AWS DevOps Contracts in Central London

Amazon Web Services DevOps
London > Central London

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in Central London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 126 140
Rank change year-on-year +3 +14 -3
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 6 7 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.30% 0.29% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.30% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 22
10th Percentile £454 £478 £414
25th Percentile £524 - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £788 £691
90th Percentile £758 £878 £761
London median daily rate £700 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in Central London

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in Central London

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in Central London

AWS DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +7 5 £625 -1.96%
AWS DevOps
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Central London region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
3 4 (66.67%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (50.00%) GitLab
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Python
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Bash
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (33.33%) High Availability
5 2 (33.33%) Ansible
5 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) Log Aggregation
5 1 (16.67%) Microservices
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet