AWS DevOps Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 417 304
Rank change year-on-year +81 -113 +30
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 149 125 411
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.34% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.36% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 100 330
10th Percentile £393 £424 £475
25th Percentile £475 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £813 £625 £688
90th Percentile £838 £703 £832
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +61 109 £700 +27.27% 12
North of England +18 26 £513 -6.82% 9
North West +4 11 £393 -28.55% 5
Yorkshire +13 8 £525 +1.20% 4
North East - 7 £575 -
South East +48 5 £500 -23.08% 8
East of England - 1 £438 -
AWS DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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.

1 149 (100.00%) AWS
1 149 (100.00%) DevOps
2 117 (78.52%) Terraform
3 115 (77.18%) Kubernetes
3 115 (77.18%) CI/CD
4 94 (63.09%) Python
5 86 (57.72%) Docker
6 61 (40.94%) Serverless
7 60 (40.27%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (36.91%) Finance
9 54 (36.24%) Amazon ECS
10 52 (34.90%) Security Cleared
11 50 (33.56%) Agile
12 49 (32.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 48 (32.21%) Software Engineering
14 45 (30.20%) SC Cleared
14 45 (30.20%) Amazon EC2
14 45 (30.20%) Amazon S3
14 45 (30.20%) Java
14 45 (30.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 44 (29.53%) Asset Management
15 44 (29.53%) Front Office
16 40 (26.85%) Go
17 39 (26.17%) OpenShift
17 39 (26.17%) AWS CloudFormation
18 38 (25.50%) GitLab
18 38 (25.50%) Apache
19 37 (24.83%) Jenkins
19 37 (24.83%) Apache Airflow
20 36 (24.16%) Apache Spark

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 38 (25.50%) Apache
2 37 (24.83%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (24.16%) Apache Spark
4 12 (8.05%) nginx
5 5 (3.36%) JBoss
5 5 (3.36%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.01%) Confluence
7 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 149 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (40.94%) Serverless
3 60 (40.27%) AWS Lambda
4 54 (36.24%) Amazon ECS
5 45 (30.20%) Amazon EC2
5 45 (30.20%) Amazon S3
6 39 (26.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 39 (26.17%) OpenShift
7 30 (20.13%) dbt
8 24 (16.11%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (12.75%) GitHub
10 14 (9.40%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (8.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (8.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (5.37%) Azure
14 7 (4.70%) AWS KMS
15 6 (4.03%) AWS CodePipeline
16 4 (2.68%) PaaS
16 4 (2.68%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.04%) Firewall
2 8 (5.37%) HTTP
3 7 (4.70%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.36%) DNS
4 5 (3.36%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (2.01%) SSL
5 3 (2.01%) VPN
6 2 (1.34%) Internet
7 1 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (23.49%) Apache Iceberg
2 30 (20.13%) Amazon Athena
2 30 (20.13%) Dremio
3 28 (18.79%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (18.79%) Apache Arrow
3 28 (18.79%) Apache Ignite
4 21 (14.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (5.37%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (5.37%) MongoDB
6 7 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.36%) Apache Hive
7 5 (3.36%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.36%) Hadoop
7 5 (3.36%) Parquet
7 5 (3.36%) Presto
7 5 (3.36%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.68%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.68%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.68%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.01%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 38 (25.50%) GitLab
2 37 (24.83%) Jenkins
3 34 (22.82%) Artifactory
4 18 (12.08%) Git
5 7 (4.70%) JIRA
6 5 (3.36%) Poetry
6 5 (3.36%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.68%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (2.68%) CA Release Automation
7 4 (2.68%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.34%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.34%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.34%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.67%) Ant
9 1 (0.67%) Babel
9 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.67%) Maven
9 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 55 (36.91%) Finance
2 44 (29.53%) Front Office
3 23 (15.44%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.40%) Banking
5 9 (6.04%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.36%) Law
7 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.34%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Electronics
9 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.67%) Marketing
9 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (23.49%) Kafka
2 33 (22.15%) J2EE
3 28 (18.79%) PySpark
4 12 (8.05%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (5.37%) React
6 5 (3.36%) Dask
6 5 (3.36%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (2.68%) .NET
7 4 (2.68%) OAuth
7 4 (2.68%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.01%) AWS CDK
8 3 (2.01%) Node.js
9 2 (1.34%) AWS SAM
10 1 (0.67%) CSS
10 1 (0.67%) HTML
10 1 (0.67%) JSON
10 1 (0.67%) JWT
10 1 (0.67%) Next.js
10 1 (0.67%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.03%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.36%) Tandem
3 4 (2.68%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.34%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.67%) FMCG
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.13%) Linux
2 11 (7.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (4.03%) Unix
4 5 (3.36%) Windows
5 2 (1.34%) CentOS
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (100.00%) DevOps
2 115 (77.18%) CI/CD
3 50 (33.56%) Agile
4 49 (32.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (32.21%) Software Engineering
6 45 (30.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 44 (29.53%) Asset Management
8 33 (22.15%) Data Engineering
8 33 (22.15%) Open Source
9 18 (12.08%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (11.41%) Containerisation
11 14 (9.40%) Infrastructure Automation
11 14 (9.40%) Microservices
12 13 (8.72%) Configuration Management
12 13 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (8.05%) Cloud Security
13 12 (8.05%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (8.05%) Task Automation
14 11 (7.38%) Fintech
15 10 (6.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 94 (63.09%) Python
2 45 (30.20%) Java
3 40 (26.85%) Go
4 19 (12.75%) SQL
5 18 (12.08%) Bash
6 16 (10.74%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.37%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.68%) Perl
9 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.01%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.67%) C#
10 1 (0.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 52 (34.90%) Security Cleared
2 45 (30.20%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.72%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (4.03%) Degree
5 4 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) OCP
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.34%) QA
2 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 86 (57.72%) Docker
2 4 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 117 (78.52%) Terraform
2 115 (77.18%) Kubernetes
3 25 (16.78%) Ansible
4 19 (12.75%) Prometheus
5 18 (12.08%) Grafana
6 9 (6.04%) Kibana
6 9 (6.04%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.03%) Puppet
8 3 (2.01%) Packer
9 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.67%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.67%) logstash
9 1 (0.67%) Podman
9 1 (0.67%) SCCM
9 1 (0.67%) SCOM
9 1 (0.67%) SCSM
Vendors
1 8 (5.37%) AppDynamics
2 6 (4.03%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.68%) Splunk
3 4 (2.68%) Virgin Media
4 3 (2.01%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.34%) Cribl.io
6 1 (0.67%) Black Duck
6 1 (0.67%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle
6 1 (0.67%) SAP
6 1 (0.67%) Tenable
6 1 (0.67%) VMware