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 24 August 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 388 402
Rank change year-on-year -118 +14 -44
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 177 169 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.51% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.56% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 120 133
10th Percentile £400 £358 £375
25th Percentile £425 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £562 £575 £646
90th Percentile £640 £675 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -33.33%
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 49,592 30,105 36,124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.25% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,685 19,016 22,990
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,534 1,573 1,935
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.67 £17.30 £19.59
Median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.50% -41.51% -1.71%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.49 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +7.50%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -122 132 £469 -6.25% 11
London -70 75 £500 -2.44% 7
Work from Home -36 72 £500 +1.27% 5
UK excluding London -121 60 £425 -10.53% 5
North of England -72 29 £425 -15.00% 2
North East -24 19 £425 -20.56% 1
Midlands -55 11 £425 -10.53%
West Midlands -55 10 £451 -5.05%
Scotland -21 6 £450 -5.26%
South West -39 6 £450 -28.00% 3
North West -55 6 £634 +62.50% 1
Yorkshire -50 4 £550 +10.00%
South East -73 4 £450 -10.00%
East of England - 4 £485 -
East Midlands -12 1 £358 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 August 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.

1 177 (100.00%) AWS
1 177 (100.00%) DevOps
2 141 (79.66%) CI/CD
3 133 (75.14%) Terraform
4 125 (70.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 105 (59.32%) Kubernetes
6 91 (51.41%) Security Cleared
7 89 (50.28%) SC Cleared
8 83 (46.89%) Docker
9 79 (44.63%) Containerisation
9 79 (44.63%) GitLab
10 59 (33.33%) Python
11 56 (31.64%) Jenkins
12 54 (30.51%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (30.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 49 (27.68%) GitHub
14 47 (26.55%) Grafana
14 47 (26.55%) Prometheus
15 44 (24.86%) GitHub Actions
16 42 (23.73%) Observability
17 38 (21.47%) Agile
17 38 (21.47%) Serverless
18 37 (20.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (20.90%) Bash
18 37 (20.90%) Linux
19 36 (20.34%) Amazon S3
19 36 (20.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 35 (19.77%) Ansible
20 35 (19.77%) AWS Lambda
21 34 (19.21%) Platform Engineering

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 (6.21%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.69%) nginx
3 2 (1.13%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 177 (100.00%) AWS
2 54 (30.51%) Amazon EKS
2 54 (30.51%) AWS CloudFormation
3 49 (27.68%) GitHub
4 44 (24.86%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (21.47%) Serverless
6 37 (20.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 36 (20.34%) Amazon S3
7 36 (20.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 35 (19.77%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (18.08%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (12.99%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (12.99%) Azure
11 10 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (5.65%) GCP
12 7 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.95%) AWS CodePipeline
12 7 (3.95%) Route 53
13 6 (3.39%) Azure AKS
14 5 (2.82%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.95%) DNS
2 6 (3.39%) Network Security
3 4 (2.26%) VPN
4 3 (1.69%) Firewall
4 3 (1.69%) SSL
5 2 (1.13%) HTTP
5 2 (1.13%) OpenVPN
5 2 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.56%) AMQP
6 1 (0.56%) BGP
6 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.56%) Internet
6 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.99%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.08%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (3.95%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (2.82%) MySQL
6 3 (1.69%) Redis
7 2 (1.13%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.56%) Big Data
8 1 (0.56%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 79 (44.63%) GitLab
2 56 (31.64%) Jenkins
3 24 (13.56%) Git
4 14 (7.91%) JIRA
5 8 (4.52%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.52%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.39%) Snyk
6 6 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.82%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.82%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.69%) Maven
9 2 (1.13%) JMeter
10 1 (0.56%) Ant
10 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.56%) Gatling
10 1 (0.56%) Newman
10 1 (0.56%) Postman
10 1 (0.56%) Selenium
10 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 41 (23.16%) Public Sector
2 15 (8.47%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.78%) Finance
4 9 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.26%) Banking
6 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.69%) Law
7 2 (1.13%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.13%) Retail
8 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.56%) Military
8 1 (0.56%) Police
8 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (75.14%) Terraform
2 20 (11.30%) Kafka
3 10 (5.65%) AWS CDK
4 9 (5.08%) Keycloak
5 8 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (3.95%) Node.js
6 7 (3.95%) React
7 5 (2.82%) OpenID
7 5 (2.82%) Pulumi
7 5 (2.82%) SAML
8 4 (2.26%) REST
9 3 (1.69%) .NET
9 3 (1.69%) Loki
9 3 (1.69%) OAuth
9 3 (1.69%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.13%) cloud-init
10 2 (1.13%) JSON
10 2 (1.13%) Middleware
10 2 (1.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (22.03%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.39%) PKI
3 5 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.82%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.26%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.26%) Replication
5 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.13%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.90%) Linux
2 7 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.26%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.26%) Windows
4 3 (1.69%) Unix
5 2 (1.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (100.00%) DevOps
2 141 (79.66%) CI/CD
3 125 (70.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (44.63%) Containerisation
5 42 (23.73%) Observability
6 38 (21.47%) Agile
7 34 (19.21%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (19.21%) Test Automation
8 32 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (14.12%) High Availability
10 22 (12.43%) Deployment Automation
10 22 (12.43%) Microservices
11 19 (10.73%) Infrastructure Automation
12 18 (10.17%) Root Cause Analysis
13 17 (9.60%) Configuration Management
14 15 (8.47%) DevSecOps
14 15 (8.47%) Migration
15 13 (7.34%) Event-Driven
15 13 (7.34%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (7.34%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (33.33%) Python
2 37 (20.90%) Bash
3 10 (5.65%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.52%) Go
4 8 (4.52%) Groovy
4 8 (4.52%) Java
4 8 (4.52%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.52%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.69%) Scala
5 3 (1.69%) SQL
5 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.56%) C
6 1 (0.56%) C#
6 1 (0.56%) Perl
6 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 91 (51.41%) Security Cleared
2 89 (50.28%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.08%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.82%) SAFe Agilist
6 4 (2.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.13%) CCNP
8 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CCIE
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.26%) QA
2 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.13%) WCAG
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (46.89%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.69%) Squid
3 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.56%) zsh
Systems Management
1 105 (59.32%) Kubernetes
2 47 (26.55%) Grafana
2 47 (26.55%) Prometheus
3 35 (19.77%) Ansible
4 13 (7.34%) Argo
5 8 (4.52%) Puppet
6 6 (3.39%) Istio
6 6 (3.39%) Packer
7 3 (1.69%) Consul
7 3 (1.69%) Rancher
8 2 (1.13%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.13%) linkerd
8 2 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.13%) Sysdig
8 2 (1.13%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.56%) Kibana
9 1 (0.56%) Podman
9 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (4.52%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.82%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.26%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.69%) Google
4 3 (1.69%) Splunk
5 2 (1.13%) Oracle
5 2 (1.13%) Sonatype
5 2 (1.13%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.56%) Databricks
6 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.56%) Informatica
6 1 (0.56%) Okta
6 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.56%) Tanium
6 1 (0.56%) Tenable
6 1 (0.56%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.56%) VMware