AWS DevOps Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Amazon Web Services DevOps
Central London > City of London

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the City of London is £390, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 120 127
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 +48
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 4 8 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% 0.38% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.41% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 14
10th Percentile £351 £515 £400
25th Percentile £364 £519 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.17% +4.50% -4.30%
75th Percentile £413 £588 £675
90th Percentile £423 £678 £724
Central London median daily rate £410 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -28.70% +4.50% +0.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,629 1,954 2,599
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 93.40% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 1,198 1,825
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £418 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 15
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.06 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +51.32% -7.88%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £50.63
90th Percentile £64.11 £137.50 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.09% -5.41% -8.64%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS DevOps' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

AWS DevOps job vacancy trend in the City of London

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies in the City of London

AWS DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
AWS DevOps
Central London

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 12 November 2025, AWS DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) API Management
4 1 (25.00%) Apigee
4 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (25.00%) Azure

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Apigee
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (25.00%) Data Security
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) CASB
3 1 (25.00%) Packer
3 1 (25.00%) yum