AWS DevOps Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services DevOps
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in London is £555, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 July 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
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 303 243
Rank change year-on-year +15 -60 +37
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 79 99 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.58% 0.57% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.61% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 76 211
10th Percentile £425 £403 £450
25th Percentile £463 £481 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £734 £653 £750
90th Percentile £838 £760 £863
England median daily rate £509 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -3.10% -12.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
England median hourly rate - £77.50 -

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 12,599 16,357 24,109
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 94.01% 94.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,518 11,670 17,610
10th Percentile £331 £330 £360
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 296 276
10th Percentile £18.41 £16.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.95 £20.50 £22.98
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.25 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% -24.51% +6.91%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.55 £69.13 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.55% -6.98% +72.00%

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 14 July 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 14 July 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 +2 7 £675 -
South London 0 3 £620 +41.71% 2
AWS DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 July 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 79 (100.00%) AWS
1 79 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (79.75%) Terraform
3 59 (74.68%) Kubernetes
3 59 (74.68%) CI/CD
4 40 (50.63%) Docker
5 37 (46.84%) Python
6 35 (44.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (40.51%) Security Cleared
8 31 (39.24%) SC Cleared
9 24 (30.38%) Java
10 22 (27.85%) Serverless
10 22 (27.85%) Ansible
10 22 (27.85%) GitLab
11 21 (26.58%) Jenkins
12 20 (25.32%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (24.05%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (24.05%) Linux
13 19 (24.05%) Finance
14 18 (22.78%) Containerisation
15 17 (21.52%) Apache
16 16 (20.25%) Agile
16 16 (20.25%) Amazon S3
16 16 (20.25%) Bash
17 15 (18.99%) Open Source
17 15 (18.99%) Go
17 15 (18.99%) OpenShift
17 15 (18.99%) Kafka
17 15 (18.99%) Software Engineering
17 15 (18.99%) Configuration Management

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 17 (21.52%) Apache
2 15 (18.99%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (17.72%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.80%) JBoss
5 2 (2.53%) Confluence
5 2 (2.53%) nginx
5 2 (2.53%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.27%) Apache Superset
6 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (27.85%) Serverless
3 20 (25.32%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (24.05%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (20.25%) Amazon S3
6 15 (18.99%) OpenShift
7 14 (17.72%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (16.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (16.46%) GitHub
9 12 (15.19%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (15.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (13.92%) dbt
11 10 (12.66%) Azure
12 9 (11.39%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (8.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (6.33%) AWS CodePipeline
14 5 (6.33%) GCP
15 4 (5.06%) Route 53
16 2 (2.53%) Amazon ELB
16 2 (2.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.86%) DNS
2 4 (5.06%) Firewall
2 4 (5.06%) HTTP
2 4 (5.06%) VPN
3 3 (3.80%) Internet
3 3 (3.80%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.53%) SSH
5 1 (1.27%) FTP
5 1 (1.27%) IMAP
5 1 (1.27%) NAS
5 1 (1.27%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.27%) SAN
5 1 (1.27%) SMTP
5 1 (1.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.92%) Amazon Athena
1 11 (13.92%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (13.92%) Apache Arrow
1 11 (13.92%) Apache Iceberg
1 11 (13.92%) Apache Ignite
1 11 (13.92%) Dremio
2 3 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (3.80%) Big Data
3 2 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.27%) MySQL
4 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (27.85%) GitLab
2 21 (26.58%) Jenkins
3 13 (16.46%) Artifactory
4 11 (13.92%) Git
5 5 (6.33%) JIRA
6 4 (5.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.80%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.53%) Ant
8 2 (2.53%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.53%) Maven
8 2 (2.53%) Terragrunt
9 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.27%) Liquibase
9 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.27%) Vagrant
General
1 19 (24.05%) Finance
2 13 (16.46%) Public Sector
3 11 (13.92%) Front Office
4 9 (11.39%) Social Skills
5 6 (7.59%) Banking
6 4 (5.06%) Law
7 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.27%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.99%) Kafka
2 11 (13.92%) J2EE
2 11 (13.92%) PySpark
3 8 (10.13%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (3.80%) .NET
4 3 (3.80%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.80%) Middleware
5 2 (2.53%) React
6 1 (1.27%) LDAP
6 1 (1.27%) Loki
6 1 (1.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.59%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.33%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.33%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.80%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.05%) Linux
2 4 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (5.06%) Unix
3 2 (2.53%) Windows
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.27%) CentOS
4 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (74.68%) CI/CD
3 35 (44.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (22.78%) Containerisation
5 16 (20.25%) Agile
6 15 (18.99%) Configuration Management
6 15 (18.99%) Open Source
6 15 (18.99%) Software Engineering
7 14 (17.72%) Data Engineering
8 13 (16.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 11 (13.92%) Asset Management
10 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (8.86%) Cloud Security
11 7 (8.86%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (8.86%) Microservices
11 7 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (7.59%) Load Balancing
12 6 (7.59%) Task Automation
13 5 (6.33%) Mentoring
13 5 (6.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (46.84%) Python
2 24 (30.38%) Java
3 16 (20.25%) Bash
4 15 (18.99%) Go
5 5 (6.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.06%) Groovy
6 4 (5.06%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.06%) SQL
7 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.53%) C#
8 2 (2.53%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 32 (40.51%) Security Cleared
2 31 (39.24%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.66%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (6.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (3.80%) Degree
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) OCP
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.27%) QA
1 1 (1.27%) SLA
1 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (50.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) DFS Replication
2 1 (1.27%) Dovecot
2 1 (1.27%) Postfix
2 1 (1.27%) Squid
2 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (79.75%) Terraform
2 59 (74.68%) Kubernetes
3 22 (27.85%) Ansible
4 15 (18.99%) Prometheus
5 14 (17.72%) Grafana
6 8 (10.13%) Puppet
7 6 (7.59%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.80%) Podman
9 2 (2.53%) Packer
10 1 (1.27%) Nessus
10 1 (1.27%) Proxmox
10 1 (1.27%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (5.06%) Virgin Media
2 2 (2.53%) Oracle
2 2 (2.53%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.27%) Black Duck
3 1 (1.27%) Checkmarx
3 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.27%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.27%) Tenable