AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 369 434
Rank change year-on-year +21 +65 +77
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 5 26 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.035% 0.12% 0.034%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.099% 0.34% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 26 7
10th Percentile £465 £288 £478
25th Percentile £469 £381 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -30.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £513 £478 £756
90th Percentile £520 £638 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £413 £625
% change year-on-year +27.27% -34.00% +8.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,038 7,563 7,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.99% 35.89% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,999 4,395 4,949
10th Percentile £205 £279 £313
25th Percentile £375 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% +0.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £713 £715
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.81% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 959 567
10th Percentile £17.48 £13.93 £13.91
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.09 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.23 £43.00 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year -41.34% -19.40% +51.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £68.03
90th Percentile £75.15 £77.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.53 £40.97 £55.25
% change year-on-year -32.80% -25.85% +24.16%

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
North of England -14 3 £500 +25.00%
Yorkshire -12 2 £500 +25.00%
Scotland - 2 £488 - 2
North West +1 1 - -
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) SSL
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Amplify
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (60.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) RBAC
3 3 (60.00%) SIEM
4 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (40.00%) Database Security
4 2 (40.00%) DDoS Mitigation
4 2 (40.00%) FinOps
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (40.00%) Release Management
4 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Kustomize
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
3 1 (20.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) ForgeRock
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk