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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 263 311
Rank change year-on-year -40 +48 +3
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 77 107 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 0.68% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.73% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 91 96
10th Percentile £343 £438 £400
25th Percentile £400 £526 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £631 £788 £638
90th Percentile £713 £838 £695
England median daily rate £475 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -15.93% +2.73% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,154 14,645 18,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 93.65% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,738 9,514 13,071
10th Percentile £338 £338 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.60%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £761 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.05% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 154 210
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.80 £21.81
Median hourly rate £27.86 £35.75 £36.31
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% -1.53% +3.73%
75th Percentile £54.06 £53.75 £59.69
90th Percentile £74.75 £80.75 £73.66
England median hourly rate £25.74 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.91% -17.22% +38.46%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 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
South London 0 8 - -
Central London +4 6 £345 -37.98% 2
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, 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 77 (100.00%) AWS
1 77 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 61 (79.22%) Terraform
4 39 (50.65%) Docker
5 38 (49.35%) SC Cleared
5 38 (49.35%) Security Cleared
6 34 (44.16%) Kubernetes
7 32 (41.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (41.56%) Python
8 24 (31.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (31.17%) GitHub
9 23 (29.87%) Amazon S3
10 21 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (27.27%) Containerisation
10 21 (27.27%) GitLab
11 20 (25.97%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (24.68%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (24.68%) Jenkins
12 19 (24.68%) Linux
13 18 (23.38%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (23.38%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (22.08%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (20.78%) Azure
16 15 (19.48%) AWS Certification
17 14 (18.18%) Git
17 14 (18.18%) Grafana
17 14 (18.18%) Serverless
18 13 (16.88%) AWS Lambda
18 13 (16.88%) Configuration Management

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 12 (15.58%) Confluence
2 10 (12.99%) nginx
3 4 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.60%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.30%) CMS
5 1 (1.30%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (31.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 24 (31.17%) GitHub
3 23 (29.87%) Amazon S3
4 21 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (25.97%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (24.68%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (22.08%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (20.78%) Azure
9 14 (18.18%) Serverless
10 13 (16.88%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (15.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (15.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (12.99%) Route 53
13 8 (10.39%) Amazon ELB
13 8 (10.39%) AWS KMS
13 8 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (7.79%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (7.79%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.29%) DNS
2 8 (10.39%) Firewall
2 8 (10.39%) FTP
2 8 (10.39%) HTTP
2 8 (10.39%) IMAP
2 8 (10.39%) OpenLDAP
2 8 (10.39%) SMTP
2 8 (10.39%) SSH
3 1 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.38%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (11.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (7.79%) Flink
5 5 (6.49%) DynamoDB
6 4 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (27.27%) GitLab
2 19 (24.68%) Jenkins
3 14 (18.18%) Git
4 12 (15.58%) JIRA
5 8 (10.39%) Vagrant
6 4 (5.19%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.60%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.30%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.30%) Maven
General
1 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.78%) Public Sector
3 14 (18.18%) Banking
4 9 (11.69%) Finance
4 9 (11.69%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (7.79%) Front Office
6 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Games
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.58%) Kafka
2 8 (10.39%) LDAP
3 5 (6.49%) Node.js
4 4 (5.19%) AWS CDK
4 4 (5.19%) OAuth
5 3 (3.90%) .NET
5 3 (3.90%) JWT
6 2 (2.60%) React
7 1 (1.30%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.30%) Fastify
7 1 (1.30%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.30%) Loki
7 1 (1.30%) MACH
7 1 (1.30%) Next.js
7 1 (1.30%) OpenID
7 1 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.30%) RESTful
7 1 (1.30%) SAML
7 1 (1.30%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Replication
2 6 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.79%) Fixed Income
3 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.19%) Hedge funds
3 4 (5.19%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.68%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Amazon Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Ubuntu
2 8 (10.39%) VMS
2 8 (10.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 32 (41.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 18 (23.38%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (16.88%) Configuration Management
6 13 (16.88%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (15.58%) Agile
7 12 (15.58%) Cloud Security
8 10 (12.99%) Migration
8 10 (12.99%) Observability
9 9 (11.69%) Change Management
9 9 (11.69%) Microservices
10 8 (10.39%) Patch Management
10 8 (10.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
12 6 (7.79%) DevSecOps
12 6 (7.79%) Front End Development
12 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (7.79%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (41.56%) Python
2 12 (15.58%) PowerShell
3 11 (14.29%) Java
4 10 (12.99%) Groovy
5 8 (10.39%) Bash
5 8 (10.39%) SQL
6 2 (2.60%) Go
6 2 (2.60%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (49.35%) SC Cleared
1 38 (49.35%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.48%) AWS Certification
3 9 (11.69%) Degree
4 8 (10.39%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.19%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (5.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 39 (50.65%) Docker
2 8 (10.39%) DFS Replication
2 8 (10.39%) Dovecot
2 8 (10.39%) Postfix
2 8 (10.39%) Squid
Systems Management
1 61 (79.22%) Terraform
2 34 (44.16%) Kubernetes
3 14 (18.18%) Grafana
4 13 (16.88%) Prometheus
5 11 (14.29%) Ansible
6 9 (11.69%) Argo
7 8 (10.39%) Nessus
7 8 (10.39%) Proxmox
8 4 (5.19%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.60%) Packer
10 1 (1.30%) Consul
10 1 (1.30%) Istio
10 1 (1.30%) Kibana
10 1 (1.30%) Puppet
10 1 (1.30%) Rancher
10 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) ServiceNow
2 8 (10.39%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.60%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle