AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 120 128
Rank change year-on-year -35 +8 -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 5 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.18% 0.048% 0.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.56% 0.14% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 9
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £381 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.90% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £652 £525 £750
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £629 £600
% change year-on-year -24.45% +4.79% +14.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the North West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 900 705 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.96% 34.06% 30.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 396 490
10th Percentile £247 £209 £248
25th Percentile £381 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +3.45%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £645
90th Percentile £680 £661 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 41 119
10th Percentile £19.65 £24.00 £11.63
25th Percentile £27.82 £26.25 £15.53
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% +25.00% -27.78%
75th Percentile £67.90 £60.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.59 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £41.37
% change year-on-year -49.70% +20.88% -13.82%

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer in the North West

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 March 2026. 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
Cheshire - 5 £615 - 1
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
England

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CodeBuild
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) API Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (60.00%) GitOps
2 3 (60.00%) Secrets Management
2 3 (60.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Argo
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (40.00%) Istio
3 2 (40.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft