AWS DevOps Contracts

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 406 325
Rank change year-on-year +27 -81 +15
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 161 186 415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.43% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.46% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 150 334
10th Percentile £384 £381 £458
25th Percentile £432 £444 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -12.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £626 £615 £688
90th Percentile £838 £700 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £588
% change year-on-year +2.70% -21.28% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 28,823 40,432 52,711
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 93.00% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,389 25,993 36,631
10th Percentile £288 £285 £313
25th Percentile £401 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,297 2,846 1,533
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.45 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +96.08%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps.

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps.

Hourly rate trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Top 14 Contract 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 3 July 2025. 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 +42 136 £513 -2.38% 30
London +31 84 £573 +4.09% 13
Work from Home +9 64 £575 +4.55% 24
UK excluding London +22 48 £475 +2.70% 19
North of England -1 26 £451 +12.75% 11
North West +3 12 £392 -28.82% 8
South East +47 10 £500 -24.53% 2
Yorkshire -3 10 £519 +29.69% 3
Midlands +16 5 £450 - 3
Scotland -4 5 £417 -19.32% 1
West Midlands +11 4 £450 +28.57% 3
North East - 4 £465 -
South West +28 2 £638 +30.77%
East Midlands +2 1 - -

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, AWS DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 161 (100.00%) AWS
1 161 (100.00%) DevOps
2 127 (78.88%) Terraform
3 119 (73.91%) CI/CD
4 101 (62.73%) Kubernetes
5 78 (48.45%) Python
6 76 (47.20%) Docker
7 70 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (42.86%) Security Cleared
9 64 (39.75%) SC Cleared
10 47 (29.19%) Jenkins
11 43 (26.71%) GitLab
11 43 (26.71%) Serverless
12 40 (24.84%) AWS Lambda
12 40 (24.84%) Amazon EC2
12 40 (24.84%) Amazon S3
13 37 (22.98%) Linux
13 37 (22.98%) Java
14 35 (21.74%) Agile
14 35 (21.74%) Ansible
15 34 (21.12%) GitHub
16 31 (19.25%) Containerisation
17 29 (18.01%) Finance
18 28 (17.39%) Git
18 28 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
19 27 (16.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 26 (16.15%) AWS CloudFormation
20 26 (16.15%) Go
20 26 (16.15%) OpenShift
20 26 (16.15%) Amazon EKS

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (15.53%) Apache
2 22 (13.66%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (11.18%) Apache Spark
4 8 (4.97%) Confluence
4 8 (4.97%) JBoss
5 7 (4.35%) nginx
6 4 (2.48%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.24%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.62%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 161 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (26.71%) Serverless
3 40 (24.84%) Amazon EC2
3 40 (24.84%) Amazon S3
3 40 (24.84%) AWS Lambda
4 34 (21.12%) GitHub
5 28 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
6 27 (16.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 26 (16.15%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (16.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (16.15%) OpenShift
8 24 (14.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (9.32%) dbt
11 14 (8.70%) Azure
12 10 (6.21%) AWS CodePipeline
12 10 (6.21%) AWS KMS
13 9 (5.59%) PaaS
14 7 (4.35%) IaaS
14 7 (4.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.21%) DNS
2 9 (5.59%) VPN
3 7 (4.35%) Firewall
4 6 (3.73%) HTTP
4 6 (3.73%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.11%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.86%) Internet
6 3 (1.86%) SMTP
7 2 (1.24%) IMAP
7 2 (1.24%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (1.24%) SSH
7 2 (1.24%) SSL
8 1 (0.62%) FTP
8 1 (0.62%) NAS
8 1 (0.62%) Network Security
8 1 (0.62%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (9.32%) Amazon Athena
2 15 (9.32%) Apache Arrow
2 15 (9.32%) Apache Iceberg
2 15 (9.32%) Apache Ignite
2 15 (9.32%) Dremio
3 7 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (3.73%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.73%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.11%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.11%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.48%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.48%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.86%) Big Data
7 3 (1.86%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.24%) MySQL
9 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (29.19%) Jenkins
2 43 (26.71%) GitLab
3 28 (17.39%) Git
4 18 (11.18%) Artifactory
4 18 (11.18%) JIRA
5 8 (4.97%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (4.97%) TeamCity
6 7 (4.35%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.48%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (2.48%) CA Release Automation
7 4 (2.48%) Maven
8 3 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.86%) Vagrant
9 2 (1.24%) Ant
9 2 (1.24%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.24%) Gradle
9 2 (1.24%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.62%) Babel
10 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (18.01%) Finance
2 18 (11.18%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.56%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.32%) Front Office
5 7 (4.35%) Banking
6 6 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.48%) Law
8 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.42%) Kafka
2 17 (10.56%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (9.32%) J2EE
3 15 (9.32%) PySpark
4 8 (4.97%) .NET
5 6 (3.73%) AWS CDK
6 5 (3.11%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.48%) Node.js
7 4 (2.48%) OAuth
8 3 (1.86%) Middleware
8 3 (1.86%) React
9 2 (1.24%) JSON
9 2 (1.24%) LDAP
9 2 (1.24%) Next.js
9 2 (1.24%) Swagger
10 1 (0.62%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.62%) AWS Amplify
10 1 (0.62%) JWT
10 1 (0.62%) Loki
10 1 (0.62%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.83%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.11%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.24%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.62%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.98%) Linux
2 14 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (5.59%) Windows
4 5 (3.11%) Unix
5 3 (1.86%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.86%) VMS
6 1 (0.62%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (100.00%) DevOps
2 119 (73.91%) CI/CD
3 70 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (21.74%) Agile
5 31 (19.25%) Containerisation
6 22 (13.66%) Cloud Security
7 21 (13.04%) Configuration Management
7 21 (13.04%) Microservices
8 20 (12.42%) Software Engineering
9 19 (11.80%) Open Source
9 19 (11.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 18 (11.18%) Data Engineering
11 17 (10.56%) Infrastructure Automation
12 16 (9.94%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (9.32%) Asset Management
14 14 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (8.07%) Load Balancing
16 11 (6.83%) Change Management
16 11 (6.83%) High Availability
16 11 (6.83%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 78 (48.45%) Python
2 37 (22.98%) Java
3 26 (16.15%) Go
4 25 (15.53%) Bash
5 18 (11.18%) SQL
6 9 (5.59%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.35%) Perl
8 6 (3.73%) Groovy
9 5 (3.11%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.11%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.48%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.86%) C#
12 1 (0.62%) C++
12 1 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 69 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 64 (39.75%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.42%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.97%) Degree
5 7 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.86%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.62%) OCP
9 1 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.48%) QA
2 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.24%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.62%) GDPR
3 1 (0.62%) NIST
3 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (47.20%) Docker
2 6 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.24%) Dovecot
3 2 (1.24%) Postfix
3 2 (1.24%) Squid
4 1 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.62%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 127 (78.88%) Terraform
2 101 (62.73%) Kubernetes
3 35 (21.74%) Ansible
4 24 (14.91%) Grafana
4 24 (14.91%) Prometheus
5 15 (9.32%) Progress Chef
6 12 (7.45%) Puppet
7 9 (5.59%) Kibana
8 3 (1.86%) Packer
8 3 (1.86%) Podman
9 2 (1.24%) Nessus
10 1 (0.62%) Argo
10 1 (0.62%) Consul
10 1 (0.62%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.62%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.62%) logstash
10 1 (0.62%) yum
Vendors
1 11 (6.83%) AppDynamics
2 9 (5.59%) Red Hat
3 7 (4.35%) Splunk
4 4 (2.48%) Cloudera
5 3 (1.86%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.86%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.24%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.24%) Oracle
7 1 (0.62%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.62%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.62%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.62%) Google
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.62%) New Relic
7 1 (0.62%) SAP
7 1 (0.62%) Tenable
7 1 (0.62%) UiPath