AWS DevOps Contract Job Trends 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 15 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 175 179
Rank change year-on-year +20 +4 +46
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 12 4 26
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.33% 0.093% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.10% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 23
10th Percentile £426 £488 £480
25th Percentile £466 £506 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £525 £650 -
90th Percentile £529 £673 -
England median daily rate £488 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -7.14% -8.70% -4.17%

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 3,233 3,957 5,216
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.48% 92.26% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,096 2,362 3,519
10th Percentile £204 £249 £210
25th Percentile £368 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -0.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £615
90th Percentile £655 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 236 255
10th Percentile £13.01 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.65 £27.00 £21.61
Median hourly rate £23.50 £58.49 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +11.41% +80.35%
75th Percentile £54.00 £74.90 £68.62
90th Percentile £71.23 £78.75 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +66.53%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS DevOps' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

AWS DevOps job vacancy trend in the South East

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies 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 15 October 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 +15 7 £500 - 3
Berkshire +18 6 £500 - 1
Hampshire +9 3 £500 -13.04% 1
East Sussex - 2 £450 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
AWS DevOps
England

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 15 October 2025, AWS DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (66.67%) Terraform
4 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
4 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
5 6 (50.00%) GitHub
5 6 (50.00%) Python
5 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
6 5 (41.67%) Validation
6 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
7 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
7 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (33.33%) SQL
7 4 (33.33%) JIRA
7 4 (33.33%) QA
7 4 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
7 4 (33.33%) Performance Testing
7 4 (33.33%) Load Testing
7 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
7 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
7 4 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
7 4 (33.33%) High Availability
7 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
8 3 (25.00%) GitLab

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (16.67%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Akamai
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (8.33%) Azure
5 1 (8.33%) Datadog
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Route 53
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (41.67%) Validation
4 4 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
4 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (33.33%) High Availability
4 4 (33.33%) Load Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Performance Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 4 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
5 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Immutable Infrastructure
6 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Terraform
2 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (16.67%) Sysdig
4 1 (8.33%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) UiPath