AWS DevOps Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Amazon Web Services DevOps
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in South Yorkshire is £709, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 43 54
Rank change year-on-year -58 +11 +5
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.30% 0.96% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 1.06% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £550 £440 -
25th Percentile £607 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £709 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +41.70% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £803 £549 £588
90th Percentile £857 £578 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 891 282 385
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 89.81% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 197 231
10th Percentile £335 £213 £250
25th Percentile £406 £388 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +3.16% -9.95%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £576
90th Percentile £668 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +5.93% +1.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 16
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £15.22 £12.26
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% +22.37% -33.85%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £37.18 £21.69 £14.00
% change year-on-year +71.42% +54.93% -48.62%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

AWS DevOps job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in South Yorkshire

AWS DevOps
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Sheffield -57 3 £709 +41.70% 2
AWS DevOps
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 16 March 2026, 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 Yorkshire region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Liquibase
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Encryption
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk