AWS DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > London

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 299 309
Rank change year-on-year -37 +10 -46
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 93 67 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.53% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 47 68
10th Percentile £400 £418 £404
25th Percentile £440 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £769 £628
90th Percentile £663 £838 £760
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 18,343 12,617 16,363
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.26% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,048 8,531 11,676
10th Percentile £359 £331 £330
25th Percentile £445 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £762 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 196 296
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.47 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.73 £22.98 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +13.27% -24.51%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £63.75 £69.13
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.78% -29.55% -6.98%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in London

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in London

AWS DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. 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
South London -9 5 £538 -
Central London -11 2 - -
West London - 1 - -
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 2026, 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 London region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 93 (100.00%) AWS
1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (70.97%) Terraform
3 64 (68.82%) CI/CD
3 64 (68.82%) Security Cleared
4 61 (65.59%) SC Cleared
5 47 (50.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (48.39%) Kubernetes
7 42 (45.16%) GitLab
8 36 (38.71%) Docker
9 32 (34.41%) Containerisation
10 29 (31.18%) Python
11 25 (26.88%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (26.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (24.73%) Linux
13 21 (22.58%) Jenkins
14 18 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (18.28%) GitHub
15 17 (18.28%) Prometheus
16 16 (17.20%) Ansible
16 16 (17.20%) Grafana
17 15 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (16.13%) Serverless
18 14 (15.05%) AWS Lambda
18 14 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
19 13 (13.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 13 (13.98%) Amazon EC2
19 13 (13.98%) Amazon S3
20 12 (12.90%) High Availability
20 12 (12.90%) Observability

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.15%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (26.88%) Amazon EKS
2 25 (26.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 17 (18.28%) GitHub
4 15 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (16.13%) Serverless
5 14 (15.05%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (13.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (13.98%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (13.98%) Amazon S3
7 10 (10.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (8.60%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (8.60%) Azure
9 5 (5.38%) GCP
10 4 (4.30%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (4.30%) Snowflake
11 3 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (3.23%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) Network Security
2 1 (1.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.23%) MySQL
4 2 (2.15%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 42 (45.16%) GitLab
2 21 (22.58%) Jenkins
3 11 (11.83%) Git
4 5 (5.38%) CircleCI
4 5 (5.38%) Snyk
4 5 (5.38%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.15%) JIRA
5 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (25.81%) Public Sector
2 10 (10.75%) Finance
3 8 (8.60%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.38%) Banking
5 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.15%) Law
7 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.38%) Kafka
2 4 (4.30%) AWS CDK
2 4 (4.30%) Keycloak
3 2 (2.15%) boto
3 2 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (2.15%) REST
4 1 (1.08%) PySpark
4 1 (1.08%) pytest
4 1 (1.08%) Spring
4 1 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.58%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.23%) PKI
2 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.08%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (24.73%) Linux
2 5 (5.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.30%) Windows
4 3 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.08%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.08%) Unix
5 1 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 64 (68.82%) CI/CD
3 47 (50.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (34.41%) Containerisation
5 18 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (12.90%) High Availability
7 12 (12.90%) Observability
8 11 (11.83%) Microservices
9 8 (8.60%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (7.53%) Agile
10 7 (7.53%) Configuration Management
10 7 (7.53%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (6.45%) Cloud Security
11 6 (6.45%) Load Balancing
11 6 (6.45%) Software Engineering
12 5 (5.38%) AI
12 5 (5.38%) DevSecOps
12 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (5.38%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 29 (31.18%) Python
2 10 (10.75%) Bash
3 4 (4.30%) Java
4 2 (2.15%) Go
4 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.08%) Groovy
5 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.08%) Perl
5 1 (1.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (68.82%) Security Cleared
2 61 (65.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 6 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 36 (38.71%) Docker
2 3 (3.23%) Squid
3 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (70.97%) Terraform
2 45 (48.39%) Kubernetes
3 17 (18.28%) Prometheus
4 16 (17.20%) Ansible
4 16 (17.20%) Grafana
5 7 (7.53%) Argo
6 4 (4.30%) Puppet
7 3 (3.23%) Packer
8 2 (2.15%) Istio
9 1 (1.08%) Consul
9 1 (1.08%) Opsview
Vendors
1 2 (2.15%) Oracle
2 1 (1.08%) Informatica
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.08%) New Relic
2 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.08%) Sonatype