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 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 265 320
Rank change year-on-year -70 +55 -72
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 78 83 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.43% 0.69% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.73% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 68 64
10th Percentile £400 £407 £402
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.63% -14.00%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £588
90th Percentile £663 - £676
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%

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 16,900 11,300 16,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 93.38% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,198 7,694 11,803
10th Percentile £356 £348 £325
25th Percentile £431 £428 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 144 319
10th Percentile £19.10 £20.24 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.14 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.50 £30.40 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.92% +10.55% -23.61%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.00 £45.62
90th Percentile £76.58 £60.50 £65.23
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.88 £36.92
% change year-on-year +55.84% -21.78% -17.97%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -17 6 £373 -37.34%
South London -14 3 £525 -4.55%
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 26 May 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 78 (100.00%) AWS
1 78 (100.00%) DevOps
2 55 (70.51%) Security Cleared
3 52 (66.67%) SC Cleared
4 51 (65.38%) Terraform
5 46 (58.97%) CI/CD
6 32 (41.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (38.46%) GitLab
8 28 (35.90%) Kubernetes
9 27 (34.62%) Docker
10 22 (28.21%) Linux
11 20 (25.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (23.08%) Python
13 16 (20.51%) Containerisation
14 15 (19.23%) Ansible
15 14 (17.95%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (15.38%) GitHub
16 12 (15.38%) Prometheus
17 11 (14.10%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (14.10%) Grafana
17 11 (14.10%) Jenkins
17 11 (14.10%) Platform Engineering
17 11 (14.10%) Serverless
18 10 (12.82%) Amazon S3
18 10 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
19 9 (11.54%) High Availability
20 8 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 8 (10.26%) Git
20 8 (10.26%) GitHub Actions

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 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (1.28%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 78 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (25.64%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (17.95%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (15.38%) GitHub
5 11 (14.10%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (14.10%) Serverless
6 10 (12.82%) Amazon S3
7 8 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (8.97%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (6.41%) AWS CodePipeline
9 5 (6.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (5.13%) AWS CodeBuild
10 4 (5.13%) Azure
10 4 (5.13%) GCP
11 2 (2.56%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.56%) CloudFront
12 1 (1.28%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (1.28%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) HTTP
1 1 (1.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.41%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.28%) Flink
Development Applications
1 30 (38.46%) GitLab
2 11 (14.10%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.26%) Git
4 4 (5.13%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.13%) Snyk
4 4 (5.13%) SonarQube
4 4 (5.13%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.56%) JIRA
6 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
General
1 23 (29.49%) Public Sector
2 10 (12.82%) Finance
3 7 (8.97%) Banking
4 6 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Front Office
6 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.85%) Kafka
2 2 (2.56%) AWS CDK
2 2 (2.56%) boto
2 2 (2.56%) Keycloak
2 2 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.28%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.13%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (1.28%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.28%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (28.21%) Linux
2 3 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.56%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.56%) Windows
4 1 (1.28%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.28%) Unix
4 1 (1.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (58.97%) CI/CD
3 32 (41.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (20.51%) Containerisation
5 11 (14.10%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (11.54%) High Availability
8 6 (7.69%) Agile
8 6 (7.69%) Configuration Management
8 6 (7.69%) Microservices
8 6 (7.69%) Observability
9 5 (6.41%) Fintech
9 5 (6.41%) Load Balancing
10 4 (5.13%) Decision-Making
10 4 (5.13%) DevSecOps
10 4 (5.13%) OWASP
11 3 (3.85%) Infrastructure Automation
11 3 (3.85%) Secrets Management
11 3 (3.85%) Test Automation
12 2 (2.56%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.08%) Python
2 7 (8.97%) Bash
3 5 (6.41%) Java
4 2 (2.56%) Go
5 1 (1.28%) Groovy
5 1 (1.28%) Perl
5 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (70.51%) Security Cleared
2 52 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.41%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 27 (34.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Squid
2 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (65.38%) Terraform
2 28 (35.90%) Kubernetes
3 15 (19.23%) Ansible
4 12 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 11 (14.10%) Grafana
6 6 (7.69%) Argo
7 3 (3.85%) Packer
7 3 (3.85%) Puppet
8 2 (2.56%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.56%) Istio
9 1 (1.28%) Consul
9 1 (1.28%) Opsview
Vendors
1 2 (2.56%) Fortinet
1 2 (2.56%) Oracle
2 1 (1.28%) New Relic
2 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.28%) Virgin Media