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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 399 389
Rank change year-on-year -79 -10 -55
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 192 164 181
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.50% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.55% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 117 140
10th Percentile £400 £361 £360
25th Percentile £425 £413 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £638
90th Percentile £640 £688 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -31.91%
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 49,377 30,074 36,691
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 91.44% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,758 19,109 23,758
10th Percentile £331 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,409 1,479 2,147
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.69 £14.13
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £19.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £42.91
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.39% +0.96%
75th Percentile £67.84 £54.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.35 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +11.69%

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 1 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 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 1 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 -104 146 £492 -1.60% 23
London -52 90 £525 - 14
Work from Home -30 78 £500 -1.72% 4
UK excluding London -100 60 £425 -10.53% 10
North of England -75 27 £425 -8.11% 5
North East -27 17 £425 -18.27%
Midlands -57 10 £451 -3.79%
West Midlands -66 10 £451 -3.79%
Scotland -13 8 £412 -13.37% 1
South West -36 6 £450 -28.00% 3
Yorkshire -47 5 £550 +6.02% 2
North West -61 5 £718 +82.57% 3
South East -68 5 £450 -5.26% 1
East of England - 4 £485 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 192 (100.00%) AWS
1 192 (100.00%) DevOps
2 147 (76.56%) CI/CD
3 139 (72.40%) Terraform
4 126 (65.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 105 (54.69%) Security Cleared
6 102 (53.13%) Kubernetes
7 99 (51.56%) SC Cleared
8 83 (43.23%) Docker
9 81 (42.19%) Containerisation
10 74 (38.54%) GitLab
11 65 (33.85%) Python
12 59 (30.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 53 (27.60%) Jenkins
14 51 (26.56%) Amazon EKS
15 46 (23.96%) Prometheus
16 45 (23.44%) GitHub
16 45 (23.44%) Grafana
17 42 (21.88%) Observability
18 40 (20.83%) Serverless
19 39 (20.31%) GitHub Actions
20 38 (19.79%) Agile
20 38 (19.79%) Linux
20 38 (19.79%) Platform Engineering
21 37 (19.27%) Amazon S3
21 37 (19.27%) AWS Lambda
22 36 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 36 (18.75%) Ansible
22 36 (18.75%) Bash
23 35 (18.23%) 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 11 (5.73%) Confluence
2 3 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.56%) nginx
3 2 (1.04%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 192 (100.00%) AWS
2 59 (30.73%) AWS CloudFormation
3 51 (26.56%) Amazon EKS
4 45 (23.44%) GitHub
5 40 (20.83%) Serverless
6 39 (20.31%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (19.27%) Amazon S3
7 37 (19.27%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 35 (18.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 32 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (11.98%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (11.46%) Azure
13 10 (5.21%) AWS CodePipeline
13 10 (5.21%) GCP
14 9 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (3.65%) Route 53
16 6 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
16 6 (3.13%) AWS KMS
17 5 (2.60%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.60%) DNS
1 5 (2.60%) Network Security
2 4 (2.08%) VPN
3 3 (1.56%) Firewall
4 2 (1.04%) OpenVPN
4 2 (1.04%) SSL
5 1 (0.52%) AMQP
5 1 (0.52%) BGP
5 1 (0.52%) HTTP
5 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.52%) Internet
5 1 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.90%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.73%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.69%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.60%) MySQL
8 3 (1.56%) Redis
9 2 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.04%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.52%) Big Data
10 1 (0.52%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 74 (38.54%) GitLab
2 53 (27.60%) Jenkins
3 24 (12.50%) Git
4 13 (6.77%) JIRA
5 8 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.60%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.60%) CircleCI
6 5 (2.60%) Snyk
6 5 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.56%) Maven
8 1 (0.52%) Ant
8 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.52%) JMeter
8 1 (0.52%) Newman
8 1 (0.52%) Postman
8 1 (0.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 46 (23.96%) Public Sector
2 15 (7.81%) Social Skills
3 13 (6.77%) Finance
4 8 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.60%) Banking
6 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.56%) Law
8 2 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Military
9 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.52%) Police
9 1 (0.52%) Publishing
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.38%) Kafka
2 11 (5.73%) AWS CDK
3 8 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (4.17%) Keycloak
4 6 (3.13%) React
5 5 (2.60%) Node.js
6 3 (1.56%) OAuth
6 3 (1.56%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.56%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.56%) REST
6 3 (1.56%) SAML
7 2 (1.04%) .NET
7 2 (1.04%) boto
7 2 (1.04%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.04%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.04%) JSON
7 2 (1.04%) JWT
7 2 (1.04%) LDAP
7 2 (1.04%) Loki
7 2 (1.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.13%) PKI
3 5 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.08%) Replication
5 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.04%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.52%) NHS
7 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (19.79%) Linux
2 7 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.60%) Windows
4 4 (2.08%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.56%) Unix
6 2 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (100.00%) DevOps
2 147 (76.56%) CI/CD
3 126 (65.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (42.19%) Containerisation
5 42 (21.88%) Observability
6 38 (19.79%) Agile
6 38 (19.79%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (16.15%) Test Automation
9 26 (13.54%) High Availability
10 23 (11.98%) Deployment Automation
10 23 (11.98%) Microservices
11 20 (10.42%) Infrastructure Automation
12 18 (9.38%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (8.33%) Configuration Management
14 14 (7.29%) DevSecOps
15 13 (6.77%) AI
15 13 (6.77%) Migration
15 13 (6.77%) Software Engineering
16 12 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 65 (33.85%) Python
2 36 (18.75%) Bash
3 9 (4.69%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.17%) Go
4 8 (4.17%) Java
5 7 (3.65%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.65%) Shell Script
6 6 (3.13%) Groovy
7 3 (1.56%) SQL
7 3 (1.56%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.04%) Scala
9 1 (0.52%) C
9 1 (0.52%) Perl
9 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 105 (54.69%) Security Cleared
2 99 (51.56%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (5.73%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.60%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (1.04%) CCNP
7 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.52%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.08%) QA
2 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.04%) WCAG
3 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (43.23%) Docker
2 3 (1.56%) Squid
3 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) zsh
Systems Management
1 139 (72.40%) Terraform
2 102 (53.13%) Kubernetes
3 46 (23.96%) Prometheus
4 45 (23.44%) Grafana
5 36 (18.75%) Ansible
6 11 (5.73%) Argo
7 8 (4.17%) Puppet
8 4 (2.08%) Istio
8 4 (2.08%) Packer
8 4 (2.08%) Rancher
9 2 (1.04%) Consul
9 2 (1.04%) linkerd
9 2 (1.04%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.52%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.52%) Opsview
10 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.52%) systemd
Vendors
1 6 (3.13%) Dynatrace
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.08%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.56%) Google
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle
4 2 (1.04%) Sonatype
4 2 (1.04%) Splunk
4 2 (1.04%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.52%) Databricks
5 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.52%) Informatica
5 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.52%) Tanium
5 1 (0.52%) Tenable
5 1 (0.52%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.52%) VMware