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 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 308 272
Rank change year-on-year +2 -36 +69
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 58 77 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.47% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.50% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 59 158
10th Percentile £366 £438 £425
25th Percentile £419 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -6.25% -0.08%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £693
90th Percentile £680 £788 £863
England median daily rate £475 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% -

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 12,392 15,300 20,765
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 93.99% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,286 10,210 15,153
10th Percentile £331 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 179 226
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.45 £18.08
25th Percentile £22.98 £23.80 £22.06
Median hourly rate £29.54 £35.00 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% -3.50% +12.47%
75th Percentile £50.00 £56.75 £62.31
90th Percentile £65.40 £75.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

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
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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -1 8 - -
Central London -3 5 £625 +8.70% 1
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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 58 (100.00%) AWS
1 58 (100.00%) DevOps
2 51 (87.93%) Terraform
3 48 (82.76%) CI/CD
4 32 (55.17%) Docker
5 31 (53.45%) Security Cleared
5 31 (53.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (51.72%) SC Cleared
7 29 (50.00%) Kubernetes
8 23 (39.66%) Jenkins
9 21 (36.21%) Python
10 20 (34.48%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
11 19 (32.76%) Amazon S3
11 19 (32.76%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (31.03%) Configuration Management
12 18 (31.03%) Containerisation
12 18 (31.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (29.31%) Public Sector
13 17 (29.31%) Linux
13 17 (29.31%) GitLab
14 15 (25.86%) Ansible
14 15 (25.86%) Azure
14 15 (25.86%) Grafana
15 14 (24.14%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (24.14%) Prometheus
15 14 (24.14%) Git
15 14 (24.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (24.14%) DNS
16 13 (22.41%) PowerShell

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 10 (17.24%) Confluence
2 8 (13.79%) nginx
3 2 (3.45%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.72%) Apache
4 1 (1.72%) JBoss
4 1 (1.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (34.48%) Amazon EC2
3 19 (32.76%) Amazon S3
4 18 (31.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 15 (25.86%) Azure
6 14 (24.14%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (24.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (20.69%) GitHub
8 11 (18.97%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (15.52%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (15.52%) Route 53
10 8 (13.79%) Amazon ELB
10 8 (13.79%) AWS KMS
10 8 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (13.79%) Serverless
11 6 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (10.34%) Datadog
12 5 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (8.62%) GCP
13 4 (6.90%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 14 (24.14%) DNS
2 10 (17.24%) HTTP
3 9 (15.52%) SSH
4 8 (13.79%) Firewall
4 8 (13.79%) FTP
4 8 (13.79%) IMAP
4 8 (13.79%) OpenLDAP
4 8 (13.79%) SMTP
5 3 (5.17%) Internet
5 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.72%) NAS
6 1 (1.72%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.72%) SAN
6 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (32.76%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (17.24%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (39.66%) Jenkins
2 17 (29.31%) GitLab
3 14 (24.14%) Git
4 11 (18.97%) JIRA
5 8 (13.79%) Vagrant
6 5 (8.62%) TeamCity
7 2 (3.45%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.45%) Liquibase
7 2 (3.45%) Maven
7 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.72%) Ant
8 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.31%) Public Sector
3 10 (17.24%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (12.07%) Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Finance
6 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) LDAP
2 6 (10.34%) Kafka
3 4 (6.90%) AWS CDK
4 3 (5.17%) .NET
4 3 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.45%) React
6 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.72%) Loki
6 1 (1.72%) Middleware
6 1 (1.72%) OAuth
6 1 (1.72%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.72%) OpenID
6 1 (1.72%) SAML
6 1 (1.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Replication
2 6 (10.34%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (29.31%) Linux
2 9 (15.52%) Windows
3 8 (13.79%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (13.79%) Ubuntu
3 8 (13.79%) VMS
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (82.76%) CI/CD
3 31 (53.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (31.03%) Configuration Management
4 18 (31.03%) Containerisation
5 12 (20.69%) Cloud Security
5 12 (20.69%) Performance Tuning
5 12 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure Automation
6 9 (15.52%) Migration
7 8 (13.79%) Change Management
7 8 (13.79%) Observability
7 8 (13.79%) Patch Management
7 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.07%) Agile
8 7 (12.07%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (10.34%) DevSecOps
10 5 (8.62%) Decision-Making
11 4 (6.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 4 (6.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.21%) Python
2 13 (22.41%) Bash
2 13 (22.41%) PowerShell
3 10 (17.24%) Groovy
4 8 (13.79%) Java
4 8 (13.79%) SQL
5 3 (5.17%) Go
6 2 (3.45%) C#
6 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.72%) C++
7 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (53.45%) Security Cleared
2 30 (51.72%) SC Cleared
3 12 (20.69%) AWS Certification
4 9 (15.52%) Degree
5 8 (13.79%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.72%) QA
1 1 (1.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (55.17%) Docker
2 8 (13.79%) DFS Replication
2 8 (13.79%) Dovecot
2 8 (13.79%) Postfix
2 8 (13.79%) Squid
Systems Management
1 51 (87.93%) Terraform
2 29 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 15 (25.86%) Ansible
3 15 (25.86%) Grafana
4 14 (24.14%) Prometheus
5 8 (13.79%) Nessus
5 8 (13.79%) Proxmox
6 6 (10.34%) Progress Chef
7 4 (6.90%) Puppet
8 2 (3.45%) Argo
9 1 (1.72%) Kibana
9 1 (1.72%) Packer
9 1 (1.72%) Podman
9 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.72%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Jaspersoft
1 8 (13.79%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle
3 1 (1.72%) Virgin Media