AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Birmingham is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 63 73
Rank change year-on-year +14 +10 +18
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.05% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £444 £335 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -22.22% -10.71%
75th Percentile £488 £365 £475
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +28.57% -22.22% -5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 500 717 878
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.57% 94.22% 96.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 506 604
10th Percentile £163 £243 £263
25th Percentile £325 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 28 34
10th Percentile - £13.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £15.43 £15.31
Median hourly rate £14.00 £23.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.78% +22.37% +7.34%
75th Percentile £22.49 £46.31 £25.66
90th Percentile £27.64 £56.25 £61.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +28.11% -5.00% +12.99%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, 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 job ads across the Birmingham region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (66.67%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (50.00%) JIRA
4 3 (50.00%) SSH
4 3 (50.00%) Groovy
4 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (50.00%) Git
4 3 (50.00%) Replication
4 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (50.00%) Change Management
4 3 (50.00%) Firewall
4 3 (50.00%) Windows
4 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (50.00%) VMS
4 3 (50.00%) SMTP
4 3 (50.00%) FTP
4 3 (50.00%) HTTP
4 3 (50.00%) DNS
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (50.00%) Terraform
4 3 (50.00%) Grafana

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (50.00%) AWS KMS
3 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (16.67%) Route 53
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) FTP
1 3 (50.00%) HTTP
1 3 (50.00%) SMTP
1 3 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (16.67%) IMAP
2 1 (16.67%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) VMS
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Groovy
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) DFS Replication
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) Dovecot
4 1 (16.67%) Postfix
4 1 (16.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Nessus
2 1 (16.67%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Jaspersoft