AWS DevOps Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 302 341
Rank change year-on-year -116 +39 -51
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 125 410 575
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.81% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.86% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 330 451
10th Percentile £425 £475 £475
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £832 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +6.98%

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 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £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 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in England

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in England

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in England

AWS DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS DevOps in England

AWS DevOps
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 -62 84 £550 -8.33% 11
North of England +7 28 £550 - 9
North West +22 24 £550 +10.00% 4
Yorkshire +8 4 £500 -16.67% 3
Midlands +28 3 £450 -10.00% 3
South East -7 3 £650 +10.64% 4
East Midlands +22 2 £450 -14.29% 1
South West -8 2 £475 -11.63% 2
West Midlands +28 1 £350 -22.22% 2
AWS DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, AWS DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 125 (100.00%) AWS
1 125 (100.00%) DevOps
2 92 (73.60%) Terraform
3 83 (66.40%) CI/CD
4 64 (51.20%) Kubernetes
5 63 (50.40%) Python
6 57 (45.60%) Docker
7 52 (41.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 52 (41.60%) Security Cleared
8 51 (40.80%) SC Cleared
9 46 (36.80%) Serverless
10 42 (33.60%) AWS Lambda
11 40 (32.00%) Ansible
12 38 (30.40%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (28.80%) Containerisation
14 35 (28.00%) Bash
15 31 (24.80%) Amazon S3
16 29 (23.20%) Linux
17 28 (22.40%) Git
17 28 (22.40%) GitLab
18 27 (21.60%) Amazon RDS
18 27 (21.60%) Amazon EKS
19 26 (20.80%) Jenkins
20 25 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 24 (19.20%) Amazon ECS
22 23 (18.40%) AWS CloudFormation
23 21 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
23 21 (16.80%) Agile
24 18 (14.40%) Public Sector
25 17 (13.60%) GitHub

AWS DevOps 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 (4.00%) nginx
2 4 (3.20%) Confluence
3 1 (0.80%) Apache
3 1 (0.80%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (36.80%) Serverless
3 42 (33.60%) AWS Lambda
4 38 (30.40%) Amazon EC2
5 31 (24.80%) Amazon S3
6 27 (21.60%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 24 (19.20%) Amazon ECS
9 23 (18.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (13.60%) GitHub
11 15 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (11.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (9.60%) Azure
14 11 (8.80%) Route 53
15 10 (8.00%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (7.20%) AWS Control Tower
17 8 (6.40%) AWS CloudTrail
18 7 (5.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
19 6 (4.80%) Amazon ECR
19 6 (4.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.40%) Firewall
2 7 (5.60%) Network Security
3 5 (4.00%) DNS
4 3 (2.40%) DHCP
4 3 (2.40%) LAN
4 3 (2.40%) WLAN
5 2 (1.60%) VPN
6 1 (0.80%) IPv4
6 1 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.60%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.60%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.40%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.40%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.60%) MySQL
5 1 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.80%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (22.40%) Git
1 28 (22.40%) GitLab
2 26 (20.80%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.20%) JIRA
3 4 (3.20%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.40%) Maven
5 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.80%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.80%) Gradle
6 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.80%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (14.40%) Public Sector
2 15 (12.00%) Finance
3 14 (11.20%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.40%) Law
5 5 (4.00%) Banking
6 3 (2.40%) Retail
7 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.80%) Front Office
8 1 (0.80%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.80%) Marketing
8 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.20%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (6.40%) Node.js
3 5 (4.00%) AWS CDK
4 4 (3.20%) .NET
4 4 (3.20%) AWS SAM
5 3 (2.40%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.40%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (1.60%) Kafka
7 1 (0.80%) Django
7 1 (0.80%) EDI
7 1 (0.80%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.80%) Flask
7 1 (0.80%) J2EE
7 1 (0.80%) JSON
7 1 (0.80%) LDAP
7 1 (0.80%) React
7 1 (0.80%) REST
7 1 (0.80%) RESTful
7 1 (0.80%) Vue
7 1 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.20%) PKI
4 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.60%) Life Science
4 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.60%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.60%) Tandem
5 1 (0.80%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.20%) Linux
2 5 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (4.00%) Unix
3 4 (3.20%) Windows
4 2 (1.60%) VMS
5 1 (0.80%) CentOS
5 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (100.00%) DevOps
2 83 (66.40%) CI/CD
3 52 (41.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (28.80%) Containerisation
5 21 (16.80%) Agile
5 21 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (10.40%) DevSecOps
7 11 (8.80%) Microservices
8 9 (7.20%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (7.20%) Software Delivery
9 8 (6.40%) Configuration Management
10 7 (5.60%) High Availability
10 7 (5.60%) Infrastructure Management
11 6 (4.80%) Kanban
11 6 (4.80%) Observability
11 6 (4.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (4.80%) Software Deployment
12 5 (4.00%) Computer Science
12 5 (4.00%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (50.40%) Python
2 35 (28.00%) Bash
3 14 (11.20%) Go
3 14 (11.20%) JavaScript
4 11 (8.80%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.40%) Java
6 5 (4.00%) SQL
7 4 (3.20%) Ruby
8 3 (2.40%) C#
8 3 (2.40%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.40%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.60%) Groovy
10 1 (0.80%) Bicep
10 1 (0.80%) C
10 1 (0.80%) C++
10 1 (0.80%) Perl
10 1 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (41.60%) Security Cleared
2 51 (40.80%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.80%) AWS Certification
4 12 (9.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.00%) Degree
6 3 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.60%) GDPR
1 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.60%) NIST
2 1 (0.80%) NCSC
2 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (45.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 92 (73.60%) Terraform
2 64 (51.20%) Kubernetes
3 40 (32.00%) Ansible
4 8 (6.40%) Grafana
5 6 (4.80%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.40%) Consul
6 3 (2.40%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.60%) Packer
7 2 (1.60%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.80%) Argo
8 1 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.80%) Kibana
8 1 (0.80%) logstash
8 1 (0.80%) Puppet
8 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.80%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (3.20%) Red Hat
2 3 (2.40%) Splunk
2 3 (2.40%) VMware
3 2 (1.60%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.60%) Google
3 2 (1.60%) MKS
3 2 (1.60%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.80%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.80%) Brio
4 1 (0.80%) Cylance
4 1 (0.80%) Guidewire
4 1 (0.80%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.80%) Teradata