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 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 277 311
Rank change year-on-year -55 +34 -70
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 88 70 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.57% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.61% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 54 70
10th Percentile £400 £425 £405
25th Percentile £425 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.98% -14.00%
75th Percentile £601 £838 £612
90th Percentile £643 - £729
England median daily rate £500 £522 £520
% change year-on-year -4.28% +0.46% -13.33%

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 17,467 11,455 16,568
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.56% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,526 7,752 11,944
10th Percentile £356 £341 £325
25th Percentile £433 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £762 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 164 328
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £15.98
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.14 £20.17
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.25 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% +15.97% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £46.59
90th Percentile £78.13 £64.63 £67.30
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
% change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%

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 11 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 11 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 -13 6 £373 -36.05%
South London -13 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 11 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 88 (100.00%) AWS
1 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (69.32%) Security Cleared
2 61 (69.32%) Terraform
3 58 (65.91%) CI/CD
3 58 (65.91%) SC Cleared
4 43 (48.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (46.59%) GitLab
6 37 (42.05%) Kubernetes
7 35 (39.77%) Docker
8 26 (29.55%) Containerisation
9 25 (28.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (26.14%) Linux
11 22 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (23.86%) Python
13 17 (19.32%) Ansible
13 17 (19.32%) GitHub
13 17 (19.32%) Jenkins
14 15 (17.05%) Prometheus
15 14 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (15.91%) Grafana
15 14 (15.91%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (15.91%) Serverless
16 13 (14.77%) Amazon S3
16 13 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 12 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
17 12 (13.64%) High Availability
18 11 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (12.50%) 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 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.27%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 88 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (28.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 22 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (19.32%) GitHub
5 14 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (15.91%) Serverless
6 13 (14.77%) Amazon S3
6 13 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (11.36%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (10.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (7.95%) Azure
12 5 (5.68%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (5.68%) GCP
12 5 (5.68%) Snowflake
13 4 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
14 2 (2.27%) Azure AKS
14 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) HTTP
1 1 (1.14%) Internet
1 1 (1.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.82%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.41%) MySQL
5 2 (2.27%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 41 (46.59%) GitLab
2 17 (19.32%) Jenkins
3 9 (10.23%) Git
4 5 (5.68%) CircleCI
4 5 (5.68%) Snyk
4 5 (5.68%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.55%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.27%) JIRA
7 1 (1.14%) Artifactory
General
1 24 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 10 (11.36%) Finance
3 7 (7.95%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.82%) Banking
5 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) Kafka
2 4 (4.55%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.41%) Keycloak
4 2 (2.27%) boto
4 2 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.27%) REST
5 1 (1.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.41%) PKI
4 2 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (26.14%) Linux
2 5 (5.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.41%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.27%) Windows
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.14%) Unix
5 1 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 58 (65.91%) CI/CD
3 43 (48.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (29.55%) Containerisation
5 14 (15.91%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (13.64%) High Availability
7 11 (12.50%) Microservices
8 10 (11.36%) Observability
9 8 (9.09%) Agile
10 7 (7.95%) Configuration Management
11 6 (6.82%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (6.82%) Load Balancing
11 6 (6.82%) Software Engineering
12 5 (5.68%) AI
12 5 (5.68%) DevSecOps
12 5 (5.68%) Fintech
12 5 (5.68%) OWASP
13 4 (4.55%) Software Delivery
13 4 (4.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.86%) Python
2 8 (9.09%) Bash
3 4 (4.55%) Java
4 2 (2.27%) Go
5 1 (1.14%) Groovy
5 1 (1.14%) Perl
5 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (69.32%) Security Cleared
2 58 (65.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 7 (7.95%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 35 (39.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Squid
2 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (69.32%) Terraform
2 37 (42.05%) Kubernetes
3 17 (19.32%) Ansible
4 15 (17.05%) Prometheus
5 14 (15.91%) Grafana
6 5 (5.68%) Argo
7 4 (4.55%) Puppet
8 3 (3.41%) Packer
9 2 (2.27%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.27%) Istio
10 1 (1.14%) Consul
10 1 (1.14%) Opsview
Vendors
1 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
1 2 (2.27%) Oracle
2 1 (1.14%) New Relic
2 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow