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 £496, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 317 312
Rank change year-on-year -62 -5 -35
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 75 58 79
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.43% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.46% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 37 59
10th Percentile £422 £366 £438
25th Percentile £440 £419 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% -15.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £675
90th Percentile £626 £680 £788
England median daily rate £476 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +0.21% -9.52% -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 18,881 12,479 15,325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 92.73% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,191 8,352 10,227
10th Percentile £363 £331 £341
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 206 180
10th Percentile £17.39 £17.00 £17.48
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -4.21%
75th Percentile £63.10 £51.13 £56.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.54 £72.19
England median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +73.38% -45.54% +2.62%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -8 9 £537 - 2
Central London -27 2 - - 3
West London - 1 - - 2
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 75 (100.00%) AWS
1 75 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (84.00%) Terraform
3 62 (82.67%) CI/CD
4 54 (72.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (66.67%) SC Cleared
5 50 (66.67%) Security Cleared
6 43 (57.33%) Kubernetes
7 36 (48.00%) GitLab
8 33 (44.00%) Containerisation
8 33 (44.00%) Docker
8 33 (44.00%) Python
9 30 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (32.00%) Jenkins
11 22 (29.33%) Grafana
12 21 (28.00%) Linux
12 21 (28.00%) Prometheus
13 20 (26.67%) Observability
14 19 (25.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (24.00%) Ansible
16 17 (22.67%) Git
17 16 (21.33%) Bash
17 16 (21.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 15 (20.00%) GitHub
19 14 (18.67%) Amazon EC2
19 14 (18.67%) GitHub Actions
19 14 (18.67%) High Availability
20 13 (17.33%) Agile
20 13 (17.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 13 (17.33%) Amazon RDS

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 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) AWS
2 30 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 19 (25.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (20.00%) GitHub
5 14 (18.67%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (18.67%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (17.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (17.33%) Amazon S3
6 13 (17.33%) Serverless
6 13 (17.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (14.67%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (14.67%) Azure
8 7 (9.33%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (8.00%) Azure AKS
10 5 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (6.67%) Route 53
11 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (5.33%) GCP
11 4 (5.33%) Snowflake
12 3 (4.00%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) DNS
1 3 (4.00%) Firewall
1 3 (4.00%) Network Security
2 2 (2.67%) FTP
2 2 (2.67%) HTTP
2 2 (2.67%) IMAP
2 2 (2.67%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (2.67%) SMTP
2 2 (2.67%) SSH
3 1 (1.33%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.33%) Internet
3 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.33%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.33%) MySQL
5 3 (4.00%) Redis
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.33%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (48.00%) GitLab
2 24 (32.00%) Jenkins
3 17 (22.67%) Git
4 4 (5.33%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.33%) Snyk
4 4 (5.33%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.00%) JIRA
6 2 (2.67%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (22.67%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.67%) Finance
4 3 (4.00%) Banking
4 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Law
6 1 (1.33%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (84.00%) Terraform
2 10 (13.33%) Kafka
3 7 (9.33%) Keycloak
4 4 (5.33%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.00%) REST
6 2 (2.67%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.33%) .NET
7 1 (1.33%) ADO
7 1 (1.33%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.33%) Django
7 1 (1.33%) Flask
7 1 (1.33%) LDAP
7 1 (1.33%) Node.js
7 1 (1.33%) OAuth
7 1 (1.33%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.33%) OpenID
7 1 (1.33%) SAML
7 1 (1.33%) Spring
7 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (29.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.00%) Replication
3 4 (5.33%) PKI
4 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.33%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.00%) Linux
2 6 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (8.00%) Ubuntu
3 4 (5.33%) Windows
4 3 (4.00%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.67%) VMS
6 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (82.67%) CI/CD
3 54 (72.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (44.00%) Containerisation
5 20 (26.67%) Observability
6 16 (21.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (18.67%) High Availability
8 13 (17.33%) Agile
8 13 (17.33%) Deployment Automation
9 12 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (14.67%) Microservices
11 9 (12.00%) Configuration Management
11 9 (12.00%) Secrets Management
12 8 (10.67%) Cloud Security
12 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure Automation
13 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (9.33%) Test Automation
14 6 (8.00%) DevSecOps
14 6 (8.00%) Load Balancing
14 6 (8.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (44.00%) Python
2 16 (21.33%) Bash
3 6 (8.00%) Groovy
4 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.00%) Java
6 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.67%) SQL
7 1 (1.33%) C#
7 1 (1.33%) Go
7 1 (1.33%) Perl
7 1 (1.33%) Scala
7 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 50 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.67%) Degree
5 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (44.00%) Docker
2 5 (6.67%) Squid
3 3 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.67%) DFS Replication
4 2 (2.67%) Dovecot
4 2 (2.67%) Postfix
4 2 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (57.33%) Kubernetes
2 22 (29.33%) Grafana
3 21 (28.00%) Prometheus
4 18 (24.00%) Ansible
5 4 (5.33%) Argo
5 4 (5.33%) Puppet
6 3 (4.00%) Istio
6 3 (4.00%) Nessus
6 3 (4.00%) Packer
6 3 (4.00%) Rancher
7 2 (2.67%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.33%) Kibana
8 1 (1.33%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (8.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.67%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (2.67%) Okta
4 2 (2.67%) Oracle
4 2 (2.67%) Splunk
5 1 (1.33%) Informatica
5 1 (1.33%) Sonatype