Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK excluding London is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 - 415
Rank change year-on-year - - +103
Contract jobs requiring a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 5 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.031% - 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% - 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £578 - -
25th Percentile £696 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.52%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 £725 £531
% change year-on-year -10.34% +36.47% -21.30%

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 14,618 15,455 19,751
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.54% 92.08% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,010 8,836 13,167
10th Percentile £210 £219 £217
25th Percentile £363 £374 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,392 1,095 1,263
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.73 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -10.11% +91.73%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.68 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.73% -10.67% +61.82%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior AWS DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

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

Senior 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 Senior AWS DevOps Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Yorkshire - 4 £892 -
North of England - 4 £892 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £892 -
Midlands - 3 £892 -
South East - 1 - - 1
Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 October 2025, Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 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 Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) GitLab
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) Serverless
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
4 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (40.00%) Data Encryption
4 2 (40.00%) Data Security
4 2 (40.00%) Degree

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
3 2 (40.00%) Liquibase
4 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
4 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (40.00%) Data Encryption
4 2 (40.00%) Data Security
4 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
3 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (40.00%) Grafana
4 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) UiPath