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 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 399 400
Rank change year-on-year -104 +1 -33
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 183 172 165
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.52% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.57% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 119 134
10th Percentile £400 £358 £346
25th Percentile £425 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £647
90th Percentile £638 £675 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -5.26% +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 50,385 30,076 35,581
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 91.01% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,746 18,991 21,622
10th Percentile £325 £275 £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 £630 £623 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,923 1,619 1,598
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -1.71%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -121 134 £488 -1.27% 122
London -65 81 £500 - 57
Work from Home -21 76 £500 +11.11% 46
UK excluding London -123 59 £450 -5.26% 62
North of England -76 31 £470 -6.00% 22
North East -23 20 £425 -24.44% 1
Midlands -53 9 £418 -12.11% 11
Scotland -25 8 £431 -9.32% 7
West Midlands -61 8 £477 +0.42% 8
South West -28 7 £450 -28.00% 8
North West -59 7 £550 +41.03% 18
Yorkshire -63 4 £550 +10.00% 3
South East -73 3 £350 -30.00% 6
East Midlands -15 1 £358 - 3
East of England - 1 £485 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 27 September 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.

1 183 (100.00%) AWS
1 183 (100.00%) DevOps
2 151 (82.51%) CI/CD
3 139 (75.96%) Terraform
4 133 (72.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 108 (59.02%) Kubernetes
6 101 (55.19%) Security Cleared
7 97 (53.01%) SC Cleared
8 93 (50.82%) Docker
9 85 (46.45%) Containerisation
10 81 (44.26%) GitLab
11 69 (37.70%) Python
12 60 (32.79%) Amazon EKS
13 57 (31.15%) Observability
14 55 (30.05%) Jenkins
15 53 (28.96%) Grafana
16 52 (28.42%) Prometheus
17 50 (27.32%) AWS CloudFormation
18 47 (25.68%) Agile
19 46 (25.14%) GitHub
20 45 (24.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 44 (24.04%) Serverless
22 41 (22.40%) Bash
22 41 (22.40%) Linux
23 40 (21.86%) Ansible
23 40 (21.86%) GitHub Actions
24 39 (21.31%) AWS Lambda
24 39 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
25 37 (20.22%) Amazon S3
25 37 (20.22%) 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 (6.56%) Confluence
2 6 (3.28%) nginx
3 3 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.09%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) CMS
5 1 (0.55%) Drupal
5 1 (0.55%) JBoss
5 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.55%) Traefik
5 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 183 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (32.79%) Amazon EKS
3 50 (27.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 46 (25.14%) GitHub
5 45 (24.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 44 (24.04%) Serverless
7 40 (21.86%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (21.31%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (20.22%) Amazon S3
9 37 (20.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 35 (19.13%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (18.58%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (12.57%) Azure
13 11 (6.01%) Route 53
14 10 (5.46%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (3.83%) AWS KMS
16 7 (3.83%) GCP
17 6 (3.28%) Amazon ElastiCache
17 6 (3.28%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.01%) DNS
2 5 (2.73%) Network Security
3 4 (2.19%) Firewall
3 4 (2.19%) HTTP
4 3 (1.64%) SSL
4 3 (1.64%) 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 (0.55%) AMQP
6 1 (0.55%) Internet
6 1 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.30%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.10%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.46%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (3.83%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.83%) Redis
6 6 (3.28%) MySQL
7 5 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.64%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.55%) Big Data
10 1 (0.55%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.55%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 81 (44.26%) GitLab
2 55 (30.05%) Jenkins
3 28 (15.30%) Git
4 15 (8.20%) JIRA
5 9 (4.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.83%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.19%) Maven
7 4 (2.19%) Snyk
7 4 (2.19%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.64%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.64%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.64%) JMeter
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 (0.55%) git-flow
10 1 (0.55%) Liquibase
General
1 44 (24.04%) Public Sector
2 17 (9.29%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.92%) Finance
5 4 (2.19%) Banking
6 3 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.64%) Law
6 3 (1.64%) Military
7 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Billing
8 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.55%) Police
8 1 (0.55%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.55%) Publishing
8 1 (0.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (75.96%) Terraform
2 22 (12.02%) Kafka
3 11 (6.01%) Keycloak
4 10 (5.46%) AWS CDK
5 8 (4.37%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.37%) React
6 6 (3.28%) Node.js
7 5 (2.73%) .NET
7 5 (2.73%) FastAPI
7 5 (2.73%) OpenID
7 5 (2.73%) Pulumi
7 5 (2.73%) REST
7 5 (2.73%) SAML
8 4 (2.19%) RESTful
9 3 (1.64%) cloud-init
9 3 (1.64%) Flask
9 3 (1.64%) LDAP
9 3 (1.64%) OAuth
9 3 (1.64%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.40%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.37%) PKI
3 7 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.83%) Replication
4 4 (2.19%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.09%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.55%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (22.40%) Linux
2 10 (5.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.83%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.28%) Windows
5 5 (2.73%) Unix
6 4 (2.19%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (1.09%) CentOS
7 2 (1.09%) VMS
8 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (100.00%) DevOps
2 151 (82.51%) CI/CD
3 133 (72.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (46.45%) Containerisation
5 57 (31.15%) Observability
6 47 (25.68%) Agile
7 39 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (19.67%) Platform Engineering
9 33 (18.03%) Test Automation
10 32 (17.49%) Deployment Automation
11 26 (14.21%) Microservices
12 24 (13.11%) High Availability
13 21 (11.48%) Configuration Management
13 21 (11.48%) Root Cause Analysis
14 18 (9.84%) Cloud Security
14 18 (9.84%) Secrets Management
15 17 (9.29%) Infrastructure Automation
15 17 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (9.29%) Software Delivery
16 16 (8.74%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (37.70%) Python
2 41 (22.40%) Bash
3 11 (6.01%) Groovy
4 10 (5.46%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.92%) Go
5 9 (4.92%) Java
5 9 (4.92%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.83%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.28%) SQL
8 4 (2.19%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.64%) Scala
10 2 (1.09%) C#
11 1 (0.55%) Perl
11 1 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (55.19%) Security Cleared
2 97 (53.01%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (7.65%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.19%) SAFe Agilist
7 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.09%) Degree
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.19%) QA
2 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.09%) WCAG
3 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.55%) NCSC
3 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 93 (50.82%) Docker
2 5 (2.73%) Squid
3 4 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.19%) 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 (0.55%) zsh
Systems Management
1 108 (59.02%) Kubernetes
2 53 (28.96%) Grafana
3 52 (28.42%) Prometheus
4 40 (21.86%) Ansible
5 10 (5.46%) Argo
5 10 (5.46%) Packer
6 8 (4.37%) Istio
6 8 (4.37%) Puppet
7 5 (2.73%) Rancher
8 4 (2.19%) Consul
9 3 (1.64%) Kibana
9 3 (1.64%) linkerd
9 3 (1.64%) Nessus
9 3 (1.64%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.09%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.09%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.09%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.55%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (4.92%) Dynatrace
2 8 (4.37%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.83%) Splunk
4 6 (3.28%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.73%) Oracle
6 3 (1.64%) Okta
7 2 (1.09%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.09%) Sonatype
8 1 (0.55%) Adobe
8 1 (0.55%) Apple
8 1 (0.55%) Databricks
8 1 (0.55%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.55%) Google
8 1 (0.55%) Informatica
8 1 (0.55%) New Relic
8 1 (0.55%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.55%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.55%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.55%) VMware