AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 445 342
Rank change year-on-year +85 -103 +30
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 166 137 427
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.31% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.34% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 117 348
10th Percentile £406 £425 £475
25th Percentile £480 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £788 £600 £677
90th Percentile £838 £680 £827
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +0.71% -6.82% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +88 138 £600 +11.63% 20
London +66 104 £725 +34.88% 9
Work from Home +59 88 £700 +27.27% 10
UK excluding London +54 28 £516 +0.71% 14
North of England +22 22 £520 +3.95% 5
Yorkshire +13 8 £525 +1.20% 1
North West +9 8 £390 -22.00% 4
North East - 6 £570 -
South East +46 3 £588 -9.62% 6
Scotland +6 2 £442 -14.48% 1
East of England - 1 £438 -

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS DevOps Engineer 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 featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 166 (100.00%) AWS
1 166 (100.00%) DevOps
2 137 (82.53%) Terraform
3 127 (76.51%) Kubernetes
4 126 (75.90%) CI/CD
5 100 (60.24%) Python
6 91 (54.82%) Docker
7 65 (39.16%) Serverless
8 64 (38.55%) AWS Lambda
8 64 (38.55%) Security Cleared
9 58 (34.94%) SC Cleared
9 58 (34.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 57 (34.34%) Amazon ECS
10 57 (34.34%) Agile
11 55 (33.13%) Finance
12 51 (30.72%) Amazon EC2
13 50 (30.12%) Amazon S3
14 49 (29.52%) Software Engineering
15 47 (28.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 46 (27.71%) Go
17 45 (27.11%) GitLab
17 45 (27.11%) AWS CloudFormation
18 44 (26.51%) Asset Management
18 44 (26.51%) Front Office
19 42 (25.30%) Java
20 40 (24.10%) Jenkins
21 38 (22.89%) Apache
22 37 (22.29%) Kafka
22 37 (22.29%) OpenShift
22 37 (22.29%) Apache Airflow

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 38 (22.89%) Apache
2 37 (22.29%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (21.69%) Apache Spark
4 11 (6.63%) nginx
5 6 (3.61%) Confluence
6 4 (2.41%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.60%) JBoss
7 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 166 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (39.16%) Serverless
3 64 (38.55%) AWS Lambda
4 57 (34.34%) Amazon ECS
5 51 (30.72%) Amazon EC2
6 50 (30.12%) Amazon S3
7 45 (27.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (22.29%) OpenShift
9 36 (21.69%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (18.07%) dbt
11 26 (15.66%) GitHub
12 17 (10.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (9.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (8.43%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (4.82%) PaaS
16 7 (4.22%) AWS CodePipeline
16 7 (4.22%) Azure
17 6 (3.61%) AWS KMS
17 6 (3.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.42%) Firewall
1 9 (5.42%) HTTP
1 9 (5.42%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.61%) DNS
3 5 (3.01%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.20%) Internet
5 1 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.60%) SSL
5 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (21.08%) Apache Iceberg
2 31 (18.67%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (18.07%) Amazon Athena
3 30 (18.07%) Dremio
4 28 (16.87%) Apache Arrow
4 28 (16.87%) Apache Ignite
5 23 (13.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (4.22%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.01%) Apache Hive
8 5 (3.01%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.01%) Hadoop
8 5 (3.01%) Parquet
8 5 (3.01%) Presto
9 4 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.41%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.41%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.81%) Big Data
11 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 45 (27.11%) GitLab
2 40 (24.10%) Jenkins
3 36 (21.69%) Artifactory
4 18 (10.84%) Git
5 6 (3.61%) JIRA
6 5 (3.01%) Poetry
7 3 (1.81%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.81%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.20%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.20%) Maven
8 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.60%) Ant
9 1 (0.60%) Babel
9 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.60%) Gradle
9 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.60%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 55 (33.13%) Finance
2 44 (26.51%) Front Office
3 21 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.43%) Banking
5 11 (6.63%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.01%) Law
7 3 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Electronics
9 1 (0.60%) Games
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
9 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (22.29%) Kafka
2 33 (19.88%) J2EE
3 28 (16.87%) PySpark
4 11 (6.63%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.82%) React
6 5 (3.01%) AWS CDK
6 5 (3.01%) Dask
6 5 (3.01%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (2.41%) .NET
7 4 (2.41%) Node.js
7 4 (2.41%) OAuth
8 2 (1.20%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.20%) Next.js
8 2 (1.20%) REST
8 2 (1.20%) Swagger
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Amplify
9 1 (0.60%) cloud-init
9 1 (0.60%) HTML
9 1 (0.60%) JSON
9 1 (0.60%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.61%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.01%) Tandem
3 4 (2.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.60%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.60%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.67%) Linux
2 9 (5.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.01%) Unix
4 2 (1.20%) CentOS
5 1 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Windows
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (100.00%) DevOps
2 126 (75.90%) CI/CD
3 58 (34.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (34.34%) Agile
5 49 (29.52%) Software Engineering
6 47 (28.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 44 (26.51%) Asset Management
8 33 (19.88%) Data Engineering
8 33 (19.88%) Open Source
9 21 (12.65%) Containerisation
10 14 (8.43%) Cloud Security
10 14 (8.43%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (8.43%) Infrastructure Automation
11 13 (7.83%) Configuration Management
11 13 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (7.83%) Task Automation
12 12 (7.23%) Fintech
12 12 (7.23%) Microservices
13 10 (6.02%) Platform Engineering
14 9 (5.42%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 100 (60.24%) Python
2 46 (27.71%) Go
3 42 (25.30%) Java
4 24 (14.46%) Bash
5 19 (11.45%) SQL
6 18 (10.84%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.82%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.01%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.20%) Groovy
10 1 (0.60%) C#
10 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (38.55%) Security Cleared
2 58 (34.94%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.83%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.42%) Degree
5 4 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) OCP
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.20%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (54.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 137 (82.53%) Terraform
2 127 (76.51%) Kubernetes
3 32 (19.28%) Ansible
4 24 (14.46%) Prometheus
5 23 (13.86%) Grafana
6 6 (3.61%) Kibana
6 6 (3.61%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.01%) Puppet
8 4 (2.41%) Packer
9 3 (1.81%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.81%) logstash
10 2 (1.20%) Argo
10 2 (1.20%) Consul
11 1 (0.60%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.60%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (3.01%) AppDynamics
2 4 (2.41%) Red Hat
2 4 (2.41%) Virgin Media
3 3 (1.81%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.20%) Cribl.io
4 2 (1.20%) SAP
4 2 (1.20%) Splunk
5 1 (0.60%) Google
5 1 (0.60%) New Relic
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle
5 1 (0.60%) VMware