AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 348 377
Rank change year-on-year -112 +29 -42
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 138 426 618
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.71% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.75% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 348 492
10th Percentile £425 £475 £475
25th Percentile £450 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £682 £638
90th Percentile £679 £827 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.05% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

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 27 April 2024.

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 14 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 27 April 2024. 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 -91 108 £538 -10.42% 21
London -60 74 £538 -10.42% 8
Work from Home -12 72 £544 -9.38% 14
UK excluding London -8 39 £511 -7.05% 15
North of England +13 21 £500 -6.98% 4
North West +11 17 £500 - 2
Scotland +30 9 £516 +0.05% 1
Yorkshire +10 4 £500 -16.67% 1
Midlands +23 3 £450 -10.00% 3
South East +1 3 £650 +10.64% 4
East Midlands +18 2 £450 -14.29% 1
South West +3 2 £475 -13.64% 2
West Midlands +30 1 £350 -22.22% 2
Wales - 1 £643 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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.

1 138 (100.00%) AWS
1 138 (100.00%) DevOps
2 101 (73.19%) Terraform
3 82 (59.42%) CI/CD
4 72 (52.17%) Kubernetes
5 68 (49.28%) Python
6 58 (42.03%) Security Cleared
7 57 (41.30%) Docker
8 56 (40.58%) SC Cleared
9 55 (39.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 46 (33.33%) Serverless
11 44 (31.88%) Ansible
12 42 (30.43%) AWS Lambda
13 39 (28.26%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (25.36%) Bash
14 35 (25.36%) Jenkins
14 35 (25.36%) Containerisation
15 34 (24.64%) Amazon S3
15 34 (24.64%) Linux
16 33 (23.91%) Amazon EKS
17 31 (22.46%) Amazon ECS
18 30 (21.74%) GitLab
19 29 (21.01%) AWS CloudFormation
20 24 (17.39%) Agile
21 23 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
22 22 (15.94%) GitHub
22 22 (15.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
22 22 (15.94%) Git
22 22 (15.94%) Public Sector
23 21 (15.22%) GitHub Actions

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 5 (3.62%) nginx
2 4 (2.90%) Confluence
3 2 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.72%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 138 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (33.33%) Serverless
3 42 (30.43%) AWS Lambda
4 39 (28.26%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (24.64%) Amazon S3
6 33 (23.91%) Amazon EKS
7 31 (22.46%) Amazon ECS
8 29 (21.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (15.94%) GitHub
9 22 (15.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 21 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (12.32%) Azure
12 15 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (9.42%) Route 53
14 11 (7.97%) AWS CodePipeline
14 11 (7.97%) OpenShift
15 10 (7.25%) SaaS
16 9 (6.52%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (6.52%) AWS CloudTrail
16 9 (6.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.80%) Firewall
2 5 (3.62%) DNS
3 3 (2.17%) DHCP
3 3 (2.17%) LAN
3 3 (2.17%) Network Security
3 3 (2.17%) WLAN
4 2 (1.45%) VPN
5 1 (0.72%) IPv4
5 1 (0.72%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.80%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (5.07%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (3.62%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.17%) InfluxDB
6 3 (2.17%) MySQL
7 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.72%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (25.36%) Jenkins
2 30 (21.74%) GitLab
3 22 (15.94%) Git
4 7 (5.07%) Artifactory
5 5 (3.62%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.90%) JIRA
7 3 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.17%) Maven
8 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.72%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.72%) Gradle
8 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (15.94%) Public Sector
2 17 (12.32%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.42%) Finance
4 8 (5.80%) Law
5 6 (4.35%) Banking
6 3 (2.17%) Retail
7 2 (1.45%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.72%) Front Office
8 1 (0.72%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Marketing
8 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.97%) AWS CDK
2 10 (7.25%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.62%) AWS SAM
4 4 (2.90%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.17%) .NET
5 3 (2.17%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (2.17%) Node.js
5 3 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.45%) Kafka
6 2 (1.45%) React
7 1 (0.72%) ADO
7 1 (0.72%) EDI
7 1 (0.72%) Flask
7 1 (0.72%) J2EE
7 1 (0.72%) JSON
7 1 (0.72%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (0.72%) LDAP
7 1 (0.72%) RESTful
7 1 (0.72%) Vue
7 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.90%) PKI
3 3 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.45%) Life Science
4 2 (1.45%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.45%) Tandem
5 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.72%) Clustering
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (24.64%) Linux
2 10 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (5.07%) Windows
4 6 (4.35%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.90%) Unix
6 2 (1.45%) VMS
6 2 (1.45%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.72%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (100.00%) DevOps
2 82 (59.42%) CI/CD
3 55 (39.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (25.36%) Containerisation
5 24 (17.39%) Agile
6 19 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (9.42%) Test Automation
8 12 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (8.70%) Software Delivery
9 10 (7.25%) DevSecOps
10 9 (6.52%) Observability
11 8 (5.80%) Migration
11 8 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (5.07%) Computer Science
12 7 (5.07%) Configuration Management
13 6 (4.35%) High Availability
13 6 (4.35%) Microservices
14 5 (3.62%) Continuous Integration
14 5 (3.62%) Disaster Recovery
14 5 (3.62%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (49.28%) Python
2 35 (25.36%) Bash
3 13 (9.42%) Go
4 9 (6.52%) Java
4 9 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.07%) Groovy
6 6 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.62%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.62%) SQL
8 4 (2.90%) Ruby
9 3 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.45%) C#
10 2 (1.45%) R
10 2 (1.45%) Scala
11 1 (0.72%) Bicep
11 1 (0.72%) C
11 1 (0.72%) C++
11 1 (0.72%) Perl
11 1 (0.72%) PHP
11 1 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 58 (42.03%) Security Cleared
2 56 (40.58%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.14%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 9 (6.52%) Degree
5 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.72%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.45%) GDPR
1 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.45%) NIST
2 1 (0.72%) NCSC
2 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (41.30%) Docker
2 2 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 101 (73.19%) Terraform
2 72 (52.17%) Kubernetes
3 44 (31.88%) Ansible
4 15 (10.87%) Grafana
5 9 (6.52%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.35%) Kibana
7 3 (2.17%) Consul
7 3 (2.17%) HP Fortify
7 3 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.45%) Packer
9 1 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.72%) Graylog
9 1 (0.72%) logstash
9 1 (0.72%) Nagios
9 1 (0.72%) Puppet
9 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (5.80%) Splunk
2 6 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.90%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.17%) VMware
5 2 (1.45%) Databricks
5 2 (1.45%) Google
5 2 (1.45%) MKS
6 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.72%) Brio
6 1 (0.72%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.72%) Cylance
6 1 (0.72%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.72%) Teradata
6 1 (0.72%) Virgin Media
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