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 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 260 316
Rank change year-on-year -77 +56 -58
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 74 91 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.73% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.79% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 75 64
10th Percentile £400 £414 £407
25th Percentile £425 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +16.28% -14.00%
75th Percentile £626 £838 £591
90th Percentile £663 - £676
England median daily rate £500 £550 £531
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.53% -11.46%

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 16,702 11,587 16,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 93.28% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,075 7,923 11,812
10th Percentile £354 £349 £325
25th Percentile £430 £428 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £688
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -2.03% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 143 318
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.09 £20.07
Median hourly rate £37.54 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.41% +23.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.05
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.32
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.92
% change year-on-year +50.00% -18.73% -17.54%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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
Central London -9 6 £373 -37.34% 1
South London -11 3 £525 -4.55%
West London - 1 - - 1
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 74 (100.00%) AWS
1 74 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (71.62%) Security Cleared
3 50 (67.57%) SC Cleared
4 48 (64.86%) Terraform
5 46 (62.16%) CI/CD
6 32 (43.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (37.84%) Kubernetes
8 27 (36.49%) Docker
8 27 (36.49%) GitLab
9 19 (25.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (24.32%) Linux
11 17 (22.97%) Python
12 16 (21.62%) Containerisation
13 14 (18.92%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (17.57%) Ansible
14 13 (17.57%) GitHub
15 12 (16.22%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (16.22%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (16.22%) Platform Engineering
15 12 (16.22%) Prometheus
15 12 (16.22%) Serverless
16 11 (14.86%) Grafana
16 11 (14.86%) Jenkins
17 9 (12.16%) Amazon S3
17 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 9 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 8 (10.81%) Git
18 8 (10.81%) High Availability

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 2 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (25.68%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (18.92%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (17.57%) GitHub
5 12 (16.22%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (16.22%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (16.22%) Serverless
6 9 (12.16%) Amazon S3
6 9 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (9.46%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (6.76%) AWS CodePipeline
9 5 (6.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (5.41%) AWS CodeBuild
10 4 (5.41%) Azure
10 4 (5.41%) GCP
11 2 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.70%) Azure AKS
12 1 (1.35%) CloudFront
12 1 (1.35%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) HTTP
1 1 (1.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.41%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.70%) Flink
4 2 (2.70%) MySQL
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 27 (36.49%) GitLab
2 11 (14.86%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.81%) Git
4 4 (5.41%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.41%) Snyk
4 4 (5.41%) SonarQube
4 4 (5.41%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.70%) JIRA
6 1 (1.35%) Artifactory
General
1 21 (28.38%) Public Sector
2 9 (12.16%) Finance
3 7 (9.46%) Banking
4 6 (8.11%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Front Office
6 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.41%) Kafka
2 2 (2.70%) AWS CDK
2 2 (2.70%) boto
2 2 (2.70%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.35%) Node.js
3 1 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.41%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.70%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.70%) PKI
4 1 (1.35%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (24.32%) Linux
2 3 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.70%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.70%) Windows
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.35%) Unix
4 1 (1.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (62.16%) CI/CD
3 32 (43.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (21.62%) Containerisation
5 12 (16.22%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (10.81%) High Availability
8 7 (9.46%) Agile
9 6 (8.11%) Configuration Management
9 6 (8.11%) Observability
10 5 (6.76%) Fintech
10 5 (6.76%) Microservices
11 4 (5.41%) Decision-Making
11 4 (5.41%) DevSecOps
11 4 (5.41%) Load Balancing
11 4 (5.41%) OWASP
12 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure Automation
12 3 (4.05%) Secrets Management
12 3 (4.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 3 (4.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.97%) Python
2 7 (9.46%) Bash
3 6 (8.11%) Java
4 2 (2.70%) Go
5 1 (1.35%) Groovy
5 1 (1.35%) Perl
5 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (71.62%) Security Cleared
2 50 (67.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.76%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 27 (36.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Squid
2 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (64.86%) Terraform
2 28 (37.84%) Kubernetes
3 13 (17.57%) Ansible
4 12 (16.22%) Prometheus
5 11 (14.86%) Grafana
6 6 (8.11%) Argo
7 3 (4.05%) Puppet
8 2 (2.70%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.35%) Consul
9 1 (1.35%) Istio
9 1 (1.35%) Opsview
9 1 (1.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (2.70%) Fortinet
2 1 (1.35%) New Relic
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle
2 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.35%) Virgin Media