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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 314 314
Rank change year-on-year -60 0 -35
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 72 55 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.41% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.44% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 35 57
10th Percentile £420 £364 £438
25th Percentile £440 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £568 £625 £675
90th Percentile £638 £710 £771
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -16.67%

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 18,744 12,443 15,290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 92.96% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,120 8,377 10,481
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 208 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.28
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.85% -12.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £62.44 £50.88 £55.75
90th Percentile £80.63 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +72.96% -44.11% +2.86%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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
South London -13 9 £537 -
Central London -20 2 - - 1
West London - 1 - - 3
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 September 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 72 (100.00%) AWS
1 72 (100.00%) DevOps
2 58 (80.56%) Terraform
3 57 (79.17%) CI/CD
4 49 (68.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (62.50%) SC Cleared
5 45 (62.50%) Security Cleared
6 38 (52.78%) Kubernetes
7 36 (50.00%) GitLab
8 32 (44.44%) Containerisation
9 30 (41.67%) Docker
10 27 (37.50%) Python
11 25 (34.72%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (30.56%) Linux
13 21 (29.17%) Jenkins
14 20 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (26.39%) Grafana
15 19 (26.39%) Prometheus
16 17 (23.61%) Ansible
17 15 (20.83%) GitHub
18 14 (19.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 14 (19.44%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (19.44%) Amazon S3
18 14 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
18 14 (19.44%) Git
18 14 (19.44%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (19.44%) Observability
18 14 (19.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 13 (18.06%) High Availability
20 12 (16.67%) Bash

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 3 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.17%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 72 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (34.72%) Amazon EKS
3 20 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (20.83%) GitHub
5 14 (19.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (19.44%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (19.44%) Amazon S3
5 14 (19.44%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (19.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (13.89%) Azure
6 10 (13.89%) Serverless
7 8 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (9.72%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (6.94%) Azure AKS
9 5 (6.94%) Route 53
10 4 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.56%) GCP
10 4 (5.56%) Snowflake
11 3 (4.17%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) DNS
1 3 (4.17%) Firewall
1 3 (4.17%) Network Security
2 2 (2.78%) FTP
2 2 (2.78%) HTTP
2 2 (2.78%) IMAP
2 2 (2.78%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (2.78%) SMTP
2 2 (2.78%) SSH
3 1 (1.39%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.39%) Internet
3 1 (1.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.28%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.56%) MySQL
5 3 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.39%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (50.00%) GitLab
2 21 (29.17%) Jenkins
3 14 (19.44%) Git
4 4 (5.56%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.56%) Snyk
4 4 (5.56%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.17%) JIRA
6 2 (2.78%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Finance
4 3 (4.17%) Banking
5 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (1.39%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (80.56%) Terraform
2 7 (9.72%) Kafka
3 4 (5.56%) Keycloak
4 3 (4.17%) REST
5 2 (2.78%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.39%) boto
6 1 (1.39%) Django
6 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.39%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.39%) Flask
6 1 (1.39%) Node.js
6 1 (1.39%) OAuth
6 1 (1.39%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.39%) OpenID
6 1 (1.39%) PySpark
6 1 (1.39%) React
6 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (29.17%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.56%) PKI
3 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.17%) Replication
4 2 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (30.56%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 4 (5.56%) Windows
4 3 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.39%) VMS
5 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) DevOps
2 57 (79.17%) CI/CD
3 49 (68.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (44.44%) Containerisation
5 14 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (19.44%) Observability
6 13 (18.06%) High Availability
7 11 (15.28%) Deployment Automation
7 11 (15.28%) Microservices
8 10 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (12.50%) Configuration Management
10 8 (11.11%) Agile
11 7 (9.72%) Cloud Security
11 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (8.33%) Load Balancing
12 6 (8.33%) Secrets Management
12 6 (8.33%) Software Delivery
12 6 (8.33%) Software Engineering
13 5 (6.94%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 27 (37.50%) Python
2 12 (16.67%) Bash
3 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.17%) Groovy
4 3 (4.17%) Java
5 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.78%) SQL
6 1 (1.39%) C#
6 1 (1.39%) Go
6 1 (1.39%) Perl
6 1 (1.39%) Scala
6 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 45 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.78%) Degree
5 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (41.67%) Docker
2 5 (6.94%) Squid
3 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.78%) DFS Replication
3 2 (2.78%) Dovecot
3 2 (2.78%) Postfix
3 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (52.78%) Kubernetes
2 19 (26.39%) Grafana
2 19 (26.39%) Prometheus
3 17 (23.61%) Ansible
4 4 (5.56%) Argo
4 4 (5.56%) Puppet
5 3 (4.17%) Istio
5 3 (4.17%) Nessus
6 2 (2.78%) Packer
6 2 (2.78%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.39%) Kibana
7 1 (1.39%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft
1 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.78%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (1.39%) Informatica
3 1 (1.39%) Okta
3 1 (1.39%) Sonatype
3 1 (1.39%) Splunk