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 24 October 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 318 292
Rank change year-on-year -65 -26 -3
Contract AWS DevOps Engineer jobs 79 51 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.38% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.41% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 33 70
10th Percentile £418 £346 £438
25th Percentile £440 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -20.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £734
90th Percentile £625 £675 £788
England median daily rate £488 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +2.63% -9.52% -7.69%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
24 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract job adverts in London matching a recognised job title 18,967 12,402 14,912
% of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.84% 92.57% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,322 8,249 9,670
10th Percentile £363 £334 £345
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 214 166
10th Percentile £16.71 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £21.25 £24.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £26.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +54.72% -31.61% -4.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.88 £59.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.92 £80.38
England median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +65.84% -40.82% -6.69%

AWS DevOps Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract AWS DevOps Engineer job postings 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 AWS DevOps Engineer jobs in London over the 6 months to 24 October 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 AWS DevOps Engineer jobs within the London region over the 6 months to 24 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
South London -8 8 £538 - 2
Central London -23 3 £500 -1.48% 5
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 24 October 2026, AWS DevOps Engineer contract job ads cited 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 AWS DevOps Engineer job ads across the London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1AWS100.0%79
1DevOps100.0%79
3CI/CD82.3%65
3Terraform82.3%65
5Infrastructure as Code73.4%58
6SC Cleared62.0%49
6Security Cleared62.0%49
8Kubernetes55.7%44
9GitLab48.1%38
10Docker46.8%37
11Containerisation45.6%36
11Python45.6%36
13Amazon EKS40.5%32
14Jenkins32.9%26
14Observability32.9%26
16Linux30.4%24
17Continuous Improvement25.3%20
18AWS CloudFormation22.8%18
18Bash22.8%18
20Deployment Automation21.5%17
20Git21.5%17
20Grafana21.5%17
20Platform Engineering21.5%17
24Ansible20.3%16
24GitHub20.3%16
24Prometheus20.3%16
24Serverless20.3%16
28GitHub Actions19.0%15
29Agile17.7%14
29Amazon CloudWatch17.7%14

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior AWS DevOps Engineer19.0%15
2Cloud Platform Engineer7.6%6
3Linux DevOps Engineer6.3%5
3Linux/Unix DevOps6.3%5
5AWS Platform Engineer5.1%4
5DevOps Platform Engineer5.1%4
7AWS Infrastructure Engineer3.8%3
7AWS Specialist3.8%3
7Azure DevOps Engineer3.8%3
7Cloud Engineer3.8%3
7DevOps Specialist3.8%3
7Infrastructure Specialist3.8%3
13Kubernetes Engineer2.5%2
13Lead DevOps Engineer2.5%2
13Python Engineer2.5%2
13Senior Cloud Engineer2.5%2
13Senior Platform Engineer2.5%2
18Active Directory Engineer1.3%1
18AWS Infrastructure Architect1.3%1
18DevOps Architect1.3%1
65 AWS DevOps Engineer jobs in London