AWS DevOps Contracts 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 £531 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 336 400
Rank change year-on-year -20 +64 -81
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 49 117 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.48% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.51% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 107 100
10th Percentile £439 £460 £443
25th Percentile £448 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% -4.55% +11.96%
75th Percentile £647 £600 £625
90th Percentile £750 £674 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,296 22,932 30,081
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.05% 95.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,881 16,071 21,102
10th Percentile £213 £224 £200
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £573
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,186 1,194 1,502
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.10 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.27 £42.26 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +116.72% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £41.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.85 £59.01
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
% change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the UK excluding London

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps 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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 2024. 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 +20 29 £550 - 12
North West +19 25 £550 +10.00% 8
Scotland +32 9 £516 +0.73% 1
Yorkshire +8 4 £500 -13.04% 3
South West +2 4 £550 +4.76% 3
Midlands +37 3 £450 -10.00% 4
South East -3 3 £650 +10.64% 3
East Midlands +14 2 £450 -14.29% 3
West Midlands +34 1 £350 -22.22% 1
Wales - 1 £643 -
AWS DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, AWS DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) AWS
1 49 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (89.80%) Terraform
3 37 (75.51%) Kubernetes
4 33 (67.35%) Python
5 30 (61.22%) Docker
6 29 (59.18%) CI/CD
7 24 (48.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (48.98%) Containerisation
8 20 (40.82%) Bash
9 18 (36.73%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (36.73%) Ansible
9 18 (36.73%) Serverless
9 18 (36.73%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (34.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (30.61%) GitLab
12 14 (28.57%) Amazon S3
12 14 (28.57%) Git
13 13 (26.53%) AWS Certification
14 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
14 11 (22.45%) Agile
14 11 (22.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
15 10 (20.41%) Jenkins
16 9 (18.37%) Software Delivery
16 9 (18.37%) Linux
17 8 (16.33%) Amazon RDS
18 7 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 7 (14.29%) AWS CDK

AWS DevOps 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 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (36.73%) Amazon EC2
2 18 (36.73%) AWS Lambda
2 18 (36.73%) Serverless
3 17 (34.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (28.57%) Amazon S3
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (12.24%) Azure
6 6 (12.24%) Snowflake
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (10.20%) AWS CodePipeline
7 5 (10.20%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (10.20%) GitHub
7 5 (10.20%) OpenShift
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (6.12%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (8.16%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.12%) InfluxDB
4 3 (6.12%) MySQL
4 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (30.61%) GitLab
2 14 (28.57%) Git
3 10 (20.41%) Jenkins
4 5 (10.20%) Artifactory
5 4 (8.16%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.04%) Burp Suite
6 1 (2.04%) JIRA
6 1 (2.04%) JUnit
General
1 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Finance
4 2 (4.08%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 3 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.04%) AWS SAM
3 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.04%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.37%) Linux
2 5 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (10.20%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.08%) Windows
3 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (59.18%) CI/CD
3 24 (48.98%) Containerisation
3 24 (48.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (22.45%) Agile
4 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.37%) Software Delivery
6 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (12.24%) Kanban
6 6 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (12.24%) Scrum
7 5 (10.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
8 4 (8.16%) Observability
8 4 (8.16%) Refactoring
8 4 (8.16%) Software Deployment
8 4 (8.16%) Software Testing
9 3 (6.12%) Computer Science
9 3 (6.12%) Configuration Management
9 3 (6.12%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 33 (67.35%) Python
2 20 (40.82%) Bash
3 6 (12.24%) Groovy
4 4 (8.16%) Go
4 4 (8.16%) Java
5 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.12%) Ruby
5 3 (6.12%) SQL
6 2 (4.08%) Scala
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) PHP
7 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) AWS Certification
2 11 (22.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
3 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.04%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) GDPR
1 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) NIST
2 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (61.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (89.80%) Terraform
2 37 (75.51%) Kubernetes
3 18 (36.73%) Ansible
4 6 (12.24%) Grafana
5 5 (10.20%) Kibana
6 3 (6.12%) HP Fortify
7 1 (2.04%) Graylog
7 1 (2.04%) Nagios
7 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (8.16%) Splunk
2 2 (4.08%) Databricks
3 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.04%) Brio
3 1 (2.04%) Checkmarx
3 1 (2.04%) Google
3 1 (2.04%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) VMware