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 8 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 277 306
Rank change year-on-year -57 +29 -63
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 83 74 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.61% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.65% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 58 70
10th Percentile £400 £425 £405
25th Percentile £425 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.63% -14.00%
75th Percentile £594 £838 £612
90th Percentile £646 - £729
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -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 17,284 11,434 16,529
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 93.53% 93.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,413 7,725 11,910
10th Percentile £356 £349 £325
25th Percentile £434 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £676
90th Percentile £761 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 163 327
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.42 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +15.07% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.25 £46.68
90th Percentile £76.75 £63.65 £67.40
England median hourly rate £45.59 £29.80 £38.50
% change year-on-year +52.97% -22.60% -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 8 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 8 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 -14 6 £373 -36.05% 1
South London -12 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 8 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 83 (100.00%) AWS
1 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (71.08%) Security Cleared
3 57 (68.67%) Terraform
4 56 (67.47%) SC Cleared
5 52 (62.65%) CI/CD
6 38 (45.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (43.37%) GitLab
8 33 (39.76%) Kubernetes
9 30 (36.14%) Docker
10 22 (26.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (26.51%) Containerisation
10 22 (26.51%) Linux
11 19 (22.89%) Python
12 18 (21.69%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (20.48%) Ansible
14 15 (18.07%) Prometheus
15 14 (16.87%) GitHub
15 14 (16.87%) Grafana
15 14 (16.87%) Jenkins
16 12 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (14.46%) High Availability
17 11 (13.25%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (13.25%) Platform Engineering
17 11 (13.25%) Serverless
18 10 (12.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 10 (12.05%) Amazon S3
18 10 (12.05%) GitHub Actions
19 9 (10.84%) 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 2 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (26.51%) AWS CloudFormation
3 18 (21.69%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (16.87%) GitHub
5 11 (13.25%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (13.25%) Serverless
6 10 (12.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (12.05%) Amazon S3
6 10 (12.05%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (9.64%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (8.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (6.02%) AWS CodePipeline
9 5 (6.02%) Azure
9 5 (6.02%) GCP
10 4 (4.82%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (3.61%) Snowflake
12 2 (2.41%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (2.41%) Azure AKS
12 2 (2.41%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) HTTP
1 1 (1.20%) Internet
1 1 (1.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.23%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.61%) MySQL
5 2 (2.41%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 36 (43.37%) GitLab
2 14 (16.87%) Jenkins
3 9 (10.84%) Git
4 5 (6.02%) CircleCI
4 5 (6.02%) Snyk
4 5 (6.02%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.82%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.41%) JIRA
7 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
General
1 25 (30.12%) Public Sector
2 10 (12.05%) Finance
3 7 (8.43%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.23%) Banking
5 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) Kafka
2 3 (3.61%) Keycloak
3 2 (2.41%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.41%) boto
3 2 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.20%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.10%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.61%) PKI
4 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.51%) Linux
2 4 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.61%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.41%) Windows
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.20%) Unix
5 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (62.65%) CI/CD
3 38 (45.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (26.51%) Containerisation
5 12 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (14.46%) High Availability
6 11 (13.25%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (10.84%) Microservices
7 9 (10.84%) Observability
8 7 (8.43%) Agile
9 6 (7.23%) Configuration Management
9 6 (7.23%) Load Balancing
10 5 (6.02%) DevSecOps
10 5 (6.02%) Fintech
10 5 (6.02%) OWASP
11 4 (4.82%) Cloud Security
11 4 (4.82%) Decision-Making
11 4 (4.82%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (4.82%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (4.82%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.89%) Python
2 8 (9.64%) Bash
3 4 (4.82%) Java
4 2 (2.41%) Go
5 1 (1.20%) Groovy
5 1 (1.20%) Perl
5 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.20%) SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (71.08%) Security Cleared
2 56 (67.47%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.02%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 30 (36.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Squid
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (68.67%) Terraform
2 33 (39.76%) Kubernetes
3 17 (20.48%) Ansible
4 15 (18.07%) Prometheus
5 14 (16.87%) Grafana
6 5 (6.02%) Argo
7 4 (4.82%) Puppet
8 3 (3.61%) Packer
9 2 (2.41%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.41%) Istio
10 1 (1.20%) Consul
10 1 (1.20%) Opsview
Vendors
1 2 (2.41%) Fortinet
1 2 (2.41%) Oracle
2 1 (1.20%) New Relic
2 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
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