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 £414, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 145 160
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +49
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 29 31 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.76% 0.69% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.75% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 44
10th Percentile £337 £288 £463
25th Percentile £380 £381 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £400 £519
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -22.89% -5.68%
75th Percentile £533 - £641
90th Percentile £538 £550 £663
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% -

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 3,546 4,142 5,212
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 92.37% 95.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,300 2,560 3,559
10th Percentile £251 £263 £263
25th Percentile £370 £387 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -2.50% +2.25%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £645 £656 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 354 197
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.46 £15.15
25th Percentile £17.28 £15.00 £17.46
Median hourly rate £22.32 £25.15 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% +11.78% +8.28%
75th Percentile £46.65 £48.56 £43.39
90th Percentile £74.75 £69.93 £53.13
England median hourly rate £27.17 £42.50 £44.11
% change year-on-year -36.08% -3.65% +72.98%

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 22 July 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 22 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
North West +6 13 £393 -28.55% 1
Yorkshire -11 13 £519 +31.75% 2
North East - 4 £465 -
AWS DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 North of England region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) AWS
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
3 17 (58.62%) Terraform
4 14 (48.28%) SC Cleared
4 14 (48.28%) Security Cleared
5 13 (44.83%) Kubernetes
6 12 (41.38%) Jenkins
6 12 (41.38%) Python
7 9 (31.03%) SQL
7 9 (31.03%) Docker
8 8 (27.59%) GitLab
8 8 (27.59%) Linux
8 8 (27.59%) Git
9 7 (24.14%) Amazon S3
9 7 (24.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (24.14%) AppDynamics
9 7 (24.14%) Kibana
10 6 (20.69%) GitHub
10 6 (20.69%) Perl
10 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (17.24%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
11 5 (17.24%) JIRA
11 5 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (17.24%) Splunk
11 5 (17.24%) Ansible
11 5 (17.24%) Microservices

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 4 (13.79%) JBoss
2 3 (10.34%) Apache
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.34%) nginx
2 3 (10.34%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.90%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) Amazon S3
3 6 (20.69%) GitHub
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (13.79%) AWS KMS
5 4 (13.79%) Azure
5 4 (13.79%) OpenShift
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) Network Security
1 1 (3.45%) SSL
1 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) DynamoDB
1 4 (13.79%) RDBMS
1 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.34%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Jenkins
2 8 (27.59%) Git
2 8 (27.59%) GitLab
3 5 (17.24%) JIRA
4 4 (13.79%) SonarQube
4 4 (13.79%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (13.79%) TeamCity
5 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (10.34%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
3 3 (10.34%) .NET
3 3 (10.34%) OAuth
4 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.45%) Bootstrap
4 1 (3.45%) Django
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) Laravel
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (13.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
3 7 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (17.24%) Microservices
6 4 (13.79%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (13.79%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) Analytics
6 4 (13.79%) Change Management
6 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security
6 4 (13.79%) Code Quality
6 4 (13.79%) Observability
6 4 (13.79%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (13.79%) Runbook
6 4 (13.79%) Secrets Management
6 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.34%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (10.34%) Customer Acquisition
7 3 (10.34%) Migration
7 3 (10.34%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) Perl
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
4 3 (10.34%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) PHP
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (48.28%) SC Cleared
1 14 (48.28%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (3.45%) GDPR
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) NIST
1 1 (3.45%) QA
1 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Docker
2 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (58.62%) Terraform
2 13 (44.83%) Kubernetes
3 7 (24.14%) Kibana
4 5 (17.24%) Ansible
5 4 (13.79%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.45%) Grafana
6 1 (3.45%) Kustomize
6 1 (3.45%) Packer
6 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) AppDynamics
2 5 (17.24%) Splunk
3 4 (13.79%) Cloudera
3 4 (13.79%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.45%) Google