Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > London

The median Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 357 419
Rank change year-on-year -11 +62 +152
Contract jobs requiring a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 8 23 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.060% 0.15% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.15% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 4
10th Percentile £403 £644 £385
25th Percentile £486 £663 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £494
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +46.84% -26.85%
75th Percentile £675 £794 £519
90th Percentile - £819 -
England median daily rate £650 £725 £513
% change year-on-year -10.34% +41.46% -24.07%

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 12,403 14,859 19,490
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.06% 93.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,240 9,622 14,179
10th Percentile £333 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 164 213
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.20
25th Percentile £22.13 £24.17 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.68 £38.75 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% -4.32% +24.62%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.06 £61.53
90th Percentile £66.15 £80.15 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.37% +58.64%

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior AWS DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in London

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, Senior 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 Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) GitLab
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) Terraform
3 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 6 (75.00%) GCP
4 5 (62.50%) Decision-Making
4 5 (62.50%) TeamCity
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (25.00%) Confluence
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Datadog
5 2 (25.00%) JIRA
5 2 (25.00%) Kong
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (12.50%) API Management
6 1 (12.50%) CMS
6 1 (12.50%) Contentful
6 1 (12.50%) Contentstack
6 1 (12.50%) Fastify
6 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (12.50%) Headless CMS
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation

Senior 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 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Datadog
3 2 (25.00%) Kong
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Contentful
4 1 (12.50%) Contentstack
4 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (12.50%) Storyblok
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) GitLab
2 5 (62.50%) TeamCity
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (62.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Fastify
1 1 (12.50%) MACH
1 1 (12.50%) Next.js
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (62.50%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) API Management
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) Microservices
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes