AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North of England

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > North of England

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the North of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 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
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 136 164
Rank change year-on-year -21 +28 +52
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 23 29 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.70% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.76% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 34
10th Percentile £317 £288 £463
25th Percentile £363 £381 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £519
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -22.89% -5.68%
75th Percentile £520 - £625
90th Percentile £538 £438 £663
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +2.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,661 3,812 5,039
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 92.17% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,364 2,352 3,410
10th Percentile £255 £263 £263
25th Percentile £369 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% -1.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £600
90th Percentile £638 £670 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 278 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.44 £15.39
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.58 £17.65
Median hourly rate £22.32 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £47.12 £51.90 £44.64
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £56.24
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the North of England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the North of England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the North of England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
Yorkshire -26 14 £500 +25.00% 1
North West -4 9 £358 -28.40% 3
North East - 1 £380 -
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 7 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 North of England region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) AWS
1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (69.57%) Terraform
3 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
4 12 (52.17%) SC Cleared
4 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
5 10 (43.48%) SQL
6 9 (39.13%) Python
7 8 (34.78%) Amazon S3
7 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
7 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
8 7 (30.43%) GitLab
9 6 (26.09%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (26.09%) GitHub
9 6 (26.09%) Cloud Security
10 5 (21.74%) Linux
10 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (21.74%) Docker
10 5 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (17.39%) Performance Metrics
11 4 (17.39%) AppDynamics
11 4 (17.39%) Kibana
11 4 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
11 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (17.39%) DynamoDB
11 4 (17.39%) Azure
11 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (17.39%) Secrets Management
11 4 (17.39%) AWS KMS

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (13.04%) Apache
1 3 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (13.04%) nginx
1 3 (13.04%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.35%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Amazon S3
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (26.09%) GitHub
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (17.39%) AWS KMS
5 4 (17.39%) Azure
6 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (13.04%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (4.35%) Route 53
7 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
1 1 (4.35%) SSL
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) DynamoDB
2 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
2 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 7 (30.43%) GitLab
3 2 (8.70%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.35%) Finance
2 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
1 3 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (13.04%) OAuth
2 1 (4.35%) Django
2 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (4.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (26.09%) Cloud Security
5 4 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Metrics
5 4 (17.39%) Secrets Management
6 3 (13.04%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 3 (13.04%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.04%) Customer Acquisition
6 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (13.04%) High Availability
6 3 (13.04%) Process Improvement
6 3 (13.04%) Resource Allocation
6 3 (13.04%) Service Catalogue
7 2 (8.70%) Analytics
7 2 (8.70%) Incident Response
7 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (8.70%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 9 (39.13%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) Perl
4 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) SC Cleared
1 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
1 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Terraform
2 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (17.39%) Kibana
4 3 (13.04%) Grafana
4 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.70%) Ansible
6 1 (4.35%) Kustomize
6 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) AppDynamics
2 2 (8.70%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Cloudera
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat