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 23 March 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 324 441
Rank change year-on-year -95 +117 -120
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 192 199 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.67% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.72% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 170 137
10th Percentile £369 £406 £425
25th Percentile £400 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +7.91% -8.51%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £625
90th Percentile £663 £838 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £506 £522
% change year-on-year -1.23% -3.02% -0.57%

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 40,245 27,473 41,117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 92.96% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,132 17,911 26,933
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% -4.37%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,500 903 2,510
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.28 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% - -23.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £76.25 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.13 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.15% - -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 23 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 23 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 -117 152 £513 -14.58% 17
London -70 96 £525 -25.00% 6
UK excluding London -63 60 £500 -1.23% 12
Work from Home -71 60 £525 -25.00% 9
North of England -60 30 £500 -2.44% 5
North West -20 13 £488 +22.68% 4
South East -50 12 £500 - 4
Yorkshire -61 11 £525 +2.44%
Scotland +12 7 £313 -32.27%
North East -16 6 £425 -25.44% 1
East of England -23 4 £600 +37.14% 2
West Midlands -55 3 £659 +88.14% 1
Midlands -60 3 £659 +88.14% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
South West -22 2 £400 -36.00%

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 192 (100.00%) AWS
1 192 (100.00%) DevOps
2 139 (72.40%) CI/CD
3 134 (69.79%) Terraform
4 99 (51.56%) Security Cleared
5 94 (48.96%) Kubernetes
6 93 (48.44%) SC Cleared
7 91 (47.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 74 (38.54%) GitLab
9 71 (36.98%) Docker
10 69 (35.94%) Python
11 61 (31.77%) GitHub
12 55 (28.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 55 (28.65%) Linux
13 54 (28.13%) Containerisation
14 48 (25.00%) Serverless
15 46 (23.96%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (22.92%) Jenkins
17 42 (21.88%) Grafana
17 42 (21.88%) Prometheus
18 40 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
19 36 (18.75%) Agile
19 36 (18.75%) Observability
20 34 (17.71%) GitHub Actions
21 32 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 29 (15.10%) Amazon EC2
23 27 (14.06%) Amazon ECS
24 26 (13.54%) Azure
24 26 (13.54%) Bash
25 25 (13.02%) 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 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.65%) Confluence
3 4 (2.08%) nginx
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 192 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (31.77%) GitHub
3 55 (28.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 48 (25.00%) Serverless
5 46 (23.96%) Amazon EKS
6 40 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (17.71%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (15.10%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (14.06%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (13.54%) Azure
12 24 (12.50%) Amazon S3
13 18 (9.38%) AWS CodePipeline
14 17 (8.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (6.77%) Azure AKS
16 13 (6.77%) GCP
17 12 (6.25%) Amazon ECR
18 9 (4.69%) AWS CodeBuild
19 8 (4.17%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.13%) Firewall
1 6 (3.13%) VPN
2 3 (1.56%) DNS
3 2 (1.04%) HTTP
3 2 (1.04%) Network Security
3 2 (1.04%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.52%) BGP
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.94%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.13%) Flink
4 6 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (2.60%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.60%) Redis
6 4 (2.08%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.04%) 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 74 (38.54%) GitLab
2 44 (22.92%) Jenkins
3 19 (9.90%) Git
4 10 (5.21%) JIRA
5 9 (4.69%) Artifactory
6 6 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.08%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.08%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.04%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.04%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.52%) Snyk
General
1 43 (22.40%) Public Sector
2 24 (12.50%) Finance
3 17 (8.85%) Banking
4 15 (7.81%) Social Skills
5 6 (3.13%) Front Office
6 2 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.04%) 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 (13.02%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (8.33%) Kafka
3 11 (5.73%) Node.js
4 8 (4.17%) Keycloak
5 7 (3.65%) AWS CDK
6 5 (2.60%) JWT
6 5 (2.60%) OAuth
7 3 (1.56%) .NET
7 3 (1.56%) Middleware
7 3 (1.56%) REST
7 3 (1.56%) RESTful
8 2 (1.04%) boto
8 2 (1.04%) cloud-init
8 2 (1.04%) Loki
8 2 (1.04%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.04%) React
9 1 (0.52%) Fastify
9 1 (0.52%) MACH
9 1 (0.52%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.98%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.13%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.60%) Hedge funds
4 5 (2.60%) NHS
4 5 (2.60%) Replication
5 4 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.04%) Clustering
6 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.04%) 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 55 (28.65%) Linux
2 5 (2.60%) Unix
3 4 (2.08%) Windows
4 2 (1.04%) CentOS
4 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) VMS
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (100.00%) DevOps
2 139 (72.40%) CI/CD
3 91 (47.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (28.13%) Containerisation
5 36 (18.75%) Agile
5 36 (18.75%) Observability
6 23 (11.98%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (9.90%) High Availability
7 19 (9.90%) Infrastructure Automation
7 19 (9.90%) Microservices
8 18 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (6.77%) Secrets Management
9 13 (6.77%) Test Automation
10 12 (6.25%) Incident Response
10 12 (6.25%) Migration
10 12 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (5.73%) Software Delivery
12 10 (5.21%) Configuration Management
12 10 (5.21%) Cost Optimisation
12 10 (5.21%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (35.94%) Python
2 26 (13.54%) Bash
3 16 (8.33%) Java
4 12 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 9 (4.69%) Go
6 8 (4.17%) SQL
7 6 (3.13%) Groovy
8 5 (2.60%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.08%) Ruby
10 3 (1.56%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.04%) Perl
11 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.52%) C
12 1 (0.52%) C#
12 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (51.56%) Security Cleared
2 93 (48.44%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.38%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 8 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.13%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 4 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.56%) Degree
8 2 (1.04%) CCNP
8 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.04%) 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 (1.56%) QA
2 2 (1.04%) 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 (36.98%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 134 (69.79%) Terraform
2 94 (48.96%) Kubernetes
3 42 (21.88%) Grafana
3 42 (21.88%) Prometheus
4 23 (11.98%) Ansible
5 17 (8.85%) Argo
6 9 (4.69%) Sysdig
7 6 (3.13%) Packer
7 6 (3.13%) Rancher
8 3 (1.56%) Consul
9 2 (1.04%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.04%) 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 (3.13%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.60%) ServiceNow
2 5 (2.60%) Splunk
3 2 (1.04%) CloudEndure
3 2 (1.04%) Fortinet
3 2 (1.04%) Google
3 2 (1.04%) Okta
3 2 (1.04%) 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