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 18 January 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 346 424
Rank change year-on-year -57 +78 -84
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 189 185 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.58% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.63% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 160 150
10th Percentile £363 £412 £425
25th Percentile £400 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £556 £788 £642
90th Percentile £675 £838 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

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 33,942 29,468 40,286
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 92.82% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,457 18,028 26,771
10th Percentile £300 £296 £279
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,003 894 1,815
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.69
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -20.13% +19.68%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £64.45
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +46.55%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -43 155 £500 -16.98% 15
London -30 89 £513 -21.15% 10
UK excluding London -23 79 £500 - 11
Work from Home -65 47 £525 -16.00% 8
North of England -35 39 £500 - 3
North West -13 17 £450 -7.69% 3
West Midlands -20 17 £475 +35.71%
Midlands -29 17 £475 +79.08%
Yorkshire -46 16 £513 +20.59%
South East -13 12 £500 -6.98% 6
Scotland +4 7 £329 -34.30%
North East -14 6 £548 -4.78%
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West -5 2 £488 -25.00% 1
East of England -12 1 £600 +37.14%

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

For the 6 months to 18 January 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.

1 189 (100.00%) AWS
1 189 (100.00%) DevOps
2 148 (78.31%) Terraform
3 144 (76.19%) CI/CD
4 98 (51.85%) Security Cleared
5 95 (50.26%) SC Cleared
6 93 (49.21%) Kubernetes
7 92 (48.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 84 (44.44%) Python
9 82 (43.39%) Docker
10 72 (38.10%) GitLab
11 66 (34.92%) GitHub
12 59 (31.22%) Linux
13 58 (30.69%) Jenkins
14 56 (29.63%) Grafana
15 54 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 54 (28.57%) Prometheus
16 53 (28.04%) Containerisation
17 48 (25.40%) AWS CloudFormation
18 46 (24.34%) Serverless
19 43 (22.75%) Amazon EKS
20 41 (21.69%) GitHub Actions
20 41 (21.69%) Observability
21 40 (21.16%) Amazon RDS
22 39 (20.63%) Amazon EC2
23 38 (20.11%) Amazon ECS
23 38 (20.11%) AWS Lambda
24 37 (19.58%) Amazon S3
25 34 (17.99%) Azure
26 33 (17.46%) Agile

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 21 (11.11%) Confluence
2 11 (5.82%) nginx
3 10 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.53%) CMS
5 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (3.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 189 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (34.92%) GitHub
3 54 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 48 (25.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (24.34%) Serverless
6 43 (22.75%) Amazon EKS
7 41 (21.69%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (20.63%) Amazon EC2
9 38 (20.11%) Amazon ECS
9 38 (20.11%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (19.58%) Amazon S3
11 34 (17.99%) Azure
12 30 (15.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (8.47%) AWS CodePipeline
14 15 (7.94%) GCP
15 13 (6.88%) Amazon ELB
15 13 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (6.35%) AWS KMS
16 12 (6.35%) Azure AKS
16 12 (6.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.11%) DNS
2 18 (9.52%) Firewall
3 14 (7.41%) HTTP
4 12 (6.35%) FTP
4 12 (6.35%) SMTP
4 12 (6.35%) SSH
5 7 (3.70%) IMAP
5 7 (3.70%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (2.12%) VPN
7 1 (0.53%) LAN
7 1 (0.53%) Network Security
7 1 (0.53%) SSL
7 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.16%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.29%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.17%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.17%) Flink
6 5 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.65%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.12%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.12%) Redis
8 3 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.06%) MySQL
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 72 (38.10%) GitLab
2 58 (30.69%) Jenkins
3 33 (17.46%) Git
4 25 (13.23%) JIRA
5 12 (6.35%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.76%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.65%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.12%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.12%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.59%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.06%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.06%) Maven
10 2 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 52 (27.51%) Public Sector
2 29 (15.34%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.11%) Finance
4 19 (10.05%) Banking
5 8 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.17%) Front Office
7 3 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.53%) Games
9 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.23%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (10.05%) Kafka
3 8 (4.23%) AWS CDK
3 8 (4.23%) Keycloak
3 8 (4.23%) Node.js
4 7 (3.70%) LDAP
5 5 (2.65%) .NET
5 5 (2.65%) React
6 4 (2.12%) OAuth
7 3 (1.59%) cloud-init
7 3 (1.59%) JWT
7 3 (1.59%) REST
7 3 (1.59%) RESTful
8 2 (1.06%) Loki
8 2 (1.06%) Middleware
9 1 (0.53%) OpenID
9 1 (0.53%) SAML
9 1 (0.53%) Spring
9 1 (0.53%) WireMock
9 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.05%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.47%) Replication
3 10 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.70%) NHS
5 6 (3.17%) Fixed Income
5 6 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.65%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.59%) PKI
9 2 (1.06%) Clustering
10 1 (0.53%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (31.22%) Linux
2 15 (7.94%) Windows
3 12 (6.35%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (6.35%) VMS
4 7 (3.70%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.12%) Unix
6 3 (1.59%) CentOS
6 3 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (100.00%) DevOps
2 144 (76.19%) CI/CD
3 92 (48.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (28.04%) Containerisation
5 41 (21.69%) Observability
6 33 (17.46%) Agile
7 32 (16.93%) Cloud Security
8 26 (13.76%) Configuration Management
8 26 (13.76%) Platform Engineering
9 21 (11.11%) Microservices
10 18 (9.52%) Change Management
10 18 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
10 18 (9.52%) Migration
10 18 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
11 16 (8.47%) Incident Response
12 15 (7.94%) High Availability
12 15 (7.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (7.41%) DevSecOps
14 12 (6.35%) Patch Management
14 12 (6.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (44.44%) Python
2 33 (17.46%) Bash
3 23 (12.17%) Java
4 21 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 20 (10.58%) SQL
6 18 (9.52%) Groovy
7 10 (5.29%) Go
7 10 (5.29%) Shell Script
8 9 (4.76%) Perl
9 4 (2.12%) Ruby
10 3 (1.59%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.53%) C#
11 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 98 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 95 (50.26%) SC Cleared
3 28 (14.81%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.82%) Degree
5 9 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.23%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.70%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 5 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.59%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.12%) QA
2 3 (1.59%) NCSC
3 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (43.39%) Docker
2 12 (6.35%) DFS Replication
3 7 (3.70%) Dovecot
3 7 (3.70%) Postfix
3 7 (3.70%) Squid
4 6 (3.17%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 148 (78.31%) Terraform
2 93 (49.21%) Kubernetes
3 56 (29.63%) Grafana
4 54 (28.57%) Prometheus
5 28 (14.81%) Ansible
6 16 (8.47%) Argo
7 7 (3.70%) Nessus
7 7 (3.70%) Proxmox
7 7 (3.70%) Sysdig
8 6 (3.17%) Packer
8 6 (3.17%) Puppet
9 5 (2.65%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.12%) Rancher
11 3 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (1.06%) Consul
12 2 (1.06%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.53%) CASB
13 1 (0.53%) Istio
13 1 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.53%) linkerd
Vendors
1 16 (8.47%) ServiceNow
2 8 (4.23%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (3.70%) Splunk
4 6 (3.17%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.59%) Okta
6 2 (1.06%) CloudEndure
6 2 (1.06%) Databricks
6 2 (1.06%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.06%) Oracle
7 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.53%) Avaya
7 1 (0.53%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco
7 1 (0.53%) F5
7 1 (0.53%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.53%) New Relic
7 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.53%) Virgin Media