AWS DevOps Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 357 419
Rank change year-on-year -96 +62 -85
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 178 165 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.58% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.63% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 135 130
10th Percentile £390 £385 £425
25th Percentile £409 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £550 £681 £625
90th Percentile £638 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £521
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.03% -9.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £75.00 - £78.75
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 44,984 26,371 39,600
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.30% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,456 17,159 25,763
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,981 1,009 2,752
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.04 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.53 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.38% -24.58% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +70.97% -37.13% -5.88%

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 27 May 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 14 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 27 May 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 -131 130 £500 -4.76% 8
London -75 85 £500 -16.67% 5
Work from Home -53 66 £525 -15.66% 9
UK excluding London -103 52 £450 -10.00% 5
North of England -78 21 £500 - 2
Scotland +6 9 £321 -10.37% 1
North East -24 8 £425 -23.77% 1
Yorkshire -54 8 £525 -
South East -61 7 £450 -10.00% 1
West Midlands -56 6 £425 -5.56% 1
Midlands -65 6 £425 -5.56% 1
North West -46 5 £525 +33.59% 1
South West - 5 £400 -
East of England -26 4 £485 +10.86%

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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.

1 178 (100.00%) AWS
1 178 (100.00%) DevOps
2 132 (74.16%) CI/CD
3 128 (71.91%) Terraform
4 105 (58.99%) Security Cleared
5 104 (58.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 100 (56.18%) SC Cleared
7 83 (46.63%) Kubernetes
8 68 (38.20%) Docker
9 65 (36.52%) GitLab
10 61 (34.27%) Containerisation
11 55 (30.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 54 (30.34%) Python
13 51 (28.65%) Linux
14 45 (25.28%) Jenkins
15 44 (24.72%) Amazon EKS
16 43 (24.16%) GitHub
17 42 (23.60%) Prometheus
18 41 (23.03%) Grafana
19 40 (22.47%) Observability
20 38 (21.35%) Serverless
21 37 (20.79%) Agile
22 35 (19.66%) GitHub Actions
23 34 (19.10%) Ansible
24 32 (17.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
25 31 (17.42%) AWS Lambda
26 29 (16.29%) Amazon EC2
26 29 (16.29%) Bash
27 26 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
27 26 (14.61%) High Availability

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 11 (6.18%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.69%) nginx
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) JBoss
3 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 178 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (30.90%) AWS CloudFormation
3 44 (24.72%) Amazon EKS
4 43 (24.16%) GitHub
5 38 (21.35%) Serverless
6 35 (19.66%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (17.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 31 (17.42%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (16.29%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (14.04%) Amazon S3
11 23 (12.92%) Azure
11 23 (12.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (11.24%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (7.87%) AWS CodePipeline
14 11 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (5.06%) Azure AKS
15 9 (5.06%) GCP
16 7 (3.93%) Pulumi
17 6 (3.37%) AWS CodeBuild
17 6 (3.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.81%) VPN
2 4 (2.25%) Firewall
3 3 (1.69%) DNS
3 3 (1.69%) HTTP
4 2 (1.12%) Network Security
4 2 (1.12%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.56%) AMQP
5 1 (0.56%) BGP
5 1 (0.56%) Internet
5 1 (0.56%) LAN
5 1 (0.56%) SSL
5 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.99%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.49%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.49%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.37%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.69%) Big Data
6 3 (1.69%) MySQL
6 3 (1.69%) Redis
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.56%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.56%) Flink
8 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (36.52%) GitLab
2 45 (25.28%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.11%) Git
4 13 (7.30%) JIRA
5 7 (3.93%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.93%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.25%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.25%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.25%) Snyk
6 4 (2.25%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.56%) Ant
8 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.56%) Gatling
8 1 (0.56%) JMeter
8 1 (0.56%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.56%) Newman
8 1 (0.56%) Postman
8 1 (0.56%) Selenium
8 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 47 (26.40%) Public Sector
2 15 (8.43%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.87%) Finance
4 9 (5.06%) Banking
5 6 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Front Office
7 1 (0.56%) Law
7 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.56%) Police
7 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.87%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (6.18%) Kafka
3 8 (4.49%) Node.js
4 7 (3.93%) AWS CDK
5 6 (3.37%) Keycloak
6 4 (2.25%) Loki
7 3 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.69%) React
8 2 (1.12%) boto
8 2 (1.12%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.12%) JSON
8 2 (1.12%) JWT
8 2 (1.12%) Middleware
8 2 (1.12%) OAuth
8 2 (1.12%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.12%) pytest
8 2 (1.12%) REST
9 1 (0.56%) OpenID
9 1 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.54%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.81%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.25%) PKI
3 4 (2.25%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.25%) Replication
4 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.12%) Clustering
5 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.12%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.12%) NHS
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.56%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (28.65%) Linux
2 5 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.81%) Unix
2 5 (2.81%) Windows
3 3 (1.69%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.56%) VMS
4 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (100.00%) DevOps
2 132 (74.16%) CI/CD
3 104 (58.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (34.27%) Containerisation
5 40 (22.47%) Observability
6 37 (20.79%) Agile
7 26 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (14.61%) High Availability
8 25 (14.04%) Platform Engineering
9 21 (11.80%) Test Automation
10 17 (9.55%) Infrastructure Automation
11 14 (7.87%) Configuration Management
11 14 (7.87%) Microservices
11 14 (7.87%) Secrets Management
12 13 (7.30%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (6.74%) DevSecOps
14 11 (6.18%) Cost Optimisation
14 11 (6.18%) Incident Response
15 10 (5.62%) Scrum
16 9 (5.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (30.34%) Python
2 29 (16.29%) Bash
3 11 (6.18%) Java
3 11 (6.18%) Shell Script
4 10 (5.62%) Go
5 7 (3.93%) Groovy
6 5 (2.81%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.25%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.25%) SQL
8 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.12%) Perl
9 2 (1.12%) Ruby
9 2 (1.12%) Scala
10 1 (0.56%) C
10 1 (0.56%) C#
10 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (58.99%) Security Cleared
2 100 (56.18%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.62%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.25%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.25%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (1.12%) CCNP
7 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CCIE
8 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.56%) Degree
8 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.69%) QA
2 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.56%) GDPR
2 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (38.20%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 128 (71.91%) Terraform
2 83 (46.63%) Kubernetes
3 42 (23.60%) Prometheus
4 41 (23.03%) Grafana
5 34 (19.10%) Ansible
6 12 (6.74%) Argo
7 9 (5.06%) Puppet
8 5 (2.81%) Packer
9 4 (2.25%) Rancher
10 3 (1.69%) Consul
11 2 (1.12%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.12%) Istio
11 2 (1.12%) linkerd
11 2 (1.12%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.56%) Opsview
12 1 (0.56%) Podman
12 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (2.81%) Dynatrace
2 4 (2.25%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.69%) Fortinet
3 3 (1.69%) Oracle
3 3 (1.69%) Splunk
4 2 (1.12%) Google
4 2 (1.12%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.56%) New Relic
5 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.56%) Tanium
5 1 (0.56%) Tenable
5 1 (0.56%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.56%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.56%) Virgin Media