AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Contracts

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 543 668
Rank change year-on-year +20 +125 +140
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 16 37 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.085% 0.041%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.17% 0.29% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 22
10th Percentile £475 £288 £490
25th Percentile £494 £400 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -28.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £700 £600 £638
90th Percentile - £661 £672
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -12.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,345 12,964 14,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.13% 29.71% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,776 8,005 9,912
10th Percentile £275 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -6.19% +1.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 1,128 736
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.23
25th Percentile £20.24 £19.13 £22.21
Median hourly rate £29.26 £40.29 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.37% -26.75% +23.60%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.55 £79.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £42.50 £53.67
% change year-on-year -34.26% -20.80% +53.33%

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 June 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
England +49 14 £675 +50.00% 82
London +52 10 £688 +25.00% 37
UK excluding London +22 6 £500 +25.00% 54
North of England +1 4 £500 +25.00% 7
Work from Home +22 3 £700 +16.67% 40
North West -1 2 £500 -4.76% 2
Yorkshire -8 2 £500 +25.00% 1
Scotland - 2 £488 - 4

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (6.25%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (68.75%) Serverless
3 10 (62.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (43.75%) Amazon S3
5 7 (43.75%) AWS CloudTrail
5 7 (43.75%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (37.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 6 (37.50%) AWS KMS
7 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (31.25%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (31.25%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (31.25%) GitHub
7 5 (31.25%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
9 2 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) DNS
1 7 (43.75%) Firewall
1 7 (43.75%) VPN
2 2 (12.50%) Network Security
2 2 (12.50%) SSL
2 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
3 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (31.25%) GitLab
3 3 (18.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (18.75%) Git
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Senior
5 3 (18.75%) AWS Specialist
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps Specialist
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (18.75%) Lead
5 3 (18.75%) Lead DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (12.50%) Architect
6 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
6 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Data Migration Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Security Architect
6 2 (12.50%) Security Technical Architect
6 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Amplify
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceStack
2 1 (6.25%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (81.25%) Containerisation
3 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (50.00%) High Availability
5 7 (43.75%) Configuration Management
5 7 (43.75%) Microservices
6 5 (31.25%) Cost Optimisation
6 5 (31.25%) DevSecOps
6 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (31.25%) SIEM
7 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
7 4 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
7 4 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
8 3 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 3 (18.75%) Migration
8 3 (18.75%) Runbook
8 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) Bash
3 6 (37.50%) Shell Script
4 4 (25.00%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 11 (68.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 5 (31.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (18.75%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (12.50%) NIST
2 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (81.25%) Kubernetes
2 11 (68.75%) Terraform
3 7 (43.75%) Ansible
3 7 (43.75%) Puppet
4 5 (31.25%) Progress Chef
5 2 (12.50%) Grafana
5 2 (12.50%) Kustomize
5 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (6.25%) HAProxy
6 1 (6.25%) linkerd
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 2 (12.50%) ForgeRock
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
1 2 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Rollbar