AWS DevOps Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Web Services DevOps
England > North of England

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the North of England is £513, 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 140 158 170
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 +22
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 26 27 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.79% 0.57% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.61% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 21 44
10th Percentile £367 £444 £475
25th Percentile £393 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £650
90th Percentile £601 £750 £671
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%

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 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the North of England

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in the North of England

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in the North of England

AWS DevOps
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 within the North of England 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
North West +4 11 £393 -28.55% 5
Yorkshire +13 8 £525 +1.20% 4
North East - 7 £575 -
AWS DevOps
England

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

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 North of England region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) AWS
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (65.38%) Terraform
3 16 (61.54%) CI/CD
4 13 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
6 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
7 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
7 9 (34.62%) SQL
7 9 (34.62%) Python
7 9 (34.62%) GitLab
7 9 (34.62%) Docker
8 8 (30.77%) Amazon S3
9 7 (26.92%) Linux
9 7 (26.92%) Kibana
10 6 (23.08%) AppDynamics
10 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (19.23%) nginx
11 5 (19.23%) GitHub
11 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
11 5 (19.23%) Microservices
11 5 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
12 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack

AWS DevOps 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 5 (19.23%) nginx
2 3 (11.54%) Apache
2 3 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (11.54%) JBoss
2 3 (11.54%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 6 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (19.23%) GitHub
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (11.54%) AWS KMS
6 3 (11.54%) Kong
6 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
7 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (7.69%) Azure
7 2 (7.69%) Serverless
8 1 (3.85%) Apigee
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.85%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) SSL
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 3 (11.54%) Data Lake
2 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
2 3 (11.54%) RDBMS
2 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) GitLab
1 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) Git
3 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (11.54%) CA Release Automation
3 3 (11.54%) JIRA
3 3 (11.54%) SonarQube
3 3 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (11.54%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.85%) Babel
4 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Electronics
3 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.85%) Marketing
3 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (11.54%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) OAuth
2 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.85%) CSS
3 1 (3.85%) HTML
3 1 (3.85%) JSON
3 1 (3.85%) JWT
3 1 (3.85%) Next.js
3 1 (3.85%) Node.js
3 1 (3.85%) React
3 1 (3.85%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) SOAP
3 1 (3.85%) Swagger
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (11.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (19.23%) Microservices
5 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (15.38%) Migration
5 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.54%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (11.54%) Analytics
6 3 (11.54%) Build Automation
6 3 (11.54%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (11.54%) Change Management
6 3 (11.54%) Customer Acquisition
6 3 (11.54%) High Availability
6 3 (11.54%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.54%) Process Improvement
6 3 (11.54%) Resource Allocation
6 3 (11.54%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
1 9 (34.62%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) Java
2 3 (11.54%) Perl
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (65.38%) Terraform
2 13 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (26.92%) Kibana
4 3 (11.54%) Progress Chef
5 2 (7.69%) Ansible
6 1 (3.85%) Grafana
6 1 (3.85%) logstash
6 1 (3.85%) Packer
6 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) AppDynamics
2 3 (11.54%) Cloudera
2 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
2 3 (11.54%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) SAP