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 28 October 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 410 388
Rank change year-on-year -115 -22 -5
Contract AWS DevOps jobs 184 173 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.51% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.56% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 118 141
10th Percentile £400 £363 £373
25th Percentile £425 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £663
90th Percentile £640 £649 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -27.27%
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 adverts matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
28 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract job adverts in the UK matching a recognised job title 50,268 30,832 34,004
% of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.70% 90.90% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,614 19,499 20,503
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £620 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,176 1,712 1,309
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.84 £15.06
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -36.33% -12.22%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.43 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% -37.50% -10.11%

AWS DevOps Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract AWS DevOps job postings 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 AWS DevOps jobs over the 6 months to 28 October 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 AWS DevOps jobs within the UK over the 6 months to 28 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England -147 135 £500 +1.27% 9
London -67 87 £525 +9.09% 6
Work from Home -40 74 £500 +11.11% 5
UK excluding London -128 52 £450 -5.26% 3
North of England -79 27 £500 - 2
North East -28 15 £425 -24.44%
Scotland -22 8 £412 -13.37%
North West -51 8 £550 +39.24% 2
Midlands -59 7 £418 -12.11%
South West -36 6 £450 -28.00%
West Midlands -57 6 £477 +0.42%
Yorkshire -45 4 £550 +10.00%
South East -67 4 £350 -30.00% 1
East Midlands -14 1 £358 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, AWS DevOps contract job ads cited 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 AWS DevOps job ads.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1AWS100.0%184
1DevOps100.0%184
3CI/CD82.6%152
4Terraform77.7%143
5Infrastructure as Code72.8%134
6Kubernetes60.3%111
7Docker53.8%99
8Security Cleared53.3%98
9SC Cleared50.5%93
10Containerisation50.0%92
11GitLab44.6%82
12Python39.7%73
13Amazon EKS32.6%60
14Observability32.1%59
15Jenkins31.5%58
16GitHub31.0%57
17AWS CloudFormation27.2%50
18Agile26.1%48
19Amazon CloudWatch25.5%47
19Grafana25.5%47
21GitHub Actions25.0%46
21Linux25.0%46
21Prometheus25.0%46
21Serverless25.0%46
25Continuous Improvement24.5%45
26Bash23.4%43
27AWS Lambda21.7%40
28Amazon ECS20.7%38
28Platform Engineering20.7%38
30Deployment Automation19.6%36

AWS DevOps Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1AWS DevOps Engineer94.0%173
2Senior AWS DevOps Engineer15.8%29
3Lead DevOps4.9%9
4Cloud Platform Engineer3.8%7
4Lead DevOps Engineer3.8%7
6Python Engineer3.3%6
7AWS Platform Engineer2.7%5
7AWS Specialist2.7%5
7Azure DevOps Engineer2.7%5
7DevOps Platform Engineer2.7%5
7DevOps Specialist2.7%5
7Infrastructure Specialist2.7%5
7Kubernetes Engineer2.7%5
7Linux DevOps Engineer2.7%5
7Linux/Unix DevOps2.7%5
16AWS Infrastructure Engineer2.2%4
16Senior Server Engineer2.2%4
16Serverless Engineer2.2%4
19Cloud Engineer1.6%3
19GCP DevOps Engineer1.6%3
AWS DevOps jobs