) Jenkins
12 16 (21.33%) Amazon S3
12 16 (21.33%) Public Sector
13 15 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (20.00%) Agile
14 14 (18.67%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (18.67%) GitLab
15 13 (17.33%) Grafana
15 13 (17.33%) Containerisation
16 12 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (16.00%) GitHub
17 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
17 11 (14.67%) Virtual Private Cloud

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.33%) nginx
2 1 (1.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (32.00%) AWS Lambda
2 24 (32.00%) Serverless
3 16 (21.33%) Amazon S3
4 15 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (18.67%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (16.00%) GitHub
7 11 (14.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (13.33%) Route 53
9 9 (12.00%) Azure
10 7 (9.33%) PaaS
11 6 (8.00%) SaaS
12 5 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
12 5 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (6.67%) OpenShift
13 4 (5.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.00%) Firewall
2 4 (5.33%) DNS
3 3 (4.00%) DHCP
3 3 (4.00%) LAN
3 3 (4.00%) WLAN
4 2 (2.67%) Network Security
4 2 (2.67%) VPN
5 1 (1.33%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.00%) InfluxDB
4 3 (4.00%) MySQL
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.33%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (25.33%) Jenkins
2 14 (18.67%) GitLab
3 10 (13.33%) Git
4 4 (5.33%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.00%) JIRA
6 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.33%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.33%) Gradle
6 1 (1.33%) Maven
6 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (21.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.67%) Law
2 8 (10.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.00%) Finance
4 3 (4.00%) Banking
5 2 (2.67%) Retail
6 1 (1.33%) Front Office
6 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.00%) AWS CDK
2 7 (9.33%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (5.33%) AWS SAM
4 3 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.67%) React
6 1 (1.33%) ADO
6 1 (1.33%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.33%) EDI
6 1 (1.33%) JSON
6 1 (1.33%) Kafka
6 1 (1.33%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (1.33%) LDAP
6 1 (1.33%) Next.js
6 1 (1.33%) Node.js
6 1 (1.33%) RESTful
6 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.33%) Clustering
4 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.33%) Life Science
4 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (26.67%) Linux
2 7 (9.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 5 (6.67%) Windows
4 3 (4.00%) Unix
5 2 (2.67%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.33%) CentOS
6 1 (1.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 26 (34.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (20.00%) Agile
5 13 (17.33%) Containerisation
6 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
7 9 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (9.33%) Observability
8 7 (9.33%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (6.67%) Project Management
9 5 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (5.33%) Computer Science
10 4 (5.33%) Configuration Management
10 4 (5.33%) DevSecOps
10 4 (5.33%) Migration
10 4 (5.33%) OOP
10 4 (5.33%) Performance Testing
11 3 (4.00%) Deployment Automation
11 3 (4.00%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.67%) Python
2 19 (25.33%) Bash
3 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.67%) Go
5 4 (5.33%) Groovy
5 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.67%) Java
7 2 (2.67%) R
7 2 (2.67%) Ruby
8 1 (1.33%) PHP
8 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.33%) Scala
8 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 33 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.33%) Degree
4 5 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) GDPR
1 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.33%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (38.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (70.67%) Terraform
2 35 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 25 (33.33%) Ansible
4 13 (17.33%) Grafana
5 7 (9.33%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.67%) Kibana
7 3 (4.00%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.67%) Nagios
9 1 (1.33%) Graylog
9 1 (1.33%) logstash
9 1 (1.33%) Puppet
9 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (10.67%) Splunk
2 4 (5.33%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.33%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.33%) Databricks
5 1 (1.33%) Google
5 1 (1.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.33%) VMware