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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 386 389
Rank change year-on-year -99 +3 -38
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 184 167 179
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.56% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 118 138
10th Percentile £400 £358 £326
25th Percentile £425 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £638
90th Percentile £640 £675 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 49,489 29,958 36,053
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.24% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,683 18,934 23,125
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,498 1,546 1,979
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.63 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.62 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +2.38%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% +17.07%

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 20 August 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 20 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 -128 139 £463 -7.50% 10
London -61 81 £500 -3.61% 5
Work from Home -30 77 £500 +1.27% 3
UK excluding London -128 61 £425 -10.53% 4
North of England -63 29 £425 -15.00% 1
North East -23 19 £425 -20.56%
Midlands -62 11 £425 -10.53% 1
West Midlands -61 10 £451 -5.05% 1
Scotland -17 6 £450 -5.26%
South West -35 6 £450 -28.00% 2
North West -46 6 £634 +62.50% 1
South East -62 5 £450 -10.00%
Yorkshire -53 4 £550 +10.00%
East of England - 4 £485 -
East Midlands -17 1 £358 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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.

1 184 (100.00%) AWS
1 184 (100.00%) DevOps
2 145 (78.80%) CI/CD
3 136 (73.91%) Terraform
4 127 (69.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 107 (58.15%) Kubernetes
6 95 (51.63%) Security Cleared
7 93 (50.54%) SC Cleared
8 84 (45.65%) Docker
9 81 (44.02%) Containerisation
10 80 (43.48%) GitLab
11 64 (34.78%) Python
12 57 (30.98%) Jenkins
13 56 (30.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 54 (29.35%) Amazon EKS
15 50 (27.17%) GitHub
16 48 (26.09%) Grafana
16 48 (26.09%) Prometheus
17 44 (23.91%) GitHub Actions
17 44 (23.91%) Observability
18 40 (21.74%) Serverless
19 39 (21.20%) Agile
19 39 (21.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 39 (21.20%) Bash
19 39 (21.20%) Linux
20 38 (20.65%) Amazon S3
21 37 (20.11%) AWS Lambda
22 36 (19.57%) Ansible
22 36 (19.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 35 (19.02%) Platform Engineering

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 (5.98%) Confluence
2 3 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.63%) nginx
3 2 (1.09%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) JBoss
4 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 184 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (30.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 54 (29.35%) Amazon EKS
4 50 (27.17%) GitHub
5 44 (23.91%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (21.74%) Serverless
7 39 (21.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 38 (20.65%) Amazon S3
9 37 (20.11%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (19.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 32 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (13.59%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (13.04%) Azure
14 10 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (5.43%) GCP
15 9 (4.89%) AWS CodePipeline
16 7 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (3.80%) Route 53
17 6 (3.26%) Azure AKS
18 5 (2.72%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.80%) DNS
2 6 (3.26%) Network Security
3 4 (2.17%) VPN
4 3 (1.63%) Firewall
4 3 (1.63%) SSL
5 2 (1.09%) HTTP
5 2 (1.09%) OpenVPN
5 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.54%) AMQP
6 1 (0.54%) BGP
6 1 (0.54%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.54%) Internet
6 1 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.89%) DynamoDB
3 9 (4.89%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (2.72%) MySQL
6 3 (1.63%) Redis
7 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.54%) Big Data
8 1 (0.54%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.54%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 80 (43.48%) GitLab
2 57 (30.98%) Jenkins
3 24 (13.04%) Git
4 14 (7.61%) JIRA
5 10 (5.43%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.35%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.26%) Snyk
7 6 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (2.72%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.72%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.63%) Maven
10 2 (1.09%) JMeter
11 1 (0.54%) Ant
11 1 (0.54%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.54%) Gatling
11 1 (0.54%) Newman
11 1 (0.54%) Postman
11 1 (0.54%) Selenium
11 1 (0.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 44 (23.91%) Public Sector
2 15 (8.15%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.52%) Finance
4 9 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.17%) Banking
6 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.63%) Law
7 2 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Retail
8 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.54%) Military
8 1 (0.54%) Police
8 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (73.91%) Terraform
2 20 (10.87%) Kafka
3 10 (5.43%) AWS CDK
4 9 (4.89%) Keycloak
5 8 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (3.80%) Node.js
6 7 (3.80%) React
7 5 (2.72%) OpenID
7 5 (2.72%) Pulumi
7 5 (2.72%) SAML
8 4 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (2.17%) REST
9 3 (1.63%) .NET
9 3 (1.63%) Loki
9 3 (1.63%) OAuth
9 3 (1.63%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.09%) cloud-init
10 2 (1.09%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.09%) LDAP
10 2 (1.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.26%) PKI
3 5 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.72%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.17%) Replication
5 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.09%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.54%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (21.20%) Linux
2 7 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.72%) Windows
4 4 (2.17%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.17%) Unix
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (100.00%) DevOps
2 145 (78.80%) CI/CD
3 127 (69.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (44.02%) Containerisation
5 44 (23.91%) Observability
6 39 (21.20%) Agile
7 35 (19.02%) Platform Engineering
8 34 (18.48%) Test Automation
9 33 (17.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (13.59%) High Availability
11 24 (13.04%) Microservices
12 22 (11.96%) Deployment Automation
13 19 (10.33%) Infrastructure Automation
13 19 (10.33%) Root Cause Analysis
14 18 (9.78%) Configuration Management
15 15 (8.15%) DevSecOps
15 15 (8.15%) Migration
16 13 (7.07%) Event-Driven
16 13 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (7.07%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.78%) Python
2 39 (21.20%) Bash
3 10 (5.43%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.89%) Go
5 8 (4.35%) Groovy
5 8 (4.35%) Java
5 8 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.63%) Scala
6 3 (1.63%) SQL
6 3 (1.63%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.54%) C
7 1 (0.54%) C#
7 1 (0.54%) Perl
7 1 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 95 (51.63%) Security Cleared
2 93 (50.54%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (5.98%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (2.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.72%) SAFe Agilist
7 3 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.09%) CCNP
8 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CCIE
9 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.17%) QA
2 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.09%) WCAG
3 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.54%) GDPR
3 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (45.65%) Docker
2 3 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.63%) Squid
3 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.54%) zsh
Systems Management
1 107 (58.15%) Kubernetes
2 48 (26.09%) Grafana
2 48 (26.09%) Prometheus
3 36 (19.57%) Ansible
4 13 (7.07%) Argo
5 8 (4.35%) Puppet
6 6 (3.26%) Istio
6 6 (3.26%) Packer
7 4 (2.17%) Rancher
8 3 (1.63%) Consul
9 2 (1.09%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.09%) linkerd
9 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.09%) Sysdig
9 2 (1.09%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.54%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.54%) Kibana
10 1 (0.54%) Podman
10 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.54%) systemd
Vendors
1 8 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.72%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.17%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.63%) Google
4 3 (1.63%) Splunk
5 2 (1.09%) Oracle
5 2 (1.09%) Sonatype
5 2 (1.09%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.54%) Databricks
6 1 (0.54%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.54%) Informatica
6 1 (0.54%) Okta
6 1 (0.54%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.54%) Tanium
6 1 (0.54%) Tenable
6 1 (0.54%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.54%) VMware