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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 348 328
Rank change year-on-year +48 -20 +59
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 36 45 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.22% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.24% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 37 110
10th Percentile £358 £434 £462
25th Percentile £393 £444 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -7.20% +2.27%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £625
90th Percentile £606 £735 £675
UK median daily rate £560 £545 £600
% change year-on-year +2.75% -9.17% +2.35%

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 11,786 18,942 22,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.49% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,534 11,550 15,489
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 2,258 1,140
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.72 £17.86
Median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% -5.73% +115.78%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £36.65 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.96% -18.56% +88.21%

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 9 May 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 9 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 +16 25 £516 -6.16% 9
North West +1 11 £393 -28.55% 5
South East +43 7 £500 -24.53% 9
Yorkshire +15 7 £525 +1.20% 3
North East - 7 £575 - 1
Scotland +10 3 £358 -30.65% 1
East of England - 1 £438 -
AWS DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, 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 36 (100.00%) AWS
1 36 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 22 (61.11%) Terraform
4 20 (55.56%) Kubernetes
5 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
6 15 (41.67%) Python
6 15 (41.67%) Docker
6 15 (41.67%) Jenkins
7 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
7 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (30.56%) SQL
9 10 (27.78%) Amazon S3
10 9 (25.00%) AppDynamics
10 9 (25.00%) GitLab
11 8 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (22.22%) Kibana
11 8 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (22.22%) Linux
12 7 (19.44%) Migration
12 7 (19.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (19.44%) OpenShift
12 7 (19.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (19.44%) Observability
13 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
13 6 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (16.67%) Microservices
13 6 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (16.67%) JIRA

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 5 (13.89%) nginx
2 4 (11.11%) JBoss
2 4 (11.11%) Tomcat
3 3 (8.33%) Apache
3 3 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) Amazon S3
3 8 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (19.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (19.44%) OpenShift
5 5 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (13.89%) GitHub
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (8.33%) AWS KMS
7 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (8.33%) Kong
7 3 (8.33%) PaaS
7 3 (8.33%) Serverless
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (5.56%) Azure
8 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.78%) AWS CodeCommit
9 1 (2.78%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
1 2 (5.56%) SSL
2 1 (2.78%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 4 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.33%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 15 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (25.00%) GitLab
3 6 (16.67%) JIRA
4 5 (13.89%) Git
5 4 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
5 4 (11.11%) SonarQube
5 4 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (11.11%) TeamCity
6 2 (5.56%) Gradle
6 2 (5.56%) Maven
7 1 (2.78%) Babel
7 1 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Electronics
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing
4 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (11.11%) .NET
2 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 3 (8.33%) OAuth
4 2 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.78%) CSS
5 1 (2.78%) HTML
5 1 (2.78%) JSON
5 1 (2.78%) JWT
5 1 (2.78%) Next.js
5 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.78%) React
5 1 (2.78%) REST
5 1 (2.78%) SOAP
5 1 (2.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (2.78%) FMCG
1 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 7 (19.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (13.89%) Windows
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (19.44%) Migration
4 7 (19.44%) Observability
5 6 (16.67%) Microservices
5 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
6 5 (13.89%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (13.89%) High Availability
6 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (11.11%) Agile
7 4 (11.11%) Analytics
7 4 (11.11%) Build Automation
7 4 (11.11%) Change Management
7 4 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 4 (11.11%) Code Quality
8 3 (8.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) Python
2 11 (30.56%) SQL
3 5 (13.89%) Bash
3 5 (13.89%) Java
4 4 (11.11%) Perl
5 2 (5.56%) Go
6 1 (2.78%) Groovy
6 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 15 (41.67%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (61.11%) Terraform
2 20 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 8 (22.22%) Kibana
4 4 (11.11%) Ansible
4 4 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.78%) Grafana
5 1 (2.78%) logstash
5 1 (2.78%) Packer
5 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.78%) SCCM
5 1 (2.78%) SCOM
5 1 (2.78%) SCSM
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 4 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 4 (11.11%) Splunk
3 3 (8.33%) Cloudera
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) VMware