AWS DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in South London

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
London > South London

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in South London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 34 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +21
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 9 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in South London 4.31% 1.32% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.50% 1.38% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £555 £588
25th Percentile - £577 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £633 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -2.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile - £707 £675
90th Percentile - £740 -
London median daily rate £488 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -22.00% +13.64% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 200 218 270
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.69% 96.04% 97.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 136 194
10th Percentile £269 £205 £180
25th Percentile £413 £381 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £573 £630 £600
90th Percentile £638 £766 £673
London median daily rate £533 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 21
10th Percentile £32.54 - £16.63
25th Percentile £54.46 £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate £66.00 £19.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +238.46% -55.51% -0.62%
75th Percentile £76.58 £35.91 £55.00
90th Percentile - £61.41 £67.50
London median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
% change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in South London

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in South London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in South London

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Croydon +2 9 £550 -13.04%
AWS DevOps Engineer
London

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, AWS DevOps Engineer 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 London region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
1 9 (100.00%) Git
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon ECS
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon ELB
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (88.89%) AWS Certification
2 8 (88.89%) AWS KMS
2 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) Azure Certification
2 8 (88.89%) Change Management
2 8 (88.89%) Cloud Security
2 8 (88.89%) Configuration Management
2 8 (88.89%) Confluence
2 8 (88.89%) Degree

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 8 (88.89%) Confluence
1 8 (88.89%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon ECS
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon ELB
2 8 (88.89%) AWS KMS
2 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (88.89%) Route 53
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) DNS
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
1 8 (88.89%) FTP
1 8 (88.89%) HTTP
1 8 (88.89%) IMAP
1 8 (88.89%) OpenLDAP
1 8 (88.89%) SMTP
1 8 (88.89%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (88.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Git
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (88.89%) JIRA
2 8 (88.89%) Vagrant
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 8 (88.89%) Presentation Skills
1 8 (88.89%) Public Sector
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon Linux
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
1 8 (88.89%) Ubuntu
1 8 (88.89%) VMS
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) Change Management
2 8 (88.89%) Cloud Security
2 8 (88.89%) Configuration Management
2 8 (88.89%) Patch Management
2 8 (88.89%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (88.89%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (11.11%) Refactoring
3 1 (11.11%) Software Deployment
3 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (88.89%) Groovy
2 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) AWS Certification
2 8 (88.89%) Azure Certification
2 8 (88.89%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
2 8 (88.89%) DFS Replication
2 8 (88.89%) Dovecot
2 8 (88.89%) Postfix
2 8 (88.89%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
1 9 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 8 (88.89%) Nessus
2 8 (88.89%) Proxmox
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Jaspersoft
1 8 (88.89%) ServiceNow
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