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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 313 310
Rank change year-on-year -55 -3 -45
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 75 56 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.42% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.45% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 36 60
10th Percentile £411 £368 £436
25th Percentile £440 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -8.68% -8.29%
75th Percentile £571 £638 £675
90th Percentile £645 £725 £763
England median daily rate £451 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.90% - -16.67%

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 18,695 12,487 15,224
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 92.96% 94.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,154 8,403 10,658
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £688
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 356 208 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.40
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -13.22% -10.48%
75th Percentile £59.31 £48.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +63.46% -42.22% +6.95%

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 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 20 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 -4 6 £537 - 1
Central London -13 2 - -
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 20 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 75 (100.00%) AWS
1 75 (100.00%) DevOps
2 57 (76.00%) CI/CD
3 56 (74.67%) Terraform
4 47 (62.67%) SC Cleared
4 47 (62.67%) Security Cleared
5 46 (61.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (52.00%) Kubernetes
7 37 (49.33%) GitLab
8 31 (41.33%) Containerisation
9 29 (38.67%) Python
10 28 (37.33%) Docker
11 24 (32.00%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (30.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (28.00%) Jenkins
13 21 (28.00%) Linux
14 17 (22.67%) Grafana
14 17 (22.67%) Prometheus
15 16 (21.33%) Ansible
15 16 (21.33%) GitHub
16 14 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (18.67%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (17.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (16.00%) Amazon S3
18 12 (16.00%) Bash
18 12 (16.00%) High Availability
18 12 (16.00%) Microservices
18 12 (16.00%) Observability
18 12 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
19 11 (14.67%) Git

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
2 1 (1.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (32.00%) Amazon EKS
3 23 (30.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (21.33%) GitHub
5 14 (18.67%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (17.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (16.00%) Amazon S3
8 11 (14.67%) Serverless
9 10 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (10.67%) Azure
11 7 (9.33%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (6.67%) Azure AKS
13 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (5.33%) GCP
13 4 (5.33%) Snowflake
14 2 (2.67%) OpenShift
14 2 (2.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) Network Security
2 1 (1.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.67%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.00%) MySQL
5 2 (2.67%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.33%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 37 (49.33%) GitLab
2 21 (28.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (14.67%) Git
4 5 (6.67%) CircleCI
4 5 (6.67%) Snyk
4 5 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.33%) JIRA
6 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (25.33%) Public Sector
2 9 (12.00%) Finance
3 6 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.00%) Banking
5 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (74.67%) Terraform
2 6 (8.00%) Kafka
3 4 (5.33%) Keycloak
4 3 (4.00%) REST
5 2 (2.67%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.67%) boto
5 2 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.33%) ADO
6 1 (1.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.33%) Django
6 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.33%) Node.js
6 1 (1.33%) OAuth
6 1 (1.33%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.33%) OpenID
6 1 (1.33%) PySpark
6 1 (1.33%) React
6 1 (1.33%) SAML
6 1 (1.33%) Spring
6 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (29.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.00%) PKI
3 2 (2.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.33%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.00%) Linux
2 5 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.00%) Windows
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) DevOps
2 57 (76.00%) CI/CD
3 46 (61.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (41.33%) Containerisation
5 14 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (16.00%) High Availability
6 12 (16.00%) Microservices
6 12 (16.00%) Observability
6 12 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (10.67%) Configuration Management
7 8 (10.67%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Automation
9 6 (8.00%) Agile
9 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (8.00%) Load Balancing
10 5 (6.67%) DevSecOps
10 5 (6.67%) Migration
10 5 (6.67%) OWASP
10 5 (6.67%) Software Delivery
10 5 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (38.67%) Python
2 12 (16.00%) Bash
3 3 (4.00%) Java
3 3 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.67%) Go
4 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.33%) C#
5 1 (1.33%) Groovy
5 1 (1.33%) Perl
5 1 (1.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (62.67%) SC Cleared
1 47 (62.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 28 (37.33%) Docker
2 3 (4.00%) Squid
3 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (52.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (22.67%) Grafana
2 17 (22.67%) Prometheus
3 16 (21.33%) Ansible
4 4 (5.33%) Argo
4 4 (5.33%) Puppet
5 3 (4.00%) Istio
6 2 (2.67%) Packer
7 1 (1.33%) Kibana
7 1 (1.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (2.67%) Oracle
2 1 (1.33%) Informatica
2 1 (1.33%) Okta
2 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.33%) Sonatype