AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > London

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in London is £509, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 293 265
Rank change year-on-year -23 -28 +48
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 59 83 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.51% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.54% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 61 179
10th Percentile £399 £425 £425
25th Percentile £434 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £725
90th Percentile £838 £760 £863
England median daily rate £500 £513 £600
% change year-on-year -2.44% -14.58% +2.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,674 15,337 22,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 94.20% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,579 10,876 16,694
10th Percentile £326 £346 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 199 243
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.80 £18.55
25th Percentile £22.86 £22.00 £23.88
Median hourly rate £29.54 £33.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% -11.81% +12.78%
75th Percentile £50.50 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in London

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer 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 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in London

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer 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 4 August 2025. 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 -6 5 £583 -13.70% 1
South London +4 4 - -
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, AWS DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) AWS
1 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (79.66%) Terraform
3 45 (76.27%) CI/CD
4 39 (66.10%) Kubernetes
5 32 (54.24%) Docker
6 29 (49.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (45.76%) Security Cleared
8 26 (44.07%) SC Cleared
9 23 (38.98%) Python
10 21 (35.59%) Ansible
11 19 (32.20%) GitLab
12 17 (28.81%) Jenkins
12 17 (28.81%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (27.12%) Amazon S3
14 15 (25.42%) Grafana
14 15 (25.42%) Serverless
15 14 (23.73%) Bash
15 14 (23.73%) Configuration Management
16 13 (22.03%) Linux
16 13 (22.03%) GitHub
16 13 (22.03%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (22.03%) Prometheus
16 13 (22.03%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
16 13 (22.03%) Containerisation
17 12 (20.34%) Public Sector
17 12 (20.34%) Java
18 11 (18.64%) Amazon ECS
18 11 (18.64%) Amazon CloudWatch

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (11.86%) Apache
2 6 (10.17%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (10.17%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.78%) Confluence
4 3 (5.08%) nginx
5 1 (1.69%) JBoss
5 1 (1.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (28.81%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (27.12%) Amazon S3
4 15 (25.42%) Serverless
5 13 (22.03%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (22.03%) GitHub
6 11 (18.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (18.64%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (16.95%) Azure
7 10 (16.95%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (15.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (13.56%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (10.17%) OpenShift
12 5 (8.47%) dbt
12 5 (8.47%) GCP
13 4 (6.78%) AWS CodePipeline
14 3 (5.08%) Amazon ELB
14 3 (5.08%) AWS KMS
14 3 (5.08%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) DNS
2 5 (8.47%) HTTP
3 4 (6.78%) SSH
4 3 (5.08%) Firewall
4 3 (5.08%) FTP
4 3 (5.08%) IMAP
4 3 (5.08%) Internet
4 3 (5.08%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (5.08%) SMTP
4 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.69%) NAS
5 1 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.69%) SAN
5 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (10.17%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (8.47%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (8.47%) Apache Arrow
3 5 (8.47%) Apache Iceberg
3 5 (8.47%) Apache Ignite
3 5 (8.47%) Dremio
3 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.69%) Big Data
4 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (32.20%) GitLab
2 17 (28.81%) Jenkins
3 10 (16.95%) Git
4 6 (10.17%) Artifactory
5 5 (8.47%) JIRA
6 3 (5.08%) TeamCity
6 3 (5.08%) Vagrant
7 2 (3.39%) CircleCI
7 2 (3.39%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.69%) Ant
8 1 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.69%) Maven
8 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.34%) Public Sector
3 10 (16.95%) Finance
4 5 (8.47%) Front Office
4 5 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Banking
5 4 (6.78%) Law
6 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.25%) Kafka
2 5 (8.47%) J2EE
2 5 (8.47%) PySpark
3 4 (6.78%) AWS CDK
3 4 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (5.08%) .NET
4 3 (5.08%) LDAP
5 1 (1.69%) Loki
5 1 (1.69%) Middleware
5 1 (1.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.78%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.08%) Replication
4 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.03%) Linux
2 4 (6.78%) Windows
3 3 (5.08%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (5.08%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.08%) VMS
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (76.27%) CI/CD
3 29 (49.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (23.73%) Configuration Management
5 13 (22.03%) Containerisation
6 10 (16.95%) Agile
6 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (13.56%) Cloud Security
7 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (11.86%) Software Engineering
9 6 (10.17%) Data Engineering
9 6 (10.17%) Open Source
9 6 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (8.47%) Asset Management
10 5 (8.47%) Task Automation
11 4 (6.78%) Change Management
11 4 (6.78%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (6.78%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.98%) Python
2 14 (23.73%) Bash
3 12 (20.34%) Java
4 8 (13.56%) Go
5 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.78%) Groovy
6 4 (6.78%) SQL
7 2 (3.39%) C#
8 1 (1.69%) C++
8 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (45.76%) Security Cleared
2 26 (44.07%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.56%) AWS Certification
4 5 (8.47%) Degree
5 3 (5.08%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.69%) OCP
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.69%) QA
1 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (54.24%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) DFS Replication
2 3 (5.08%) Dovecot
2 3 (5.08%) Postfix
2 3 (5.08%) Squid
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (79.66%) Terraform
2 39 (66.10%) Kubernetes
3 21 (35.59%) Ansible
4 15 (25.42%) Grafana
5 13 (22.03%) Prometheus
6 5 (8.47%) Progress Chef
7 4 (6.78%) Puppet
8 3 (5.08%) Nessus
8 3 (5.08%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.69%) Kibana
9 1 (1.69%) Packer
9 1 (1.69%) Podman
9 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.69%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (6.78%) Virgin Media
2 3 (5.08%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle