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 24 November 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 374 412
Rank change year-on-year -27 +38 -81
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 195 188 215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.55% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 157 184
10th Percentile £361 £381 £425
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £638
90th Percentile £675 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 32,350 33,960 43,317
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 92.81% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,481 20,515 29,296
10th Percentile £280 £300 £290
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,914 1,266 1,538
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +49.17%
75th Percentile £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +80.00%

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 24 November 2025.

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 16 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 24 November 2025. 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 -27 164 £500 -9.09% 23
UK excluding London +1 89 £500 +25.00% 19
London -28 87 £494 -21.00% 14
Work from Home -19 54 £463 -20.94% 10
North of England -31 40 £500 +25.00% 4
Midlands -6 25 £475 +163.16% 1
West Midlands +8 24 £475 +35.71%
Yorkshire -46 18 £500 +25.00% 1
North West -5 17 £402 -15.37% 1
South East +6 11 £500 -6.98% 12
Scotland +4 8 £475 -5.00% 1
North East -3 6 £575 +4.17% 2
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West +3 3 £625 +2.04% 1
East Midlands -13 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 November 2025, 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.

1 195 (100.00%) AWS
1 195 (100.00%) DevOps
2 157 (80.51%) Terraform
3 145 (74.36%) CI/CD
4 99 (50.77%) Kubernetes
5 93 (47.69%) Security Cleared
6 91 (46.67%) SC Cleared
7 90 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 90 (46.15%) Python
8 89 (45.64%) Docker
9 68 (34.87%) Jenkins
10 67 (34.36%) GitHub
11 63 (32.31%) GitLab
12 58 (29.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 57 (29.23%) Linux
14 54 (27.69%) Grafana
15 53 (27.18%) Amazon RDS
15 53 (27.18%) Prometheus
16 52 (26.67%) Amazon S3
17 51 (26.15%) Amazon EC2
18 50 (25.64%) Containerisation
19 46 (23.59%) Serverless
20 44 (22.56%) Git
21 42 (21.54%) Cloud Security
21 42 (21.54%) GitHub Actions
22 41 (21.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 40 (20.51%) AWS Lambda
24 39 (20.00%) Agile
24 39 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
24 39 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation

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 29 (14.87%) Confluence
2 14 (7.18%) nginx
3 9 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.03%) JBoss
5 1 (0.51%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (5.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 195 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (34.36%) GitHub
3 58 (29.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 52 (26.67%) Amazon S3
5 51 (26.15%) Amazon EC2
6 46 (23.59%) Serverless
7 42 (21.54%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (21.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 40 (20.51%) AWS Lambda
10 39 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
10 39 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (18.97%) Amazon EKS
12 36 (18.46%) Azure
13 18 (9.23%) Amazon ELB
14 17 (8.72%) AWS CodePipeline
14 17 (8.72%) AWS KMS
15 16 (8.21%) GCP
15 16 (8.21%) Route 53
16 12 (6.15%) AWS Fargate
17 11 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.82%) DNS
2 20 (10.26%) Firewall
3 17 (8.72%) SMTP
4 16 (8.21%) SSH
5 15 (7.69%) FTP
5 15 (7.69%) HTTP
6 10 (5.13%) IMAP
6 10 (5.13%) OpenLDAP
7 7 (3.59%) VPN
8 4 (2.05%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.51%) Internet
10 1 (0.51%) NAS
10 1 (0.51%) Network Security
10 1 (0.51%) SAN
10 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (27.18%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (4.62%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.56%) Flink
6 5 (2.56%) Redis
7 4 (2.05%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.05%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.54%) MySQL
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.51%) Metadata
10 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 68 (34.87%) Jenkins
2 63 (32.31%) GitLab
3 44 (22.56%) Git
4 34 (17.44%) JIRA
5 17 (8.72%) Vagrant
6 10 (5.13%) Artifactory
7 6 (3.08%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.56%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.56%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.05%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.54%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.54%) Maven
10 3 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.54%) Terragrunt
11 2 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.03%) IntelliJ
11 2 (1.03%) PyCharm
11 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
General
1 45 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 40 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.82%) Finance
4 18 (9.23%) Banking
5 9 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.56%) Front Office
7 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.51%) Games
8 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.51%) Publishing
8 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.79%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (10.26%) Kafka
3 10 (5.13%) LDAP
4 9 (4.62%) AWS CDK
5 8 (4.10%) Keycloak
6 7 (3.59%) .NET
7 6 (3.08%) Node.js
8 5 (2.56%) React
9 4 (2.05%) OAuth
10 3 (1.54%) cloud-init
10 3 (1.54%) JWT
10 3 (1.54%) Middleware
10 3 (1.54%) REST
10 3 (1.54%) RESTful
11 1 (0.51%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.51%) Laravel
11 1 (0.51%) MACH
11 1 (0.51%) Next.js
11 1 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.51%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.74%) Replication
2 18 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.62%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.08%) NHS
6 5 (2.56%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.05%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.54%) PKI
9 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.51%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (29.23%) Linux
2 22 (11.28%) Windows
3 17 (8.72%) Amazon Linux
3 17 (8.72%) VMS
4 8 (4.10%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.56%) Unix
6 3 (1.54%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (100.00%) DevOps
2 145 (74.36%) CI/CD
3 90 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (25.64%) Containerisation
5 42 (21.54%) Cloud Security
6 39 (20.00%) Agile
7 33 (16.92%) Configuration Management
8 31 (15.90%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (15.38%) Observability
10 25 (12.82%) Microservices
11 24 (12.31%) Change Management
12 23 (11.79%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (11.28%) Migration
14 19 (9.74%) Performance Tuning
15 15 (7.69%) Patch Management
16 14 (7.18%) DevSecOps
16 14 (7.18%) Test Automation
17 13 (6.67%) High Availability
17 13 (6.67%) Incident Response
17 13 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 90 (46.15%) Python
2 38 (19.49%) Bash
3 28 (14.36%) PowerShell
4 26 (13.33%) Java
5 24 (12.31%) Groovy
6 22 (11.28%) SQL
7 12 (6.15%) Go
7 12 (6.15%) Perl
8 5 (2.56%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.56%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.54%) C#
9 3 (1.54%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.03%) PHP
10 2 (1.03%) Ruby
11 1 (0.51%) C++
Qualifications
1 93 (47.69%) Security Cleared
2 91 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 33 (16.92%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.67%) Degree
5 10 (5.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (4.10%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (4.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.10%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.05%) QA
2 3 (1.54%) NCSC
3 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.03%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 89 (45.64%) Docker
2 15 (7.69%) DFS Replication
3 10 (5.13%) Dovecot
3 10 (5.13%) Postfix
3 10 (5.13%) Squid
4 9 (4.62%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 157 (80.51%) Terraform
2 99 (50.77%) Kubernetes
3 54 (27.69%) Grafana
4 53 (27.18%) Prometheus
5 33 (16.92%) Ansible
6 14 (7.18%) Argo
7 10 (5.13%) Nessus
8 9 (4.62%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.10%) Proxmox
10 7 (3.59%) Packer
10 7 (3.59%) Puppet
10 7 (3.59%) Sysdig
11 4 (2.05%) Kibana
11 4 (2.05%) Rancher
12 3 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (1.03%) Consul
14 1 (0.51%) Istio
14 1 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.51%) Podman
14 1 (0.51%) yum
Vendors
1 21 (10.77%) ServiceNow
2 10 (5.13%) Dynatrace
2 10 (5.13%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (4.10%) Splunk
4 6 (3.08%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.54%) Okta
6 2 (1.03%) CloudEndure
6 2 (1.03%) Databricks
6 2 (1.03%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle
7 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.51%) Avaya
7 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco
7 1 (0.51%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.51%) F5
7 1 (0.51%) Google
7 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.51%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat