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 21 January 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 245 296
Rank change year-on-year -52 +51 +12
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 83 111 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.57% 0.80% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.85% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 99 87
10th Percentile £349 £425 £404
25th Percentile £400 £522 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £831 £647
90th Percentile £713 £838 £695
England median daily rate £500 £602 £538
% change year-on-year -16.98% +12.05% -10.42%

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 13,484 12,990 16,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 93.57% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,963 8,357 12,219
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 139 277
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.60 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.55 £23.99 £19.00
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +14.75% -6.15%
75th Percentile £63.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £67.40
England median hourly rate £28.65 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.16% -12.50% +14.29%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -1 10 £373 -35.22% 3
South London -4 8 £550 -
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 January 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 83 (100.00%) AWS
1 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (78.31%) CI/CD
2 65 (78.31%) Terraform
3 49 (59.04%) SC Cleared
3 49 (59.04%) Security Cleared
4 38 (45.78%) Docker
5 35 (42.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (42.17%) Kubernetes
6 33 (39.76%) Python
7 30 (36.14%) GitLab
8 25 (30.12%) GitHub
9 22 (26.51%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (25.30%) Amazon S3
10 21 (25.30%) Linux
11 20 (24.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (22.89%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (21.69%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (20.48%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (20.48%) Containerisation
14 17 (20.48%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (20.48%) Serverless
15 16 (19.28%) Git
15 16 (19.28%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (19.28%) Jenkins
16 15 (18.07%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (18.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (18.07%) Azure
17 14 (16.87%) AWS Certification
17 14 (16.87%) Prometheus

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 12 (14.46%) Confluence
2 10 (12.05%) nginx
3 5 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.20%) CMS
5 1 (1.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (30.12%) GitHub
3 22 (26.51%) Amazon EC2
4 21 (25.30%) Amazon S3
5 20 (24.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (22.89%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (21.69%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (20.48%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (20.48%) Serverless
9 16 (19.28%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (18.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (18.07%) Azure
11 11 (13.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (10.84%) Route 53
13 7 (8.43%) Amazon ELB
13 7 (8.43%) AWS CodePipeline
13 7 (8.43%) AWS KMS
13 7 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (7.23%) Amazon Kinesis
15 5 (6.02%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.05%) DNS
2 8 (9.64%) HTTP
3 7 (8.43%) Firewall
3 7 (8.43%) FTP
3 7 (8.43%) IMAP
3 7 (8.43%) OpenLDAP
3 7 (8.43%) SMTP
3 7 (8.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.07%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (9.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (7.23%) Flink
5 4 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (4.82%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (36.14%) GitLab
2 16 (19.28%) Git
2 16 (19.28%) Jenkins
3 12 (14.46%) JIRA
4 7 (8.43%) Vagrant
5 4 (4.82%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.20%) Maven
General
1 17 (20.48%) Public Sector
2 14 (16.87%) Banking
3 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.05%) Finance
5 8 (9.64%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (7.23%) Front Office
7 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Games
8 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.25%) Kafka
2 7 (8.43%) LDAP
3 5 (6.02%) Node.js
4 4 (4.82%) OAuth
5 3 (3.61%) JWT
6 2 (2.41%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.41%) React
7 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.20%) Fastify
7 1 (1.20%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.20%) MACH
7 1 (1.20%) Next.js
7 1 (1.20%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.20%) OpenID
7 1 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.20%) pytest
7 1 (1.20%) RESTful
7 1 (1.20%) SAML
7 1 (1.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.64%) Replication
3 6 (7.23%) Fixed Income
4 5 (6.02%) Hedge funds
5 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.30%) Linux
2 8 (9.64%) Windows
3 7 (8.43%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (8.43%) Ubuntu
3 7 (8.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (78.31%) CI/CD
3 35 (42.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (20.48%) Containerisation
4 17 (20.48%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (14.46%) Agile
6 11 (13.25%) Configuration Management
6 11 (13.25%) Observability
7 10 (12.05%) Cloud Security
7 10 (12.05%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (9.64%) Change Management
8 8 (9.64%) Microservices
8 8 (9.64%) Migration
8 8 (9.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (8.43%) Patch Management
10 6 (7.23%) DevSecOps
10 6 (7.23%) Front End Development
10 6 (7.23%) Investment Management
11 5 (6.02%) Analytics
11 5 (6.02%) Monorepo
Programming Languages
1 33 (39.76%) Python
2 11 (13.25%) Java
3 9 (10.84%) Groovy
4 8 (9.64%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.43%) Bash
5 7 (8.43%) SQL
6 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.20%) Go
7 1 (1.20%) Ruby
7 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (59.04%) SC Cleared
1 49 (59.04%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.87%) AWS Certification
3 7 (8.43%) Azure Certification
3 7 (8.43%) Degree
4 4 (4.82%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (4.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 38 (45.78%) Docker
2 7 (8.43%) DFS Replication
2 7 (8.43%) Dovecot
2 7 (8.43%) Postfix
2 7 (8.43%) Squid
Systems Management
1 65 (78.31%) Terraform
2 35 (42.17%) Kubernetes
3 14 (16.87%) Prometheus
4 13 (15.66%) Grafana
5 12 (14.46%) Ansible
6 9 (10.84%) Argo
7 7 (8.43%) Nessus
7 7 (8.43%) Proxmox
8 3 (3.61%) Packer
9 2 (2.41%) Consul
9 2 (2.41%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.20%) Istio
10 1 (1.20%) Puppet
10 1 (1.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (9.64%) ServiceNow
2 7 (8.43%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (2.41%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.20%) New Relic
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle
4 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.20%) Virgin Media