Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 500 580
Rank change year-on-year -12 +80 +158
Contract jobs requiring a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 12 23 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.042% 0.073% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.079% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 7
10th Percentile £409 £644 £408
25th Percentile £500 £663 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +41.46% -24.07%
75th Percentile £675 £794 £550
90th Percentile £805 £819 -
UK median daily rate £650 £725 £531
% change year-on-year -10.34% +36.47% -21.30%

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 25,984 29,277 38,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 93.00% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,679 17,869 26,623
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,500 1,160 1,413
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.36 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -7.37% +58.64%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +64.86%

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior AWS DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies 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 25 October 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 25 October 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 -11 8 £650 -10.34% 1
North of England - 3 £696 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £696 -
West Midlands - 2 £892 -
Midlands - 2 £892 -
South East - 1 - - 1
Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, Senior AWS DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) Terraform
3 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (75.00%) GitLab
5 7 (58.33%) GCP
6 6 (50.00%) Azure
7 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
7 5 (41.67%) TeamCity
8 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
9 3 (25.00%) Agile
9 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (25.00%) Ansible
9 3 (25.00%) Confluence
9 3 (25.00%) Docker
9 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
9 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
9 3 (25.00%) Python
10 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
10 2 (16.67%) Datadog
10 2 (16.67%) JIRA
10 2 (16.67%) Kong
10 2 (16.67%) Microservices
10 2 (16.67%) Migration
10 2 (16.67%) Observability
10 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
10 2 (16.67%) RESTful

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (8.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) GCP
3 6 (50.00%) Azure
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (16.67%) Datadog
5 2 (16.67%) Kong
5 2 (16.67%) Serverless
5 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (8.33%) Contentful
6 1 (8.33%) Contentstack
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub
6 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (8.33%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) Metadata
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) GitLab
2 5 (41.67%) TeamCity
3 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (16.67%) JIRA
5 1 (8.33%) Git
5 1 (8.33%) Liquibase
5 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Fastify
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) MACH
2 1 (8.33%) Next.js
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Microservices
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Observability
6 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) API Management
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
7 1 (8.33%) Data Encryption
7 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (8.33%) Generative AI
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 1 (8.33%) OCR
7 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Go
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (8.33%) F5
1 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk
1 1 (8.33%) UiPath
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