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 £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 313 307
Rank change year-on-year -45 -6 -37
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 85 59 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% 0.43% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.47% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 39 61
10th Percentile £421 £397 £450
25th Percentile £440 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £505 £551
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -8.27% -8.25%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £663 £798 £760
England median daily rate £480 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.44% -14.58%

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 18,882 12,622 15,268
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 92.97% 94.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,313 8,534 10,791
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 203 201
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.95 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.28% -15.21%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.10 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +65.78% -42.22% +5.88%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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
South London -13 6 £537 -
Central London -24 2 - - 1
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 8 August 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 85 (100.00%) AWS
1 85 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 59 (69.41%) Terraform
4 54 (63.53%) Security Cleared
5 51 (60.00%) SC Cleared
6 46 (54.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 40 (47.06%) Kubernetes
8 38 (44.71%) GitLab
9 32 (37.65%) Docker
10 31 (36.47%) Containerisation
11 30 (35.29%) Python
12 25 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (27.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (27.06%) Linux
14 21 (24.71%) Jenkins
15 17 (20.00%) Grafana
15 17 (20.00%) Prometheus
16 16 (18.82%) Ansible
16 16 (18.82%) GitHub
17 15 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
18 14 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
18 14 (16.47%) GitHub Actions
19 13 (15.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 13 (15.29%) Amazon S3
20 12 (14.12%) Bash
20 12 (14.12%) High Availability
20 12 (14.12%) Microservices
20 12 (14.12%) Observability
20 12 (14.12%) Serverless

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 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
3 23 (27.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (18.82%) GitHub
5 14 (16.47%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (15.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (15.29%) Amazon S3
7 12 (14.12%) Serverless
8 11 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (9.41%) Azure
11 7 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (5.88%) GCP
13 4 (4.71%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (4.71%) Azure AKS
13 4 (4.71%) Snowflake
14 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (2.35%) AWS CodeBuild
15 2 (2.35%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Network Security
2 1 (1.18%) DNS
2 1 (1.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.06%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.53%) MySQL
5 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.18%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 38 (44.71%) GitLab
2 21 (24.71%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.94%) Git
4 5 (5.88%) CircleCI
4 5 (5.88%) Snyk
4 5 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.53%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.18%) JIRA
6 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (24.71%) Public Sector
2 11 (12.94%) Finance
3 7 (8.24%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.71%) Banking
5 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.06%) Kafka
2 4 (4.71%) Keycloak
3 3 (3.53%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.53%) REST
4 2 (2.35%) boto
4 2 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.18%) .NET
5 1 (1.18%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.18%) Django
5 1 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.18%) Node.js
5 1 (1.18%) OAuth
5 1 (1.18%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.18%) OpenID
5 1 (1.18%) PySpark
5 1 (1.18%) React
5 1 (1.18%) SAML
5 1 (1.18%) Spring
5 1 (1.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.53%) PKI
3 2 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (27.06%) Linux
2 5 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.53%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.53%) Windows
4 1 (1.18%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.18%) Unix
4 1 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 46 (54.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (36.47%) Containerisation
5 15 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (14.12%) High Availability
7 12 (14.12%) Microservices
7 12 (14.12%) Observability
8 8 (9.41%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (8.24%) Configuration Management
9 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (8.24%) Load Balancing
10 6 (7.06%) Agile
10 6 (7.06%) Cloud Security
10 6 (7.06%) Software Engineering
11 5 (5.88%) DevSecOps
11 5 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (5.88%) Secrets Management
11 5 (5.88%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (35.29%) Python
2 12 (14.12%) Bash
3 4 (4.71%) Java
4 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.35%) Go
5 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.18%) C#
6 1 (1.18%) Groovy
6 1 (1.18%) Perl
6 1 (1.18%) Scala
6 1 (1.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (63.53%) Security Cleared
2 51 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) AWS Certification
3 6 (7.06%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 32 (37.65%) Docker
2 3 (3.53%) Squid
3 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (69.41%) Terraform
2 40 (47.06%) Kubernetes
3 17 (20.00%) Grafana
3 17 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 16 (18.82%) Ansible
5 5 (5.88%) Argo
6 4 (4.71%) Puppet
7 3 (3.53%) Istio
8 2 (2.35%) Packer
9 1 (1.18%) Kibana
9 1 (1.18%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.18%) Opsview
Vendors
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle
2 1 (1.18%) Informatica
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.18%) Sonatype