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 £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 289 314
Rank change year-on-year -42 +25 -68
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 90 69 85
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.56% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.60% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 53 68
10th Percentile £400 £425 £404
25th Percentile £433 £475 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +6.98% -14.00%
75th Percentile £601 £838 £596
90th Percentile £638 - £736
England median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -12.50%

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 17,565 11,566 16,515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 93.51% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,581 7,842 11,869
10th Percentile £358 £341 £325
25th Percentile £433 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 169 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.00 £20.17
Median hourly rate £39.50 £32.89 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.10% +18.27% -24.37%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.49
90th Percentile £78.67 £65.00 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -12.11%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -19 6 £373 -36.05%
South London -11 2 £500 -9.09%
West London - 1 - -
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 90 (100.00%) AWS
1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 63 (70.00%) Terraform
3 60 (66.67%) SC Cleared
4 59 (65.56%) CI/CD
5 45 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (46.67%) GitLab
7 39 (43.33%) Kubernetes
8 36 (40.00%) Docker
9 28 (31.11%) Containerisation
10 25 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (25.56%) Linux
12 23 (25.56%) Python
13 19 (21.11%) Ansible
14 18 (20.00%) Jenkins
15 17 (18.89%) GitHub
16 16 (17.78%) Prometheus
17 15 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
17 15 (16.67%) Grafana
17 15 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
17 15 (16.67%) Serverless
18 14 (15.56%) Amazon S3
19 13 (14.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 13 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
19 13 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
20 12 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
20 12 (13.33%) High Availability
21 11 (12.22%) Microservices

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 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.22%) Confluence
3 1 (1.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 24 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (18.89%) GitHub
5 15 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (16.67%) Serverless
6 14 (15.56%) Amazon S3
7 13 (14.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (7.78%) Azure
11 5 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (5.56%) GCP
11 5 (5.56%) Snowflake
12 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (4.44%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (3.33%) Azure AKS
14 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) Network Security
2 1 (1.11%) HTTP
2 1 (1.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.33%) MySQL
4 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 42 (46.67%) GitLab
2 18 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (11.11%) Git
4 5 (5.56%) CircleCI
4 5 (5.56%) Snyk
4 5 (5.56%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.44%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.22%) JIRA
7 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
General
1 24 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 10 (11.11%) Finance
3 8 (8.89%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.67%) Banking
5 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Law
7 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.56%) Kafka
2 4 (4.44%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.33%) Keycloak
4 2 (2.22%) boto
4 2 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.22%) REST
5 1 (1.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.56%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.33%) PKI
4 2 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.56%) Linux
2 5 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.22%) Windows
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.11%) Unix
5 1 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (65.56%) CI/CD
3 45 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (31.11%) Containerisation
5 15 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (13.33%) High Availability
8 11 (12.22%) Microservices
9 10 (11.11%) Observability
10 8 (8.89%) Agile
10 8 (8.89%) Configuration Management
11 7 (7.78%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (6.67%) Load Balancing
12 6 (6.67%) Software Engineering
13 5 (5.56%) AI
13 5 (5.56%) Cloud Security
13 5 (5.56%) DevSecOps
13 5 (5.56%) Fintech
13 5 (5.56%) OWASP
13 5 (5.56%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.56%) Python
2 9 (10.00%) Bash
3 4 (4.44%) Java
4 2 (2.22%) Go
5 1 (1.11%) Groovy
5 1 (1.11%) Perl
5 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 60 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.89%) AWS Certification
4 7 (7.78%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 36 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Squid
2 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (70.00%) Terraform
2 39 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 19 (21.11%) Ansible
4 16 (17.78%) Prometheus
5 15 (16.67%) Grafana
6 5 (5.56%) Argo
7 4 (4.44%) Puppet
8 3 (3.33%) Packer
9 2 (2.22%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.22%) Istio
10 1 (1.11%) Consul
10 1 (1.11%) Opsview
Vendors
1 2 (2.22%) Fortinet
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle
2 1 (1.11%) New Relic
2 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow