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 4 December 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 359 420
Rank change year-on-year -34 +61 -78
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 199 198 194
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.55% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.59% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 168 167
10th Percentile £363 £381 £425
25th Percentile £422 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +0.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £631
90th Percentile £675 £795 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% -

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 33,203 33,385 41,795
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.79% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,069 20,333 28,157
10th Percentile £285 £300 £292
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £723 £738 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,921 1,159 1,498
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.46 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.89 £20.75 £19.08
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +44.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

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 4 December 2025.

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 16 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 4 December 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 -26 168 £500 -11.50% 15
UK excluding London -5 92 £500 +17.65% 14
London -31 88 £506 -22.12% 7
Work from Home -31 56 £475 -19.83% 7
North of England -34 43 £500 +25.00% 4
Midlands -8 25 £475 +163.16%
West Midlands -6 24 £475 +35.71%
Yorkshire -41 19 £500 +25.00% 2
North West -5 18 £425 -10.53%
South East +3 11 £500 -6.98% 3
Scotland +5 8 £475 -5.00% 4
North East -5 7 £575 -2.95% 2
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West -10 3 £625 +2.04% 2
East Midlands -15 1 - -
East of England - 1 £600 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, 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.

1 199 (100.00%) AWS
1 199 (100.00%) DevOps
2 157 (78.89%) Terraform
3 147 (73.87%) CI/CD
4 97 (48.74%) Kubernetes
5 96 (48.24%) Security Cleared
6 93 (46.73%) SC Cleared
7 92 (46.23%) Python
8 91 (45.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 90 (45.23%) Docker
10 68 (34.17%) GitHub
11 65 (32.66%) Jenkins
12 62 (31.16%) GitLab
13 59 (29.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 56 (28.14%) Linux
15 55 (27.64%) Grafana
16 53 (26.63%) Amazon RDS
16 53 (26.63%) Prometheus
17 52 (26.13%) Amazon S3
17 52 (26.13%) Containerisation
18 50 (25.13%) Amazon EC2
19 47 (23.62%) Serverless
20 43 (21.61%) Cloud Security
20 43 (21.61%) GitHub Actions
21 42 (21.11%) AWS Lambda
21 42 (21.11%) Git
22 41 (20.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 40 (20.10%) Agile
23 40 (20.10%) Amazon ECS
24 39 (19.60%) Amazon EKS

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 29 (14.57%) Confluence
2 14 (7.04%) nginx
3 9 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.01%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (5.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 199 (100.00%) AWS
2 68 (34.17%) GitHub
3 59 (29.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 52 (26.13%) Amazon S3
5 50 (25.13%) Amazon EC2
6 47 (23.62%) Serverless
7 43 (21.61%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (21.11%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (20.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 40 (20.10%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (19.60%) Amazon EKS
11 39 (19.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 33 (16.58%) Azure
13 18 (9.05%) Amazon ELB
13 18 (9.05%) AWS CodePipeline
14 17 (8.54%) AWS KMS
15 16 (8.04%) GCP
15 16 (8.04%) Route 53
16 12 (6.03%) AWS Fargate
17 11 (5.53%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.06%) DNS
2 20 (10.05%) Firewall
3 17 (8.54%) SMTP
4 15 (7.54%) FTP
4 15 (7.54%) HTTP
4 15 (7.54%) SSH
5 10 (5.03%) IMAP
5 10 (5.03%) OpenLDAP
6 7 (3.52%) VPN
7 4 (2.01%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.50%) Network Security
8 1 (0.50%) SSL
8 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (26.63%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.54%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.03%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.02%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.02%) Flink
6 5 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.51%) Redis
7 4 (2.01%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.01%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.51%) MySQL
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.50%) Metadata
10 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (32.66%) Jenkins
2 62 (31.16%) GitLab
3 42 (21.11%) Git
4 33 (16.58%) JIRA
5 17 (8.54%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.52%) Artifactory
7 6 (3.02%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.51%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.51%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.01%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.51%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.51%) Terragrunt
11 2 (1.01%) IntelliJ
11 2 (1.01%) Maven
11 2 (1.01%) PyCharm
11 2 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.01%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
General
1 49 (24.62%) Public Sector
2 39 (19.60%) Social Skills
3 24 (12.06%) Finance
4 18 (9.05%) Banking
5 9 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.02%) Front Office
7 4 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.50%) Games
9 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.50%) Publishing
9 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.06%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (10.05%) Kafka
3 10 (5.03%) AWS CDK
3 10 (5.03%) LDAP
4 8 (4.02%) Keycloak
5 7 (3.52%) .NET
5 7 (3.52%) Node.js
6 5 (2.51%) React
7 4 (2.01%) OAuth
8 3 (1.51%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.51%) JWT
8 3 (1.51%) REST
8 3 (1.51%) RESTful
9 2 (1.01%) Middleware
10 1 (0.50%) Django
10 1 (0.50%) HTML
10 1 (0.50%) JSON
10 1 (0.50%) OpenID
10 1 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.55%) Replication
2 18 (9.05%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.52%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.52%) NHS
5 6 (3.02%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.01%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.51%) PKI
8 2 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.50%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.50%) Clustering
9 1 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (28.14%) Linux
2 21 (10.55%) Windows
3 17 (8.54%) Amazon Linux
3 17 (8.54%) VMS
4 8 (4.02%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.01%) Unix
6 3 (1.51%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (100.00%) DevOps
2 147 (73.87%) CI/CD
3 91 (45.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (26.13%) Containerisation
5 43 (21.61%) Cloud Security
6 40 (20.10%) Agile
7 33 (16.58%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (16.08%) Observability
9 31 (15.58%) Configuration Management
10 25 (12.56%) Microservices
11 24 (12.06%) Change Management
12 22 (11.06%) Infrastructure Automation
12 22 (11.06%) Migration
13 19 (9.55%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (7.54%) Patch Management
15 14 (7.04%) DevSecOps
15 14 (7.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (7.04%) Test Automation
16 13 (6.53%) High Availability
16 13 (6.53%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 92 (46.23%) Python
2 35 (17.59%) Bash
3 28 (14.07%) PowerShell
4 27 (13.57%) Java
5 23 (11.56%) Groovy
6 22 (11.06%) SQL
7 12 (6.03%) Go
7 12 (6.03%) Perl
8 5 (2.51%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.51%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.51%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.51%) Ruby
10 2 (1.01%) C#
10 2 (1.01%) PHP
Qualifications
1 96 (48.24%) Security Cleared
2 93 (46.73%) SC Cleared
3 32 (16.08%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.53%) Degree
5 9 (4.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (4.02%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.02%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 4 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.01%) QA
2 3 (1.51%) NCSC
3 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.01%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (45.23%) Docker
2 15 (7.54%) DFS Replication
3 10 (5.03%) Dovecot
3 10 (5.03%) Postfix
3 10 (5.03%) Squid
4 9 (4.52%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 157 (78.89%) Terraform
2 97 (48.74%) Kubernetes
3 55 (27.64%) Grafana
4 53 (26.63%) Prometheus
5 30 (15.08%) Ansible
6 15 (7.54%) Argo
7 10 (5.03%) Nessus
8 9 (4.52%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.02%) Proxmox
10 7 (3.52%) Sysdig
11 6 (3.02%) Packer
11 6 (3.02%) Puppet
12 4 (2.01%) Kibana
12 4 (2.01%) Rancher
13 3 (1.51%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (1.01%) Consul
15 1 (0.50%) CASB
15 1 (0.50%) Istio
15 1 (0.50%) linkerd
15 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (10.55%) ServiceNow
2 10 (5.03%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (4.52%) Dynatrace
4 8 (4.02%) Splunk
5 6 (3.02%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.51%) Okta
7 2 (1.01%) CloudEndure
7 2 (1.01%) Databricks
7 2 (1.01%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.50%) Avaya
8 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.50%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.50%) F5
8 1 (0.50%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.50%) Google
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle
8 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.50%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.50%) Red Hat