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 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 391 389
Rank change year-on-year -92 -2 -18
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 184 164 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.55% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 110 128
10th Percentile £400 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £650
90th Percentile £638 £641 £744
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.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 50,097 29,975 35,353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 90.82% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,425 18,913 21,413
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,996 1,630 1,535
10th Percentile £14.42 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £19.61 £17.26 £20.63
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.74 £25.04 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.69% -41.77% -2.05%

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 5 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 IT jobs citing AWS DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 -123 135 £488 - 149
London -68 81 £506 +3.85% 65
Work from Home -42 77 £500 +11.11% 101
UK excluding London -127 59 £450 -5.26% 113
North of England -75 32 £470 -6.00% 31
North East -24 20 £425 -24.44% 3
Midlands -58 9 £418 -12.11% 16
North West -48 8 £550 +34.97% 23
West Midlands -64 8 £477 +0.42% 10
Scotland -16 7 £412 -13.37% 19
South West -33 7 £450 -28.00% 8
Yorkshire -50 4 £550 +10.00% 5
South East -63 4 £350 -30.00% 9
East Midlands -10 1 £358 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 184 (100.00%) AWS
1 184 (100.00%) DevOps
2 153 (83.15%) CI/CD
3 141 (76.63%) Terraform
4 136 (73.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 109 (59.24%) Kubernetes
6 101 (54.89%) Security Cleared
7 97 (52.72%) SC Cleared
8 95 (51.63%) Docker
9 86 (46.74%) Containerisation
10 81 (44.02%) GitLab
11 70 (38.04%) Python
12 60 (32.61%) Amazon EKS
13 59 (32.07%) Observability
14 56 (30.43%) Jenkins
15 51 (27.72%) Grafana
16 50 (27.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 50 (27.17%) GitHub
16 50 (27.17%) Prometheus
17 49 (26.63%) Agile
18 47 (25.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 45 (24.46%) Serverless
20 43 (23.37%) Continuous Improvement
21 42 (22.83%) GitHub Actions
22 41 (22.28%) Bash
23 40 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
24 39 (21.20%) Amazon S3
24 39 (21.20%) Linux
25 38 (20.65%) Platform Engineering
25 38 (20.65%) 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 12 (6.52%) Confluence
2 5 (2.72%) nginx
3 3 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.09%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.54%) Drupal
5 1 (0.54%) JBoss
5 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.54%) Traefik
5 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 184 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (32.61%) Amazon EKS
3 50 (27.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 50 (27.17%) GitHub
4 47 (25.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 45 (24.46%) Serverless
6 42 (22.83%) GitHub Actions
7 40 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (21.20%) Amazon S3
9 38 (20.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 37 (20.11%) Amazon EC2
10 37 (20.11%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (11.96%) Azure
12 11 (5.98%) Route 53
13 10 (5.43%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (3.80%) AWS KMS
15 7 (3.80%) GCP
16 6 (3.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 6 (3.26%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.98%) DNS
2 5 (2.72%) Network Security
3 4 (2.17%) Firewall
3 4 (2.17%) HTTP
4 3 (1.63%) SSL
4 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.09%) FTP
5 2 (1.09%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.09%) IMAP
5 2 (1.09%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.09%) SMTP
5 2 (1.09%) SSH
5 2 (1.09%) VPN
6 1 (0.54%) AMQP
6 1 (0.54%) Internet
6 1 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.22%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.52%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (3.80%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.80%) Redis
6 5 (2.72%) MySQL
7 4 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.54%) Big Data
10 1 (0.54%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.54%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 81 (44.02%) GitLab
2 56 (30.43%) Jenkins
3 27 (14.67%) Git
4 15 (8.15%) JIRA
5 10 (5.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.80%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.72%) Maven
8 3 (1.63%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.63%) JMeter
8 3 (1.63%) Snyk
8 3 (1.63%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.09%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.09%) JUnit
9 2 (1.09%) Mocha
9 2 (1.09%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.09%) Terragrunt
9 2 (1.09%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.54%) Ant
10 1 (0.54%) Liquibase
General
1 43 (23.37%) Public Sector
2 20 (10.87%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.89%) Finance
5 4 (2.17%) Banking
5 4 (2.17%) Military
6 3 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.63%) Law
7 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Billing
8 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.54%) Police
8 1 (0.54%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.54%) Publishing
8 1 (0.54%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (76.63%) Terraform
2 22 (11.96%) Kafka
3 13 (7.07%) AWS CDK
4 10 (5.43%) Keycloak
5 8 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.35%) React
6 6 (3.26%) Node.js
6 6 (3.26%) OpenID
6 6 (3.26%) Pulumi
7 5 (2.72%) .NET
7 5 (2.72%) FastAPI
7 5 (2.72%) REST
7 5 (2.72%) SAML
8 4 (2.17%) RESTful
9 3 (1.63%) cloud-init
9 3 (1.63%) LDAP
9 3 (1.63%) Loki
9 3 (1.63%) OAuth
9 3 (1.63%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.28%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (3.80%) PKI
2 7 (3.80%) Replication
3 4 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.09%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.54%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (21.20%) Linux
2 9 (4.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.26%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.26%) Windows
4 4 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (2.17%) Unix
5 2 (1.09%) CentOS
5 2 (1.09%) VMS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (100.00%) DevOps
2 153 (83.15%) CI/CD
3 136 (73.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (46.74%) Containerisation
5 59 (32.07%) Observability
6 49 (26.63%) Agile
7 43 (23.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (20.65%) Platform Engineering
9 34 (18.48%) Deployment Automation
10 32 (17.39%) Test Automation
11 25 (13.59%) Microservices
12 24 (13.04%) High Availability
13 23 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
14 21 (11.41%) Cloud Security
14 21 (11.41%) Configuration Management
15 20 (10.87%) Software Delivery
16 19 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (9.78%) Infrastructure Automation
17 18 (9.78%) Secrets Management
17 18 (9.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (38.04%) Python
2 41 (22.28%) Bash
3 11 (5.98%) Groovy
4 10 (5.43%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.89%) Java
6 8 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.80%) Go
7 7 (3.80%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.26%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.72%) SQL
10 3 (1.63%) Scala
11 2 (1.09%) C#
12 1 (0.54%) Perl
12 1 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (54.89%) Security Cleared
2 97 (52.72%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (7.61%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (2.72%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.17%) SAFe Agilist
7 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.09%) Degree
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.72%) QA
2 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.09%) WCAG
3 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.54%) NCSC
3 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 95 (51.63%) Docker
2 5 (2.72%) Squid
3 4 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.09%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.09%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.09%) Postfix
4 2 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.54%) zsh
Systems Management
1 109 (59.24%) Kubernetes
2 51 (27.72%) Grafana
3 50 (27.17%) Prometheus
4 37 (20.11%) Ansible
5 10 (5.43%) Argo
5 10 (5.43%) Packer
6 8 (4.35%) Istio
7 7 (3.80%) Puppet
8 5 (2.72%) Rancher
9 4 (2.17%) Consul
10 3 (1.63%) Kibana
10 3 (1.63%) Nessus
10 3 (1.63%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.09%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.09%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.09%) linkerd
11 2 (1.09%) Proxmox
11 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.54%) Podman
12 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (4.89%) Dynatrace
2 8 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.80%) Splunk
4 6 (3.26%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.72%) Oracle
6 3 (1.63%) Okta
7 2 (1.09%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.09%) Sonatype
8 1 (0.54%) Adobe
8 1 (0.54%) Apple
8 1 (0.54%) Databricks
8 1 (0.54%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.54%) Google
8 1 (0.54%) Informatica
8 1 (0.54%) New Relic
8 1 (0.54%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.54%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.54%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.54%) VMware