Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in England is £563, 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 471 534 640
Rank change year-on-year +63 +106 +102
Contract jobs requiring a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 14 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.022% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.023% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 12
10th Percentile £448 £531 -
25th Percentile £502 £550 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £788 £713 £731
90th Percentile - £743 £795
UK median daily rate £575 £621 £625
% change year-on-year -7.44% -0.60% +4.17%

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%

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in England

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in England

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 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 +46 11 £575 -10.51% 3
North of England +17 1 £390 -35.00% 2
North West +15 1 £390 -35.00% 2
East of England - 1 £438 -
Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
2 13 (92.86%) Terraform
3 12 (85.71%) Python
4 11 (78.57%) Kubernetes
5 9 (64.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (57.14%) Docker
6 8 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (57.14%) Serverless
6 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
7 7 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
7 7 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
7 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (42.86%) Agile
9 5 (35.71%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (35.71%) Banking
9 5 (35.71%) Asset Management
9 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
9 5 (35.71%) Front Office
9 5 (35.71%) Finance
9 5 (35.71%) Fintech
9 5 (35.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (35.71%) Ansible

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (64.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (57.14%) Serverless
4 7 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (21.43%) Azure
6 3 (21.43%) GitHub
6 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (14.29%) AWS KMS
7 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 2 (14.29%) GCP
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) CircleCI
General
1 5 (35.71%) Banking
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
1 5 (35.71%) Front Office
2 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 2 (14.29%) AWS SAM
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (42.86%) Agile
4 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) Asset Management
5 5 (35.71%) Fintech
5 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
6 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
8 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
8 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (14.29%) High Availability
8 2 (14.29%) Observability
8 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) Go
4 3 (21.43%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Terraform
2 11 (78.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (35.71%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) VMware