AWS DevOps Contracts in the South East

Amazon Web Services DevOps
England > South East

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the South East is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 198 176
Rank change year-on-year +46 -22 +66
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 10 4 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.070% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.076% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 36
10th Percentile £401 - £478
25th Percentile £420 £625 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £663 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +10.42% +2.13%
75th Percentile £525 £697 -
90th Percentile £590 £714 -
England median daily rate £513 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -2.38% -12.50% +2.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,948 5,284 5,526
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 92.41% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,906 3,118 3,817
10th Percentile £213 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £610
90th Percentile £660 £689 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 528 245
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.69 £21.22
Median hourly rate £28.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% - +138.10%
75th Percentile £60.13 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year -30.00% -8.45% +74.76%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the South East

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps in the South East.

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in the South East

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in the South East

AWS DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 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
Thames Valley - 6 £500 - 9
Berkshire - 5 £500 - 7
East Sussex - 2 £450 - 2
Hampshire - 1 £402 - 4
Kent - 1 £675 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 2
AWS DevOps
England

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 4 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 South East region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) Terraform
3 6 (60.00%) Python
4 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (40.00%) GitHub
5 4 (40.00%) Validation
5 4 (40.00%) JIRA
5 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (30.00%) Risk Analysis
6 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Load Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
6 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (30.00%) QA
6 3 (30.00%) SQL
6 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (30.00%) High Availability
6 3 (30.00%) Docker
6 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
6 3 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (30.00%) Verification and Validation
6 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Akamai
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) Datadog
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (10.00%) Route 53
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (10.00%) Metadata
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (10.00%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Laravel
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (40.00%) Validation
5 3 (30.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (30.00%) High Availability
5 3 (30.00%) Load Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Risk Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (30.00%) Verification and Validation
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Kibana
3 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk
1 1 (10.00%) UiPath