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 20 February 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 349 427
Rank change year-on-year -53 +78 -98
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 198 186 166
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.60% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.65% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 160 145
10th Percentile £371 £425 £425
25th Percentile £400 £492 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.63% -8.51%
75th Percentile £566 £788 £625
90th Percentile £663 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% -0.95%

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 37,463 28,656 41,321
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.90% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,513 17,815 27,174
10th Percentile £305 £290 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,286 832 2,325
10th Percentile £14.61 £16.23 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £16.50
Median hourly rate £31.36 £33.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -5.00% -10.26%
75th Percentile £63.69 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% -9.86% -0.84%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -94 153 £513 -15.81% 23
London -77 95 £525 -22.22% 9
UK excluding London -38 67 £500 -2.44% 17
Work from Home -63 61 £525 -23.64% 10
North of England -45 36 £500 -2.44% 7
Yorkshire -53 16 £525 +5.00% 2
North West -14 15 £460 -5.64% 5
South East -24 11 £500 -20.00% 6
West Midlands -39 8 £684 +95.29%
Midlands -45 8 £684 +95.29%
Scotland +6 7 £313 -37.35%
North East -18 5 £575 +0.88%
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West -15 2 £400 -36.00% 4
East of England -24 1 £600 +37.14%

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

For the 6 months to 20 February 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.

1 198 (100.00%) AWS
1 198 (100.00%) DevOps
2 149 (75.25%) CI/CD
2 149 (75.25%) Terraform
3 111 (56.06%) Security Cleared
4 104 (52.53%) SC Cleared
5 97 (48.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 96 (48.48%) Kubernetes
7 81 (40.91%) Docker
8 78 (39.39%) GitLab
9 77 (38.89%) Python
10 62 (31.31%) GitHub
11 58 (29.29%) Linux
12 54 (27.27%) Containerisation
13 53 (26.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 50 (25.25%) Jenkins
15 48 (24.24%) Grafana
15 48 (24.24%) Serverless
16 46 (23.23%) Prometheus
17 45 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
18 44 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 39 (19.70%) AWS Lambda
19 39 (19.70%) Observability
20 36 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
21 35 (17.68%) Amazon EC2
22 33 (16.67%) Agile
23 32 (16.16%) Amazon ECS
24 30 (15.15%) Amazon RDS
25 29 (14.65%) Azure
26 28 (14.14%) Amazon S3

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 11 (5.56%) Confluence
2 9 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.54%) nginx
4 1 (0.51%) CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 198 (100.00%) AWS
2 62 (31.31%) GitHub
3 53 (26.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 48 (24.24%) Serverless
5 45 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 39 (19.70%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
9 35 (17.68%) Amazon EC2
10 32 (16.16%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (14.65%) Azure
12 28 (14.14%) Amazon S3
13 22 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (7.58%) AWS CodePipeline
14 15 (7.58%) GCP
15 13 (6.57%) Azure AKS
15 13 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
17 10 (5.05%) AWS Fargate
18 9 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.56%) DNS
1 11 (5.56%) Firewall
2 7 (3.54%) HTTP
3 5 (2.53%) FTP
3 5 (2.53%) SMTP
3 5 (2.53%) SSH
4 4 (2.02%) VPN
5 3 (1.52%) IMAP
5 3 (1.52%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.51%) LAN
6 1 (0.51%) Network Security
6 1 (0.51%) SSL
6 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.15%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (3.03%) Flink
5 5 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.53%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.53%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.02%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.52%) Redis
8 2 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.01%) Big Data
8 2 (1.01%) MySQL
9 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.51%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 78 (39.39%) GitLab
2 50 (25.25%) Jenkins
3 26 (13.13%) Git
4 14 (7.07%) JIRA
5 9 (4.55%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.53%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.53%) Vagrant
7 3 (1.52%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.52%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.52%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.52%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.01%) Maven
8 2 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 53 (26.77%) Public Sector
2 23 (11.62%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.11%) Finance
4 19 (9.60%) Banking
5 6 (3.03%) Front Office
6 4 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Games
8 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.63%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (8.08%) Kafka
3 10 (5.05%) Node.js
4 7 (3.54%) AWS CDK
4 7 (3.54%) Keycloak
5 6 (3.03%) OAuth
6 5 (2.53%) .NET
6 5 (2.53%) JWT
7 4 (2.02%) React
7 4 (2.02%) REST
7 4 (2.02%) RESTful
8 3 (1.52%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.52%) LDAP
8 3 (1.52%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.01%) Loki
9 2 (1.01%) Middleware
10 1 (0.51%) OpenID
10 1 (0.51%) SAML
10 1 (0.51%) Spring
10 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.04%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.04%) Replication
4 7 (3.54%) NHS
5 6 (3.03%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.53%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.52%) PKI
8 2 (1.01%) Clustering
8 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.51%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (29.29%) Linux
2 9 (4.55%) Windows
3 6 (3.03%) VMS
4 5 (2.53%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (2.53%) Unix
5 3 (1.52%) CentOS
5 3 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (100.00%) DevOps
2 149 (75.25%) CI/CD
3 97 (48.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 39 (19.70%) Observability
6 33 (16.67%) Agile
7 24 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
8 22 (11.11%) Cloud Security
9 20 (10.10%) Microservices
10 19 (9.60%) Infrastructure Automation
11 18 (9.09%) Configuration Management
12 17 (8.59%) High Availability
13 16 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (8.08%) Migration
14 15 (7.58%) Incident Response
15 14 (7.07%) Performance Tuning
15 14 (7.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (6.06%) DevSecOps
17 11 (5.56%) Secrets Management
17 11 (5.56%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 77 (38.89%) Python
2 28 (14.14%) Bash
3 20 (10.10%) Java
4 13 (6.57%) PowerShell
4 13 (6.57%) SQL
5 11 (5.56%) Groovy
5 11 (5.56%) Shell Script
6 8 (4.04%) Go
7 4 (2.02%) Perl
7 4 (2.02%) Ruby
8 3 (1.52%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.51%) C#
10 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (56.06%) Security Cleared
2 104 (52.53%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.61%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.55%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.54%) Degree
7 6 (3.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 4 (2.02%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.52%) NCSC
1 3 (1.52%) QA
2 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 81 (40.91%) Docker
2 5 (2.53%) DFS Replication
3 3 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.52%) Dovecot
3 3 (1.52%) Postfix
3 3 (1.52%) Squid
3 3 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 149 (75.25%) Terraform
2 96 (48.48%) Kubernetes
3 48 (24.24%) Grafana
4 46 (23.23%) Prometheus
5 26 (13.13%) Ansible
6 17 (8.59%) Argo
7 7 (3.54%) Packer
7 7 (3.54%) Sysdig
8 5 (2.53%) Puppet
9 3 (1.52%) Consul
9 3 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.52%) Nessus
9 3 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.52%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.52%) Rancher
10 2 (1.01%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.51%) Istio
11 1 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.51%) Opsview
Vendors
1 8 (4.04%) ServiceNow
1 8 (4.04%) Splunk
2 6 (3.03%) Dynatrace
3 5 (2.53%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.52%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (1.52%) Okta
5 2 (1.01%) CloudEndure
5 2 (1.01%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle
6 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.51%) Databricks
6 1 (0.51%) F5
6 1 (0.51%) New Relic
6 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.51%) Virgin Media