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 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 394 399
Rank change year-on-year -114 +5 -50
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 184 165 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.50% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.55% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 112 130
10th Percentile £400 £358 £369
25th Percentile £425 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £638
90th Percentile £638 £675 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -5.26% +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 50,612 30,015 35,830
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 91.09% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,983 18,953 22,040
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £626 £623 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,861 1,585 1,681
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.30 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.86%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -124 134 £485 +2.11% 103
London -67 81 £500 - 59
Work from Home -34 77 £500 +11.11% 36
UK excluding London -133 59 £450 -5.26% 51
North of England -77 30 £450 -10.00% 19
North East -33 21 £425 -20.56% 1
Midlands -65 9 £418 -12.11% 10
Scotland -19 8 £431 -9.32% 9
West Midlands -65 8 £477 +0.42% 7
South West -31 7 £450 -28.00% 4
North West -63 6 £634 +62.50% 15
Yorkshire -53 3 £550 +10.00% 3
South East -65 3 £350 -30.00% 5
East of England - 2 £485 - 1
East Midlands -14 1 £358 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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.

1 184 (100.00%) AWS
1 184 (100.00%) DevOps
2 151 (82.07%) CI/CD
3 140 (76.09%) Terraform
4 134 (72.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 109 (59.24%) Kubernetes
6 102 (55.43%) Security Cleared
7 98 (53.26%) SC Cleared
8 92 (50.00%) Docker
9 83 (45.11%) Containerisation
10 80 (43.48%) GitLab
11 70 (38.04%) Python
12 60 (32.61%) Amazon EKS
13 57 (30.98%) Jenkins
13 57 (30.98%) Observability
14 53 (28.80%) Grafana
15 52 (28.26%) Prometheus
16 51 (27.72%) AWS CloudFormation
17 48 (26.09%) Agile
18 47 (25.54%) GitHub
19 44 (23.91%) Bash
20 43 (23.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 42 (22.83%) Serverless
22 41 (22.28%) GitHub Actions
23 40 (21.74%) Ansible
23 40 (21.74%) Linux
24 38 (20.65%) AWS Lambda
24 38 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
25 37 (20.11%) Amazon S3
25 37 (20.11%) Test Automation

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 (7.07%) Confluence
2 6 (3.26%) nginx
3 3 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.09%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.54%) Drupal
5 1 (0.54%) JBoss
5 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.54%) Traefik
5 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 184 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (32.61%) Amazon EKS
3 51 (27.72%) AWS CloudFormation
4 47 (25.54%) GitHub
5 43 (23.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 42 (22.83%) Serverless
7 41 (22.28%) GitHub Actions
8 38 (20.65%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (20.11%) Amazon S3
9 37 (20.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 36 (19.57%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (16.85%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (13.04%) Azure
13 11 (5.98%) Route 53
14 9 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (3.80%) AWS KMS
15 7 (3.80%) GCP
16 6 (3.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 6 (3.26%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.43%) DNS
2 6 (3.26%) Network Security
3 4 (2.17%) Firewall
3 4 (2.17%) HTTP
4 3 (1.63%) SSL
4 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.63%) VPN
5 2 (1.09%) FTP
5 2 (1.09%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.09%) IMAP
5 2 (1.09%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.09%) SMTP
5 2 (1.09%) SSH
6 1 (0.54%) AMQP
6 1 (0.54%) Internet
6 1 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.76%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.98%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (5.98%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.80%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.80%) Redis
5 6 (3.26%) MySQL
6 5 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.63%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.54%) Big Data
9 1 (0.54%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.54%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 80 (43.48%) GitLab
2 57 (30.98%) Jenkins
3 28 (15.22%) Git
4 16 (8.70%) JIRA
5 8 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.80%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.72%) Snyk
7 5 (2.72%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.17%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.17%) Maven
9 3 (1.63%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.63%) JMeter
10 2 (1.09%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.09%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.54%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.54%) Gatling
11 1 (0.54%) Newman
11 1 (0.54%) Postman
11 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.54%) Selenium
General
1 45 (24.46%) Public Sector
2 16 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.35%) Finance
5 4 (2.17%) Banking
6 3 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.63%) Law
6 3 (1.63%) Military
7 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Billing
8 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.54%) Police
8 1 (0.54%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.54%) Publishing
8 1 (0.54%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (76.09%) Terraform
2 23 (12.50%) Kafka
3 12 (6.52%) Keycloak
4 9 (4.89%) AWS CDK
5 8 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.35%) React
6 6 (3.26%) Node.js
7 5 (2.72%) .NET
7 5 (2.72%) OpenID
7 5 (2.72%) Pulumi
7 5 (2.72%) REST
7 5 (2.72%) SAML
8 4 (2.17%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.63%) cloud-init
9 3 (1.63%) LDAP
9 3 (1.63%) Loki
9 3 (1.63%) OAuth
9 3 (1.63%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.20%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.35%) PKI
2 8 (4.35%) Replication
3 5 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.09%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.54%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (21.74%) Linux
2 10 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.80%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.26%) Windows
5 5 (2.72%) Unix
6 4 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (1.09%) CentOS
7 2 (1.09%) VMS
8 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (100.00%) DevOps
2 151 (82.07%) CI/CD
3 134 (72.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (45.11%) Containerisation
5 57 (30.98%) Observability
6 48 (26.09%) Agile
7 38 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (20.11%) Test Automation
9 35 (19.02%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (16.30%) Deployment Automation
11 25 (13.59%) High Availability
12 24 (13.04%) Microservices
13 21 (11.41%) Configuration Management
13 21 (11.41%) Root Cause Analysis
14 19 (10.33%) Infrastructure Automation
14 19 (10.33%) Secrets Management
15 16 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (8.15%) Cloud Security
16 15 (8.15%) DevSecOps
16 15 (8.15%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 70 (38.04%) Python
2 44 (23.91%) Bash
3 12 (6.52%) Groovy
4 11 (5.98%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.89%) Java
5 9 (4.89%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.35%) Go
7 7 (3.80%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.26%) SQL
9 4 (2.17%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.63%) Scala
11 2 (1.09%) C#
12 1 (0.54%) Perl
12 1 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (55.43%) Security Cleared
2 98 (53.26%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (6.52%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.17%) SAFe Agilist
6 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.09%) Degree
8 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.72%) QA
2 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.09%) WCAG
3 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.54%) NCSC
3 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 92 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (2.72%) Squid
3 4 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.09%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.09%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.09%) Postfix
4 2 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.54%) zsh
Systems Management
1 109 (59.24%) Kubernetes
2 53 (28.80%) Grafana
3 52 (28.26%) Prometheus
4 40 (21.74%) Ansible
5 10 (5.43%) Argo
6 9 (4.89%) Packer
7 8 (4.35%) Istio
7 8 (4.35%) Puppet
8 6 (3.26%) Rancher
9 4 (2.17%) Consul
10 3 (1.63%) Kibana
10 3 (1.63%) linkerd
10 3 (1.63%) Nessus
10 3 (1.63%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.09%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.09%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.09%) Proxmox
11 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.54%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (5.43%) Dynatrace
2 9 (4.89%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.26%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.26%) Splunk
4 4 (2.17%) Oracle
5 3 (1.63%) Okta
6 2 (1.09%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.09%) Sonatype
6 2 (1.09%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.54%) Adobe
7 1 (0.54%) Apple
7 1 (0.54%) Databricks
7 1 (0.54%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.54%) Google
7 1 (0.54%) Informatica
7 1 (0.54%) New Relic
7 1 (0.54%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.54%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.54%) VMware