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 14 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 235 309
Rank change year-on-year -69 +74 -20
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 86 121 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 0.89% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.95% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 107 85
10th Percentile £350 £425 £403
25th Percentile £400 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +30.23% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £838 £625
90th Percentile £713 - £695
England median daily rate £513 £608 £538
% change year-on-year -15.64% +13.02% -8.51%

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 14,206 12,736 17,263
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 93.61% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,468 8,204 12,473
10th Percentile £350 £333 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 140 333
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.98 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £19.05
Median hourly rate £34.27 £36.75 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% +28.95% -17.39%
75th Percentile £59.72 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.95 £65.60
England median hourly rate £31.46 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.11% - -6.67%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -11 10 £373 -35.22%
South London -15 5 £550 -13.73%
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 February 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 86 (100.00%) AWS
1 86 (100.00%) DevOps
2 64 (74.42%) Terraform
3 63 (73.26%) CI/CD
4 51 (59.30%) SC Cleared
4 51 (59.30%) Security Cleared
5 36 (41.86%) Kubernetes
6 34 (39.53%) Docker
6 34 (39.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (37.21%) GitLab
8 29 (33.72%) Python
9 22 (25.58%) GitHub
10 20 (23.26%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (20.93%) Linux
12 17 (19.77%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (18.60%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (18.60%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (18.60%) Serverless
14 15 (17.44%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (17.44%) Amazon S3
14 15 (17.44%) Containerisation
15 14 (16.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (16.28%) Azure
16 13 (15.12%) Git
16 13 (15.12%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (15.12%) Jenkins
17 12 (13.95%) Argo
18 11 (12.79%) Agile
18 11 (12.79%) AWS Certification

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 8 (9.30%) Confluence
2 7 (8.14%) nginx
3 5 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.16%) CMS
5 1 (1.16%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (25.58%) GitHub
3 20 (23.26%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (19.77%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (18.60%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (18.60%) Serverless
6 15 (17.44%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (17.44%) Amazon S3
7 14 (16.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (16.28%) Azure
8 13 (15.12%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (8.14%) GCP
9 7 (8.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (6.98%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (6.98%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (6.98%) Route 53
11 4 (4.65%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (4.65%) AWS KMS
11 4 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.98%) DNS
2 5 (5.81%) HTTP
3 4 (4.65%) Firewall
3 4 (4.65%) FTP
3 4 (4.65%) IMAP
3 4 (4.65%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (4.65%) SMTP
3 4 (4.65%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.98%) Flink
2 6 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.65%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (37.21%) GitLab
2 13 (15.12%) Git
2 13 (15.12%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.30%) JIRA
4 6 (6.98%) TeamCity
5 4 (4.65%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.16%) Maven
6 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (20.93%) Public Sector
2 16 (18.60%) Banking
3 11 (12.79%) Finance
3 11 (12.79%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Front Office
5 5 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Games
7 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.63%) Kafka
2 5 (5.81%) Node.js
3 4 (4.65%) LDAP
3 4 (4.65%) OAuth
4 3 (3.49%) JWT
5 2 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.33%) React
6 1 (1.16%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.16%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.16%) Fastify
6 1 (1.16%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.16%) MACH
6 1 (1.16%) Next.js
6 1 (1.16%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.16%) OpenID
6 1 (1.16%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.16%) pytest
6 1 (1.16%) RESTful
6 1 (1.16%) SAML
6 1 (1.16%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.98%) Fixed Income
2 6 (6.98%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.81%) Hedge funds
3 5 (5.81%) Replication
4 3 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.93%) Linux
2 5 (5.81%) VMS
2 5 (5.81%) Windows
3 4 (4.65%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (4.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (73.26%) CI/CD
3 34 (39.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (18.60%) Platform Engineering
5 15 (17.44%) Containerisation
6 11 (12.79%) Agile
7 9 (10.47%) Observability
8 8 (9.30%) Cloud Security
8 8 (9.30%) Microservices
8 8 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (8.14%) Configuration Management
9 7 (8.14%) Decision-Making
9 7 (8.14%) Migration
10 6 (6.98%) Front End Development
10 6 (6.98%) Investment Management
10 6 (6.98%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (5.81%) Analytics
11 5 (5.81%) Change Management
11 5 (5.81%) DevSecOps
11 5 (5.81%) Monorepo
Programming Languages
1 29 (33.72%) Python
2 11 (12.79%) Java
3 6 (6.98%) Bash
3 6 (6.98%) Groovy
4 5 (5.81%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.65%) SQL
6 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.16%) Go
7 1 (1.16%) Ruby
7 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (59.30%) SC Cleared
1 51 (59.30%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.79%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.65%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (4.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 4 (4.65%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.65%) Degree
4 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 34 (39.53%) Docker
2 4 (4.65%) DFS Replication
2 4 (4.65%) Dovecot
2 4 (4.65%) Postfix
2 4 (4.65%) Squid
3 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (74.42%) Terraform
2 36 (41.86%) Kubernetes
3 12 (13.95%) Argo
4 10 (11.63%) Ansible
4 10 (11.63%) Prometheus
5 9 (10.47%) Grafana
6 4 (4.65%) Nessus
6 4 (4.65%) Proxmox
7 3 (3.49%) Packer
8 2 (2.33%) Consul
8 2 (2.33%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.16%) Istio
9 1 (1.16%) Opsview
9 1 (1.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (5.81%) ServiceNow
2 4 (4.65%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (2.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.16%) New Relic
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle
4 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.16%) Virgin Media