AWS DevOps Contracts

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 427 321
Rank change year-on-year +80 -106 +10
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 179 156 467
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.36% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.39% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 129 377
10th Percentile £401 £425 £475
25th Percentile £475 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £788 £638 £688
90th Percentile £838 £705 £803
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £522 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.09% -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps.

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps.

Hourly rate trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Top 11 Contract 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 1 May 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 +81 149 £575 +4.55% 27
London +61 109 £700 +27.27% 11
Work from Home +60 94 £675 +22.73% 14
UK excluding London +52 34 £500 -4.21% 19
North of England +18 26 £513 -6.82% 9
North West +4 11 £393 -28.55% 5
Yorkshire +13 8 £525 +1.20% 4
North East - 7 £575 -
South East +48 5 £500 -23.08% 7
Scotland +6 2 £442 -14.48% 1
East of England - 1 £438 -

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 179 (100.00%) AWS
1 179 (100.00%) DevOps
2 142 (79.33%) Terraform
3 135 (75.42%) Kubernetes
4 133 (74.30%) CI/CD
5 107 (59.78%) Python
6 99 (55.31%) Docker
7 69 (38.55%) Security Cleared
8 65 (36.31%) Serverless
9 64 (35.75%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (34.64%) SC Cleared
11 60 (33.52%) Infrastructure as Code
12 58 (32.40%) Agile
13 57 (31.84%) Amazon ECS
14 55 (30.73%) Finance
15 52 (29.05%) Amazon EC2
16 51 (28.49%) Amazon S3
17 49 (27.37%) Software Engineering
18 48 (26.82%) Java
19 47 (26.26%) AWS CloudFormation
19 47 (26.26%) Jenkins
19 47 (26.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 46 (25.70%) Go
20 46 (25.70%) GitLab
21 44 (24.58%) Asset Management
21 44 (24.58%) Front Office
22 41 (22.91%) OpenShift
23 38 (21.23%) Linux
23 38 (21.23%) Apache
24 37 (20.67%) Kafka

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (21.23%) Apache
2 37 (20.67%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (20.11%) Apache Spark
4 13 (7.26%) nginx
5 6 (3.35%) Confluence
6 5 (2.79%) JBoss
6 5 (2.79%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 179 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (36.31%) Serverless
3 64 (35.75%) AWS Lambda
4 57 (31.84%) Amazon ECS
5 52 (29.05%) Amazon EC2
6 51 (28.49%) Amazon S3
7 47 (26.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 41 (22.91%) OpenShift
9 36 (20.11%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (16.76%) dbt
11 26 (14.53%) GitHub
12 18 (10.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (9.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (7.82%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (4.47%) Azure
15 8 (4.47%) PaaS
16 7 (3.91%) AWS CodePipeline
16 7 (3.91%) AWS KMS
17 6 (3.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.15%) Firewall
2 10 (5.59%) HTTP
3 9 (5.03%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.47%) DNS
5 5 (2.79%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.68%) SSL
6 3 (1.68%) VPN
7 2 (1.12%) Internet
8 1 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.55%) Apache Iceberg
2 31 (17.32%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (16.76%) Amazon Athena
3 30 (16.76%) Dremio
4 28 (15.64%) Apache Arrow
4 28 (15.64%) Apache Ignite
5 23 (12.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (4.47%) MongoDB
7 8 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.79%) Apache Hive
8 5 (2.79%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.79%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.79%) Parquet
8 5 (2.79%) Presto
8 5 (2.79%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.23%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.23%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 47 (26.26%) Jenkins
2 46 (25.70%) GitLab
3 36 (20.11%) Artifactory
4 22 (12.29%) Git
5 10 (5.59%) JIRA
6 7 (3.91%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.79%) Poetry
7 5 (2.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.79%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.23%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (2.23%) CA Release Automation
9 3 (1.68%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.68%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.12%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.12%) Maven
11 1 (0.56%) Babel
11 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.56%) Gradle
11 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 55 (30.73%) Finance
2 44 (24.58%) Front Office
3 24 (13.41%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.82%) Banking
5 11 (6.15%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.79%) Law
7 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Games
9 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Marketing
9 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (20.67%) Kafka
2 33 (18.44%) J2EE
3 28 (15.64%) PySpark
4 16 (8.94%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.47%) React
6 5 (2.79%) AWS CDK
6 5 (2.79%) Dask
6 5 (2.79%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (2.23%) .NET
7 4 (2.23%) Node.js
7 4 (2.23%) OAuth
7 4 (2.23%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.12%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.12%) Next.js
8 2 (1.12%) REST
8 2 (1.12%) Swagger
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Amplify
9 1 (0.56%) cloud-init
9 1 (0.56%) JWT
9 1 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.35%) Cloud Native
1 6 (3.35%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.79%) Tandem
3 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.56%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.56%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.56%) FMCG
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.23%) Linux
2 14 (7.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.91%) Unix
4 6 (3.35%) Windows
5 3 (1.68%) CentOS
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (100.00%) DevOps
2 133 (74.30%) CI/CD
3 60 (33.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (32.40%) Agile
5 49 (27.37%) Software Engineering
6 47 (26.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 44 (24.58%) Asset Management
8 33 (18.44%) Data Engineering
8 33 (18.44%) Open Source
9 23 (12.85%) Containerisation
10 20 (11.17%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (11.17%) Microservices
11 15 (8.38%) Configuration Management
12 14 (7.82%) Cloud Security
12 14 (7.82%) Infrastructure Automation
12 14 (7.82%) Task Automation
13 13 (7.26%) Deployment Automation
13 13 (7.26%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (6.70%) Fintech
14 12 (6.70%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 107 (59.78%) Python
2 48 (26.82%) Java
3 46 (25.70%) Go
4 24 (13.41%) Bash
5 19 (10.61%) SQL
6 18 (10.06%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.47%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.79%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.23%) Perl
10 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.12%) Groovy
12 1 (0.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 69 (38.55%) Security Cleared
2 62 (34.64%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.94%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.03%) Degree
5 6 (3.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) OCP
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.12%) QA
2 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 99 (55.31%) Docker
2 4 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 142 (79.33%) Terraform
2 135 (75.42%) Kubernetes
3 32 (17.88%) Ansible
4 25 (13.97%) Prometheus
5 24 (13.41%) Grafana
6 12 (6.70%) Progress Chef
7 10 (5.59%) Kibana
8 8 (4.47%) Puppet
9 5 (2.79%) Packer
10 3 (1.68%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.68%) logstash
11 2 (1.12%) Argo
11 2 (1.12%) Consul
12 1 (0.56%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.56%) Podman
12 1 (0.56%) SCCM
12 1 (0.56%) SCOM
12 1 (0.56%) SCSM
Vendors
1 9 (5.03%) AppDynamics
2 8 (4.47%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.35%) Splunk
4 4 (2.23%) Virgin Media
5 3 (1.68%) Cloudera
5 3 (1.68%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.12%) Cribl.io
6 2 (1.12%) SAP
7 1 (0.56%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.56%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.56%) Google
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.56%) New Relic
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle
7 1 (0.56%) Tenable
7 1 (0.56%) VMware