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 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 357 439
Rank change year-on-year -38 +82 -95
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 199 184 167
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.59% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.63% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 161 145
10th Percentile £371 £413 £425
25th Percentile £400 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £788 £638
90th Percentile £675 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%

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 35,445 29,208 41,662
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 92.89% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,347 17,858 27,594
10th Percentile £300 £296 £275
25th Percentile £405 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £495
% change year-on-year -0.84% -3.23% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,112 858 2,186
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% -10.96% +4.29%
75th Percentile £61.18 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.52 £38.00
% change year-on-year -12.75% -17.05% +26.67%

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 31 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 31 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 -52 157 £500 -16.98% 19
London -58 92 £513 -21.15% 9
UK excluding London -21 74 £500 - 14
Work from Home -53 56 £525 -19.23% 10
North of England -32 41 £500 - 7
Yorkshire -40 18 £525 +23.53% 1
North West -14 17 £450 -7.69% 6
South East -19 12 £500 -13.04% 5
West Midlands -32 11 £475 +35.71%
Midlands -33 11 £475 +35.71%
North East -17 6 £548 -4.78%
Scotland +6 5 £329 -34.30%
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West -19 2 £400 -36.00% 2
East of England -14 1 £600 +37.14%

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 199 (100.00%) AWS
1 199 (100.00%) DevOps
2 157 (78.89%) Terraform
3 153 (76.88%) CI/CD
4 105 (52.76%) Security Cleared
5 102 (51.26%) Kubernetes
5 102 (51.26%) SC Cleared
6 100 (50.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 83 (41.71%) Docker
8 82 (41.21%) GitLab
9 81 (40.70%) Python
10 69 (34.67%) GitHub
11 62 (31.16%) Linux
12 58 (29.15%) Containerisation
12 58 (29.15%) Jenkins
13 54 (27.14%) Grafana
14 52 (26.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 52 (26.13%) Prometheus
15 51 (25.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 48 (24.12%) Serverless
17 46 (23.12%) Amazon EKS
18 42 (21.11%) GitHub Actions
18 42 (21.11%) Observability
19 39 (19.60%) AWS Lambda
20 38 (19.10%) Amazon EC2
21 36 (18.09%) Agile
21 36 (18.09%) Amazon ECS
21 36 (18.09%) Amazon RDS
22 33 (16.58%) Azure
22 33 (16.58%) 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 17 (8.54%) Confluence
2 10 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (4.52%) nginx
4 2 (1.01%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 199 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (34.67%) GitHub
3 52 (26.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 51 (25.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 48 (24.12%) Serverless
6 46 (23.12%) Amazon EKS
7 42 (21.11%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (19.60%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (19.10%) Amazon EC2
10 36 (18.09%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (16.58%) Azure
12 32 (16.08%) Amazon S3
13 25 (12.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (8.54%) GCP
15 16 (8.04%) AWS CodePipeline
16 13 (6.53%) Azure AKS
16 13 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
17 12 (6.03%) Amazon ECR
18 11 (5.53%) AWS Fargate
19 10 (5.03%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.04%) DNS
2 14 (7.04%) Firewall
3 10 (5.03%) HTTP
4 8 (4.02%) FTP
4 8 (4.02%) SMTP
4 8 (4.02%) SSH
5 5 (2.51%) IMAP
5 5 (2.51%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (2.01%) VPN
7 1 (0.50%) LAN
7 1 (0.50%) Network Security
7 1 (0.50%) SSL
7 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.09%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.52%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (4.52%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.02%) Data Lake
4 6 (3.02%) Flink
5 5 (2.51%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.51%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.01%) Redis
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.01%) Big Data
7 2 (1.01%) MySQL
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.50%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 82 (41.21%) GitLab
2 58 (29.15%) Jenkins
3 30 (15.08%) Git
4 21 (10.55%) JIRA
5 9 (4.52%) Artifactory
6 8 (4.02%) Vagrant
7 5 (2.51%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.51%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.01%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.51%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.51%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.51%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.01%) Maven
10 2 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 52 (26.13%) Public Sector
2 26 (13.07%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.06%) Finance
4 21 (10.55%) Banking
5 6 (3.02%) Front Office
5 6 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.51%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.50%) Games
8 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.57%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (9.55%) Kafka
3 10 (5.03%) Node.js
4 8 (4.02%) Keycloak
5 7 (3.52%) AWS CDK
6 5 (2.51%) .NET
6 5 (2.51%) LDAP
6 5 (2.51%) React
7 4 (2.01%) OAuth
7 4 (2.01%) REST
7 4 (2.01%) RESTful
8 3 (1.51%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.51%) JWT
9 2 (1.01%) Loki
9 2 (1.01%) Middleware
10 1 (0.50%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.50%) Next.js
10 1 (0.50%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.50%) Pandas
10 1 (0.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.06%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.03%) Replication
3 10 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.02%) NHS
4 8 (4.02%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.02%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.51%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.51%) PKI
9 2 (1.01%) Clustering
9 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.50%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (31.16%) Linux
2 12 (6.03%) Windows
3 8 (4.02%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (4.02%) VMS
4 5 (2.51%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.51%) Unix
5 3 (1.51%) CentOS
5 3 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (100.00%) DevOps
2 153 (76.88%) CI/CD
3 100 (50.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (29.15%) Containerisation
5 42 (21.11%) Observability
6 36 (18.09%) Agile
7 28 (14.07%) Cloud Security
8 26 (13.07%) Platform Engineering
9 23 (11.56%) Microservices
10 22 (11.06%) Configuration Management
11 19 (9.55%) Infrastructure Automation
11 19 (9.55%) Migration
12 17 (8.54%) High Availability
12 17 (8.54%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (8.04%) Incident Response
14 15 (7.54%) Change Management
14 15 (7.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (6.53%) DevSecOps
16 13 (6.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (40.70%) Python
2 33 (16.58%) Bash
3 21 (10.55%) Java
4 16 (8.04%) PowerShell
4 16 (8.04%) SQL
5 15 (7.54%) Groovy
6 11 (5.53%) Shell Script
7 9 (4.52%) Go
8 6 (3.02%) Perl
9 4 (2.01%) Ruby
10 3 (1.51%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.50%) C#
12 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (52.76%) Security Cleared
2 102 (51.26%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.56%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.52%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (4.52%) Degree
5 8 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 5 (2.51%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.01%) QA
2 3 (1.51%) NCSC
3 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (41.71%) Docker
2 8 (4.02%) DFS Replication
3 5 (2.51%) Dovecot
3 5 (2.51%) Postfix
3 5 (2.51%) Squid
4 4 (2.01%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 157 (78.89%) Terraform
2 102 (51.26%) Kubernetes
3 54 (27.14%) Grafana
4 52 (26.13%) Prometheus
5 27 (13.57%) Ansible
6 18 (9.05%) Argo
7 7 (3.52%) Packer
7 7 (3.52%) Sysdig
8 5 (2.51%) Nessus
8 5 (2.51%) Proxmox
8 5 (2.51%) Puppet
9 4 (2.01%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.01%) Rancher
10 3 (1.51%) Consul
10 3 (1.51%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.01%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.50%) CASB
12 1 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.50%) Istio
12 1 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 12 (6.03%) ServiceNow
2 8 (4.02%) Splunk
3 7 (3.52%) Dynatrace
4 6 (3.02%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.51%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (1.51%) Okta
7 2 (1.01%) CloudEndure
7 2 (1.01%) Databricks
7 2 (1.01%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.01%) Oracle
8 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.50%) F5
8 1 (0.50%) New Relic
8 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.50%) Virgin Media