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 £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 313 254
Rank change year-on-year +29 -59 +63
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 70 87 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 0.50% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.53% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 69 197
10th Percentile £425 £404 £450
25th Percentile £463 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -14.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £838 £620 £767
90th Percentile - £760 £863
England median daily rate £513 £523 £600
% change year-on-year -1.91% -12.92% +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 12,044 16,404 23,985
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 93.88% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,141 11,758 17,511
10th Percentile £335 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 316 271
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.23 £20.17 £22.95
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -26.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £50.50 £45.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £39.55 £43.93
% change year-on-year -28.75% -9.97% +75.72%

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 July 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 July 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
Central London +1 5 £583 -13.70% 8
South London 0 3 - -
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 70 (100.00%) AWS
1 70 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (80.00%) Terraform
2 56 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 56 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 38 (54.29%) Docker
4 37 (52.86%) Python
5 31 (44.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (38.57%) Serverless
7 26 (37.14%) Security Cleared
8 25 (35.71%) SC Cleared
8 25 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (34.29%) Java
10 23 (32.86%) Finance
11 21 (30.00%) GitLab
11 21 (30.00%) Ansible
12 20 (28.57%) Apache
13 19 (27.14%) Agile
13 19 (27.14%) Go
13 19 (27.14%) Kafka
13 19 (27.14%) Apache Airflow
14 18 (25.71%) OpenShift
14 18 (25.71%) Apache Spark
14 18 (25.71%) Data Engineering
14 18 (25.71%) Software Engineering
15 17 (24.29%) Artifactory
15 17 (24.29%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (24.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 16 (22.86%) Open Source
16 16 (22.86%) Bash

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 20 (28.57%) Apache
2 19 (27.14%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (25.71%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.86%) JBoss
4 2 (2.86%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.43%) Confluence
5 1 (1.43%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (38.57%) Serverless
3 25 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (25.71%) OpenShift
5 17 (24.29%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (22.86%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (21.43%) dbt
8 14 (20.00%) Amazon S3
9 11 (15.71%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (15.71%) GitHub
10 9 (12.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (10.00%) Azure
11 7 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (5.71%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (5.71%) GCP
13 4 (5.71%) IaaS
13 4 (5.71%) PaaS
14 2 (2.86%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) DNS
1 3 (4.29%) Internet
1 3 (4.29%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.86%) HTTP
3 1 (1.43%) NAS
3 1 (1.43%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.43%) SAN
3 1 (1.43%) SSH
3 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.43%) Amazon Athena
1 15 (21.43%) Apache Arrow
1 15 (21.43%) Apache Iceberg
1 15 (21.43%) Apache Ignite
1 15 (21.43%) Dremio
2 10 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.29%) Big Data
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.86%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (30.00%) GitLab
2 17 (24.29%) Artifactory
3 13 (18.57%) Jenkins
4 10 (14.29%) Git
5 3 (4.29%) JIRA
6 2 (2.86%) Ant
6 2 (2.86%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.86%) Maven
6 2 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.86%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.43%) Liquibase
General
1 23 (32.86%) Finance
2 15 (21.43%) Front Office
3 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.43%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.14%) Banking
6 4 (5.71%) Law
7 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.14%) Kafka
2 15 (21.43%) J2EE
2 15 (21.43%) PySpark
3 6 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (4.29%) .NET
4 3 (4.29%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.86%) Middleware
5 2 (2.86%) React
6 1 (1.43%) Loki
6 1 (1.43%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.14%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Unix
3 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 31 (44.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (27.14%) Agile
5 18 (25.71%) Data Engineering
5 18 (25.71%) Software Engineering
6 17 (24.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 16 (22.86%) Open Source
8 15 (21.43%) Asset Management
9 14 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 10 (14.29%) Configuration Management
11 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (10.00%) Cloud Security
12 7 (10.00%) Load Balancing
12 7 (10.00%) Task Automation
13 5 (7.14%) Microservices
14 4 (5.71%) Continuous Integration
14 4 (5.71%) Mentoring
14 4 (5.71%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.86%) Python
2 24 (34.29%) Java
3 19 (27.14%) Go
4 16 (22.86%) Bash
5 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.29%) SQL
6 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.86%) C#
7 2 (2.86%) Groovy
7 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.43%) C++
8 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 25 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.43%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.71%) Degree
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) OCP
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.43%) QA
1 1 (1.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (54.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 56 (80.00%) Terraform
2 21 (30.00%) Ansible
3 15 (21.43%) Grafana
4 12 (17.14%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.71%) Puppet
6 2 (2.86%) Podman
6 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.43%) Packer
7 1 (1.43%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (4.29%) Virgin Media
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle
2 2 (2.86%) Red Hat