AWS DevOps Contracts in Birmingham

Amazon Web Services DevOps
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in Birmingham is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 59 72
Rank change year-on-year +15 +13 +20
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 11 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.99% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.21% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £463 £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 £469 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +33.93% -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 497 647 853
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.87% 95.29% 96.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 460 588
10th Percentile £164 £250 £260
25th Percentile £313 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £641 £725 £713
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 19 27
10th Percentile - £14.10 £13.22
25th Percentile £12.62 £15.75 £15.94
Median hourly rate £14.00 £37.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.67% +82.93% +14.85%
75th Percentile £22.08 £49.38 £28.46
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.25 £78.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £19.59 £20.50
% change year-on-year +24.25% -4.44% +13.89%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in Birmingham

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon S3
2 9 (81.82%) Python
2 9 (81.82%) Docker
2 9 (81.82%) Platform Engineering
3 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
3 8 (72.73%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
3 8 (72.73%) Jenkins
3 8 (72.73%) Terraform
3 8 (72.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (63.64%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (63.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (63.64%) Grafana
4 7 (63.64%) Patch Management
4 7 (63.64%) Prometheus
4 7 (63.64%) Confluence
4 7 (63.64%) Amazon ELB
4 7 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (63.64%) Vagrant
4 7 (63.64%) ServiceNow
4 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
4 7 (63.64%) Git
4 7 (63.64%) SSH
4 7 (63.64%) Groovy
4 7 (63.64%) JIRA
4 7 (63.64%) DFS Replication
4 7 (63.64%) Replication

AWS DevOps 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 7 (63.64%) Confluence
2 3 (27.27%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon S3
3 8 (72.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (72.73%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (63.64%) Amazon ELB
4 7 (63.64%) AWS KMS
4 7 (63.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (36.36%) Amazon Glacier
5 4 (36.36%) Azure
6 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (27.27%) Route 53
7 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (18.18%) Serverless
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (9.09%) GitHub
8 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) DNS
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
1 7 (63.64%) FTP
1 7 (63.64%) HTTP
1 7 (63.64%) SMTP
1 7 (63.64%) SSH
2 3 (27.27%) IMAP
2 3 (27.27%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Jenkins
2 7 (63.64%) Git
2 7 (63.64%) JIRA
2 7 (63.64%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Amazon Linux
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
1 7 (63.64%) VMS
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (63.64%) Change Management
3 7 (63.64%) Cloud Security
3 7 (63.64%) Configuration Management
3 7 (63.64%) Patch Management
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (9.09%) Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Architecture Roadmap
6 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
6 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Groovy
2 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
3 4 (36.36%) Java
3 4 (36.36%) Perl
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Docker
2 7 (63.64%) DFS Replication
3 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
4 3 (27.27%) Dovecot
4 3 (27.27%) Postfix
4 3 (27.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 7 (63.64%) Grafana
2 7 (63.64%) Prometheus
3 3 (27.27%) Nessus
3 3 (27.27%) Proxmox
4 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) ServiceNow
2 3 (27.27%) Jaspersoft
21 AWS DevOps jobs in England