AWS DevOps Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 312 341
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 +28
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 89 47 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.31% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 43 44
10th Percentile £363 £280 £463
25th Percentile £441 £381 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.28% -2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £544 £606
90th Percentile £568 £608 £693
UK median daily rate £500 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -11.50% +2.73% -8.33%

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 16,195 13,842 18,500
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.11% 92.34% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,966 8,237 12,087
10th Percentile £210 £213 £213
25th Percentile £365 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,629 822 1,207
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.36 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.26 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.67 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.77 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

AWS DevOps job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies in the UK excluding London

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK excluding London

AWS DevOps
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
North of England -27 43 £500 +17.65% 5
West Midlands -8 23 £475 +35.71%
Midlands -20 23 £475 +163.16% 2
North West -6 19 £438 -7.89% 2
Yorkshire -44 18 £500 +25.00% 1
South East +2 10 £500 -6.98% 3
Scotland +1 9 £417 -16.70%
North East -8 7 £575 - 2
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West -9 2 £488 -20.41% 1
East of England - 1 £600 - 1
AWS DevOps
UK

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 December 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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 89 (100.00%) AWS
1 89 (100.00%) DevOps
2 67 (75.28%) Terraform
3 62 (69.66%) CI/CD
4 47 (52.81%) Python
5 44 (49.44%) Security Cleared
6 43 (48.31%) Kubernetes
7 42 (47.19%) Docker
7 42 (47.19%) SC Cleared
8 40 (44.94%) Grafana
9 38 (42.70%) Jenkins
10 36 (40.45%) Linux
10 36 (40.45%) Prometheus
11 32 (35.96%) Cloud Security
12 31 (34.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (34.83%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (32.58%) GitLab
14 27 (30.34%) Git
15 26 (29.21%) Amazon S3
16 25 (28.09%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (28.09%) Amazon RDS
16 25 (28.09%) JIRA
17 24 (26.97%) GitHub
18 23 (25.84%) Azure
18 23 (25.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 21 (23.60%) Configuration Management
19 21 (23.60%) SQL
20 20 (22.47%) Confluence
20 20 (22.47%) Platform Engineering
20 20 (22.47%) PowerShell

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 20 (22.47%) Confluence
2 10 (11.24%) nginx
3 5 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (10.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (34.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 26 (29.21%) Amazon S3
4 25 (28.09%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (26.97%) GitHub
6 23 (25.84%) Azure
6 23 (25.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (19.10%) Amazon ELB
7 17 (19.10%) Serverless
8 16 (17.98%) AWS KMS
9 15 (16.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (15.73%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (15.73%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (13.48%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (12.36%) GCP
12 11 (12.36%) Route 53
13 10 (11.24%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (10.11%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (7.87%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 18 (20.22%) DNS
1 18 (20.22%) Firewall
2 16 (17.98%) HTTP
2 16 (17.98%) SMTP
3 15 (16.85%) FTP
3 15 (16.85%) SSH
4 9 (10.11%) IMAP
4 9 (10.11%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (3.37%) VPN
6 1 (1.12%) LAN
6 1 (1.12%) SSL
6 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (28.09%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (11.24%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (5.62%) Data Lake
4 5 (5.62%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.37%) MySQL
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.12%) Redis
8 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (42.70%) Jenkins
2 29 (32.58%) GitLab
3 27 (30.34%) Git
4 25 (28.09%) JIRA
5 16 (17.98%) Vagrant
6 7 (7.87%) Artifactory
7 5 (5.62%) CircleCI
8 4 (4.49%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.25%) IntelliJ
9 2 (2.25%) Liquibase
9 2 (2.25%) PyCharm
9 2 (2.25%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio
9 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.12%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (42.70%) Public Sector
2 25 (28.09%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.24%) Finance
4 8 (8.99%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.37%) Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.73%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (10.11%) LDAP
3 5 (5.62%) .NET
4 3 (3.37%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.37%) Node.js
4 3 (3.37%) React
4 3 (3.37%) REST
5 2 (2.25%) Kafka
5 2 (2.25%) RESTful
6 1 (1.12%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.12%) Django
6 1 (1.12%) HTML
6 1 (1.12%) Laravel
6 1 (1.12%) Middleware
6 1 (1.12%) Pandas
6 1 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.12%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.12%) Vue
6 1 (1.12%) WireMock
6 1 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.85%) Replication
2 8 (8.99%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.87%) NHS
4 5 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.49%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Clustering
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (40.45%) Linux
2 18 (20.22%) Windows
3 16 (17.98%) Amazon Linux
3 16 (17.98%) VMS
4 8 (8.99%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (69.66%) CI/CD
3 32 (35.96%) Cloud Security
4 31 (34.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (23.60%) Configuration Management
6 20 (22.47%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (21.35%) Change Management
8 18 (20.22%) Containerisation
9 16 (17.98%) Agile
10 15 (16.85%) Patch Management
11 12 (13.48%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (11.24%) High Availability
12 10 (11.24%) Observability
13 8 (8.99%) DevSecOps
14 7 (7.87%) Immutable Infrastructure
14 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure Automation
14 7 (7.87%) Microservices
14 7 (7.87%) Migration
15 6 (6.74%) Continuous Integration
15 6 (6.74%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 47 (52.81%) Python
2 21 (23.60%) SQL
3 20 (22.47%) PowerShell
4 16 (17.98%) Groovy
5 14 (15.73%) Bash
6 12 (13.48%) Java
6 12 (13.48%) Perl
7 7 (7.87%) Go
8 3 (3.37%) C#
8 3 (3.37%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.12%) PHP
9 1 (1.12%) Ruby
9 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (49.44%) Security Cleared
2 42 (47.19%) SC Cleared
3 17 (19.10%) AWS Certification
4 11 (12.36%) Degree
5 8 (8.99%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) QA
2 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (47.19%) Docker
2 15 (16.85%) DFS Replication
3 9 (10.11%) Dovecot
3 9 (10.11%) Postfix
3 9 (10.11%) Squid
4 8 (8.99%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 67 (75.28%) Terraform
2 43 (48.31%) Kubernetes
3 40 (44.94%) Grafana
4 36 (40.45%) Prometheus
5 13 (14.61%) Ansible
6 9 (10.11%) Nessus
7 8 (8.99%) Proxmox
8 7 (7.87%) Sysdig
9 4 (4.49%) Argo
10 3 (3.37%) Progress Chef
10 3 (3.37%) Puppet
11 1 (1.12%) Kibana
11 1 (1.12%) linkerd
Vendors
1 16 (17.98%) ServiceNow
2 9 (10.11%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (5.62%) Splunk
4 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.37%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.25%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.12%) Avaya
7 1 (1.12%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.12%) Cisco
7 1 (1.12%) CloudEndure
7 1 (1.12%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.12%) F5
7 1 (1.12%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.12%) Google
7 1 (1.12%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.12%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.12%) Red Hat