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 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 247 315
Rank change year-on-year -75 +68 -56
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 82 104 76
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.83% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.89% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 90 61
10th Percentile £383 £425 £413
25th Percentile £440 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £538
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +34.88% -10.42%
75th Percentile £626 £838 £600
90th Percentile £663 - £675
England median daily rate £513 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -14.58% +11.63% -10.42%

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 16,451 11,727 16,626
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 93.48% 93.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,958 8,033 12,023
10th Percentile £350 £341 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £755 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 143 336
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £23.90 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +22.26% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.78 £36.31
% change year-on-year +52.70% -15.22% -19.32%

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 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 1 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 8 £373 -35.22% 3
South London -19 2 £525 -4.55%
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 82 (100.00%) AWS
1 82 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (63.41%) Security Cleared
2 52 (63.41%) Terraform
3 51 (62.20%) CI/CD
4 49 (59.76%) SC Cleared
5 32 (39.02%) Docker
5 32 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (36.59%) GitLab
7 29 (35.37%) Kubernetes
8 22 (26.83%) Python
9 21 (25.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (20.73%) Containerisation
10 17 (20.73%) GitHub
10 17 (20.73%) Linux
11 16 (19.51%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (19.51%) Serverless
12 15 (18.29%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (15.85%) Ansible
13 13 (15.85%) Jenkins
13 13 (15.85%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (14.63%) Prometheus
15 11 (13.41%) Amazon S3
16 10 (12.20%) Grafana
17 9 (10.98%) Agile
17 9 (10.98%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (10.98%) Java
18 8 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.44%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 82 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (25.61%) AWS CloudFormation
3 17 (20.73%) GitHub
4 16 (19.51%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (19.51%) Serverless
5 15 (18.29%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (13.41%) Amazon S3
8 9 (10.98%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (8.54%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (6.10%) Azure
12 4 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (4.88%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (4.88%) GCP
13 3 (3.66%) AWS Control Tower
13 3 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (2.44%) Datadog
15 1 (1.22%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.88%) DynamoDB
2 4 (4.88%) Flink
3 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.22%) MySQL
5 1 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (36.59%) GitLab
2 13 (15.85%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.54%) Git
4 4 (4.88%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.88%) Snyk
4 4 (4.88%) SonarQube
4 4 (4.88%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 19 (23.17%) Public Sector
2 12 (14.63%) Finance
3 10 (12.20%) Banking
4 5 (6.10%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.88%) Front Office
6 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.54%) Kafka
2 2 (2.44%) AWS CDK
2 2 (2.44%) boto
2 2 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.44%) Keycloak
2 2 (2.44%) Node.js
3 1 (1.22%) JWT
3 1 (1.22%) OAuth
3 1 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.88%) Fixed Income
2 4 (4.88%) Hedge funds
2 4 (4.88%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.44%) Replication
4 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.73%) Linux
2 2 (2.44%) Windows
3 1 (1.22%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.22%) Unix
3 1 (1.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (100.00%) DevOps
2 51 (62.20%) CI/CD
3 32 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (20.73%) Containerisation
5 13 (15.85%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (10.98%) Agile
7 7 (8.54%) Observability
8 6 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (7.32%) Microservices
9 5 (6.10%) Decision-Making
9 5 (6.10%) Fintech
9 5 (6.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (4.88%) Cost Reduction
10 4 (4.88%) DevSecOps
10 4 (4.88%) Front End Development
10 4 (4.88%) High Availability
10 4 (4.88%) Identity Management
10 4 (4.88%) Investment Management
10 4 (4.88%) OWASP
10 4 (4.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.83%) Python
2 9 (10.98%) Java
3 6 (7.32%) Bash
4 2 (2.44%) Go
4 2 (2.44%) Groovy
5 1 (1.22%) Perl
5 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.22%) Ruby
5 1 (1.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (63.41%) Security Cleared
2 49 (59.76%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.76%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.88%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.66%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (3.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 32 (39.02%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (63.41%) Terraform
2 29 (35.37%) Kubernetes
3 13 (15.85%) Ansible
4 12 (14.63%) Prometheus
5 10 (12.20%) Grafana
6 8 (9.76%) Argo
7 2 (2.44%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.22%) Consul
8 1 (1.22%) Istio
8 1 (1.22%) Opsview
8 1 (1.22%) Packer
8 1 (1.22%) Puppet
8 1 (1.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (2.44%) Fortinet
1 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.22%) New Relic
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle
2 1 (1.22%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.22%) Virgin Media