AWS DevOps Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services DevOps
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 305 245
Rank change year-on-year +61 -60 +39
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 109 86 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.87% 0.48% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.52% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 69 221
10th Percentile £425 £411 £500
25th Percentile £498 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £838 £625 £713
90th Percentile - £690 £863
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in London

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in London

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in London

AWS DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS DevOps in London

AWS DevOps
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +3 6 £625 +25.00% 1
South London +8 5 £550 +7.84%
AWS DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 109 (100.00%) AWS
1 109 (100.00%) DevOps
2 97 (88.99%) Kubernetes
3 91 (83.49%) CI/CD
4 89 (81.65%) Terraform
5 77 (70.64%) Python
6 74 (67.89%) Docker
7 58 (53.21%) Serverless
8 57 (52.29%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (46.79%) Finance
10 49 (44.95%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (44.04%) Agile
12 47 (43.12%) Software Engineering
13 44 (40.37%) Asset Management
13 44 (40.37%) Front Office
14 43 (39.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 42 (38.53%) Java
16 40 (36.70%) Go
17 37 (33.94%) Infrastructure as Code
18 36 (33.03%) Apache Spark
18 36 (33.03%) Amazon EC2
19 35 (32.11%) Kafka
19 35 (32.11%) OpenShift
19 35 (32.11%) Security Cleared
19 35 (32.11%) Apache Iceberg
20 34 (31.19%) Apache Airflow
20 34 (31.19%) Apache
20 34 (31.19%) AWS CloudFormation
20 34 (31.19%) Artifactory
20 34 (31.19%) Amazon S3

AWS DevOps 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 36 (33.03%) Apache Spark
2 34 (31.19%) Apache
2 34 (31.19%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (5.50%) nginx
4 3 (2.75%) Confluence
5 1 (0.92%) JBoss
5 1 (0.92%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.92%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 109 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (53.21%) Serverless
3 57 (52.29%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (44.95%) Amazon ECS
5 36 (33.03%) Amazon EC2
6 35 (32.11%) OpenShift
7 34 (31.19%) Amazon S3
7 34 (31.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (27.52%) dbt
9 18 (16.51%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (12.84%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (11.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (10.09%) GitHub
13 6 (5.50%) Azure
13 6 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (4.59%) AWS CodePipeline
15 4 (3.67%) IaaS
15 4 (3.67%) PaaS
16 3 (2.75%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.26%) Firewall
2 8 (7.34%) HTTP
3 7 (6.42%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.59%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (3.67%) DNS
6 2 (1.83%) Internet
6 2 (1.83%) VPN
7 1 (0.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (32.11%) Apache Iceberg
2 30 (27.52%) Amazon Athena
2 30 (27.52%) Dremio
3 28 (25.69%) Apache Arrow
3 28 (25.69%) Apache Ignite
4 25 (22.94%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (19.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.59%) Apache Hive
7 5 (4.59%) Hadoop
7 5 (4.59%) Parquet
7 5 (4.59%) Presto
8 3 (2.75%) Big Data
8 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (31.19%) Artifactory
2 27 (24.77%) GitLab
3 23 (21.10%) Jenkins
4 13 (11.93%) Git
5 5 (4.59%) Poetry
6 2 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.83%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.83%) JIRA
6 2 (1.83%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.83%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.92%) Ant
7 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.92%) Maven
7 1 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (46.79%) Finance
2 44 (40.37%) Front Office
3 16 (14.68%) Public Sector
4 13 (11.93%) Banking
5 7 (6.42%) Social Skills
6 5 (4.59%) Law
7 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (32.11%) Kafka
2 33 (30.28%) J2EE
3 28 (25.69%) PySpark
4 7 (6.42%) React
5 6 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (4.59%) Dask
6 5 (4.59%) LAPP Stack
7 3 (2.75%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.83%) AWS SAM
9 1 (0.92%) Middleware
9 1 (0.92%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.50%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.59%) Tandem
3 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.92%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (19.27%) Linux
2 5 (4.59%) Unix
3 3 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.83%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (100.00%) DevOps
2 91 (83.49%) CI/CD
3 48 (44.04%) Agile
4 47 (43.12%) Software Engineering
5 44 (40.37%) Asset Management
6 43 (39.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 37 (33.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (30.28%) Data Engineering
8 33 (30.28%) Open Source
9 14 (12.84%) Containerisation
10 13 (11.93%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (11.01%) Configuration Management
12 11 (10.09%) Fintech
12 11 (10.09%) Infrastructure Automation
12 11 (10.09%) Task Automation
13 9 (8.26%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (7.34%) Microservices
15 7 (6.42%) Cloud Security
15 7 (6.42%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 77 (70.64%) Python
2 42 (38.53%) Java
3 40 (36.70%) Go
4 15 (13.76%) Bash
4 15 (13.76%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.34%) SQL
6 7 (6.42%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.75%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.92%) C#
8 1 (0.92%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 35 (32.11%) Security Cleared
2 34 (31.19%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.09%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.50%) Degree
5 5 (4.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.92%) OCP
8 1 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.92%) QA
1 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (67.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (88.99%) Kubernetes
2 89 (81.65%) Terraform
3 22 (20.18%) Ansible
4 18 (16.51%) Prometheus
5 17 (15.60%) Grafana
6 6 (5.50%) Puppet
7 4 (3.67%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.83%) Packer
9 1 (0.92%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.92%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (3.67%) Virgin Media
2 2 (1.83%) Cribl.io
2 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.92%) Black Duck
3 1 (0.92%) Checkmarx
3 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle
3 1 (0.92%) Tenable