AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in Leeds

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Leeds is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 39 81
Rank change year-on-year -12 +42 +26
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 13 25 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.30% 3.48% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 3.80% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 3
10th Percentile £376 £288 £411
25th Percentile £500 £358 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £394 £463
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -14.86% -9.76%
75th Percentile £538 £400 £659
90th Percentile - £426 £774
West Yorkshire median daily rate £506 £394 £463
% change year-on-year +28.57% -14.86% -10.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 552 658 1,123
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.70% 91.52% 98.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 436 769
10th Percentile £308 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £609 £650 £702
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 13
10th Percentile £25.15 £17.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.44 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £28.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +51.32% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £48.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £49.50 £23.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.57 £28.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year -18.02% +51.32% -0.42%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in Leeds

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in Leeds

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, 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 Leeds region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) Terraform
3 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
3 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
4 7 (53.85%) Python
4 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (30.77%) SQL
5 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
5 4 (30.77%) DynamoDB
6 3 (23.08%) Azure
6 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
6 3 (23.08%) Docker
6 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
7 2 (15.38%) GitLab
7 2 (15.38%) Grafana
7 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
7 2 (15.38%) Serverless
7 2 (15.38%) GitHub
7 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (15.38%) Observability
7 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
7 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
7 2 (15.38%) Ansible

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
3 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Django
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (7.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) Observability
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.69%) Database Security
5 1 (7.69%) DDoS Mitigation
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
5 1 (7.69%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (7.69%) Release Management
5 1 (7.69%) Resource Management
5 1 (7.69%) SIEM
5 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 2 (15.38%) Grafana
3 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) Kustomize
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk