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 13 March 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 338 426
Rank change year-on-year -79 +88 -112
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 199 197 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.67% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.72% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 168 144
10th Percentile £371 £421 £425
25th Percentile £400 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +9.30% -8.51%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £625
90th Percentile £663 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £516 £519
% change year-on-year -3.12% -0.46% -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 39,357 27,378 41,374
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 92.92% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,580 17,687 27,135
10th Percentile £313 £296 £270
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £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 2,451 863 2,500
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.47 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.40 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% +2.77% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £75.79 £77.44 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -19.90%

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 13 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 13 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 -94 157 £513 -14.58% 17
London -72 99 £525 -25.00% 5
UK excluding London -62 63 £500 -3.12% 13
Work from Home -67 63 £525 -23.64% 8
North of England -51 34 £500 -3.80% 8
Yorkshire -50 14 £525 +2.44% 1
North West -25 13 £488 +0.03% 5
South East -47 12 £500 - 3
Scotland +13 7 £313 -32.27%
North East -14 7 £500 -12.28% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England -24 3 £600 +37.14%
South West -24 2 £400 -36.00% 1
West Midlands -60 2 £659 +88.14% 1
Midlands -64 2 £659 +88.14% 1

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 199 (100.00%) AWS
1 199 (100.00%) DevOps
2 148 (74.37%) CI/CD
3 141 (70.85%) Terraform
4 104 (52.26%) Security Cleared
5 98 (49.25%) Kubernetes
5 98 (49.25%) SC Cleared
6 96 (48.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 77 (38.69%) GitLab
8 72 (36.18%) Docker
9 70 (35.18%) Python
10 64 (32.16%) GitHub
11 58 (29.15%) Linux
12 55 (27.64%) Containerisation
13 54 (27.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 47 (23.62%) Serverless
15 46 (23.12%) Amazon EKS
16 45 (22.61%) Grafana
16 45 (22.61%) Jenkins
17 43 (21.61%) Prometheus
18 39 (19.60%) AWS Lambda
19 38 (19.10%) Observability
20 36 (18.09%) GitHub Actions
21 34 (17.09%) Agile
21 34 (17.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 29 (14.57%) Azure
23 28 (14.07%) Amazon EC2
24 27 (13.57%) Amazon ECS
25 26 (13.07%) Bash
26 24 (12.06%) 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 9 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.02%) Confluence
3 4 (2.01%) nginx
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 199 (100.00%) AWS
2 64 (32.16%) GitHub
3 54 (27.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 47 (23.62%) Serverless
5 46 (23.12%) Amazon EKS
6 39 (19.60%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (18.09%) GitHub Actions
8 34 (17.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (14.57%) Azure
10 28 (14.07%) Amazon EC2
11 27 (13.57%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (12.06%) Amazon S3
13 19 (9.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (8.54%) AWS CodePipeline
15 15 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (7.54%) GCP
16 13 (6.53%) Azure AKS
17 12 (6.03%) Amazon ECR
18 9 (4.52%) AWS CodeBuild
18 9 (4.52%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.52%) Firewall
2 5 (2.51%) DNS
2 5 (2.51%) VPN
3 2 (1.01%) HTTP
3 2 (1.01%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.50%) BGP
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.55%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.03%) DynamoDB
3 7 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.02%) Flink
4 6 (3.02%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.51%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.01%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.01%) Redis
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.01%) Big Data
8 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.50%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 77 (38.69%) GitLab
2 45 (22.61%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.54%) Git
4 9 (4.52%) Artifactory
4 9 (4.52%) JIRA
5 5 (2.51%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.01%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.01%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.01%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.01%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.01%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 49 (24.62%) Public Sector
2 24 (12.06%) Finance
3 17 (8.54%) Banking
4 16 (8.04%) Social Skills
5 6 (3.02%) Front Office
6 2 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.50%) Games
7 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.50%) Retail
7 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.06%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (8.04%) Kafka
3 11 (5.53%) Node.js
4 7 (3.52%) Keycloak
5 6 (3.02%) AWS CDK
6 5 (2.51%) JWT
6 5 (2.51%) OAuth
7 4 (2.01%) .NET
8 3 (1.51%) Middleware
8 3 (1.51%) REST
8 3 (1.51%) RESTful
9 2 (1.01%) boto
9 2 (1.01%) cloud-init
9 2 (1.01%) Loki
9 2 (1.01%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.01%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.01%) React
10 1 (0.50%) MACH
10 1 (0.50%) Next.js
10 1 (0.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.56%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.52%) NHS
4 6 (3.02%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.02%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.51%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.01%) Replication
7 2 (1.01%) Clustering
7 2 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.01%) PKI
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (29.15%) Linux
2 5 (2.51%) Unix
2 5 (2.51%) Windows
3 2 (1.01%) CentOS
3 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.50%) VMS
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (100.00%) DevOps
2 148 (74.37%) CI/CD
3 96 (48.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (27.64%) Containerisation
5 38 (19.10%) Observability
6 34 (17.09%) Agile
7 21 (10.55%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (9.55%) Infrastructure Automation
8 19 (9.55%) Microservices
9 18 (9.05%) High Availability
10 17 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (7.54%) Migration
12 13 (6.53%) Cloud Security
13 12 (6.03%) Incident Response
13 12 (6.03%) Secrets Management
13 12 (6.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (5.53%) Configuration Management
14 11 (5.53%) Software Delivery
14 11 (5.53%) Test Automation
15 10 (5.03%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (35.18%) Python
2 26 (13.07%) Bash
3 16 (8.04%) Java
4 12 (6.03%) Shell Script
5 9 (4.52%) SQL
6 8 (4.02%) Go
7 6 (3.02%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.51%) Groovy
9 4 (2.01%) Ruby
10 3 (1.51%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.01%) Perl
11 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.50%) C
12 1 (0.50%) C#
12 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (52.26%) Security Cleared
2 98 (49.25%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.05%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 8 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.02%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 4 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.51%) Degree
8 2 (1.01%) CCNP
8 2 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.51%) QA
2 2 (1.01%) NCSC
3 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.50%) GDPR
3 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (36.18%) Docker
2 3 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 141 (70.85%) Terraform
2 98 (49.25%) Kubernetes
3 45 (22.61%) Grafana
4 43 (21.61%) Prometheus
5 24 (12.06%) Ansible
6 18 (9.05%) Argo
7 9 (4.52%) Sysdig
8 6 (3.02%) Packer
9 5 (2.51%) Rancher
10 3 (1.51%) Consul
10 3 (1.51%) Puppet
11 2 (1.01%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.50%) CASB
12 1 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.50%) Istio
12 1 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.50%) Opsview
12 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (3.52%) Dynatrace
2 6 (3.02%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.02%) Splunk
3 4 (2.01%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.01%) CloudEndure
4 2 (1.01%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.01%) Google
4 2 (1.01%) Okta
4 2 (1.01%) Oracle
5 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.50%) Databricks
5 1 (0.50%) New Relic
5 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.50%) Virgin Media