AWS DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 411 406
Rank change year-on-year -74 -5 -42
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 175 140 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.42% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.46% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 101 127
10th Percentile £400 £358 £381
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £610
90th Percentile £633 £675 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -9.21% +18.75% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 49,505 30,216 36,013
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 91.29% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,709 19,089 23,205
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,494 1,545 1,999
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.60 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £67.96 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +21.62%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 15 Contract Job 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 17 August 2026. 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 -93 131 £476 -4.80% 13
London -48 80 £500 -0.50% 5
Work from Home -33 75 £500 +2.56% 10
UK excluding London -107 55 £431 -9.21% 10
North of England -65 29 £425 -15.00% 3
North East -24 19 £425 +11.84% 1
Scotland -13 6 £450 -5.26% 2
South West -38 6 £450 -19.10% 3
North West -43 6 £634 +72.92% 2
Midlands -58 6 £425 -10.53% 1
West Midlands -64 5 £451 -5.05% 1
Yorkshire -45 4 £550 +10.00%
South East -66 4 £550 +10.00%
East of England - 4 £485 -
East Midlands -16 1 £358 -

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 August 2026, 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 featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 175 (100.00%) AWS
1 175 (100.00%) DevOps
2 133 (76.00%) CI/CD
3 128 (73.14%) Terraform
4 116 (66.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 102 (58.29%) Kubernetes
6 90 (51.43%) Security Cleared
7 85 (48.57%) SC Cleared
8 77 (44.00%) Docker
9 76 (43.43%) Containerisation
10 72 (41.14%) GitLab
11 63 (36.00%) Python
12 51 (29.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 49 (28.00%) Amazon EKS
14 48 (27.43%) Jenkins
15 45 (25.71%) Grafana
15 45 (25.71%) Prometheus
16 42 (24.00%) GitHub
16 42 (24.00%) Observability
17 37 (21.14%) Linux
18 36 (20.57%) Bash
18 36 (20.57%) GitHub Actions
19 34 (19.43%) Ansible
19 34 (19.43%) Serverless
20 32 (18.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 31 (17.71%) Agile
21 31 (17.71%) AWS Lambda
21 31 (17.71%) Platform Engineering
22 29 (16.57%) Amazon S3
23 28 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (3.43%) Confluence
2 3 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.14%) nginx
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) JBoss
4 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 175 (100.00%) AWS
2 51 (29.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 49 (28.00%) Amazon EKS
4 42 (24.00%) GitHub
5 36 (20.57%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (19.43%) Serverless
7 32 (18.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 31 (17.71%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (16.57%) Amazon S3
10 27 (15.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (13.71%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (13.14%) Azure
13 19 (10.86%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (5.71%) GCP
15 9 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (3.43%) Azure AKS
16 6 (3.43%) Route 53
17 5 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
17 5 (2.86%) CloudFront
17 5 (2.86%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.43%) DNS
1 6 (3.43%) Network Security
2 4 (2.29%) VPN
3 3 (1.71%) Firewall
4 2 (1.14%) HTTP
4 2 (1.14%) SSL
4 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.57%) AMQP
5 1 (0.57%) BGP
5 1 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.14%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.57%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.86%) MySQL
7 4 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.71%) Redis
9 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.57%) Big Data
10 1 (0.57%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.57%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 72 (41.14%) GitLab
2 48 (27.43%) Jenkins
3 22 (12.57%) Git
4 9 (5.14%) JIRA
5 6 (3.43%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.86%) CircleCI
6 5 (2.86%) Snyk
6 5 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.29%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.71%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.14%) JMeter
9 2 (1.14%) Maven
10 1 (0.57%) Ant
10 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.57%) Gatling
10 1 (0.57%) Newman
10 1 (0.57%) Postman
10 1 (0.57%) Selenium
10 1 (0.57%) Terragrunt
General
1 43 (24.57%) Public Sector
2 13 (7.43%) Finance
3 10 (5.71%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.29%) Banking
6 3 (1.71%) Law
7 2 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.14%) Retail
8 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Military
8 1 (0.57%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.71%) Kafka
2 8 (4.57%) Keycloak
3 7 (4.00%) Node.js
4 6 (3.43%) AWS CDK
4 6 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (3.43%) React
5 5 (2.86%) OpenID
6 4 (2.29%) REST
6 4 (2.29%) SAML
7 3 (1.71%) .NET
7 3 (1.71%) OAuth
7 3 (1.71%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.14%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.14%) boto
8 2 (1.14%) cloud-init
8 2 (1.14%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.14%) Loki
8 2 (1.14%) pytest
8 2 (1.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.43%) PKI
3 5 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.29%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.29%) Replication
5 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.14%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.57%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.14%) Linux
2 6 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.86%) Windows
4 4 (2.29%) Unix
5 3 (1.71%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (100.00%) DevOps
2 133 (76.00%) CI/CD
3 116 (66.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 76 (43.43%) Containerisation
5 42 (24.00%) Observability
6 31 (17.71%) Agile
6 31 (17.71%) Platform Engineering
7 28 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (16.00%) Test Automation
8 26 (14.86%) High Availability
9 24 (13.71%) Microservices
10 19 (10.86%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (10.86%) Infrastructure Automation
11 18 (10.29%) Configuration Management
12 17 (9.71%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (8.57%) Migration
14 14 (8.00%) Software Engineering
15 13 (7.43%) AI
15 13 (7.43%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (6.86%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (36.00%) Python
2 36 (20.57%) Bash
3 10 (5.71%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.14%) Go
4 9 (5.14%) Java
5 8 (4.57%) Groovy
6 7 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.86%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.29%) SQL
9 3 (1.71%) Scala
10 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.57%) C
11 1 (0.57%) C#
11 1 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (51.43%) Security Cleared
2 85 (48.57%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (6.29%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.14%) CCNP
7 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CCIE
8 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.29%) QA
2 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.14%) WCAG
3 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.57%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (44.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.71%) Squid
3 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.57%) zsh
Systems Management
1 128 (73.14%) Terraform
2 102 (58.29%) Kubernetes
3 45 (25.71%) Grafana
3 45 (25.71%) Prometheus
4 34 (19.43%) Ansible
5 11 (6.29%) Argo
6 8 (4.57%) Puppet
7 6 (3.43%) Istio
7 6 (3.43%) Packer
8 4 (2.29%) Rancher
9 3 (1.71%) Consul
10 2 (1.14%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.14%) linkerd
10 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.14%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.57%) Kibana
11 1 (0.57%) Podman
11 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (4.57%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.29%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.71%) Google
4 3 (1.71%) Splunk
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle
5 2 (1.14%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.57%) Databricks
6 1 (0.57%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.57%) Informatica
6 1 (0.57%) Okta
6 1 (0.57%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.57%) Sonatype
6 1 (0.57%) Tanium
6 1 (0.57%) Tenable
6 1 (0.57%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.57%) VMware