AWS DevOps Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

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

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 335 424
Rank change year-on-year -78 +89 -102
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 205 200 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.66% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.71% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 171 147
10th Percentile £371 £425 £425
25th Percentile £400 £494 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.63% -8.51%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £625
90th Percentile £663 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £519 £517
% change year-on-year -3.61% +0.34% -1.52%

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 39,202 28,292 41,263
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 92.81% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,554 17,968 27,109
10th Percentile £310 £291 £275
25th Percentile £409 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,408 853 2,419
10th Percentile £14.82 £16.23 £13.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.43 £16.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £34.00 £34.08
Median % change year-on-year - -0.23% -15.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.20 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% -7.14% -11.50%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS DevOps job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

AWS DevOps
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 6 March 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 -89 162 £513 -15.64% 16
London -67 103 £525 -19.23% 3
Work from Home -61 67 £525 -23.64% 8
UK excluding London -50 64 £500 -3.61% 14
North of England -46 36 £500 -3.61% 8
Yorkshire -50 17 £525 +3.70% 1
North West -13 14 £474 -2.80% 7
South East -36 12 £500 -20.00% 3
Scotland +14 7 £313 -37.35%
North East -16 5 £575 +0.88%
West Midlands -47 4 £892 +154.86% 1
Midlands -53 4 £892 +154.86% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England -24 2 £600 +37.14%
South West -25 2 £400 -36.00% 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 March 2026, AWS DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 205 (100.00%) AWS
1 205 (100.00%) DevOps
2 154 (75.12%) CI/CD
3 149 (72.68%) Terraform
4 111 (54.15%) Security Cleared
5 104 (50.73%) SC Cleared
6 102 (49.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 99 (48.29%) Kubernetes
8 81 (39.51%) Docker
9 80 (39.02%) GitLab
10 78 (38.05%) Python
11 65 (31.71%) GitHub
12 60 (29.27%) Linux
13 57 (27.80%) Containerisation
14 56 (27.32%) AWS CloudFormation
15 51 (24.88%) Jenkins
16 48 (23.41%) Serverless
17 47 (22.93%) Grafana
18 45 (21.95%) Amazon EKS
19 44 (21.46%) Prometheus
20 43 (20.98%) Observability
21 40 (19.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 39 (19.02%) AWS Lambda
23 38 (18.54%) GitHub Actions
24 34 (16.59%) Agile
25 32 (15.61%) Amazon EC2
25 32 (15.61%) Amazon ECS
26 31 (15.12%) Bash
27 28 (13.66%) Ansible
28 27 (13.17%) Azure

AWS DevOps 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 9 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.41%) Confluence
3 5 (2.44%) nginx
4 1 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 205 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (31.71%) GitHub
3 56 (27.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 48 (23.41%) Serverless
5 45 (21.95%) Amazon EKS
6 40 (19.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 39 (19.02%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (18.54%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (15.61%) Amazon EC2
9 32 (15.61%) Amazon ECS
10 27 (13.17%) Azure
11 26 (12.68%) Amazon S3
12 20 (9.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (8.29%) AWS CodePipeline
14 16 (7.80%) GCP
15 13 (6.34%) Azure AKS
15 13 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (5.85%) Amazon ECR
17 10 (4.88%) AWS Fargate
18 9 (4.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.90%) Firewall
2 7 (3.41%) DNS
3 5 (2.44%) VPN
4 3 (1.46%) HTTP
5 2 (0.98%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.49%) BGP
6 1 (0.49%) FTP
6 1 (0.49%) IMAP
6 1 (0.49%) LAN
6 1 (0.49%) Network Security
6 1 (0.49%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.49%) SMTP
6 1 (0.49%) SSH
6 1 (0.49%) SSL
6 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.68%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (6.34%) DynamoDB
3 9 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.41%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.93%) Flink
6 5 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.46%) Redis
9 2 (0.98%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.98%) Big Data
9 2 (0.98%) MySQL
10 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.49%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 80 (39.02%) GitLab
2 51 (24.88%) Jenkins
3 21 (10.24%) Git
4 11 (5.37%) Artifactory
5 10 (4.88%) JIRA
6 6 (2.93%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.44%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.95%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.46%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.46%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.98%) Maven
10 2 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.49%) Snyk
11 1 (0.49%) Vagrant
General
1 54 (26.34%) Public Sector
2 25 (12.20%) Finance
3 20 (9.76%) Social Skills
4 19 (9.27%) Banking
5 6 (2.93%) Front Office
6 2 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
6 2 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.49%) Games
7 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.17%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (7.80%) Kafka
3 10 (4.88%) Node.js
4 7 (3.41%) AWS CDK
4 7 (3.41%) Keycloak
5 6 (2.93%) OAuth
6 5 (2.44%) JWT
7 4 (1.95%) .NET
7 4 (1.95%) REST
7 4 (1.95%) RESTful
8 3 (1.46%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.46%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.46%) React
9 2 (0.98%) boto
9 2 (0.98%) Loki
9 2 (0.98%) Middleware
9 2 (0.98%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.49%) OpenID
10 1 (0.49%) Spring
10 1 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.41%) NHS
5 6 (2.93%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.44%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.95%) Replication
8 3 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.46%) PKI
9 2 (0.98%) Clustering
9 2 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.49%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (29.27%) Linux
2 6 (2.93%) Unix
2 6 (2.93%) Windows
3 3 (1.46%) CentOS
3 3 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.98%) VMS
5 1 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (100.00%) DevOps
2 154 (75.12%) CI/CD
3 102 (49.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (27.80%) Containerisation
5 43 (20.98%) Observability
6 34 (16.59%) Agile
7 22 (10.73%) Microservices
7 22 (10.73%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (9.76%) Infrastructure Automation
9 18 (8.78%) Cloud Security
9 18 (8.78%) High Availability
10 17 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (7.80%) Incident Response
11 16 (7.80%) Migration
12 15 (7.32%) Configuration Management
13 14 (6.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (5.85%) Performance Tuning
15 11 (5.37%) DevSecOps
15 11 (5.37%) Software Delivery
15 11 (5.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (38.05%) Python
2 31 (15.12%) Bash
3 18 (8.78%) Java
4 13 (6.34%) Shell Script
5 11 (5.37%) SQL
6 10 (4.88%) Go
7 9 (4.39%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.41%) Groovy
9 4 (1.95%) Ruby
10 3 (1.46%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.98%) Perl
11 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.49%) C
12 1 (0.49%) C#
12 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (54.15%) Security Cleared
2 104 (50.73%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.73%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.39%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (4.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 9 (4.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 5 (2.44%) Degree
8 4 (1.95%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.49%) CCNP
11 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.46%) NCSC
1 3 (1.46%) QA
2 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.49%) GDPR
3 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 81 (39.51%) Docker
2 3 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.49%) Dovecot
3 1 (0.49%) Postfix
3 1 (0.49%) Squid
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 149 (72.68%) Terraform
2 99 (48.29%) Kubernetes
3 47 (22.93%) Grafana
4 44 (21.46%) Prometheus
5 28 (13.66%) Ansible
6 16 (7.80%) Argo
7 9 (4.39%) Sysdig
8 7 (3.41%) Packer
9 5 (2.44%) Puppet
10 4 (1.95%) Rancher
11 3 (1.46%) Consul
11 3 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.46%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.98%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.49%) CASB
13 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.49%) Nessus
13 1 (0.49%) Opsview
13 1 (0.49%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (3.90%) Splunk
2 6 (2.93%) Dynatrace
2 6 (2.93%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.95%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.46%) Okta
5 2 (0.98%) CloudEndure
5 2 (0.98%) Fortinet
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle
6 1 (0.49%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.49%) Databricks
6 1 (0.49%) F5
6 1 (0.49%) Google
6 1 (0.49%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (0.49%) New Relic
6 1 (0.49%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.49%) Virgin Media