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 February 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 233 309
Rank change year-on-year -74 +76 -30
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 88 122 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 0.90% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.96% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 107 81
10th Percentile £355 £425 £406
25th Percentile £400 £516 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £538
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +34.88% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £838 £625
90th Percentile £708 - £695
England median daily rate £525 £608 £538
% change year-on-year -13.58% +13.02% -7.33%

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 14,510 12,646 17,206
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 93.61% 93.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,685 8,217 12,412
10th Percentile £350 £333 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 144 338
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.83 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £19.05
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.75 £29.36
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +25.17% -16.11%
75th Percentile £59.86 £53.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.65 £66.30
England median hourly rate £33.17 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.23% - -12.50%

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 February 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 February 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 -2 10 £373 -35.22%
South London -14 4 £550 -13.73%
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 February 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%) CI/CD
2 61 (69.32%) Terraform
3 56 (63.64%) Security Cleared
4 53 (60.23%) SC Cleared
5 37 (42.05%) Docker
6 36 (40.91%) Kubernetes
7 32 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (34.09%) GitLab
8 30 (34.09%) Python
9 22 (25.00%) GitHub
10 19 (21.59%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (20.45%) Linux
12 17 (19.32%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (19.32%) Serverless
13 16 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
14 15 (17.05%) Amazon S3
15 14 (15.91%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (14.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (14.77%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (14.77%) Containerisation
16 13 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (13.64%) Azure
17 12 (13.64%) Git
17 12 (13.64%) Jenkins
18 11 (12.50%) Java
19 10 (11.36%) Agile
19 10 (11.36%) Ansible

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 6 (6.82%) Confluence
1 6 (6.82%) nginx
2 5 (5.68%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.14%) CMS
3 1 (1.14%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 88 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (25.00%) GitHub
3 19 (21.59%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (19.32%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (19.32%) Serverless
5 16 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (17.05%) Amazon S3
7 14 (15.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (14.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (14.77%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (13.64%) Azure
10 6 (6.82%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (6.82%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (6.82%) GCP
10 6 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (5.68%) Route 53
12 3 (3.41%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (3.41%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) HTTP
2 3 (3.41%) DNS
2 3 (3.41%) Firewall
2 3 (3.41%) FTP
2 3 (3.41%) IMAP
2 3 (3.41%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (3.41%) SMTP
2 3 (3.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.82%) Flink
3 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.55%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (34.09%) GitLab
2 12 (13.64%) Git
2 12 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.82%) JIRA
4 5 (5.68%) TeamCity
5 3 (3.41%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.14%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.14%) Maven
6 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (21.59%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.91%) Banking
3 11 (12.50%) Finance
4 10 (11.36%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.82%) Front Office
6 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Games
8 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.36%) Kafka
2 5 (5.68%) Node.js
3 4 (4.55%) OAuth
4 3 (3.41%) JWT
4 3 (3.41%) LDAP
5 2 (2.27%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.27%) React
6 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.14%) Fastify
6 1 (1.14%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.14%) MACH
6 1 (1.14%) Next.js
6 1 (1.14%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.14%) OpenID
6 1 (1.14%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.14%) pytest
6 1 (1.14%) RESTful
6 1 (1.14%) SAML
6 1 (1.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.82%) Fixed Income
3 5 (5.68%) Hedge funds
3 5 (5.68%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.55%) Replication
5 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.45%) Linux
2 4 (4.55%) VMS
2 4 (4.55%) Windows
3 3 (3.41%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (3.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (69.32%) CI/CD
3 32 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (14.77%) Containerisation
6 10 (11.36%) Agile
7 8 (9.09%) Observability
7 8 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (7.95%) Cloud Security
9 6 (6.82%) Configuration Management
9 6 (6.82%) Decision-Making
9 6 (6.82%) Front End Development
9 6 (6.82%) Investment Management
9 6 (6.82%) Microservices
10 5 (5.68%) Analytics
10 5 (5.68%) Cost Reduction
10 5 (5.68%) DevSecOps
10 5 (5.68%) Monorepo
10 5 (5.68%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (4.55%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.09%) Python
2 11 (12.50%) Java
3 6 (6.82%) Bash
4 5 (5.68%) Groovy
5 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.55%) SQL
6 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.14%) Go
7 1 (1.14%) Ruby
7 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 53 (60.23%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.36%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.55%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (4.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.41%) Degree
6 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 37 (42.05%) Docker
2 3 (3.41%) DFS Replication
2 3 (3.41%) Dovecot
2 3 (3.41%) Postfix
2 3 (3.41%) Squid
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (69.32%) Terraform
2 36 (40.91%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.36%) Ansible
3 10 (11.36%) Argo
4 9 (10.23%) Prometheus
5 8 (9.09%) Grafana
6 3 (3.41%) Nessus
6 3 (3.41%) Packer
6 3 (3.41%) Proxmox
7 2 (2.27%) Consul
7 2 (2.27%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.14%) Istio
8 1 (1.14%) Opsview
8 1 (1.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (4.55%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.41%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.14%) New Relic
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle
4 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.14%) Virgin Media