AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > UK excluding London

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK excluding London is £516, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 362 348
Rank change year-on-year +54 -14 +52
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 28 37 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.18% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.19% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 33 106
10th Percentile £358 £428 £459
25th Percentile £408 £444 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £604 £650 £668
UK median daily rate £575 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

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

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

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

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

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS 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 DevOps Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +22 22 £520 +3.95% 5
Yorkshire +13 8 £525 +1.20% 1
North West +9 8 £390 -22.00% 4
North East - 6 £570 -
South East +46 3 £588 -9.62% 7
Scotland +6 2 £442 -14.48% 1
East of England - 1 £438 -
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS DevOps Engineer 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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) AWS
1 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (71.43%) Terraform
3 18 (64.29%) CI/CD
4 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
6 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
6 10 (35.71%) Amazon S3
6 10 (35.71%) SQL
6 10 (35.71%) Python
6 10 (35.71%) GitLab
6 10 (35.71%) Jenkins
6 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (28.57%) Docker
7 8 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (21.43%) GitHub
10 5 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
11 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 4 (14.29%) High Availability
11 4 (14.29%) AppDynamics
11 4 (14.29%) Ansible
11 4 (14.29%) Kibana
11 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 4 (14.29%) nginx

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (14.29%) nginx
2 3 (10.71%) Apache
2 3 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.71%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) Amazon S3
3 8 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (21.43%) GitHub
6 5 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (10.71%) AWS KMS
8 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (10.71%) Kong
8 3 (10.71%) Serverless
9 2 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (7.14%) Azure
9 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
9 2 (7.14%) PaaS
10 1 (3.57%) AWS CodeCommit
10 1 (3.57%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.71%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.71%) DynamoDB
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) GitLab
1 10 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Babel
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Gradle
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Maven
2 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.14%) Finance
2 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Electronics
3 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.57%) Marketing
3 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) .NET
1 3 (10.71%) OAuth
2 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.57%) CSS
3 1 (3.57%) HTML
3 1 (3.57%) JSON
3 1 (3.57%) JWT
3 1 (3.57%) Next.js
3 1 (3.57%) React
3 1 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) SOAP
3 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (3.57%) FMCG
1 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 4 (14.29%) High Availability
4 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 3 (10.71%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (10.71%) Agile
5 3 (10.71%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (10.71%) Customer Acquisition
5 3 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (10.71%) Migration
5 3 (10.71%) Observability
5 3 (10.71%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (10.71%) Process Improvement
5 3 (10.71%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (10.71%) Secrets Management
5 3 (10.71%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Python
1 10 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) Go
3 1 (3.57%) Groovy
3 1 (3.57%) Java
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (71.43%) Terraform
2 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
3 4 (14.29%) Kibana
4 1 (3.57%) Grafana
4 1 (3.57%) logstash
4 1 (3.57%) Packer
4 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 1 (3.57%) SAP
2 1 (3.57%) VMware