AWS DevOps Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Amazon Web Services DevOps
England > East of England

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the East of England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 83 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.21% 0.099% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% - -
England median daily rate £513 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -14.58% +11.63% -10.42%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 1,800 915 1,698
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 90.86% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 495 851
10th Percentile £191 £225 £206
25th Percentile £325 £356 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £551
90th Percentile £675 £683 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 158 493
10th Percentile £13.65 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.11 £21.46 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £60.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -60.29% +51.71% +28.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £38.63 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.37% +7.69% -23.53%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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 East of England.

AWS DevOps job vacancy trend in the East of England

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies in the East of England

AWS DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 23 March 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire - 4 £600 -
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
AWS DevOps
England

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 23 March 2026, 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 East of England region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) CCNP
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Google
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Route 53
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Route 53
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (25.00%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) CloudEndure
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) TOWER Software