AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > London

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in London is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 315 260
Rank change year-on-year +66 -55 +52
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 104 76 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.83% 0.43% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.46% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 61 201
10th Percentile £425 £413 £500
25th Percentile £494 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +34.88% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £838 £600 £713
90th Percentile - £675 £863
England median daily rate £600 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +11.63% -10.42% +4.35%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in London

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer 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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in London

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer 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 1 May 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 +8 5 £550 +7.84%
Central London +3 5 £575 +15.00%
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 104 (100.00%) AWS
1 104 (100.00%) DevOps
2 94 (90.38%) Kubernetes
3 88 (84.62%) CI/CD
4 85 (81.73%) Terraform
5 74 (71.15%) Python
6 71 (68.27%) Docker
7 58 (55.77%) Serverless
8 57 (54.81%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (49.04%) Finance
10 49 (47.12%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (46.15%) Agile
12 47 (45.19%) Software Engineering
13 44 (42.31%) Front Office
13 44 (42.31%) Asset Management
14 43 (41.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 40 (38.46%) Java
15 40 (38.46%) Go
16 36 (34.62%) Apache Spark
17 35 (33.65%) OpenShift
17 35 (33.65%) Kafka
17 35 (33.65%) Amazon EC2
17 35 (33.65%) Infrastructure as Code
17 35 (33.65%) Apache Iceberg
18 34 (32.69%) Apache Airflow
18 34 (32.69%) Artifactory
18 34 (32.69%) Apache
19 33 (31.73%) J2EE
19 33 (31.73%) Security Cleared
19 33 (31.73%) Amazon S3

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 36 (34.62%) Apache Spark
2 34 (32.69%) Apache
2 34 (32.69%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.81%) nginx
4 3 (2.88%) Confluence
5 1 (0.96%) JBoss
5 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.96%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 104 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (55.77%) Serverless
3 57 (54.81%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (47.12%) Amazon ECS
5 35 (33.65%) Amazon EC2
5 35 (33.65%) OpenShift
6 33 (31.73%) Amazon S3
7 32 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (28.85%) dbt
9 18 (17.31%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (13.46%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (10.58%) GitHub
12 9 (8.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (4.81%) AWS CodePipeline
14 5 (4.81%) Azure
15 4 (3.85%) IaaS
15 4 (3.85%) PaaS
16 2 (1.92%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.73%) Firewall
1 7 (6.73%) HTTP
1 7 (6.73%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.81%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.92%) DNS
3 2 (1.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (33.65%) Apache Iceberg
2 30 (28.85%) Amazon Athena
2 30 (28.85%) Dremio
3 28 (26.92%) Apache Arrow
3 28 (26.92%) Apache Ignite
4 25 (24.04%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (20.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.81%) Apache Hive
7 5 (4.81%) Hadoop
7 5 (4.81%) Parquet
7 5 (4.81%) Presto
8 3 (2.88%) Big Data
9 2 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (32.69%) Artifactory
2 26 (25.00%) GitLab
3 20 (19.23%) Jenkins
4 13 (12.50%) Git
5 5 (4.81%) Poetry
6 2 (1.92%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.92%) JIRA
6 2 (1.92%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.92%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.96%) Ant
7 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.96%) Maven
7 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (49.04%) Finance
2 44 (42.31%) Front Office
3 15 (14.42%) Public Sector
4 13 (12.50%) Banking
5 7 (6.73%) Social Skills
6 5 (4.81%) Law
7 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (33.65%) Kafka
2 33 (31.73%) J2EE
3 28 (26.92%) PySpark
4 7 (6.73%) React
5 5 (4.81%) Dask
5 5 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.81%) LAPP Stack
6 3 (2.88%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.92%) AWS SAM
8 1 (0.96%) Middleware
8 1 (0.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.81%) Tandem
3 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.31%) Linux
2 3 (2.88%) Unix
3 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.96%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (100.00%) DevOps
2 88 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 48 (46.15%) Agile
4 47 (45.19%) Software Engineering
5 44 (42.31%) Asset Management
6 43 (41.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 35 (33.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (31.73%) Data Engineering
8 33 (31.73%) Open Source
9 12 (11.54%) Containerisation
10 11 (10.58%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (10.58%) Fintech
10 11 (10.58%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (9.62%) Configuration Management
11 10 (9.62%) Task Automation
12 9 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
14 7 (6.73%) Cloud Security
14 7 (6.73%) Deployment Automation
15 6 (5.77%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 74 (71.15%) Python
2 40 (38.46%) Go
2 40 (38.46%) Java
3 15 (14.42%) Bash
3 15 (14.42%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.69%) SQL
5 7 (6.73%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.96%) C#
7 1 (0.96%) Groovy
7 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (31.73%) Security Cleared
2 32 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.65%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.77%) Degree
5 3 (2.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.96%) OCP
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.96%) QA
1 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 71 (68.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (90.38%) Kubernetes
2 85 (81.73%) Terraform
3 22 (21.15%) Ansible
4 17 (16.35%) Prometheus
5 16 (15.38%) Grafana
6 3 (2.88%) Puppet
7 2 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.96%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.96%) Packer
8 1 (0.96%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (3.85%) Virgin Media
2 2 (1.92%) Cribl.io
2 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.96%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle