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 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 337 427
Rank change year-on-year -55 +90 -105
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 197 184 172
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.58% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.63% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 159 148
10th Percentile £370 £413 £425
25th Percentile £400 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £555 £788 £639
90th Percentile £676 £838 £707
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%

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 34,755 29,351 41,026
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 92.84% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,967 17,954 27,186
10th Percentile £300 £291 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +0.16% -4.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 872 2,014
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.64
Median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £38.10
Median % change year-on-year -14.72% -14.69% +9.53%
75th Percentile £60.72 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.98 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £30.98 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.07% -22.56% +33.33%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -49 158 £500 -17.49% 21
London -34 91 £513 -21.15% 11
UK excluding London -21 78 £500 - 15
Work from Home -71 55 £525 -16.00% 15
North of England -41 41 £500 - 5
North West -15 18 £450 -7.69% 4
Yorkshire -53 17 £525 +23.53% 1
Midlands -32 15 £475 +35.71%
West Midlands -34 15 £475 +35.71%
South East -16 12 £500 -6.98% 5
Scotland -1 6 £343 -31.35%
North East -13 6 £548 -4.78%
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West -17 2 £488 -25.00% 4
East of England -15 1 £600 +37.14%

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 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.

1 197 (100.00%) AWS
1 197 (100.00%) DevOps
2 155 (78.68%) Terraform
3 150 (76.14%) CI/CD
4 106 (53.81%) Security Cleared
5 103 (52.28%) SC Cleared
6 99 (50.25%) Kubernetes
7 96 (48.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 86 (43.65%) Python
9 85 (43.15%) Docker
10 77 (39.09%) GitLab
11 67 (34.01%) GitHub
12 62 (31.47%) Linux
13 57 (28.93%) Jenkins
14 56 (28.43%) Grafana
15 54 (27.41%) Containerisation
15 54 (27.41%) Prometheus
16 52 (26.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 51 (25.89%) AWS CloudFormation
18 50 (25.38%) Serverless
19 43 (21.83%) Amazon EKS
20 42 (21.32%) AWS Lambda
20 42 (21.32%) Observability
21 41 (20.81%) GitHub Actions
22 40 (20.30%) Amazon EC2
23 38 (19.29%) Amazon RDS
24 37 (18.78%) Amazon ECS
25 36 (18.27%) Amazon S3
26 35 (17.77%) Agile
26 35 (17.77%) Bash

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 20 (10.15%) Confluence
2 11 (5.58%) nginx
3 10 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 197 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (34.01%) GitHub
3 52 (26.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 51 (25.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 50 (25.38%) Serverless
6 43 (21.83%) Amazon EKS
7 42 (21.32%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (20.81%) GitHub Actions
9 40 (20.30%) Amazon EC2
10 37 (18.78%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (18.27%) Amazon S3
12 33 (16.75%) Azure
13 28 (14.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (8.12%) AWS CodePipeline
15 15 (7.61%) GCP
16 13 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
17 12 (6.09%) Amazon ECR
17 12 (6.09%) Azure AKS
18 11 (5.58%) Amazon ELB
18 11 (5.58%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.64%) DNS
2 16 (8.12%) Firewall
3 12 (6.09%) HTTP
4 10 (5.08%) FTP
4 10 (5.08%) SMTP
4 10 (5.08%) SSH
5 6 (3.05%) IMAP
5 6 (3.05%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (2.03%) VPN
7 1 (0.51%) LAN
7 1 (0.51%) Network Security
7 1 (0.51%) SSL
7 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.29%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.58%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.08%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.05%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.05%) Flink
6 5 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.54%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.03%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.03%) Redis
8 3 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.02%) Big Data
9 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.02%) MySQL
10 1 (0.51%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 77 (39.09%) GitLab
2 57 (28.93%) Jenkins
3 33 (16.75%) Git
4 24 (12.18%) JIRA
5 10 (5.08%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.57%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.54%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.03%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.03%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.52%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.02%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.02%) Maven
10 2 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 53 (26.90%) Public Sector
2 28 (14.21%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.66%) Finance
4 19 (9.64%) Banking
5 7 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.05%) Front Office
7 3 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.51%) Games
9 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.69%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (9.64%) Kafka
3 9 (4.57%) Node.js
4 8 (4.06%) AWS CDK
4 8 (4.06%) Keycloak
5 6 (3.05%) LDAP
6 5 (2.54%) .NET
6 5 (2.54%) React
7 4 (2.03%) OAuth
8 3 (1.52%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.52%) JWT
8 3 (1.52%) REST
8 3 (1.52%) RESTful
9 2 (1.02%) Loki
9 2 (1.02%) Middleware
10 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.51%) OpenID
10 1 (0.51%) Spring
10 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.66%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.11%) Replication
3 10 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.55%) NHS
5 6 (3.05%) Fixed Income
5 6 (3.05%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.54%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.52%) PKI
9 2 (1.02%) Clustering
9 2 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.51%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (31.47%) Linux
2 14 (7.11%) Windows
3 10 (5.08%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (5.08%) VMS
4 6 (3.05%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.05%) Unix
5 3 (1.52%) CentOS
5 3 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (100.00%) DevOps
2 150 (76.14%) CI/CD
3 96 (48.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (27.41%) Containerisation
5 42 (21.32%) Observability
6 35 (17.77%) Agile
7 30 (15.23%) Cloud Security
8 25 (12.69%) Platform Engineering
9 24 (12.18%) Configuration Management
10 22 (11.17%) Microservices
11 19 (9.64%) Migration
12 18 (9.14%) Infrastructure Automation
13 17 (8.63%) Performance Tuning
14 16 (8.12%) Change Management
14 16 (8.12%) Incident Response
15 15 (7.61%) High Availability
15 15 (7.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 14 (7.11%) DevSecOps
17 12 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 12 (6.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 86 (43.65%) Python
2 35 (17.77%) Bash
3 22 (11.17%) Java
4 20 (10.15%) PowerShell
5 19 (9.64%) SQL
6 17 (8.63%) Groovy
7 10 (5.08%) Go
7 10 (5.08%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.06%) Perl
9 4 (2.03%) Ruby
10 3 (1.52%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.51%) C#
12 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (53.81%) Security Cleared
2 103 (52.28%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.20%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.57%) Degree
5 8 (4.06%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (4.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (3.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 6 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.03%) QA
2 3 (1.52%) NCSC
3 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (43.15%) Docker
2 10 (5.08%) DFS Replication
3 6 (3.05%) Dovecot
3 6 (3.05%) Postfix
3 6 (3.05%) Squid
4 5 (2.54%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 155 (78.68%) Terraform
2 99 (50.25%) Kubernetes
3 56 (28.43%) Grafana
4 54 (27.41%) Prometheus
5 28 (14.21%) Ansible
6 16 (8.12%) Argo
7 7 (3.55%) Packer
7 7 (3.55%) Sysdig
8 6 (3.05%) Nessus
8 6 (3.05%) Proxmox
8 6 (3.05%) Puppet
9 5 (2.54%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.03%) Rancher
11 3 (1.52%) Consul
11 3 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (1.02%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.51%) CASB
13 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.51%) Istio
13 1 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 14 (7.11%) ServiceNow
2 8 (4.06%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.55%) Splunk
4 6 (3.05%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (3.05%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.52%) Okta
6 2 (1.02%) CloudEndure
6 2 (1.02%) Databricks
6 2 (1.02%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.02%) Oracle
7 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.51%) F5
7 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.51%) New Relic
7 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.51%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.51%) Virgin Media