AWS DevOps Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 389 371
Rank change year-on-year -126 -18 +33
Contract AWS DevOps jobs 189 196 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.56% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.61% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 137 146
10th Percentile £400 £363 £381
25th Percentile £425 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -4.94% -4.36%
75th Percentile £568 £556 £675
90th Percentile £641 £675 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -6.00% +25.00% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
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 adverts matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
12 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract job adverts in the UK matching a recognised job title 51,248 32,002 33,665
% of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.76% 90.95% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 30,104 20,319 20,303
10th Percentile £330 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,383 1,833 1,258
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.06 £15.10
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.69 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -28.14% -21.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.80 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.92 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -28.14% -21.35%

AWS DevOps Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract AWS DevOps job postings 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 AWS DevOps jobs over the 6 months to 12 November 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 AWS DevOps jobs within the UK over the 6 months to 12 November 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England -139 137 £500 - 116
London -81 86 £535 +7.00% 70
Work from Home -52 69 £500 +9.89% 46
UK excluding London -145 56 £470 -6.00% 49
North of England -74 31 £500 - 22
North East -25 15 £425 -22.73% 4
Scotland -32 11 £412 -13.37% 2
North West -45 10 £600 +49.25% 14
South West -23 6 £450 -28.00% 1
Yorkshire -43 6 £550 +10.00% 4
Midlands -65 6 £418 -12.11% 6
West Midlands -58 5 £477 +0.42% 5
South East -70 2 £650 +30.00% 9
East Midlands -11 1 £358 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 November 2026, AWS DevOps contract job ads cited 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 AWS DevOps job ads.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1AWS100.0%189
1DevOps100.0%189
3CI/CD82.0%155
4Terraform77.2%146
5Infrastructure as Code74.1%140
6Kubernetes60.8%115
7Docker54.5%103
8Security Cleared52.9%100
9Containerisation50.3%95
10SC Cleared47.6%90
11GitLab42.3%80
11Python42.3%80
13Jenkins34.4%65
14GitHub33.3%63
14Observability33.3%63
16Amazon EKS31.7%60
17Serverless27.0%51
18Agile26.5%50
18AWS CloudFormation26.5%50
20Amazon CloudWatch25.4%48
20Grafana25.4%48
22GitHub Actions24.9%47
23Prometheus24.3%46
24AWS Lambda23.3%44
24Bash23.3%44
24Continuous Improvement23.3%44
27Amazon ECS22.8%43
28Linux21.7%41
29Platform Engineering20.6%39
30Deployment Automation20.1%38

AWS DevOps Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1AWS DevOps Engineer94.2%178
2Senior AWS DevOps Engineer14.8%28
3Lead DevOps5.3%10
4Lead DevOps Engineer4.2%8
5Cloud Platform Engineer3.2%6
5Python Engineer3.2%6
7AWS Specialist2.6%5
7Azure DevOps Engineer2.6%5
7DevOps Specialist2.6%5
7Infrastructure Specialist2.6%5
7Kubernetes Engineer2.6%5
7Linux DevOps Engineer2.6%5
7Linux/Unix DevOps2.6%5
14AWS Infrastructure Engineer2.1%4
14AWS Platform Engineer2.1%4
14DevOps Platform Engineer2.1%4
14GCP DevOps Engineer2.1%4
14Senior Server Engineer2.1%4
14Serverless Engineer2.1%4
20AWS Developer1.6%3
134 AWS DevOps jobs Nationwide