AWS DevOps Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 355 414
Rank change year-on-year -103 +59 -83
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 173 172 165
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.59% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.63% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 143 132
10th Percentile £372 £393 £425
25th Percentile £400 £456 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +0.92% -9.17%
75th Percentile £550 £731 £638
90th Percentile £630 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £522
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.21% -10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.25
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 44,273 27,145 39,538
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.37% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,095 17,684 25,719
10th Percentile £325 £293 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -2.82%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,901 1,049 2,672
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.13 £16.29
Median hourly rate £43.00 £28.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.75% -22.88% -18.89%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.90% -32.19% -5.88%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -114 128 £500 -9.91% 17
London -74 82 £513 -21.15% 9
Work from Home -53 63 £525 -16.00% 9
UK excluding London -82 53 £450 -10.00% 9
North of England -77 24 £500 - 2
Scotland +7 9 £321 -10.37%
North East -18 9 £425 -24.78% 1
Yorkshire -59 8 £525 -
North West -42 7 £500 +27.23% 1
South East -62 7 £450 -5.26% 2
Midlands - 5 £425 -
West Midlands - 5 £425 -
East of England -26 4 £485 +10.86%
South West - 4 £425 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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.

1 173 (100.00%) AWS
1 173 (100.00%) DevOps
2 128 (73.99%) CI/CD
3 123 (71.10%) Terraform
4 104 (60.12%) Security Cleared
5 101 (58.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 98 (56.65%) SC Cleared
7 79 (45.66%) Kubernetes
8 68 (39.31%) Docker
9 61 (35.26%) GitLab
10 59 (34.10%) Containerisation
11 53 (30.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 53 (30.64%) Python
12 47 (27.17%) Linux
13 45 (26.01%) Amazon EKS
14 44 (25.43%) GitHub
14 44 (25.43%) Jenkins
15 42 (24.28%) Serverless
16 40 (23.12%) Grafana
17 39 (22.54%) Prometheus
18 37 (21.39%) Agile
18 37 (21.39%) Observability
19 35 (20.23%) GitHub Actions
20 34 (19.65%) AWS Lambda
21 33 (19.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 29 (16.76%) Amazon EC2
23 28 (16.18%) Ansible
23 28 (16.18%) Bash
24 26 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
25 25 (14.45%) 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 9 (5.20%) Confluence
2 3 (1.73%) nginx
3 1 (0.58%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.58%) JBoss
3 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (30.64%) AWS CloudFormation
3 45 (26.01%) Amazon EKS
4 44 (25.43%) GitHub
5 42 (24.28%) Serverless
6 35 (20.23%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (19.65%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (19.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (16.76%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (13.87%) Amazon S3
11 23 (13.29%) Azure
11 23 (13.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (12.72%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (9.25%) AWS CodePipeline
14 12 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (5.78%) Azure AKS
16 9 (5.20%) GCP
17 8 (4.62%) Pulumi
18 6 (3.47%) AWS CodeBuild
19 5 (2.89%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.89%) VPN
2 3 (1.73%) DNS
2 3 (1.73%) Firewall
2 3 (1.73%) HTTP
3 2 (1.16%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.58%) BGP
4 1 (0.58%) Internet
4 1 (0.58%) LAN
4 1 (0.58%) Network Security
4 1 (0.58%) SSL
4 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.25%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.20%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (3.47%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.31%) Redis
7 3 (1.73%) Big Data
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.16%) Flink
8 2 (1.16%) MySQL
8 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.58%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 61 (35.26%) GitLab
2 44 (25.43%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.40%) Git
4 11 (6.36%) JIRA
5 7 (4.05%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.05%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.31%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.31%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.31%) Snyk
6 4 (2.31%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.58%) Ant
8 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.58%) Gatling
8 1 (0.58%) JMeter
8 1 (0.58%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.58%) Newman
8 1 (0.58%) Postman
8 1 (0.58%) Selenium
8 1 (0.58%) Terragrunt
General
1 46 (26.59%) Public Sector
2 13 (7.51%) Finance
3 12 (6.94%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.20%) Banking
5 6 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Front Office
8 1 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Law
8 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.58%) Police
8 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.25%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (6.36%) Kafka
3 9 (5.20%) Node.js
4 8 (4.62%) AWS CDK
5 6 (3.47%) Keycloak
6 4 (2.31%) Loki
7 3 (1.73%) React
8 2 (1.16%) boto
8 2 (1.16%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.16%) JSON
8 2 (1.16%) JWT
8 2 (1.16%) Middleware
8 2 (1.16%) OAuth
8 2 (1.16%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.16%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.16%) pytest
8 2 (1.16%) REST
9 1 (0.58%) .NET
9 1 (0.58%) LDAP
9 1 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.89%) Public Cloud
2 5 (2.89%) Replication
3 4 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.31%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.73%) NHS
4 3 (1.73%) PKI
5 2 (1.16%) Clustering
5 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.16%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.58%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (27.17%) Linux
2 5 (2.89%) Unix
2 5 (2.89%) Windows
3 4 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.58%) VMS
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (100.00%) DevOps
2 128 (73.99%) CI/CD
3 101 (58.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (34.10%) Containerisation
5 37 (21.39%) Agile
5 37 (21.39%) Observability
6 26 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (14.45%) Platform Engineering
8 23 (13.29%) High Availability
9 18 (10.40%) Test Automation
10 15 (8.67%) Infrastructure Automation
10 15 (8.67%) Secrets Management
11 14 (8.09%) Configuration Management
12 11 (6.36%) Cost Optimisation
12 11 (6.36%) DevSecOps
12 11 (6.36%) Incident Response
12 11 (6.36%) Root Cause Analysis
12 11 (6.36%) Scrum
13 10 (5.78%) Microservices
13 10 (5.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (30.64%) Python
2 28 (16.18%) Bash
3 12 (6.94%) Java
3 12 (6.94%) Shell Script
4 9 (5.20%) Go
5 8 (4.62%) Groovy
6 5 (2.89%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.31%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.31%) SQL
8 3 (1.73%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.16%) Perl
9 2 (1.16%) Ruby
9 2 (1.16%) Scala
10 1 (0.58%) C
10 1 (0.58%) C#
10 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (60.12%) Security Cleared
2 98 (56.65%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.78%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (2.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.31%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (1.16%) CCNP
7 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.58%) CCIE
8 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.58%) Degree
8 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.73%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.58%) GDPR
2 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 68 (39.31%) Docker
2 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.58%) Squid
Systems Management
1 123 (71.10%) Terraform
2 79 (45.66%) Kubernetes
3 40 (23.12%) Grafana
4 39 (22.54%) Prometheus
5 28 (16.18%) Ansible
6 12 (6.94%) Argo
7 8 (4.62%) Puppet
8 5 (2.89%) Rancher
9 3 (1.73%) Packer
10 2 (1.16%) Consul
10 2 (1.16%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.16%) linkerd
10 2 (1.16%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.58%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.58%) Istio
11 1 (0.58%) Opsview
11 1 (0.58%) Podman
11 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (3.47%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.89%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.73%) Splunk
4 2 (1.16%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.16%) Google
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle
5 1 (0.58%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.58%) New Relic
5 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.58%) Tanium
5 1 (0.58%) Tenable
5 1 (0.58%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.58%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.58%) Virgin Media