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 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 247 317
Rank change year-on-year -61 +70 -50
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 93 108 76
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 0.85% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.91% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 94 62
10th Percentile £371 £425 £406
25th Percentile £421 £496 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £538
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +34.88% -10.42%
75th Percentile £627 £838 £588
90th Percentile £699 - £650
England median daily rate £525 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.63% -9.47%

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 16,123 11,879 16,647
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 93.48% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,755 8,148 12,048
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £427 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 142 341
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.21 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.08 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.88 £64.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -19.08%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -7 9 £373 -35.22% 2
South London -19 1 £550 -
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 93 (100.00%) AWS
1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (64.52%) CI/CD
3 59 (63.44%) Terraform
4 55 (59.14%) Security Cleared
5 52 (55.91%) SC Cleared
6 36 (38.71%) Docker
6 36 (38.71%) Kubernetes
7 33 (35.48%) GitLab
7 33 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (29.03%) Python
9 23 (24.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (23.66%) GitHub
11 20 (21.51%) Linux
12 19 (20.43%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (20.43%) Containerisation
13 18 (19.35%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (19.35%) Serverless
14 15 (16.13%) Ansible
14 15 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (15.05%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (13.98%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (13.98%) Amazon S3
17 12 (12.90%) Jenkins
18 11 (11.83%) Agile
18 11 (11.83%) Amazon ECS
18 11 (11.83%) Argo
18 11 (11.83%) Prometheus
19 10 (10.75%) Java
19 10 (10.75%) 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 5 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.23%) Confluence
2 3 (3.23%) nginx
3 1 (1.08%) CMS
3 1 (1.08%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (24.73%) AWS CloudFormation
3 22 (23.66%) GitHub
4 19 (20.43%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (19.35%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (19.35%) Serverless
6 14 (15.05%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (13.98%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (13.98%) Amazon S3
8 11 (11.83%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (8.60%) Azure
11 7 (7.53%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (5.38%) GCP
14 4 (4.30%) AWS CodeBuild
15 3 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
15 3 (3.23%) AWS Control Tower
15 3 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
15 3 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) DynamoDB
1 6 (6.45%) Flink
2 5 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.08%) MySQL
4 1 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (35.48%) GitLab
2 12 (12.90%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.60%) Git
4 4 (4.30%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.30%) Snyk
4 4 (4.30%) SonarQube
4 4 (4.30%) TeamCity
5 3 (3.23%) JIRA
6 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket
General
1 19 (20.43%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.05%) Finance
3 13 (13.98%) Banking
4 6 (6.45%) Front Office
5 5 (5.38%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.68%) Kafka
2 5 (5.38%) Node.js
3 3 (3.23%) JWT
3 3 (3.23%) OAuth
4 2 (2.15%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.15%) boto
4 2 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.15%) Keycloak
4 2 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.08%) Fastify
5 1 (1.08%) MACH
5 1 (1.08%) Next.js
5 1 (1.08%) pytest
5 1 (1.08%) React
5 1 (1.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.05%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.45%) Fixed Income
3 5 (5.38%) Hedge funds
4 4 (4.30%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.08%) PKI
6 1 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.51%) Linux
2 2 (2.15%) Windows
3 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.08%) Unix
3 1 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (64.52%) CI/CD
3 33 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (20.43%) Containerisation
5 15 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (11.83%) Agile
7 10 (10.75%) Microservices
8 7 (7.53%) Observability
8 7 (7.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (6.45%) Front End Development
9 6 (6.45%) Investment Management
10 5 (5.38%) Analytics
10 5 (5.38%) Cost Reduction
10 5 (5.38%) Decision-Making
10 5 (5.38%) Fintech
10 5 (5.38%) Monorepo
11 4 (4.30%) DevSecOps
11 4 (4.30%) Load Balancing
11 4 (4.30%) OWASP
11 4 (4.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (29.03%) Python
2 10 (10.75%) Java
3 6 (6.45%) Bash
4 2 (2.15%) Go
5 1 (1.08%) Groovy
5 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.08%) Ruby
5 1 (1.08%) SQL
5 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (59.14%) Security Cleared
2 52 (55.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.60%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.23%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 36 (38.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (63.44%) Terraform
2 36 (38.71%) Kubernetes
3 15 (16.13%) Ansible
4 11 (11.83%) Argo
4 11 (11.83%) Prometheus
5 9 (9.68%) Grafana
6 3 (3.23%) Packer
7 2 (2.15%) Consul
7 2 (2.15%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.15%) Istio
8 1 (1.08%) Opsview
8 1 (1.08%) Puppet
8 1 (1.08%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (2.15%) Fortinet
1 2 (2.15%) Oracle
2 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.08%) New Relic
2 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.08%) Virgin Media