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 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 379 400
Rank change year-on-year -6 +21 -69
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 193 174 235
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.52% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 143 199
10th Percentile £363 £381 £425
25th Percentile £426 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% -4.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £555 £675 £653
90th Percentile £675 £788 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +4.27%

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 31,437 33,659 44,190
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.87% 93.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,931 20,297 30,010
10th Percentile £278 £300 £292
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,808 1,253 1,556
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.10 £15.14
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.65% -20.79% +53.98%
75th Percentile £51.31 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +85.42%

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 9 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 9 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 -4 165 £500 -4.94% 47
UK excluding London +9 94 £500 +25.00% 44
London -5 81 £506 -15.63% 24
Work from Home -22 49 £450 -18.18% 35
North of England -22 43 £500 +25.00% 10
Midlands -1 26 £475 +163.16% 1
West Midlands -3 25 £475 +35.71%
Yorkshire -38 20 £500 +25.00% 4
North West +4 17 £402 -15.37% 6
South East +14 14 £500 -6.98% 21
Scotland -2 7 £475 -5.00% 1
North East -4 7 £550 +21.15%
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 9
South West +6 3 £625 +2.04% 2
East Midlands -11 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 193 (100.00%) AWS
1 193 (100.00%) DevOps
2 158 (81.87%) Terraform
3 142 (73.58%) CI/CD
4 100 (51.81%) Kubernetes
5 95 (49.22%) Security Cleared
6 93 (48.19%) SC Cleared
7 89 (46.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 86 (44.56%) Python
9 84 (43.52%) Docker
10 67 (34.72%) Jenkins
11 63 (32.64%) GitHub
12 59 (30.57%) GitLab
13 54 (27.98%) Linux
14 53 (27.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 52 (26.94%) Prometheus
16 51 (26.42%) Grafana
17 50 (25.91%) Amazon RDS
18 48 (24.87%) Amazon EC2
18 48 (24.87%) Amazon S3
19 46 (23.83%) Containerisation
19 46 (23.83%) Git
20 43 (22.28%) Cloud Security
21 42 (21.76%) GitHub Actions
22 40 (20.73%) Serverless
22 40 (20.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 38 (19.69%) Ansible
23 38 (19.69%) AWS CloudFormation
23 38 (19.69%) Bash
24 36 (18.65%) 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 30 (15.54%) Confluence
2 14 (7.25%) nginx
3 8 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.55%) JBoss
5 2 (1.04%) Apache
5 2 (1.04%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.52%) CMS
6 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (5.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 193 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (32.64%) GitHub
3 53 (27.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 48 (24.87%) Amazon EC2
4 48 (24.87%) Amazon S3
5 42 (21.76%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (20.73%) Serverless
6 40 (20.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 38 (19.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 36 (18.65%) Amazon ECS
9 35 (18.13%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (17.62%) Azure
11 31 (16.06%) Amazon EKS
12 18 (9.33%) Amazon ELB
12 18 (9.33%) AWS KMS
13 17 (8.81%) GCP
14 15 (7.77%) AWS CodePipeline
14 15 (7.77%) Route 53
15 12 (6.22%) AWS Fargate
16 10 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.47%) DNS
2 20 (10.36%) Firewall
3 17 (8.81%) SMTP
4 16 (8.29%) SSH
5 15 (7.77%) FTP
5 15 (7.77%) HTTP
6 10 (5.18%) IMAP
6 10 (5.18%) OpenLDAP
7 8 (4.15%) VPN
8 4 (2.07%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.04%) Network Security
10 2 (1.04%) SSL
11 1 (0.52%) Internet
11 1 (0.52%) NAS
11 1 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (25.91%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (3.63%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.59%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.59%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.07%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.07%) MySQL
6 4 (2.07%) Redis
7 3 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.55%) Flink
8 2 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.52%) Metadata
9 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 67 (34.72%) Jenkins
2 59 (30.57%) GitLab
3 46 (23.83%) Git
4 36 (18.65%) JIRA
5 17 (8.81%) Vagrant
6 10 (5.18%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.59%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.59%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.59%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.07%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.55%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.55%) Maven
9 3 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.55%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.04%) IntelliJ
10 2 (1.04%) PyCharm
10 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 43 (22.28%) Public Sector
2 41 (21.24%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.88%) Finance
4 14 (7.25%) Banking
5 9 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.55%) Front Office
8 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.52%) Games
9 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.52%) Publishing
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.40%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (8.29%) Kafka
3 10 (5.18%) LDAP
4 9 (4.66%) AWS CDK
5 7 (3.63%) Keycloak
6 6 (3.11%) .NET
7 5 (2.59%) Node.js
7 5 (2.59%) React
8 4 (2.07%) Middleware
9 3 (1.55%) cloud-init
9 3 (1.55%) OAuth
9 3 (1.55%) REST
9 3 (1.55%) RESTful
10 2 (1.04%) JWT
10 2 (1.04%) Laravel
11 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.52%) MACH
11 1 (0.52%) Next.js
11 1 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.52%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.33%) Replication
2 17 (8.81%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.66%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.11%) NHS
5 5 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.55%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.55%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.55%) PKI
7 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (27.98%) Linux
2 22 (11.40%) Windows
3 17 (8.81%) Amazon Linux
3 17 (8.81%) VMS
4 8 (4.15%) Ubuntu
5 6 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.59%) Unix
7 3 (1.55%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (100.00%) DevOps
2 142 (73.58%) CI/CD
3 89 (46.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (23.83%) Containerisation
5 43 (22.28%) Cloud Security
6 36 (18.65%) Agile
7 33 (17.10%) Configuration Management
8 30 (15.54%) Platform Engineering
9 27 (13.99%) Observability
10 23 (11.92%) Change Management
10 23 (11.92%) Infrastructure Automation
10 23 (11.92%) Microservices
11 21 (10.88%) Migration
12 17 (8.81%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (7.77%) Patch Management
14 13 (6.74%) DevSecOps
14 13 (6.74%) High Availability
14 13 (6.74%) Test Automation
15 12 (6.22%) Incident Response
16 11 (5.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 86 (44.56%) Python
2 38 (19.69%) Bash
3 26 (13.47%) PowerShell
4 24 (12.44%) Groovy
5 23 (11.92%) SQL
6 22 (11.40%) Java
7 13 (6.74%) Go
8 12 (6.22%) Perl
9 5 (2.59%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.59%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.55%) C#
10 3 (1.55%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.04%) PHP
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 95 (49.22%) Security Cleared
2 93 (48.19%) SC Cleared
3 32 (16.58%) AWS Certification
4 14 (7.25%) Degree
5 8 (4.15%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (4.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 8 (4.15%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (3.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.59%) QA
2 3 (1.55%) NCSC
2 3 (1.55%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (43.52%) Docker
2 15 (7.77%) DFS Replication
3 10 (5.18%) Dovecot
3 10 (5.18%) Postfix
3 10 (5.18%) Squid
4 9 (4.66%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 158 (81.87%) Terraform
2 100 (51.81%) Kubernetes
3 52 (26.94%) Prometheus
4 51 (26.42%) Grafana
5 38 (19.69%) Ansible
6 11 (5.70%) Argo
7 10 (5.18%) Nessus
8 9 (4.66%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.15%) Proxmox
9 8 (4.15%) Puppet
10 7 (3.63%) Packer
10 7 (3.63%) Sysdig
11 4 (2.07%) Kibana
12 3 (1.55%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (1.55%) Rancher
13 2 (1.04%) Consul
13 2 (1.04%) Podman
14 1 (0.52%) Istio
14 1 (0.52%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.52%) linkerd
Vendors
1 20 (10.36%) ServiceNow
2 10 (5.18%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (4.66%) Dynatrace
3 9 (4.66%) Splunk
4 5 (2.59%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.55%) Okta
6 2 (1.04%) CloudEndure
6 2 (1.04%) Databricks
6 2 (1.04%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.04%) Oracle
7 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.52%) Avaya
7 1 (0.52%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco
7 1 (0.52%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.52%) F5
7 1 (0.52%) Google
7 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.52%) Red Hat