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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 382 403
Rank change year-on-year -88 +21 -69
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 197 163 176
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.50% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.55% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 116 140
10th Percentile £400 £371 £360
25th Percentile £425 £422 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £560 £578 £628
90th Percentile £638 £731 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £420
% change year-on-year -10.53% +13.10% -28.51%
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 48,829 29,898 38,441
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 91.63% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,477 19,026 24,867
10th Percentile £325 £283 £295
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,287 1,429 2,436
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.75 £13.49
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.72% -37.13% -8.57%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £80.52 £73.75 £74.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.81
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.85% +4.53%

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 July 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 14 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 July 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 -91 148 £500 - 24
London -54 93 £525 - 14
Work from Home -26 82 £500 -9.09% 9
UK excluding London -109 59 £425 -10.53% 11
North of England -77 26 £425 +2.78% 4
North East -25 15 £425 -8.60% 3
Midlands -53 10 £451 +0.22%
West Midlands -53 10 £451 +0.22%
Scotland -16 8 £412 -13.37% 1
Yorkshire -54 7 £538 +3.61%
South West -32 6 £425 -33.33% 4
South East -66 5 £450 -10.00% 2
North West -56 4 £718 +82.57% 1
East of England - 4 £485 -

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

For the 6 months to 22 July 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.

1 197 (100.00%) AWS
1 197 (100.00%) DevOps
2 151 (76.65%) CI/CD
3 147 (74.62%) Terraform
4 129 (65.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 108 (54.82%) Security Cleared
6 106 (53.81%) Kubernetes
7 102 (51.78%) SC Cleared
8 86 (43.65%) Containerisation
9 84 (42.64%) Docker
10 80 (40.61%) GitLab
11 68 (34.52%) Python
12 60 (30.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 55 (27.92%) Jenkins
14 54 (27.41%) Amazon EKS
15 47 (23.86%) GitHub
15 47 (23.86%) Prometheus
16 46 (23.35%) Grafana
17 42 (21.32%) Linux
17 42 (21.32%) Observability
17 42 (21.32%) Serverless
18 41 (20.81%) Agile
19 40 (20.30%) GitHub Actions
19 40 (20.30%) Platform Engineering
20 38 (19.29%) Bash
21 37 (18.78%) Ansible
21 37 (18.78%) AWS Lambda
22 36 (18.27%) Amazon S3
23 35 (17.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 35 (17.77%) Continuous Improvement

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 (5.58%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.02%) nginx
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 197 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (30.46%) AWS CloudFormation
3 54 (27.41%) Amazon EKS
4 47 (23.86%) GitHub
5 42 (21.32%) Serverless
6 40 (20.30%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (18.78%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (18.27%) Amazon S3
9 35 (17.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (17.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 32 (16.24%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (12.18%) Azure
13 23 (11.68%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (6.09%) GCP
15 10 (5.08%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
17 6 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
18 5 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
18 5 (2.54%) CloudFront
18 5 (2.54%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.03%) DNS
1 4 (2.03%) Network Security
1 4 (2.03%) VPN
2 3 (1.52%) Firewall
3 2 (1.02%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.51%) AMQP
4 1 (0.51%) BGP
4 1 (0.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.51%) SSL
4 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.64%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.58%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.54%) MySQL
8 3 (1.52%) Big Data
8 3 (1.52%) Redis
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 80 (40.61%) GitLab
2 55 (27.92%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.17%) Git
4 13 (6.60%) JIRA
5 8 (4.06%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.06%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.54%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.54%) CircleCI
6 5 (2.54%) Snyk
7 4 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.02%) Maven
8 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.51%) Ant
9 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.51%) JMeter
9 1 (0.51%) Newman
9 1 (0.51%) Postman
9 1 (0.51%) Selenium
9 1 (0.51%) Terragrunt
General
1 47 (23.86%) Public Sector
2 17 (8.63%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.11%) Finance
4 7 (3.55%) Banking
4 7 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.52%) Law
7 2 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.51%) Police
8 1 (0.51%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.63%) Kafka
2 11 (5.58%) AWS CDK
3 10 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.06%) Keycloak
5 6 (3.05%) Node.js
6 5 (2.54%) React
7 4 (2.03%) REST
8 3 (1.52%) OAuth
8 3 (1.52%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.02%) boto
9 2 (1.02%) FastAPI
9 2 (1.02%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.02%) JSON
9 2 (1.02%) JWT
9 2 (1.02%) Loki
9 2 (1.02%) Middleware
9 2 (1.02%) OpenID
9 2 (1.02%) RESTful
9 2 (1.02%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (21.83%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.05%) PKI
3 5 (2.54%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.03%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.03%) Replication
5 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.02%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.02%) NHS
7 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (21.32%) Linux
2 6 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.54%) Unix
3 5 (2.54%) Windows
4 3 (1.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (100.00%) DevOps
2 151 (76.65%) CI/CD
3 129 (65.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (43.65%) Containerisation
5 42 (21.32%) Observability
6 41 (20.81%) Agile
7 40 (20.30%) Platform Engineering
8 35 (17.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (15.74%) Test Automation
10 28 (14.21%) High Availability
11 22 (11.17%) Deployment Automation
12 21 (10.66%) Microservices
13 20 (10.15%) Infrastructure Automation
14 18 (9.14%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (8.12%) Configuration Management
16 14 (7.11%) DevSecOps
16 14 (7.11%) Software Engineering
17 13 (6.60%) Migration
18 12 (6.09%) AI
18 12 (6.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 68 (34.52%) Python
2 38 (19.29%) Bash
3 9 (4.57%) Go
4 8 (4.06%) Java
4 8 (4.06%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.55%) Shell Script
6 6 (3.05%) Groovy
6 6 (3.05%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.52%) SQL
7 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.02%) Scala
9 1 (0.51%) C
9 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 108 (54.82%) Security Cleared
2 102 (51.78%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (6.09%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.05%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.54%) SAFe Agilist
8 2 (1.02%) CCNP
8 2 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CCIE
9 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.51%) Degree
9 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.03%) QA
2 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.51%) GDPR
2 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.51%) SLA
2 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (42.64%) Docker
2 3 (1.52%) Squid
3 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.51%) zsh
Systems Management
1 147 (74.62%) Terraform
2 106 (53.81%) Kubernetes
3 47 (23.86%) Prometheus
4 46 (23.35%) Grafana
5 37 (18.78%) Ansible
6 13 (6.60%) Argo
7 8 (4.06%) Puppet
8 4 (2.03%) Istio
8 4 (2.03%) Packer
8 4 (2.03%) Rancher
9 2 (1.02%) Consul
9 2 (1.02%) linkerd
9 2 (1.02%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.51%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.51%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.51%) Opsview
10 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (3.05%) Dynatrace
2 4 (2.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.03%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.52%) Google
3 3 (1.52%) Splunk
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle
4 2 (1.02%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.51%) Databricks
5 1 (0.51%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.51%) Informatica
5 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.51%) Sonatype
5 1 (0.51%) Tanium
5 1 (0.51%) Tenable
5 1 (0.51%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.51%) VMware