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 22 March 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 325 420
Rank change year-on-year -93 +95 -98
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 194 199 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.67% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.72% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 170 145
10th Percentile £370 £406 £425
25th Percentile £400 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £625
90th Percentile £663 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £506 £519
% change year-on-year -1.23% -2.36% -1.24%

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 40,370 27,451 41,125
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 92.96% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,228 17,896 26,949
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.46%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.46% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,504 902 2,504
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £12.88
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.91 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% +1.25% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £76.25 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.77% - -19.93%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -125 154 £513 -14.58% 15
London -71 96 £525 -25.00% 6
UK excluding London -48 62 £500 -1.23% 10
Work from Home -73 60 £525 -25.00% 7
North of England -69 32 £500 -2.44% 5
North West -21 13 £488 +22.68% 4
Yorkshire -53 13 £525 +2.44%
South East -43 12 £500 - 4
Scotland +6 7 £313 -32.27%
North East -16 6 £425 -25.44% 1
East of England -19 4 £600 +37.14%
Midlands -56 3 £659 +88.14% 1
West Midlands -64 3 £659 +88.14% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
South West -33 2 £400 -36.00%

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

For the 6 months to 22 March 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.

1 194 (100.00%) AWS
1 194 (100.00%) DevOps
2 141 (72.68%) CI/CD
3 136 (70.10%) Terraform
4 100 (51.55%) Security Cleared
5 95 (48.97%) Kubernetes
6 94 (48.45%) SC Cleared
7 92 (47.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 75 (38.66%) GitLab
9 71 (36.60%) Docker
10 70 (36.08%) Python
11 62 (31.96%) GitHub
12 56 (28.87%) Linux
13 55 (28.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 54 (27.84%) Containerisation
15 48 (24.74%) Serverless
16 46 (23.71%) Amazon EKS
17 45 (23.20%) Jenkins
18 44 (22.68%) Grafana
18 44 (22.68%) Prometheus
19 40 (20.62%) AWS Lambda
20 37 (19.07%) Observability
21 36 (18.56%) Agile
22 35 (18.04%) GitHub Actions
23 32 (16.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 29 (14.95%) Amazon EC2
25 27 (13.92%) Amazon ECS
25 27 (13.92%) Azure
25 27 (13.92%) Bash
26 25 (12.89%) Elastic Stack

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 9 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.61%) Confluence
3 4 (2.06%) nginx
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 194 (100.00%) AWS
2 62 (31.96%) GitHub
3 55 (28.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 48 (24.74%) Serverless
5 46 (23.71%) Amazon EKS
6 40 (20.62%) AWS Lambda
7 35 (18.04%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (16.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (14.95%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (13.92%) Amazon ECS
10 27 (13.92%) Azure
11 24 (12.37%) Amazon S3
12 18 (9.28%) AWS CodePipeline
13 17 (8.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (7.22%) GCP
15 13 (6.70%) Azure AKS
16 12 (6.19%) Amazon ECR
17 9 (4.64%) AWS CodeBuild
17 9 (4.64%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.09%) Firewall
1 6 (3.09%) VPN
2 3 (1.55%) DNS
3 2 (1.03%) HTTP
3 2 (1.03%) Network Security
3 2 (1.03%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.52%) BGP
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.82%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.19%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.09%) Flink
4 6 (3.09%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.58%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (2.58%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.58%) Redis
6 4 (2.06%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.03%) Big Data
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.52%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 75 (38.66%) GitLab
2 45 (23.20%) Jenkins
3 19 (9.79%) Git
4 10 (5.15%) JIRA
5 9 (4.64%) Artifactory
6 6 (3.09%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.06%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.06%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.55%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.03%) Liquibase
9 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.03%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.52%) Snyk
General
1 45 (23.20%) Public Sector
2 24 (12.37%) Finance
3 17 (8.76%) Banking
4 15 (7.73%) Social Skills
5 6 (3.09%) Front Office
6 2 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.52%) Games
7 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.52%) Retail
7 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.89%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (8.25%) Kafka
3 11 (5.67%) Node.js
4 8 (4.12%) Keycloak
5 7 (3.61%) AWS CDK
6 5 (2.58%) JWT
6 5 (2.58%) OAuth
7 3 (1.55%) .NET
7 3 (1.55%) Middleware
7 3 (1.55%) REST
7 3 (1.55%) RESTful
8 2 (1.03%) boto
8 2 (1.03%) cloud-init
8 2 (1.03%) Loki
8 2 (1.03%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.03%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.03%) React
9 1 (0.52%) Fastify
9 1 (0.52%) MACH
9 1 (0.52%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.37%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.09%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.09%) NHS
3 6 (3.09%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.58%) Hedge funds
4 5 (2.58%) Replication
5 4 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.03%) Clustering
6 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.03%) PKI
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (28.87%) Linux
2 5 (2.58%) Unix
3 4 (2.06%) Windows
4 2 (1.03%) CentOS
4 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) VMS
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (100.00%) DevOps
2 141 (72.68%) CI/CD
3 92 (47.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (27.84%) Containerisation
5 37 (19.07%) Observability
6 36 (18.56%) Agile
7 23 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (10.31%) Infrastructure Automation
9 19 (9.79%) High Availability
9 19 (9.79%) Microservices
10 18 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (6.70%) Secrets Management
11 13 (6.70%) Test Automation
12 12 (6.19%) Incident Response
12 12 (6.19%) Migration
12 12 (6.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (5.67%) Cloud Security
13 11 (5.67%) Software Delivery
14 10 (5.15%) Cost Optimisation
14 10 (5.15%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (36.08%) Python
2 27 (13.92%) Bash
3 16 (8.25%) Java
4 12 (6.19%) Shell Script
5 9 (4.64%) Go
6 8 (4.12%) SQL
7 6 (3.09%) Groovy
8 5 (2.58%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.06%) Ruby
10 3 (1.55%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.03%) Perl
11 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.52%) C
12 1 (0.52%) C#
12 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (51.55%) Security Cleared
2 94 (48.45%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.28%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 8 (4.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.09%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 4 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.55%) Degree
8 2 (1.03%) CCNP
8 2 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.52%) CCIE
9 1 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.55%) QA
2 2 (1.03%) NCSC
3 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (36.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 136 (70.10%) Terraform
2 95 (48.97%) Kubernetes
3 44 (22.68%) Grafana
3 44 (22.68%) Prometheus
4 23 (11.86%) Ansible
5 17 (8.76%) Argo
6 9 (4.64%) Sysdig
7 6 (3.09%) Packer
7 6 (3.09%) Rancher
8 3 (1.55%) Consul
9 2 (1.03%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.03%) Puppet
10 1 (0.52%) CASB
10 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.52%) Istio
10 1 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.52%) Opsview
10 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (3.09%) Dynatrace
1 6 (3.09%) Splunk
2 5 (2.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.58%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.03%) CloudEndure
3 2 (1.03%) Fortinet
3 2 (1.03%) Google
3 2 (1.03%) Okta
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle
4 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.52%) New Relic
4 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.52%) TOWER Software
4 1 (0.52%) Virgin Media