AWS DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North East

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > North East

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the North East is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.12% 0.68% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 0.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £453 £474 -
25th Percentile £531 £503 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £552 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile - £601 -
90th Percentile - £630 -
England median daily rate £475 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -11.83% -2.05% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 337 258 231
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 88.36% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 123 161
10th Percentile £170 £190 £200
25th Percentile £338 £356 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £428
Median % change year-on-year - +5.02% -20.65%
75th Percentile £544 £586 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 15
10th Percentile £14.20 £24.80 £15.48
25th Percentile £17.88 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.91 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.40% +42.09% +106.35%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £54.25 £70.00 £54.47
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -13.04% +53.33%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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 the North East.

AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the North East

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the North East

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
Tyne and Wear -6 4 £575 +4.17% 2
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 19 November 2025, 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 North East region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) CloudFront

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (25.00%) Route 53
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) OWASP
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace