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 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 346 427
Rank change year-on-year -85 +81 -109
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 191 184 165
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.63% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.68% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 160 138
10th Percentile £371 £402 £425
25th Percentile £400 £483 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £625
90th Percentile £663 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £516 £531
% change year-on-year -4.32% -2.80% -1.21%

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 42,529 27,248 40,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.59% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,364 17,869 26,526
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,696 990 2,603
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £19.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.43 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.85% -13.07% -20.55%
75th Percentile £65.60 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £75.58 £72.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.85 £29.24 £35.65
% change year-on-year +46.55% -17.98% -15.28%

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 April 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 18 April 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 -106 150 £513 -14.58% 17
London -54 101 £525 -26.32% 7
Work from Home -73 61 £525 -22.22% 6
UK excluding London -73 57 £494 -4.32% 15
North of England -67 29 £500 -3.80% 6
North West -47 10 £500 +27.23% 1
Yorkshire -56 10 £525 -
Scotland +9 9 £329 -28.97% 1
North East -11 9 £425 -26.09% 5
South East -39 8 £500 - 2
East of England -29 4 £485 +10.86%
Midlands - 4 £659 -
West Midlands - 4 £659 -
South West -26 2 £400 -40.74% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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.

1 191 (100.00%) AWS
1 191 (100.00%) DevOps
2 138 (72.25%) CI/CD
3 133 (69.63%) Terraform
4 102 (53.40%) Security Cleared
5 96 (50.26%) SC Cleared
6 93 (48.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 90 (47.12%) Kubernetes
8 75 (39.27%) Docker
9 71 (37.17%) GitLab
10 66 (34.55%) Python
11 58 (30.37%) Containerisation
12 56 (29.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 52 (27.23%) GitHub
14 50 (26.18%) Linux
14 50 (26.18%) Serverless
15 47 (24.61%) Amazon EKS
16 43 (22.51%) Jenkins
17 42 (21.99%) Grafana
17 42 (21.99%) Prometheus
18 41 (21.47%) AWS Lambda
19 38 (19.90%) Agile
20 33 (17.28%) GitHub Actions
21 32 (16.75%) Observability
22 31 (16.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 29 (15.18%) Amazon EC2
24 27 (14.14%) Amazon S3
25 26 (13.61%) Ansible
25 26 (13.61%) Azure
26 24 (12.57%) 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 8 (4.19%) Confluence
2 7 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.14%) nginx
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 191 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (29.32%) AWS CloudFormation
3 52 (27.23%) GitHub
4 50 (26.18%) Serverless
5 47 (24.61%) Amazon EKS
6 41 (21.47%) AWS Lambda
7 33 (17.28%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (16.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (15.18%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (14.14%) Amazon S3
11 26 (13.61%) Azure
12 23 (12.04%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (8.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (8.38%) AWS CodePipeline
14 16 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (5.76%) GCP
16 10 (5.24%) Azure AKS
17 9 (4.71%) Amazon ECR
18 8 (4.19%) Pulumi
19 7 (3.66%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.09%) Firewall
1 4 (2.09%) VPN
2 2 (1.05%) HTTP
2 2 (1.05%) Network Security
2 2 (1.05%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.52%) BGP
3 1 (0.52%) DNS
3 1 (0.52%) LAN
3 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.95%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (7.33%) DynamoDB
3 9 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (3.14%) Flink
5 6 (3.14%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.62%) Redis
7 4 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.57%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.57%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.05%) Big Data
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.52%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.52%) MySQL
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 71 (37.17%) GitLab
2 43 (22.51%) Jenkins
3 19 (9.95%) Git
4 10 (5.24%) JIRA
5 7 (3.66%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.14%) Artifactory
6 6 (3.14%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.09%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.09%) Snyk
7 4 (2.09%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.05%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.52%) Gatling
9 1 (0.52%) JMeter
9 1 (0.52%) Newman
9 1 (0.52%) Postman
9 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 45 (23.56%) Public Sector
2 21 (10.99%) Finance
3 17 (8.90%) Banking
4 13 (6.81%) Social Skills
5 6 (3.14%) Front Office
6 3 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.52%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.52%) Retail
7 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.52%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (7.85%) Kafka
3 11 (5.76%) Node.js
4 6 (3.14%) AWS CDK
4 6 (3.14%) Keycloak
5 5 (2.62%) JWT
5 5 (2.62%) OAuth
6 4 (2.09%) REST
7 3 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.57%) RESTful
8 2 (1.05%) .NET
8 2 (1.05%) boto
8 2 (1.05%) JSON
8 2 (1.05%) Loki
8 2 (1.05%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.05%) pytest
8 2 (1.05%) React
9 1 (0.52%) Middleware
9 1 (0.52%) Pandas
9 1 (0.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.09%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.14%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.14%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.62%) Hedge funds
4 5 (2.62%) Replication
5 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.09%) NHS
6 2 (1.05%) Clustering
6 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.52%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.52%) PKI
7 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (26.18%) Linux
2 4 (2.09%) Unix
3 3 (1.57%) Windows
4 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.52%) VMS
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (100.00%) DevOps
2 138 (72.25%) CI/CD
3 93 (48.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (30.37%) Containerisation
5 38 (19.90%) Agile
6 32 (16.75%) Observability
7 24 (12.57%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (9.95%) High Availability
10 17 (8.90%) Infrastructure Automation
10 17 (8.90%) Microservices
10 17 (8.90%) Test Automation
11 14 (7.33%) Secrets Management
12 12 (6.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (5.76%) Software Delivery
14 10 (5.24%) DevSecOps
14 10 (5.24%) Identity Management
14 10 (5.24%) ITIL
15 9 (4.71%) Configuration Management
15 9 (4.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 66 (34.55%) Python
2 24 (12.57%) Bash
3 15 (7.85%) Java
4 10 (5.24%) Shell Script
5 9 (4.71%) Go
6 7 (3.66%) SQL
7 6 (3.14%) Groovy
7 6 (3.14%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.09%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.09%) Ruby
9 2 (1.05%) Perl
9 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.52%) C
10 1 (0.52%) C#
10 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (53.40%) Security Cleared
2 96 (50.26%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.90%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.62%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.09%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.05%) CCNP
9 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.05%) Degree
9 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.52%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.57%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.52%) GDPR
2 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 75 (39.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 133 (69.63%) Terraform
2 90 (47.12%) Kubernetes
3 42 (21.99%) Grafana
3 42 (21.99%) Prometheus
4 26 (13.61%) Ansible
5 17 (8.90%) Argo
6 6 (3.14%) Rancher
6 6 (3.14%) Sysdig
7 4 (2.09%) Packer
8 3 (1.57%) Consul
8 3 (1.57%) Puppet
9 2 (1.05%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.05%) Istio
9 2 (1.05%) linkerd
10 1 (0.52%) CASB
10 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.52%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.52%) Opsview
Vendors
1 6 (3.14%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.62%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.09%) Splunk
4 3 (1.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.57%) Oracle
5 2 (1.05%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.05%) Google
6 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.52%) New Relic
6 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.52%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.52%) Virgin Media