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 27 August 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 391 400
Rank change year-on-year -103 +9 -41
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 180 167 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.51% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.56% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 117 133
10th Percentile £400 £358 £375
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £560 £556 £646
90th Percentile £640 £675 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -33.33%
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 49,647 29,883 36,109
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.23% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,658 18,862 22,923
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,547 1,583 1,920
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.66 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.51 £17.08 £19.50
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.93 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +7.50%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -108 134 £456 -8.75% 12
London -61 78 £500 -2.44% 10
Work from Home -28 74 £500 +5.26% 3
UK excluding London -114 60 £425 -10.53% 6
North of England -76 29 £425 -15.00% 1
North East -26 19 £425 -20.56%
Midlands -62 11 £425 -10.53%
West Midlands -58 10 £451 -5.05%
Scotland -17 7 £450 -5.26% 2
South West -39 6 £450 -28.00% 3
North West -55 6 £634 +62.50% 1
South East -62 4 £450 -10.00%
Yorkshire -62 4 £550 +10.00%
East of England - 3 £485 -
East Midlands -15 1 £358 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 August 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.

1 180 (100.00%) AWS
1 180 (100.00%) DevOps
2 146 (81.11%) CI/CD
3 136 (75.56%) Terraform
4 129 (71.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 106 (58.89%) Kubernetes
6 91 (50.56%) Security Cleared
7 89 (49.44%) SC Cleared
8 87 (48.33%) Docker
9 80 (44.44%) Containerisation
10 78 (43.33%) GitLab
11 62 (34.44%) Python
12 56 (31.11%) Jenkins
13 55 (30.56%) Amazon EKS
14 54 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 50 (27.78%) Grafana
15 50 (27.78%) Prometheus
16 48 (26.67%) GitHub
17 46 (25.56%) Observability
18 43 (23.89%) GitHub Actions
19 41 (22.78%) Agile
19 41 (22.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 41 (22.78%) Amazon S3
20 40 (22.22%) Serverless
21 39 (21.67%) Linux
21 39 (21.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
22 38 (21.11%) Bash
23 36 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
23 36 (20.00%) Ansible
23 36 (20.00%) AWS Lambda

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 13 (7.22%) Confluence
2 5 (2.78%) nginx
3 3 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) JBoss
5 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 180 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (30.56%) Amazon EKS
3 54 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 48 (26.67%) GitHub
5 43 (23.89%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (22.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 41 (22.78%) Amazon S3
7 40 (22.22%) Serverless
8 39 (21.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 36 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
9 36 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (13.89%) Azure
12 10 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (5.00%) GCP
13 9 (5.00%) Route 53
14 7 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (3.89%) AWS CodePipeline
14 7 (3.89%) AWS KMS
15 5 (2.78%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.00%) DNS
2 6 (3.33%) Network Security
3 4 (2.22%) Firewall
3 4 (2.22%) HTTP
4 3 (1.67%) SSL
4 3 (1.67%) VPN
5 2 (1.11%) FTP
5 2 (1.11%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.11%) IMAP
5 2 (1.11%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.11%) OpenVPN
5 2 (1.11%) SMTP
5 2 (1.11%) SSH
5 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.56%) AMQP
6 1 (0.56%) Internet
6 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.33%) MySQL
7 5 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.67%) Redis
8 3 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.11%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.56%) Big Data
10 1 (0.56%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 78 (43.33%) GitLab
2 56 (31.11%) Jenkins
3 27 (15.00%) Git
4 16 (8.89%) JIRA
5 8 (4.44%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.89%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (2.78%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.78%) Snyk
9 4 (2.22%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.67%) Maven
11 2 (1.11%) JMeter
11 2 (1.11%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.56%) Ant
12 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.56%) Newman
12 1 (0.56%) Postman
12 1 (0.56%) Selenium
12 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 41 (22.78%) Public Sector
2 17 (9.44%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.11%) Finance
4 9 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.22%) Banking
6 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.67%) Law
7 2 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.11%) Retail
8 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.56%) Military
8 1 (0.56%) Police
8 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (75.56%) Terraform
2 21 (11.67%) Kafka
3 10 (5.56%) AWS CDK
4 9 (5.00%) Keycloak
5 8 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.44%) React
6 7 (3.89%) Node.js
7 5 (2.78%) OpenID
7 5 (2.78%) Pulumi
7 5 (2.78%) SAML
8 4 (2.22%) FastAPI
8 4 (2.22%) REST
9 3 (1.67%) .NET
9 3 (1.67%) LDAP
9 3 (1.67%) Loki
9 3 (1.67%) OAuth
9 3 (1.67%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.11%) Middleware
10 2 (1.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.89%) PKI
3 6 (3.33%) Replication
4 5 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.11%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (21.67%) Linux
2 8 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.89%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.33%) Windows
5 4 (2.22%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.67%) Unix
7 1 (0.56%) VMS
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (100.00%) DevOps
2 146 (81.11%) CI/CD
3 129 (71.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (44.44%) Containerisation
5 46 (25.56%) Observability
6 41 (22.78%) Agile
7 35 (19.44%) Platform Engineering
8 34 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (18.89%) Test Automation
9 26 (14.44%) Deployment Automation
9 26 (14.44%) High Availability
10 23 (12.78%) Microservices
11 20 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
11 20 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
12 19 (10.56%) Configuration Management
13 15 (8.33%) DevSecOps
13 15 (8.33%) Migration
13 15 (8.33%) Secrets Management
14 14 (7.78%) Event-Driven
14 14 (7.78%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 62 (34.44%) Python
2 38 (21.11%) Bash
3 10 (5.56%) Groovy
3 10 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 9 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 8 (4.44%) Java
6 7 (3.89%) Go
7 5 (2.78%) SQL
8 4 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.67%) Scala
10 1 (0.56%) C
10 1 (0.56%) C#
10 1 (0.56%) Perl
10 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 91 (50.56%) Security Cleared
2 89 (49.44%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (6.11%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.78%) SAFe Agilist
6 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.11%) Degree
9 1 (0.56%) CCIE
9 1 (0.56%) CCNP
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.78%) QA
2 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.11%) WCAG
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 87 (48.33%) Docker
2 5 (2.78%) Squid
3 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.11%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.11%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.11%) Postfix
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.56%) zsh
Systems Management
1 106 (58.89%) Kubernetes
2 50 (27.78%) Grafana
2 50 (27.78%) Prometheus
3 36 (20.00%) Ansible
4 13 (7.22%) Argo
5 8 (4.44%) Puppet
6 6 (3.33%) Istio
6 6 (3.33%) Packer
7 3 (1.67%) Consul
7 3 (1.67%) Rancher
8 2 (1.11%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.11%) linkerd
8 2 (1.11%) Nessus
8 2 (1.11%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.11%) Sysdig
8 2 (1.11%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.56%) Kibana
9 1 (0.56%) systemd
9 1 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (4.44%) Dynatrace
2 6 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.22%) Splunk
5 2 (1.11%) Google
5 2 (1.11%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (1.11%) Oracle
5 2 (1.11%) Sonatype
5 2 (1.11%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.56%) Databricks
6 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.56%) Informatica
6 1 (0.56%) Okta
6 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.56%) Tanium
6 1 (0.56%) Tenable
6 1 (0.56%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.56%) VMware