AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North West

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > North West

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the North West is £358, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 116 125
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 +26
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 9 3 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.13% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.13% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 21
10th Percentile £314 £483 -
25th Percentile £337 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.91% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £399 £619 £538
90th Percentile £449 £638 £600
England median daily rate £500 £513 £600
% change year-on-year -2.44% -14.58% +2.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,998 2,259 2,839
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.99% 94.16% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,380 1,966
10th Percentile £257 £263 £288
25th Percentile £363 £397 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £551 £585 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £671
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 211 162
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.58 £17.73
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.21 £29.65
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% +15.38% +23.03%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.52 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.75 £71.87 £63.57
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the North West

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the North West

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the North West

AWS 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 DevOps Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Cheshire - 7 £358 - 2
Manchester +6 1 £390 -29.09%
Lancashire - 1 - -
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 West region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) Linux
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (44.44%) AppDynamics
3 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 4 (44.44%) Kibana
3 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (33.33%) Secrets Management
4 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 3 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (33.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 3 (33.33%) AWS KMS
4 3 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
4 3 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
4 3 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (33.33%) Customer Acquisition
4 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 3 (33.33%) GitLab
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (33.33%) nginx

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 3 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (33.33%) nginx
1 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
3 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (33.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Customer Acquisition
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 3 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) API Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Coaching
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kibana
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) AppDynamics
2 1 (11.11%) Cloudera
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk