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 2 January 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 362 432
Rank change year-on-year -24 +70 -106
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 192 184 167
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.56% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.60% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 158 144
10th Percentile £363 £394 £425
25th Percentile £400 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £638
90th Percentile £680 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -

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 33,832 30,446 40,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.70% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,457 18,648 27,012
10th Percentile £300 £291 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,952 945 1,577
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.05 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% -27.78% +41.02%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £46.09
% change year-on-year -20.81% -31.09% +78.99%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -42 155 £500 -16.67% 6
UK excluding London -8 87 £500 +5.26% 3
London -46 82 £513 -21.15% 4
Work from Home -50 49 £513 -16.33% 1
North of England -19 42 £500 +10.62%
West Midlands -17 21 £475 +35.71%
Midlands -20 21 £475 +163.16%
North West -15 18 £450 -7.69%
Yorkshire -46 18 £500 +17.65%
South East -8 12 £500 -6.98% 2
Scotland +8 8 £343 -31.35%
North East -6 7 £575 +0.88%
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West -10 2 £488 -25.00% 1
East of England -18 1 £600 +37.14%

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

For the 6 months to 2 January 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.

1 192 (100.00%) AWS
1 192 (100.00%) DevOps
2 151 (78.65%) Terraform
3 146 (76.04%) CI/CD
4 94 (48.96%) Kubernetes
4 94 (48.96%) Security Cleared
5 91 (47.40%) SC Cleared
6 90 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 90 (46.88%) Python
7 85 (44.27%) Docker
8 66 (34.38%) GitHub
8 66 (34.38%) GitLab
9 64 (33.33%) Jenkins
10 59 (30.73%) Grafana
11 58 (30.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 58 (30.21%) Linux
12 56 (29.17%) Prometheus
13 52 (27.08%) Containerisation
14 46 (23.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 45 (23.44%) Amazon EKS
15 45 (23.44%) Amazon RDS
15 45 (23.44%) Serverless
16 43 (22.40%) Amazon EC2
16 43 (22.40%) GitHub Actions
17 40 (20.83%) Amazon S3
18 39 (20.31%) Amazon ECS
18 39 (20.31%) Observability
19 38 (19.79%) AWS Lambda
20 37 (19.27%) Agile
20 37 (19.27%) 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 25 (13.02%) Confluence
2 12 (6.25%) nginx
3 10 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.04%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (4.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 192 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (34.38%) GitHub
3 58 (30.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 46 (23.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (23.44%) Amazon EKS
5 45 (23.44%) Serverless
6 43 (22.40%) Amazon EC2
6 43 (22.40%) GitHub Actions
7 40 (20.83%) Amazon S3
8 39 (20.31%) Amazon ECS
9 38 (19.79%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (19.27%) Azure
11 33 (17.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (8.33%) GCP
13 15 (7.81%) Amazon ELB
13 15 (7.81%) AWS CodePipeline
14 14 (7.29%) AWS KMS
14 14 (7.29%) Route 53
15 13 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.98%) DNS
2 20 (10.42%) Firewall
3 15 (7.81%) HTTP
4 14 (7.29%) FTP
4 14 (7.29%) SMTP
4 14 (7.29%) SSH
5 8 (4.17%) IMAP
5 8 (4.17%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (2.08%) VPN
7 1 (0.52%) LAN
7 1 (0.52%) Network Security
7 1 (0.52%) SSL
7 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (23.44%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.21%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.13%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.13%) Flink
6 5 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.60%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.60%) Redis
7 4 (2.08%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.56%) MySQL
9 2 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 66 (34.38%) GitLab
2 64 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 37 (19.27%) Git
4 30 (15.63%) JIRA
5 14 (7.29%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.69%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.60%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.60%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.08%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.08%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.56%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.56%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.04%) Maven
10 2 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.52%) PyCharm
11 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (28.65%) Public Sector
2 34 (17.71%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.98%) Finance
4 19 (9.90%) Banking
5 8 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.13%) Front Office
7 3 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.52%) Games
9 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.02%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (10.42%) Kafka
3 9 (4.69%) Node.js
4 8 (4.17%) AWS CDK
4 8 (4.17%) Keycloak
4 8 (4.17%) LDAP
5 6 (3.13%) React
6 5 (2.60%) .NET
7 4 (2.08%) OAuth
8 3 (1.56%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.56%) JWT
8 3 (1.56%) REST
8 3 (1.56%) RESTful
9 2 (1.04%) Loki
9 2 (1.04%) Middleware
10 1 (0.52%) Django
10 1 (0.52%) OpenID
10 1 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.52%) Spring
10 1 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.38%) Replication
2 17 (8.85%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.65%) NHS
4 7 (3.65%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.13%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.60%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.56%) PKI
9 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.52%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (30.21%) Linux
2 17 (8.85%) Windows
3 14 (7.29%) Amazon Linux
3 14 (7.29%) VMS
4 8 (4.17%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.08%) Unix
6 3 (1.56%) CentOS
6 3 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (100.00%) DevOps
2 146 (76.04%) CI/CD
3 90 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (27.08%) Containerisation
5 39 (20.31%) Observability
6 37 (19.27%) Agile
7 36 (18.75%) Cloud Security
8 30 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (15.10%) Configuration Management
10 24 (12.50%) Microservices
11 20 (10.42%) Change Management
11 20 (10.42%) Performance Tuning
12 19 (9.90%) Infrastructure Automation
13 18 (9.38%) Migration
14 16 (8.33%) Incident Response
14 16 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 15 (7.81%) High Availability
16 14 (7.29%) DevSecOps
16 14 (7.29%) Patch Management
17 13 (6.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 90 (46.88%) Python
2 33 (17.19%) Bash
3 25 (13.02%) Java
4 23 (11.98%) PowerShell
5 21 (10.94%) SQL
6 20 (10.42%) Groovy
7 11 (5.73%) Go
7 11 (5.73%) Perl
8 10 (5.21%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.08%) Ruby
10 3 (1.56%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.56%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.04%) C#
12 1 (0.52%) PHP
12 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (48.96%) Security Cleared
2 91 (47.40%) SC Cleared
3 32 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.25%) Degree
5 11 (5.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (4.17%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 5 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.56%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.13%) QA
2 3 (1.56%) NCSC
3 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.04%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 85 (44.27%) Docker
2 14 (7.29%) DFS Replication
3 8 (4.17%) Dovecot
3 8 (4.17%) Postfix
3 8 (4.17%) Squid
4 7 (3.65%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 151 (78.65%) Terraform
2 94 (48.96%) Kubernetes
3 59 (30.73%) Grafana
4 56 (29.17%) Prometheus
5 30 (15.63%) Ansible
6 17 (8.85%) Argo
7 8 (4.17%) Nessus
7 8 (4.17%) Proxmox
8 7 (3.65%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.65%) Puppet
8 7 (3.65%) Sysdig
9 6 (3.13%) Packer
10 4 (2.08%) Rancher
11 3 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.56%) Kibana
12 2 (1.04%) Consul
12 2 (1.04%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.52%) Istio
13 1 (0.52%) linkerd
13 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (9.38%) ServiceNow
2 9 (4.69%) Dynatrace
3 8 (4.17%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (3.65%) Splunk
5 6 (3.13%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.56%) Okta
7 2 (1.04%) CloudEndure
7 2 (1.04%) Databricks
7 2 (1.04%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle
7 2 (1.04%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.52%) Avaya
8 1 (0.52%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco
8 1 (0.52%) F5
8 1 (0.52%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.52%) Google
8 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity