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 21 October 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 21 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 506 | 389 | 387 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -117 | -2 | -16 |
| Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps | 187 | 169 | 170 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK | 0.34% | 0.51% | 0.46% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.37% | 0.56% | 0.49% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 140 | 116 | 135 |
| 10th Percentile | £400 | £363 | £359 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £417 | £413 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £481 | £525 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +3.90% | -8.33% | -8.70% |
| 75th Percentile | £553 | £541 | £650 |
| 90th Percentile | £638 | £656 | £762 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £450 | £475 | £400 |
| % change year-on-year | -5.26% | +18.75% | -30.43% |
| 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.
| 6 months to 21 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title | 50,636 | 30,412 | 34,439 |
| % of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title | 91.85% | 90.89% | 92.95% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 29,773 | 19,217 | 20,765 |
| 10th Percentile | £325 | £278 | £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 | £623 | £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 | 4,181 | 1,679 | 1,379 |
| 10th Percentile | £14.25 | £13.80 | £15.02 |
| 25th Percentile | £19.33 | £17.30 | £20.30 |
| Median hourly rate | £41.56 | £25.15 | £40.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +65.23% | -37.13% | -10.11% |
| 75th Percentile | £67.50 | £50.00 | £65.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £80.00 | £68.75 | £73.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £41.06 | £24.42 | £40.33 |
| % change year-on-year | +68.12% | -39.44% | -8.14% |
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 Daily Rate Trend
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 21 October 2026.
AWS DevOps Hourly Rate Trend
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 21 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 |
Matching Contract IT Job Ads |
Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | -135 | 135 | £500 | +2.56% | 117 |
| London | -73 | 86 | £519 | +9.21% | 60 |
| Work from Home | -32 | 77 | £500 | +11.11% | 51 |
| UK excluding London | -140 | 54 | £450 | -5.26% | 59 |
| North of England | -76 | 29 | £500 | - | 24 |
| North East | -29 | 17 | £425 | -24.44% | 4 |
| North West | -51 | 8 | £550 | +37.50% | 17 |
| Midlands | -57 | 8 | £418 | -12.11% | 7 |
| Scotland | -26 | 7 | £412 | -13.37% | 3 |
| West Midlands | -58 | 7 | £477 | +0.42% | 6 |
| South West | -32 | 6 | £450 | -28.00% | 7 |
| Yorkshire | -48 | 4 | £550 | +10.00% | 3 |
| South East | -60 | 4 | £350 | -30.00% | 9 |
| East Midlands | -18 | 1 | £358 | - | 1 |
AWS DevOps Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities
For the 6 months to 21 October 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.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 187 |
| 1 | DevOps | 100.0% | 187 |
| 3 | CI/CD | 83.4% | 156 |
| 4 | Terraform | 77.0% | 144 |
| 5 | Infrastructure as Code | 73.8% | 138 |
| 6 | Kubernetes | 59.4% | 111 |
| 7 | Security Cleared | 53.5% | 100 |
| 8 | Docker | 52.4% | 98 |
| 9 | SC Cleared | 51.3% | 96 |
| 10 | Containerisation | 48.1% | 90 |
| 11 | GitLab | 44.4% | 83 |
| 12 | Python | 39.0% | 73 |
| 13 | Observability | 33.2% | 62 |
| 14 | Amazon EKS | 32.6% | 61 |
| 15 | Jenkins | 31.0% | 58 |
| 16 | GitHub | 29.9% | 56 |
| 17 | AWS CloudFormation | 27.3% | 51 |
| 18 | Amazon CloudWatch | 26.2% | 49 |
| 18 | Grafana | 26.2% | 49 |
| 20 | Agile | 25.7% | 48 |
| 20 | Prometheus | 25.7% | 48 |
| 20 | Serverless | 25.7% | 48 |
| 23 | GitHub Actions | 24.6% | 46 |
| 24 | Continuous Improvement | 24.1% | 45 |
| 24 | Linux | 24.1% | 45 |
| 26 | Bash | 23.0% | 43 |
| 27 | AWS Lambda | 22.5% | 42 |
| 28 | Amazon ECS | 21.4% | 40 |
| 29 | Platform Engineering | 20.9% | 39 |
| 30 | Amazon S3 | 19.8% | 37 |
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
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS DevOps Engineer | 94.1% | 176 |
| 2 | Senior AWS DevOps Engineer | 15.5% | 29 |
| 3 | Lead DevOps | 4.8% | 9 |
| 4 | Cloud Platform Engineer | 3.7% | 7 |
| 4 | Lead DevOps Engineer | 3.7% | 7 |
| 6 | Azure DevOps Engineer | 3.2% | 6 |
| 6 | Linux DevOps Engineer | 3.2% | 6 |
| 6 | Linux/Unix DevOps | 3.2% | 6 |
| 6 | Python Engineer | 3.2% | 6 |
| 10 | AWS Platform Engineer | 2.7% | 5 |
| 10 | AWS Specialist | 2.7% | 5 |
| 10 | DevOps Platform Engineer | 2.7% | 5 |
| 10 | DevOps Specialist | 2.7% | 5 |
| 10 | Infrastructure Specialist | 2.7% | 5 |
| 10 | Kubernetes Engineer | 2.7% | 5 |
| 16 | AWS Infrastructure Engineer | 2.1% | 4 |
| 16 | Cloud Engineer | 2.1% | 4 |
| 16 | Senior Server Engineer | 2.1% | 4 |
| 16 | Serverless Engineer | 2.1% | 4 |
| 20 | Scrum Master | 1.6% | 3 |