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 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 304 332
Rank change year-on-year -104 +28 -26
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 129 393 573
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.82% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.86% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 316 446
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 £696 £650
90th Percentile £700 £863 £709
UK median daily rate £545 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -9.17% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - -
75th Percentile £78.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

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 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

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 16 May 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 16 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 -56 89 £550 -12.00% 15
North of England 0 26 £550 -8.33% 8
North West +18 23 £550 +10.00% 4
South East -8 4 £663 +12.77% 6
Midlands +27 3 £450 -10.00% 3
Yorkshire -6 3 £519 -13.54% 3
East Midlands +13 2 £450 -14.29% 2
South West -9 2 £475 -17.39%
West Midlands +26 1 £350 -22.22% 1
AWS DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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.

1 129 (100.00%) AWS
1 129 (100.00%) DevOps
2 95 (73.64%) Terraform
3 87 (67.44%) CI/CD
4 66 (51.16%) Python
5 65 (50.39%) Kubernetes
6 55 (42.64%) Docker
7 53 (41.09%) Security Cleared
8 52 (40.31%) SC Cleared
8 52 (40.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 45 (34.88%) Serverless
10 42 (32.56%) Ansible
11 40 (31.01%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (27.91%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (27.91%) Bash
13 34 (26.36%) Containerisation
14 32 (24.81%) Linux
15 31 (24.03%) Git
16 29 (22.48%) Amazon S3
16 29 (22.48%) Jenkins
17 28 (21.71%) GitLab
18 27 (20.93%) Amazon EKS
19 26 (20.16%) Amazon RDS
20 25 (19.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 23 (17.83%) AWS CloudFormation
22 22 (17.05%) Agile
22 22 (17.05%) Amazon ECS
23 19 (14.73%) Public Sector
23 19 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
24 18 (13.95%) 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 (3.88%) nginx
2 3 (2.33%) Confluence
3 2 (1.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) JBoss
4 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (34.88%) Serverless
3 40 (31.01%) AWS Lambda
4 36 (27.91%) Amazon EC2
5 29 (22.48%) Amazon S3
6 27 (20.93%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (19.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 23 (17.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (17.05%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (13.95%) GitHub
11 16 (12.40%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (10.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (9.30%) Route 53
14 11 (8.53%) Azure
15 10 (7.75%) AWS Control Tower
16 9 (6.98%) AWS CodePipeline
17 7 (5.43%) AWS CloudTrail
17 7 (5.43%) SaaS
18 6 (4.65%) AWS Step Functions
18 6 (4.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.98%) Firewall
2 7 (5.43%) Network Security
3 5 (3.88%) DNS
4 3 (2.33%) DHCP
4 3 (2.33%) LAN
4 3 (2.33%) WLAN
5 2 (1.55%) VPN
6 1 (0.78%) IPv4
6 1 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.16%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (8.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.33%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.55%) MySQL
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.78%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.78%) Power BI
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (24.03%) Git
2 29 (22.48%) Jenkins
3 28 (21.71%) GitLab
4 5 (3.88%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.10%) JIRA
5 4 (3.10%) Maven
6 3 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.55%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.78%) Ant
8 1 (0.78%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.78%) Gradle
8 1 (0.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (14.73%) Public Sector
2 17 (13.18%) Finance
3 15 (11.63%) Social Skills
4 9 (6.98%) Law
5 6 (4.65%) Banking
6 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.55%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.55%) Retail
7 1 (0.78%) Front Office
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
7 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.75%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (6.20%) Node.js
3 6 (4.65%) AWS CDK
4 4 (3.10%) AWS SAM
4 4 (3.10%) Kafka
5 3 (2.33%) .NET
5 3 (2.33%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.33%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.78%) Django
6 1 (0.78%) EDI
6 1 (0.78%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.78%) Flask
6 1 (0.78%) JSON
6 1 (0.78%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (0.78%) LDAP
6 1 (0.78%) Middleware
6 1 (0.78%) React
6 1 (0.78%) RESTful
6 1 (0.78%) Vue
6 1 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.85%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.33%) PKI
3 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.55%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.55%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.78%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.78%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.78%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.78%) Life Science
5 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.78%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 32 (24.81%) Linux
2 6 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (4.65%) Unix
2 6 (4.65%) Windows
3 2 (1.55%) VMS
4 1 (0.78%) CentOS
4 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (100.00%) DevOps
2 87 (67.44%) CI/CD
3 52 (40.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (26.36%) Containerisation
5 22 (17.05%) Agile
6 19 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (10.08%) DevSecOps
8 11 (8.53%) Microservices
9 10 (7.75%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (6.98%) Configuration Management
10 9 (6.98%) Software Delivery
11 8 (6.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (5.43%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (5.43%) High Availability
12 7 (5.43%) Infrastructure Management
12 7 (5.43%) Observability
13 6 (4.65%) Computer Science
13 6 (4.65%) Kanban
13 6 (4.65%) Software Deployment
14 5 (3.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 66 (51.16%) Python
2 36 (27.91%) Bash
3 16 (12.40%) JavaScript
4 15 (11.63%) Go
5 12 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.43%) Java
7 6 (4.65%) Ruby
7 6 (4.65%) SQL
8 4 (3.10%) Groovy
8 4 (3.10%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.33%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) C
10 1 (0.78%) C#
10 1 (0.78%) C++
10 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.78%) Perl
10 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 53 (41.09%) Security Cleared
2 52 (40.31%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.63%) AWS Certification
4 12 (9.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (4.65%) Degree
6 5 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.55%) GDPR
1 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.55%) NIST
2 1 (0.78%) NCSC
2 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 55 (42.64%) Docker
2 2 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (73.64%) Terraform
2 65 (50.39%) Kubernetes
3 42 (32.56%) Ansible
4 9 (6.98%) Grafana
5 8 (6.20%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.33%) Consul
6 3 (2.33%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.55%) Packer
7 2 (1.55%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.55%) Puppet
7 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.78%) Kibana
8 1 (0.78%) logstash
8 1 (0.78%) Nagios
8 1 (0.78%) Podman
8 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (4.65%) Splunk
2 5 (3.88%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.33%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.55%) MKS
4 2 (1.55%) Virgin Media
4 2 (1.55%) VMware
5 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.78%) Brio
5 1 (0.78%) Google
5 1 (0.78%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle
5 1 (0.78%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.78%) Teradata