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 7 October 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 395 401
Rank change year-on-year -91 +6 -24
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 188 163 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.49% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.54% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 109 128
10th Percentile £400 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £650
90th Percentile £636 £645 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -27.27%
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 50,571 29,988 35,006
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 90.83% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,735 18,924 21,160
10th Percentile £325 £277 £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 £638 £621 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,035 1,621 1,511
10th Percentile £14.42 £13.75 £14.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £74.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.34% -41.69% -2.05%

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 7 October 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 IT jobs citing AWS DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 7 October 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 -110 139 £488 +1.30% 127
London -60 84 £500 +2.56% 61
Work from Home -36 78 £500 +11.11% 51
UK excluding London -131 59 £450 -5.26% 66
North of England -72 32 £470 -6.00% 25
North East -25 20 £425 -24.44% 1
Midlands -61 9 £418 -12.11% 12
North West -43 8 £550 +34.97% 21
West Midlands -64 8 £477 +0.42% 8
Scotland -24 7 £412 -13.37% 6
South West -38 7 £450 -28.00% 6
Yorkshire -49 4 £550 +10.00% 3
South East -70 4 £350 -30.00% 8
East Midlands -17 1 £358 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 7 October 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.

1 188 (100.00%) AWS
1 188 (100.00%) DevOps
2 157 (83.51%) CI/CD
3 145 (77.13%) Terraform
4 138 (73.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 112 (59.57%) Kubernetes
6 103 (54.79%) Security Cleared
7 99 (52.66%) Docker
7 99 (52.66%) SC Cleared
8 89 (47.34%) Containerisation
9 84 (44.68%) GitLab
10 72 (38.30%) Python
11 62 (32.98%) Amazon EKS
12 61 (32.45%) Observability
13 60 (31.91%) Jenkins
14 53 (28.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 53 (28.19%) GitHub
15 51 (27.13%) Grafana
16 50 (26.60%) Agile
16 50 (26.60%) Prometheus
17 48 (25.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 46 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
18 46 (24.47%) Serverless
19 45 (23.94%) GitHub Actions
20 43 (22.87%) Bash
20 43 (22.87%) Linux
21 41 (21.81%) AWS Lambda
22 40 (21.28%) Amazon S3
23 39 (20.74%) Amazon ECS
23 39 (20.74%) Platform Engineering

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 12 (6.38%) Confluence
2 6 (3.19%) nginx
3 3 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.06%) Apache
5 1 (0.53%) CMS
5 1 (0.53%) Drupal
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.53%) Traefik
5 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 188 (100.00%) AWS
2 62 (32.98%) Amazon EKS
3 53 (28.19%) AWS CloudFormation
3 53 (28.19%) GitHub
4 48 (25.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 46 (24.47%) Serverless
6 45 (23.94%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (21.81%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (21.28%) Amazon S3
9 39 (20.74%) Amazon ECS
9 39 (20.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 38 (20.21%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (13.30%) Azure
12 12 (6.38%) Route 53
13 10 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (4.79%) GCP
15 7 (3.72%) AWS KMS
16 6 (3.19%) AWS CodePipeline
16 6 (3.19%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.85%) DNS
2 5 (2.66%) Network Security
3 4 (2.13%) Firewall
3 4 (2.13%) HTTP
4 3 (1.60%) SSL
4 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.06%) FTP
5 2 (1.06%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.06%) IMAP
5 2 (1.06%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.06%) SMTP
5 2 (1.06%) SSH
5 2 (1.06%) VPN
6 1 (0.53%) AMQP
6 1 (0.53%) Internet
6 1 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.43%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.38%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (3.72%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.72%) Redis
6 5 (2.66%) MySQL
7 4 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.06%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.53%) Big Data
10 1 (0.53%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.53%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 84 (44.68%) GitLab
2 60 (31.91%) Jenkins
3 28 (14.89%) Git
4 15 (7.98%) JIRA
5 10 (5.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.72%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.66%) Maven
8 3 (1.60%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.60%) JMeter
8 3 (1.60%) Snyk
8 3 (1.60%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.06%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.06%) JUnit
9 2 (1.06%) Mocha
9 2 (1.06%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.06%) Terragrunt
9 2 (1.06%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.53%) Ant
10 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 44 (23.40%) Public Sector
2 20 (10.64%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.79%) Finance
5 4 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.13%) Banking
5 4 (2.13%) Military
6 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.60%) Law
7 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Billing
8 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.53%) Police
8 1 (0.53%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.53%) Publishing
8 1 (0.53%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (77.13%) Terraform
2 22 (11.70%) Kafka
3 13 (6.91%) AWS CDK
4 10 (5.32%) Keycloak
5 8 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.26%) React
6 6 (3.19%) Node.js
6 6 (3.19%) OpenID
6 6 (3.19%) Pulumi
7 5 (2.66%) .NET
7 5 (2.66%) FastAPI
7 5 (2.66%) REST
7 5 (2.66%) SAML
8 4 (2.13%) RESTful
9 3 (1.60%) cloud-init
9 3 (1.60%) LDAP
9 3 (1.60%) Loki
9 3 (1.60%) OAuth
9 3 (1.60%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.81%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (3.72%) PKI
2 7 (3.72%) Replication
3 4 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.06%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (22.87%) Linux
2 9 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.26%) Windows
4 6 (3.19%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.13%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (2.13%) Unix
6 2 (1.06%) CentOS
6 2 (1.06%) VMS
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (100.00%) DevOps
2 157 (83.51%) CI/CD
3 138 (73.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (47.34%) Containerisation
5 61 (32.45%) Observability
6 50 (26.60%) Agile
7 46 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (20.74%) Platform Engineering
9 35 (18.62%) Deployment Automation
10 34 (18.09%) Test Automation
11 27 (14.36%) Microservices
12 24 (12.77%) High Availability
12 24 (12.77%) Root Cause Analysis
13 23 (12.23%) Cloud Security
14 22 (11.70%) Configuration Management
15 20 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (10.64%) Software Delivery
16 19 (10.11%) Secrets Management
17 18 (9.57%) Infrastructure Automation
17 18 (9.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (38.30%) Python
2 43 (22.87%) Bash
3 12 (6.38%) Groovy
4 10 (5.32%) Java
4 10 (5.32%) JavaScript
4 10 (5.32%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.72%) Go
5 7 (3.72%) Shell Script
6 6 (3.19%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.66%) SQL
8 3 (1.60%) Scala
9 2 (1.06%) C#
10 1 (0.53%) Perl
10 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (54.79%) Security Cleared
2 99 (52.66%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (9.04%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.13%) SAFe Agilist
8 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.06%) Degree
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.19%) QA
2 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.06%) WCAG
3 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) NCSC
3 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 99 (52.66%) Docker
2 5 (2.66%) Squid
3 4 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.06%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.06%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.06%) Postfix
4 2 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.53%) zsh
Systems Management
1 112 (59.57%) Kubernetes
2 51 (27.13%) Grafana
3 50 (26.60%) Prometheus
4 38 (20.21%) Ansible
5 10 (5.32%) Argo
5 10 (5.32%) Packer
6 8 (4.26%) Istio
6 8 (4.26%) Puppet
7 5 (2.66%) Rancher
8 4 (2.13%) Consul
8 4 (2.13%) Kibana
9 3 (1.60%) Nessus
9 3 (1.60%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.06%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.06%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.06%) linkerd
10 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.06%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.53%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (4.79%) Dynatrace
2 8 (4.26%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.72%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.72%) Splunk
4 5 (2.66%) Oracle
5 3 (1.60%) Okta
6 2 (1.06%) Google
6 2 (1.06%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.06%) Sonatype
7 1 (0.53%) Adobe
7 1 (0.53%) Apple
7 1 (0.53%) Databricks
7 1 (0.53%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.53%) Informatica
7 1 (0.53%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.53%) New Relic
7 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.53%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.53%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.53%) Trend Micro