AWS DevOps Contracts in Leeds

Amazon Web Services DevOps
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in Leeds is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 48 84
Rank change year-on-year -4 +36 +17
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 13 21 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.36% 2.68% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 2.92% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 4
10th Percentile £376 £288 £417
25th Percentile £500 £358 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £394 £544
Median % change year-on-year +31.75% -27.59% +3.57%
75th Percentile £538 £400 £691
90th Percentile - - £786
West Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £394 £544
% change year-on-year +31.75% -27.59% +3.57%

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 538 719 1,151
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.82% 91.83% 98.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 462 797
10th Percentile £305 £300 £363
25th Percentile £391 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -8.33% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £611 £642 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +0.92% -7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 14
10th Percentile £25.20 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.50 £15.22 £15.94
Median hourly rate £32.81 £22.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.14% +12.82% -8.24%
75th Percentile £34.46 £48.75 £22.02
90th Percentile £72.92 - £23.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +16.53% - +1.60%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in Leeds

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in Leeds

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 Leeds region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) SC Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
3 11 (84.62%) Terraform
4 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
5 6 (46.15%) Python
6 4 (30.77%) DynamoDB
7 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
7 3 (23.08%) SQL
7 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
7 3 (23.08%) Ansible
8 2 (15.38%) Docker
8 2 (15.38%) GitLab
8 2 (15.38%) Git
8 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
8 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
9 1 (7.69%) Amazon Macie
9 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (7.69%) Observability
9 1 (7.69%) FinOps
9 1 (7.69%) Kustomize
9 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
9 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
9 1 (7.69%) Social Skills

AWS DevOps 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 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 RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Django
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (7.69%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps
4 1 (7.69%) FinOps
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Observability
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Secrets Management
4 1 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (7.69%) Threat Detection
4 1 (7.69%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) SC Cleared
1 12 (92.31%) 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 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Kustomize
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk