AWS DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in England is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 355 411
Rank change year-on-year -51 +56 -25
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 138 154 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.51% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.55% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 133 140
10th Percentile £351 £400 £425
25th Percentile £401 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.82% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £570 £788 £625
90th Percentile £686 £835 £695
UK median daily rate £481 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 28,233 28,165 35,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.89% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,092 17,437 24,751
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,705 974 1,399
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.34 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.42 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies 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 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies 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 13 December 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
London -35 78 £488 -22.00% 5
North of England -37 35 £500 +25.00% 3
Midlands -9 24 £475 +35.71%
West Midlands -4 23 £475 +35.71%
Yorkshire -51 16 £500 +25.00% 1
North West -2 15 £401 -15.58%
North East -1 5 £575 - 2
South East -12 4 £513 -4.65% 3
South West -16 1 £488 -15.22% 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, AWS DevOps Engineer 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 England region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 138 (100.00%) AWS
1 138 (100.00%) DevOps
2 108 (78.26%) Terraform
3 98 (71.01%) CI/CD
4 71 (51.45%) Python
4 71 (51.45%) Security Cleared
5 69 (50.00%) SC Cleared
6 64 (46.38%) Docker
7 59 (42.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 57 (41.30%) Kubernetes
9 48 (34.78%) Jenkins
10 46 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 44 (31.88%) Amazon S3
11 44 (31.88%) GitHub
12 42 (30.43%) GitLab
13 40 (28.99%) Amazon EC2
13 40 (28.99%) Linux
14 39 (28.26%) Grafana
15 38 (27.54%) Amazon RDS
16 36 (26.09%) Cloud Security
17 35 (25.36%) Prometheus
18 34 (24.64%) Containerisation
19 32 (23.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 31 (22.46%) Serverless
21 30 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
22 28 (20.29%) Amazon ECS
22 28 (20.29%) AWS Lambda
22 28 (20.29%) Git
22 28 (20.29%) GitHub Actions
23 25 (18.12%) Configuration Management

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 22 (15.94%) Confluence
2 11 (7.97%) nginx
3 10 (7.25%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.45%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.72%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 138 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 44 (31.88%) Amazon S3
3 44 (31.88%) GitHub
4 40 (28.99%) Amazon EC2
5 32 (23.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 31 (22.46%) Serverless
7 28 (20.29%) Amazon ECS
7 28 (20.29%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (20.29%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (16.67%) Azure
10 17 (12.32%) Amazon ELB
11 16 (11.59%) AWS KMS
12 14 (10.14%) Route 53
13 12 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
13 12 (8.70%) GCP
14 10 (7.25%) AWS Fargate
15 9 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.39%) DNS
2 16 (11.59%) Firewall
2 16 (11.59%) SMTP
3 15 (10.87%) FTP
3 15 (10.87%) HTTP
3 15 (10.87%) SSH
4 9 (6.52%) IMAP
4 9 (6.52%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (2.90%) VPN
6 3 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.72%) SSL
7 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (27.54%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (5.80%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.35%) Flink
6 5 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.90%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.90%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.45%) MySQL
9 1 (0.72%) Metadata
9 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.72%) Redis
9 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 42 (30.43%) GitLab
3 28 (20.29%) Git
4 23 (16.67%) JIRA
5 16 (11.59%) Vagrant
6 5 (3.62%) CircleCI
6 5 (3.62%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.17%) Liquibase
7 3 (2.17%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.17%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.45%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.72%) Maven
9 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (30.43%) Public Sector
2 23 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.59%) Banking
4 15 (10.87%) Finance
5 9 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.35%) Front Office
7 4 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.72%) Games
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.32%) Kafka
2 9 (6.52%) AWS CDK
2 9 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (6.52%) LDAP
3 5 (3.62%) Node.js
4 4 (2.90%) Keycloak
4 4 (2.90%) OAuth
4 4 (2.90%) React
5 3 (2.17%) cloud-init
5 3 (2.17%) JWT
5 3 (2.17%) REST
5 3 (2.17%) RESTful
6 2 (1.45%) .NET
7 1 (0.72%) Django
7 1 (0.72%) JSON
7 1 (0.72%) MACH
7 1 (0.72%) OpenID
7 1 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.72%) SAML
7 1 (0.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.59%) Replication
2 14 (10.14%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.07%) NHS
4 6 (4.35%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.62%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.17%) PKI
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (28.99%) Linux
2 16 (11.59%) Amazon Linux
2 16 (11.59%) VMS
2 16 (11.59%) Windows
3 8 (5.80%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.17%) CentOS
5 3 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (100.00%) DevOps
2 98 (71.01%) CI/CD
3 59 (42.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (26.09%) Cloud Security
5 34 (24.64%) Containerisation
6 30 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
7 25 (18.12%) Configuration Management
8 22 (15.94%) Observability
9 21 (15.22%) Agile
10 20 (14.49%) Change Management
11 17 (12.32%) Microservices
12 16 (11.59%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (10.87%) Patch Management
14 14 (10.14%) Infrastructure Automation
14 14 (10.14%) Migration
15 10 (7.25%) High Availability
16 9 (6.52%) DevSecOps
17 8 (5.80%) Event-Driven
17 8 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 7 (5.07%) Monorepo
Programming Languages
1 71 (51.45%) Python
2 22 (15.94%) Bash
3 21 (15.22%) PowerShell
4 19 (13.77%) Java
4 19 (13.77%) SQL
5 18 (13.04%) Groovy
6 8 (5.80%) Perl
7 7 (5.07%) Go
8 4 (2.90%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.17%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.17%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.72%) PHP
10 1 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 71 (51.45%) Security Cleared
2 69 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (15.22%) AWS Certification
4 11 (7.97%) Degree
5 8 (5.80%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.17%) NCSC
1 3 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 64 (46.38%) Docker
2 15 (10.87%) DFS Replication
3 9 (6.52%) Dovecot
3 9 (6.52%) Postfix
3 9 (6.52%) Squid
4 8 (5.80%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 108 (78.26%) Terraform
2 57 (41.30%) Kubernetes
3 39 (28.26%) Grafana
4 35 (25.36%) Prometheus
5 22 (15.94%) Ansible
6 9 (6.52%) Argo
6 9 (6.52%) Nessus
7 8 (5.80%) Progress Chef
7 8 (5.80%) Proxmox
8 5 (3.62%) Packer
8 5 (3.62%) Puppet
9 3 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.45%) Kibana
11 1 (0.72%) Consul
11 1 (0.72%) Istio
11 1 (0.72%) Rancher
11 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (12.32%) ServiceNow
2 9 (6.52%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (5.80%) Splunk
4 5 (3.62%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.90%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.17%) Okta
7 2 (1.45%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.72%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.72%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.72%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.72%) F5
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle
8 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.72%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.72%) UiPath