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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 398 329
Rank change year-on-year -2 -69 +41
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 112 127 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.38% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.41% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 100 257
10th Percentile £359 £306 £425
25th Percentile £423 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -14.58% +2.13%
75th Percentile £538 £621 £688
90th Percentile £668 £725 £863
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £600
% change year-on-year -4.49% -12.75% +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 25,286 31,125 42,832
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.90% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,399 20,504 30,192
10th Percentile £287 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,309 1,826 1,341
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

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 4 August 2025.

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 4 August 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 -23 59 £509 -7.50% 10
North of England -15 23 £500 +25.00% 4
Midlands +7 15 £469 +33.93% 1
West Midlands +10 14 £469 +33.93% 1
Yorkshire -17 13 £506 +28.57% 2
North West +4 9 £358 -34.91% 2
South East +31 7 £500 -24.53% 3
South West +19 2 £556 +11.25% 2
North East - 2 £380 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, 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.

1 112 (100.00%) AWS
1 112 (100.00%) DevOps
2 86 (76.79%) Terraform
3 75 (66.96%) CI/CD
4 53 (47.32%) Kubernetes
4 53 (47.32%) Security Cleared
5 50 (44.64%) SC Cleared
5 50 (44.64%) Python
5 50 (44.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (41.96%) Docker
7 38 (33.93%) Jenkins
8 37 (33.04%) Amazon S3
9 33 (29.46%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (26.79%) GitLab
11 28 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (25.00%) GitHub
12 26 (23.21%) Linux
12 26 (23.21%) Amazon RDS
13 25 (22.32%) Ansible
14 24 (21.43%) Grafana
14 24 (21.43%) Serverless
15 23 (20.54%) Configuration Management
15 23 (20.54%) Cloud Security
16 22 (19.64%) Public Sector
16 22 (19.64%) Prometheus
16 22 (19.64%) AWS Lambda
17 21 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 21 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
18 20 (17.86%) SQL
19 19 (16.96%) Bash

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 12 (10.71%) Confluence
2 11 (9.82%) Apache
3 9 (8.04%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (8.04%) nginx
4 6 (5.36%) Apache Spark
5 4 (3.57%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.79%) JBoss
7 1 (0.89%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 112 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (33.04%) Amazon S3
3 33 (29.46%) Amazon EC2
4 28 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 28 (25.00%) GitHub
5 24 (21.43%) Serverless
6 22 (19.64%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 19 (16.96%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (13.39%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (13.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (13.39%) Azure
10 14 (12.50%) AWS KMS
11 10 (8.93%) Amazon ELB
12 8 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
13 7 (6.25%) GCP
13 7 (6.25%) OpenShift
13 7 (6.25%) Route 53
14 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.71%) DNS
2 9 (8.04%) HTTP
2 9 (8.04%) SMTP
3 8 (7.14%) Firewall
3 8 (7.14%) SSH
4 7 (6.25%) FTP
5 5 (4.46%) IMAP
5 5 (4.46%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (4.46%) VPN
6 4 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (3.57%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.68%) Internet
8 1 (0.89%) NAS
8 1 (0.89%) Network Security
8 1 (0.89%) SAN
8 1 (0.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.21%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.46%) Apache Arrow
3 5 (4.46%) Apache Iceberg
3 5 (4.46%) Apache Ignite
3 5 (4.46%) Dremio
3 5 (4.46%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.68%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.89%) Big Data
7 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.89%) Metadata
7 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (33.93%) Jenkins
2 30 (26.79%) GitLab
3 19 (16.96%) Git
4 15 (13.39%) JIRA
5 9 (8.04%) Vagrant
6 6 (5.36%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.57%) TeamCity
8 3 (2.68%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.68%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.79%) Liquibase
9 2 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.89%) Ant
10 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.89%) Maven
10 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.89%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (19.64%) Public Sector
2 19 (16.96%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.61%) Finance
4 6 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.46%) Banking
5 5 (4.46%) Front Office
5 5 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Law
7 3 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.04%) Kafka
2 8 (7.14%) .NET
3 7 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (4.46%) AWS CDK
4 5 (4.46%) J2EE
4 5 (4.46%) LDAP
4 5 (4.46%) PySpark
5 4 (3.57%) OAuth
6 1 (0.89%) Django
6 1 (0.89%) JSON
6 1 (0.89%) Loki
6 1 (0.89%) Middleware
6 1 (0.89%) Node.js
6 1 (0.89%) React
6 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.25%) Replication
2 6 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.46%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.21%) Linux
2 9 (8.04%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (8.04%) VMS
2 9 (8.04%) Windows
3 6 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.68%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (100.00%) DevOps
2 75 (66.96%) CI/CD
3 50 (44.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (20.54%) Cloud Security
4 23 (20.54%) Configuration Management
5 17 (15.18%) Containerisation
5 17 (15.18%) Infrastructure Automation
6 16 (14.29%) Agile
7 15 (13.39%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (10.71%) Change Management
8 12 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (7.14%) High Availability
9 8 (7.14%) Load Balancing
9 8 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (6.25%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.25%) Patch Management
10 7 (6.25%) Software Engineering
11 6 (5.36%) Data Engineering
11 6 (5.36%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 50 (44.64%) Python
2 20 (17.86%) SQL
3 19 (16.96%) Bash
4 16 (14.29%) Java
5 15 (13.39%) PowerShell
6 10 (8.93%) Groovy
7 8 (7.14%) Go
8 5 (4.46%) Perl
9 3 (2.68%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.79%) C#
10 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.89%) C++
11 1 (0.89%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 53 (47.32%) Security Cleared
2 50 (44.64%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.46%) Degree
5 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.89%) OCP
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) QA
2 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.79%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.89%) GDPR
3 1 (0.89%) NIST
System Software
1 47 (41.96%) Docker
2 7 (6.25%) DFS Replication
3 5 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.46%) Dovecot
3 5 (4.46%) Postfix
3 5 (4.46%) Squid
4 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 86 (76.79%) Terraform
2 53 (47.32%) Kubernetes
3 25 (22.32%) Ansible
4 24 (21.43%) Grafana
5 22 (19.64%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.14%) Progress Chef
7 7 (6.25%) Puppet
8 6 (5.36%) Kibana
9 5 (4.46%) Nessus
10 3 (2.68%) Proxmox
11 2 (1.79%) Packer
12 1 (0.89%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.89%) Podman
12 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.89%) yum
Vendors
1 9 (8.04%) ServiceNow
2 5 (4.46%) AppDynamics
2 5 (4.46%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (3.57%) Virgin Media
4 3 (2.68%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.79%) Splunk
6 1 (0.89%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle
6 1 (0.89%) UiPath