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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 384 406
Rank change year-on-year -114 +22 -31
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 185 171 165
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.52% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.57% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 117 135
10th Percentile £400 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £644
90th Percentile £638 £675 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -5.26% +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 50,615 29,871 34,958
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.21% 90.97% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,878 18,887 21,169
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £630 £623 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,942 1,601 1,551
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.88
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.55 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.74 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.44% -41.69% -2.16%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -131 136 £488 - 121
London -69 82 £500 - 61
Work from Home -42 76 £500 +11.11% 42
UK excluding London -127 60 £450 -5.26% 64
North of England -88 32 £470 -6.00% 21
North East -25 20 £425 -24.44% 1
Midlands -55 9 £418 -12.11% 13
Scotland -20 8 £431 -9.32% 9
North West -55 8 £550 +41.03% 17
West Midlands -62 8 £477 +0.42% 9
South West -35 7 £450 -28.00% 8
Yorkshire -59 4 £550 +10.00% 3
South East -66 3 £350 -30.00% 5
East Midlands -17 1 £358 - 4
East of England - 1 £485 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 30 September 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.

1 185 (100.00%) AWS
1 185 (100.00%) DevOps
2 153 (82.70%) CI/CD
3 141 (76.22%) Terraform
4 135 (72.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 110 (59.46%) Kubernetes
6 103 (55.68%) Security Cleared
7 99 (53.51%) SC Cleared
8 96 (51.89%) Docker
9 87 (47.03%) Containerisation
10 83 (44.86%) GitLab
11 70 (37.84%) Python
12 60 (32.43%) Amazon EKS
13 58 (31.35%) Observability
14 57 (30.81%) Jenkins
15 54 (29.19%) Grafana
16 53 (28.65%) Prometheus
17 52 (28.11%) AWS CloudFormation
18 49 (26.49%) Agile
19 48 (25.95%) GitHub
20 46 (24.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 45 (24.32%) Serverless
22 42 (22.70%) Bash
23 41 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
23 41 (22.16%) GitHub Actions
23 41 (22.16%) Linux
24 40 (21.62%) Ansible
24 40 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
25 38 (20.54%) Amazon S3
25 38 (20.54%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 12 (6.49%) Confluence
2 6 (3.24%) nginx
3 3 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.08%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.54%) Drupal
5 1 (0.54%) JBoss
5 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.54%) Traefik
5 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 185 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (32.43%) Amazon EKS
3 52 (28.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 48 (25.95%) GitHub
5 46 (24.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 45 (24.32%) Serverless
7 41 (22.16%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (20.54%) Amazon S3
9 38 (20.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 37 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
11 36 (19.46%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (12.43%) Azure
13 11 (5.95%) Route 53
14 10 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (3.78%) AWS KMS
16 7 (3.78%) GCP
17 6 (3.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
17 6 (3.24%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.95%) DNS
2 5 (2.70%) Network Security
3 4 (2.16%) Firewall
3 4 (2.16%) HTTP
4 3 (1.62%) SSL
4 3 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.08%) FTP
5 2 (1.08%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.08%) IMAP
5 2 (1.08%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.08%) SMTP
5 2 (1.08%) SSH
5 2 (1.08%) VPN
6 1 (0.54%) AMQP
6 1 (0.54%) Internet
6 1 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.14%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (9.19%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.03%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (3.78%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.78%) Redis
6 6 (3.24%) MySQL
7 5 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.62%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.08%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.54%) Big Data
10 1 (0.54%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.54%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 83 (44.86%) GitLab
2 57 (30.81%) Jenkins
3 28 (15.14%) Git
4 15 (8.11%) JIRA
5 10 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.78%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.70%) Maven
8 4 (2.16%) Snyk
8 4 (2.16%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.62%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.62%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.62%) JMeter
10 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.08%) JUnit
10 2 (1.08%) Mocha
10 2 (1.08%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.08%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.08%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.54%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.54%) git-flow
General
1 45 (24.32%) Public Sector
2 18 (9.73%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.86%) Finance
5 4 (2.16%) Banking
5 4 (2.16%) Military
6 3 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.62%) Law
7 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Billing
8 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.54%) Police
8 1 (0.54%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.54%) Publishing
8 1 (0.54%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (76.22%) Terraform
2 23 (12.43%) Kafka
3 11 (5.95%) AWS CDK
3 11 (5.95%) Keycloak
4 8 (4.32%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.32%) React
5 6 (3.24%) Node.js
6 5 (2.70%) .NET
6 5 (2.70%) FastAPI
6 5 (2.70%) OpenID
6 5 (2.70%) Pulumi
6 5 (2.70%) REST
6 5 (2.70%) SAML
7 4 (2.16%) RESTful
8 3 (1.62%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.62%) Flask
8 3 (1.62%) LDAP
8 3 (1.62%) OAuth
8 3 (1.62%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.16%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.32%) PKI
3 7 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.78%) Replication
4 4 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.16%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.08%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.54%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (22.16%) Linux
2 10 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.78%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.24%) Windows
5 5 (2.70%) Unix
6 4 (2.16%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (1.08%) CentOS
7 2 (1.08%) VMS
8 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (100.00%) DevOps
2 153 (82.70%) CI/CD
3 135 (72.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (47.03%) Containerisation
5 58 (31.35%) Observability
6 49 (26.49%) Agile
7 41 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
9 33 (17.84%) Deployment Automation
9 33 (17.84%) Test Automation
10 26 (14.05%) Microservices
11 25 (13.51%) High Availability
12 21 (11.35%) Configuration Management
12 21 (11.35%) Root Cause Analysis
13 19 (10.27%) Cloud Security
13 19 (10.27%) Secrets Management
13 19 (10.27%) Software Delivery
14 18 (9.73%) Infrastructure Automation
15 17 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (8.65%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (37.84%) Python
2 42 (22.70%) Bash
3 11 (5.95%) Groovy
4 10 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.86%) Go
5 9 (4.86%) Java
5 9 (4.86%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.78%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.24%) SQL
8 4 (2.16%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.62%) Scala
10 2 (1.08%) C#
11 1 (0.54%) Perl
11 1 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (55.68%) Security Cleared
2 99 (53.51%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (7.57%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.16%) SAFe Agilist
7 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.08%) Degree
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.70%) QA
2 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.08%) WCAG
3 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.54%) NCSC
3 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 96 (51.89%) Docker
2 5 (2.70%) Squid
3 4 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.08%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.08%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.08%) Postfix
4 2 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.54%) zsh
Systems Management
1 110 (59.46%) Kubernetes
2 54 (29.19%) Grafana
3 53 (28.65%) Prometheus
4 40 (21.62%) Ansible
5 10 (5.41%) Argo
5 10 (5.41%) Packer
6 8 (4.32%) Istio
6 8 (4.32%) Puppet
7 5 (2.70%) Rancher
8 4 (2.16%) Consul
9 3 (1.62%) Kibana
9 3 (1.62%) linkerd
9 3 (1.62%) Nessus
9 3 (1.62%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.08%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.08%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.08%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.54%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (4.86%) Dynatrace
2 8 (4.32%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.78%) Splunk
4 6 (3.24%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.70%) Oracle
6 3 (1.62%) Okta
7 2 (1.08%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.08%) Sonatype
8 1 (0.54%) Adobe
8 1 (0.54%) Apple
8 1 (0.54%) Databricks
8 1 (0.54%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.54%) Google
8 1 (0.54%) Informatica
8 1 (0.54%) New Relic
8 1 (0.54%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.54%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.54%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.54%) VMware