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 8 February 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 347 446
Rank change year-on-year -63 +99 -106
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 195 183 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.59% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.63% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 160 143
10th Percentile £370 £425 £425
25th Percentile £400 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +6.82% -7.56%
75th Percentile £550 £788 £631
90th Percentile £676 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

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 35,791 28,902 42,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.50% 92.95% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,561 17,719 27,795
10th Percentile £300 £291 £275
25th Percentile £405 £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 £475 £476 £490
% change year-on-year -0.21% -2.86% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,176 840 2,312
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.89 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.57 £21.25 £16.67
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.77 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% -3.51% -
75th Percentile £61.31 £63.38 £61.51
90th Percentile £71.99 £75.00 £72.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £32.13 £35.95
% change year-on-year -11.30% -10.63% +8.94%

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 8 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 8 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 -69 153 £500 -17.70% 20
London -58 91 £525 -19.23% 8
UK excluding London -24 70 £500 - 17
Work from Home -59 57 £525 -19.23% 11
North of England -43 39 £500 - 8
North West -13 17 £450 -7.69% 7
Yorkshire -45 17 £525 +5.00% 1
South East -20 12 £500 -13.04% 4
West Midlands -35 9 £684 +95.29% 1
Midlands -38 9 £684 +95.29% 1
Scotland +7 5 £329 -34.30% 1
North East -17 5 £575 +0.88%
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West -17 2 £400 -36.00% 3
East of England -19 1 £600 +37.14%

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 195 (100.00%) AWS
1 195 (100.00%) DevOps
2 153 (78.46%) Terraform
3 150 (76.92%) CI/CD
4 104 (53.33%) Security Cleared
5 101 (51.79%) SC Cleared
6 100 (51.28%) Kubernetes
7 99 (50.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 81 (41.54%) Docker
9 80 (41.03%) GitLab
10 78 (40.00%) Python
11 66 (33.85%) GitHub
12 59 (30.26%) Linux
13 58 (29.74%) Containerisation
14 55 (28.21%) Jenkins
15 52 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
16 51 (26.15%) Grafana
17 49 (25.13%) Prometheus
18 47 (24.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 47 (24.10%) Serverless
19 46 (23.59%) Amazon EKS
20 40 (20.51%) Observability
21 39 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
22 38 (19.49%) AWS Lambda
23 35 (17.95%) Agile
23 35 (17.95%) Amazon EC2
24 34 (17.44%) Amazon ECS
25 32 (16.41%) Amazon RDS
26 31 (15.90%) Azure
26 31 (15.90%) Bash

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 13 (6.67%) Confluence
2 10 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.10%) nginx
4 2 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 195 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (33.85%) GitHub
3 52 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 47 (24.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 47 (24.10%) Serverless
5 46 (23.59%) Amazon EKS
6 39 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (19.49%) AWS Lambda
8 35 (17.95%) Amazon EC2
9 34 (17.44%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (15.90%) Azure
11 29 (14.87%) Amazon S3
12 24 (12.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (8.21%) GCP
14 15 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
15 13 (6.67%) Azure AKS
15 13 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (6.15%) Amazon ECR
17 11 (5.64%) AWS Fargate
18 9 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.18%) DNS
2 12 (6.15%) Firewall
3 8 (4.10%) HTTP
4 6 (3.08%) FTP
4 6 (3.08%) SMTP
4 6 (3.08%) SSH
5 4 (2.05%) IMAP
5 4 (2.05%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (2.05%) VPN
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 32 (16.41%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.62%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.10%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (3.08%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.08%) Flink
6 5 (2.56%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.56%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.05%) Redis
8 3 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.03%) Big Data
9 2 (1.03%) MySQL
10 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.51%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 80 (41.03%) GitLab
2 55 (28.21%) Jenkins
3 28 (14.36%) Git
4 17 (8.72%) JIRA
5 9 (4.62%) Artifactory
6 6 (3.08%) Vagrant
7 5 (2.56%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.05%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.54%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.54%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.54%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.03%) Maven
10 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 52 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 24 (12.31%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.28%) Finance
4 21 (10.77%) Banking
5 6 (3.08%) Front Office
6 5 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.51%) Games
9 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (9.23%) Kafka
3 10 (5.13%) Node.js
4 8 (4.10%) Keycloak
5 7 (3.59%) AWS CDK
6 5 (2.56%) .NET
6 5 (2.56%) React
7 4 (2.05%) LDAP
7 4 (2.05%) OAuth
7 4 (2.05%) REST
7 4 (2.05%) RESTful
8 3 (1.54%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.54%) JWT
9 2 (1.03%) Loki
9 2 (1.03%) Middleware
10 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.51%) Next.js
10 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.51%) Pandas
10 1 (0.51%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.77%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.13%) Replication
3 8 (4.10%) NHS
3 8 (4.10%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.08%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.56%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.54%) PKI
7 2 (1.03%) Clustering
7 2 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.51%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (30.26%) Linux
2 10 (5.13%) Windows
3 6 (3.08%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (3.08%) VMS
4 5 (2.56%) Unix
5 4 (2.05%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.54%) CentOS
6 3 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (100.00%) DevOps
2 150 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 99 (50.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (29.74%) Containerisation
5 40 (20.51%) Observability
6 35 (17.95%) Agile
7 24 (12.31%) Cloud Security
7 24 (12.31%) Platform Engineering
8 23 (11.79%) Microservices
9 20 (10.26%) Configuration Management
10 19 (9.74%) Infrastructure Automation
11 18 (9.23%) Migration
12 17 (8.72%) High Availability
13 16 (8.21%) Incident Response
13 16 (8.21%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (6.67%) Change Management
17 12 (6.15%) DevSecOps
17 12 (6.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (40.00%) Python
2 31 (15.90%) Bash
3 20 (10.26%) Java
4 15 (7.69%) SQL
5 14 (7.18%) PowerShell
6 13 (6.67%) Groovy
7 11 (5.64%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.10%) Go
9 4 (2.05%) Perl
9 4 (2.05%) Ruby
10 3 (1.54%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.51%) C#
12 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 101 (51.79%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.31%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.62%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (4.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (4.10%) Degree
6 7 (3.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 4 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.05%) QA
2 3 (1.54%) NCSC
3 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 81 (41.54%) Docker
2 6 (3.08%) DFS Replication
3 4 (2.05%) Dovecot
3 4 (2.05%) Postfix
3 4 (2.05%) Squid
4 3 (1.54%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 153 (78.46%) Terraform
2 100 (51.28%) Kubernetes
3 51 (26.15%) Grafana
4 49 (25.13%) Prometheus
5 27 (13.85%) Ansible
6 18 (9.23%) Argo
7 7 (3.59%) Packer
7 7 (3.59%) Sysdig
8 5 (2.56%) Puppet
9 4 (2.05%) Nessus
9 4 (2.05%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.05%) Proxmox
9 4 (2.05%) Rancher
10 3 (1.54%) Consul
10 3 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.03%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.51%) CASB
12 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.51%) Istio
12 1 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 10 (5.13%) ServiceNow
2 8 (4.10%) Splunk
3 7 (3.59%) Dynatrace
4 6 (3.08%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.05%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (1.54%) Okta
7 2 (1.03%) CloudEndure
7 2 (1.03%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.03%) Oracle
8 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.51%) Databricks
8 1 (0.51%) F5
8 1 (0.51%) New Relic
8 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.51%) Virgin Media