AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in England is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 326 369
Rank change year-on-year -102 +43 -13
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 109 373 504
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.74% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.79% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 305 394
10th Percentile £423 £475 £475
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £648
90th Percentile £675 £863 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,391 47,499 67,898
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,834 33,731 48,300
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,404 1,900
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.66 £76.85 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
London -52 78 £538 -10.42% 11
North of England +5 18 £481 -12.50% 4
North West +12 15 £481 -3.75% 3
South East +3 4 £663 +12.77% 4
Midlands +27 3 £450 -10.00% 3
Yorkshire +5 3 £519 -13.54% 1
East Midlands +17 2 £450 -14.29% 2
South West +8 2 £475 -13.64% 1
West Midlands +20 1 £350 -22.22% 1
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, 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 England region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 109 (100.00%) AWS
1 109 (100.00%) DevOps
2 83 (76.15%) Terraform
3 71 (65.14%) CI/CD
4 57 (52.29%) Kubernetes
5 52 (47.71%) Python
6 47 (43.12%) Security Cleared
7 46 (42.20%) SC Cleared
7 46 (42.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 45 (41.28%) Docker
9 36 (33.03%) Ansible
10 35 (32.11%) Serverless
11 32 (29.36%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (27.52%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (26.61%) Linux
14 27 (24.77%) Bash
14 27 (24.77%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (22.94%) Jenkins
15 25 (22.94%) Amazon S3
15 25 (22.94%) Containerisation
16 23 (21.10%) GitLab
16 23 (21.10%) Amazon ECS
17 22 (20.18%) Git
18 21 (19.27%) Amazon RDS
19 20 (18.35%) AWS CloudFormation
19 20 (18.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 18 (16.51%) Public Sector
21 17 (15.60%) GitHub
22 16 (14.68%) GitHub Actions
23 15 (13.76%) Agile

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (4.59%) nginx
2 3 (2.75%) Confluence
3 2 (1.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.92%) JBoss
4 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.92%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 109 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (32.11%) Serverless
3 32 (29.36%) Amazon EC2
4 30 (27.52%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (24.77%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (22.94%) Amazon S3
7 23 (21.10%) Amazon ECS
8 20 (18.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (18.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 17 (15.60%) GitHub
10 16 (14.68%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (11.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (11.01%) Route 53
12 10 (9.17%) AWS CodePipeline
13 9 (8.26%) Azure
14 8 (7.34%) AWS CloudTrail
14 8 (7.34%) AWS Control Tower
15 7 (6.42%) Amazon ECR
15 7 (6.42%) SaaS
16 6 (5.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.42%) Firewall
2 5 (4.59%) DNS
3 3 (2.75%) DHCP
3 3 (2.75%) LAN
3 3 (2.75%) Network Security
3 3 (2.75%) WLAN
4 2 (1.83%) VPN
5 1 (0.92%) IPv4
5 1 (0.92%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.27%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.75%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.75%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.83%) MySQL
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.92%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (22.94%) Jenkins
2 23 (21.10%) GitLab
3 22 (20.18%) Git
4 5 (4.59%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.67%) JIRA
5 4 (3.67%) Maven
6 3 (2.75%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.83%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.92%) Ant
8 1 (0.92%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.92%) Gradle
8 1 (0.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (16.51%) Public Sector
2 14 (12.84%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.93%) Finance
4 9 (8.26%) Law
5 6 (5.50%) Banking
6 3 (2.75%) Retail
7 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.92%) Marketing
8 1 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (5.50%) AWS CDK
3 3 (2.75%) .NET
3 3 (2.75%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.75%) AWS SAM
3 3 (2.75%) Kafka
3 3 (2.75%) Lambda Expressions
3 3 (2.75%) Node.js
4 1 (0.92%) Django
4 1 (0.92%) EDI
4 1 (0.92%) Flask
4 1 (0.92%) JSON
4 1 (0.92%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (0.92%) Laravel
4 1 (0.92%) LDAP
4 1 (0.92%) Middleware
4 1 (0.92%) React
4 1 (0.92%) RESTful
4 1 (0.92%) Vue
4 1 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.75%) PKI
2 3 (2.75%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.83%) Life Science
3 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.92%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.92%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 29 (26.61%) Linux
2 6 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.59%) Unix
3 5 (4.59%) Windows
4 2 (1.83%) VMS
5 1 (0.92%) CentOS
5 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (100.00%) DevOps
2 71 (65.14%) CI/CD
3 46 (42.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (22.94%) Containerisation
5 15 (13.76%) Agile
6 14 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (9.17%) DevSecOps
8 9 (8.26%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (8.26%) Software Delivery
9 8 (7.34%) Configuration Management
10 7 (6.42%) Microservices
11 6 (5.50%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (5.50%) High Availability
11 6 (5.50%) Observability
12 5 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (4.59%) Mentoring
12 5 (4.59%) Migration
12 5 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 4 (3.67%) IT Strategy
13 4 (3.67%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 52 (47.71%) Python
2 27 (24.77%) Bash
3 12 (11.01%) Go
4 8 (7.34%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.50%) SQL
5 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.59%) Java
7 4 (3.67%) Groovy
7 4 (3.67%) Ruby
8 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.92%) Bicep
10 1 (0.92%) C
10 1 (0.92%) C#
10 1 (0.92%) C++
10 1 (0.92%) Perl
10 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (43.12%) Security Cleared
2 46 (42.20%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.17%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.67%) Degree
6 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.83%) GDPR
1 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.83%) NIST
2 1 (0.92%) NCSC
2 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (41.28%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (76.15%) Terraform
2 57 (52.29%) Kubernetes
3 36 (33.03%) Ansible
4 7 (6.42%) Grafana
4 7 (6.42%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.75%) Consul
5 3 (2.75%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.83%) Packer
6 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.83%) Puppet
6 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.92%) Kibana
7 1 (0.92%) logstash
7 1 (0.92%) Podman
7 1 (0.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (4.59%) Red Hat
2 3 (2.75%) Dynatrace
2 3 (2.75%) Splunk
3 2 (1.83%) MKS
3 2 (1.83%) VMware
4 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.92%) Brio
4 1 (0.92%) Cylance
4 1 (0.92%) Google
4 1 (0.92%) Guidewire
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle
4 1 (0.92%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.92%) Teradata
4 1 (0.92%) Virgin Media