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 3 November 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 288 289
Rank change year-on-year -29 +1 +25
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 62 88 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.57% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.60% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 72 125
10th Percentile £345 £438 £400
25th Percentile £396 £509 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +2.17% -6.12%
75th Percentile £581 £761 £675
90th Percentile £690 £788 £740
England median daily rate £475 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -9.61% -4.45% -8.33%

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 12,582 14,601 19,069
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.01% 93.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,342 9,436 13,877
10th Percentile £334 £339 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £794 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 156 211
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.33 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £38.00 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% -4.59% +23.50%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.31 £80.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -38.66% -10.64% +52.93%

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 3 November 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 3 November 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 4 £390 -35.00% 2
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, 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 62 (100.00%) AWS
1 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (83.87%) CI/CD
3 51 (82.26%) Terraform
4 31 (50.00%) Docker
4 31 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 31 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 30 (48.39%) Kubernetes
6 27 (43.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (38.71%) Python
8 21 (33.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (33.87%) Amazon S3
9 19 (30.65%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (29.03%) Jenkins
10 18 (29.03%) Linux
11 17 (27.42%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (27.42%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (27.42%) Azure
11 17 (27.42%) Containerisation
11 17 (27.42%) GitHub
12 16 (25.81%) GitLab
13 15 (24.19%) Configuration Management
13 15 (24.19%) Git
14 14 (22.58%) Platform Engineering
15 13 (20.97%) JIRA
16 12 (19.35%) Cloud Security
16 12 (19.35%) Confluence
16 12 (19.35%) DNS
16 12 (19.35%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (19.35%) Grafana

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 12 (19.35%) Confluence
2 10 (16.13%) nginx
3 2 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.23%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.61%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) CMS
4 1 (1.61%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.61%) JBoss
4 1 (1.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (33.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 21 (33.87%) Amazon S3
3 19 (30.65%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (27.42%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (27.42%) Azure
4 17 (27.42%) GitHub
5 12 (19.35%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (19.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (16.13%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (16.13%) Route 53
7 9 (14.52%) Serverless
8 8 (12.90%) Amazon ELB
8 8 (12.90%) AWS KMS
8 8 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (11.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (9.68%) GCP
11 5 (8.06%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (8.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.35%) DNS
2 9 (14.52%) SSH
3 8 (12.90%) Firewall
3 8 (12.90%) FTP
3 8 (12.90%) HTTP
3 8 (12.90%) IMAP
3 8 (12.90%) OpenLDAP
3 8 (12.90%) SMTP
4 1 (1.61%) Internet
4 1 (1.61%) NAS
4 1 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.61%) SAN
4 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.42%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (12.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.84%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (4.84%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.23%) Flink
6 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (29.03%) Jenkins
2 16 (25.81%) GitLab
3 15 (24.19%) Git
4 13 (20.97%) JIRA
5 8 (12.90%) Vagrant
6 5 (8.06%) TeamCity
7 2 (3.23%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.23%) Maven
7 2 (3.23%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.61%) Ant
8 1 (1.61%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.19%) Public Sector
3 11 (17.74%) Banking
4 9 (14.52%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (8.06%) Finance
6 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Front Office
7 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Games
8 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) LDAP
2 7 (11.29%) Kafka
3 4 (6.45%) AWS CDK
4 3 (4.84%) .NET
4 3 (4.84%) Node.js
4 3 (4.84%) OAuth
5 2 (3.23%) JWT
5 2 (3.23%) React
6 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.61%) Loki
6 1 (1.61%) MACH
6 1 (1.61%) Middleware
6 1 (1.61%) Next.js
6 1 (1.61%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.61%) OpenID
6 1 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.61%) RESTful
6 1 (1.61%) SAML
6 1 (1.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Replication
2 5 (8.06%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.61%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (29.03%) Linux
2 9 (14.52%) Windows
3 8 (12.90%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (12.90%) Ubuntu
3 8 (12.90%) VMS
4 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (83.87%) CI/CD
3 27 (43.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (27.42%) Containerisation
5 15 (24.19%) Configuration Management
6 14 (22.58%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (19.35%) Cloud Security
7 12 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (14.52%) Migration
9 8 (12.90%) Change Management
9 8 (12.90%) Patch Management
10 7 (11.29%) Agile
10 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (11.29%) Microservices
10 7 (11.29%) Observability
10 7 (11.29%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (9.68%) DevSecOps
12 5 (8.06%) Decision-Making
12 5 (8.06%) Load Balancing
12 5 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.71%) Python
2 12 (19.35%) PowerShell
3 10 (16.13%) Bash
3 10 (16.13%) Groovy
4 8 (12.90%) Java
4 8 (12.90%) SQL
5 2 (3.23%) Go
5 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.61%) C#
6 1 (1.61%) C++
Qualifications
1 31 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 31 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.74%) AWS Certification
3 9 (14.52%) Degree
4 8 (12.90%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 31 (50.00%) Docker
2 8 (12.90%) DFS Replication
2 8 (12.90%) Dovecot
2 8 (12.90%) Postfix
2 8 (12.90%) Squid
Systems Management
1 51 (82.26%) Terraform
2 30 (48.39%) Kubernetes
3 12 (19.35%) Grafana
4 11 (17.74%) Ansible
4 11 (17.74%) Prometheus
5 8 (12.90%) Nessus
5 8 (12.90%) Proxmox
6 5 (8.06%) Argo
7 4 (6.45%) Progress Chef
8 3 (4.84%) Packer
9 2 (3.23%) Puppet
10 1 (1.61%) Consul
10 1 (1.61%) Istio
10 1 (1.61%) Kibana
10 1 (1.61%) Podman
10 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.61%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Jaspersoft
1 8 (12.90%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.61%) Virgin Media