AWS DevOps Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK is £483, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 357 427
Rank change year-on-year -96 +70 -102
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 176 172 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.59% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.64% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 146 132
10th Percentile £371 £393 £425
25th Percentile £400 £466 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +0.92% -9.17%
75th Percentile £555 £747 £640
90th Percentile £639 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £522
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.21% -9.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.25
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 43,836 26,998 39,901
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.47% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,861 17,609 25,964
10th Percentile £319 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,872 1,048 2,673
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.34 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -23.73% -16.67%
75th Percentile £66.63 £62.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.56 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.65% -31.25% -5.73%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -140 130 £500 -12.28% 8
London -75 83 £525 -17.65% 5
Work from Home -63 67 £525 -19.23% 5
UK excluding London -88 55 £463 -7.50% 4
North of England -67 25 £500 -3.12% 1
North East -15 10 £425 -26.09% 1
Scotland +5 9 £321 -10.37%
Yorkshire -53 8 £525 -
North West -41 7 £500 +27.23%
South East -56 7 £450 -10.00% 3
Midlands - 5 £425 -
West Midlands - 5 £425 -
East of England -25 4 £485 +10.86%
South West - 4 £425 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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.

1 176 (100.00%) AWS
1 176 (100.00%) DevOps
2 132 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 125 (71.02%) Terraform
4 101 (57.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (57.39%) Security Cleared
5 95 (53.98%) SC Cleared
6 82 (46.59%) Kubernetes
7 71 (40.34%) Docker
8 64 (36.36%) GitLab
9 61 (34.66%) Containerisation
10 57 (32.39%) Python
11 53 (30.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 47 (26.70%) GitHub
12 47 (26.70%) Linux
12 47 (26.70%) Serverless
13 46 (26.14%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (25.57%) Jenkins
15 39 (22.16%) Agile
15 39 (22.16%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (22.16%) Grafana
15 39 (22.16%) Prometheus
16 37 (21.02%) Observability
17 36 (20.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (20.45%) GitHub Actions
18 32 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
19 29 (16.48%) Bash
20 28 (15.91%) Amazon S3
21 27 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
22 26 (14.77%) Ansible

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 (5.11%) Confluence
2 3 (1.70%) nginx
3 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) JBoss
4 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 176 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (30.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 47 (26.70%) GitHub
3 47 (26.70%) Serverless
4 46 (26.14%) Amazon EKS
5 39 (22.16%) AWS Lambda
6 36 (20.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 36 (20.45%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (15.91%) Amazon S3
9 24 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
9 24 (13.64%) Azure
9 24 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
11 13 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (5.11%) Azure AKS
12 9 (5.11%) GCP
12 9 (5.11%) Pulumi
13 6 (3.41%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (2.84%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) VPN
2 3 (1.70%) DNS
2 3 (1.70%) Firewall
2 3 (1.70%) HTTP
3 2 (1.14%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.57%) BGP
4 1 (0.57%) LAN
4 1 (0.57%) Network Security
4 1 (0.57%) SSL
4 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.23%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.98%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (2.84%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.27%) Redis
7 3 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.70%) Big Data
7 3 (1.70%) Flink
8 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.57%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.57%) MySQL
9 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 64 (36.36%) GitLab
2 45 (25.57%) Jenkins
3 16 (9.09%) Git
4 11 (6.25%) JIRA
5 7 (3.98%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.98%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.27%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.27%) Snyk
6 4 (2.27%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.70%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.57%) Ant
8 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.57%) Gatling
8 1 (0.57%) JMeter
8 1 (0.57%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.57%) Newman
8 1 (0.57%) Postman
8 1 (0.57%) Selenium
8 1 (0.57%) Terragrunt
General
1 46 (26.14%) Public Sector
2 15 (8.52%) Finance
3 11 (6.25%) Banking
3 11 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 6 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.70%) Front Office
6 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.57%) Law
7 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.57%) Police
7 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.66%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (6.82%) Kafka
3 10 (5.68%) Node.js
4 8 (4.55%) AWS CDK
5 5 (2.84%) Keycloak
6 4 (2.27%) Loki
7 3 (1.70%) JWT
7 3 (1.70%) OAuth
7 3 (1.70%) React
8 2 (1.14%) .NET
8 2 (1.14%) boto
8 2 (1.14%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.14%) JSON
8 2 (1.14%) Middleware
8 2 (1.14%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.14%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.14%) pytest
8 2 (1.14%) REST
9 1 (0.57%) LDAP
9 1 (0.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.34%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.84%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.84%) Replication
4 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.70%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.70%) NHS
6 2 (1.14%) Clustering
6 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.14%) PKI
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (26.70%) Linux
2 5 (2.84%) Unix
2 5 (2.84%) Windows
3 3 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.57%) VMS
4 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (100.00%) DevOps
2 132 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 101 (57.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (34.66%) Containerisation
5 39 (22.16%) Agile
6 37 (21.02%) Observability
7 27 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (14.20%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (12.50%) High Availability
10 19 (10.80%) Test Automation
11 16 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
12 14 (7.95%) Configuration Management
12 14 (7.95%) Secrets Management
13 13 (7.39%) DevSecOps
14 12 (6.82%) Microservices
14 12 (6.82%) Root Cause Analysis
15 11 (6.25%) Cost Optimisation
15 11 (6.25%) ITIL
15 11 (6.25%) Scrum
15 11 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (32.39%) Python
2 29 (16.48%) Bash
3 14 (7.95%) Java
4 12 (6.82%) Shell Script
5 9 (5.11%) Go
6 8 (4.55%) Groovy
7 6 (3.41%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.27%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.27%) SQL
9 3 (1.70%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.14%) Perl
10 2 (1.14%) Ruby
10 2 (1.14%) Scala
11 1 (0.57%) C
11 1 (0.57%) C#
11 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (57.39%) Security Cleared
2 95 (53.98%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 7 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.27%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (1.14%) CCNP
7 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CCIE
8 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) Degree
8 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.70%) QA
2 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.57%) GDPR
2 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (40.34%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 125 (71.02%) Terraform
2 82 (46.59%) Kubernetes
3 39 (22.16%) Grafana
3 39 (22.16%) Prometheus
4 26 (14.77%) Ansible
5 14 (7.95%) Argo
6 7 (3.98%) Puppet
7 5 (2.84%) Rancher
8 3 (1.70%) Packer
9 2 (1.14%) Consul
9 2 (1.14%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.14%) linkerd
9 2 (1.14%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.57%) Istio
10 1 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.57%) Podman
10 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (3.41%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.84%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.70%) Splunk
4 2 (1.14%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.14%) Google
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle
5 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.57%) New Relic
5 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.57%) Tanium
5 1 (0.57%) Tenable
5 1 (0.57%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.57%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.57%) Virgin Media