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 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 405 395
Rank change year-on-year -84 -10 -34
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 181 163 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.54% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 111 134
10th Percentile £400 £358 £375
25th Percentile £425 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £650
90th Percentile £640 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £444 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -6.58% +18.75% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £75.00 - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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 50,390 30,066 35,884
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 91.06% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,936 18,964 22,304
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,743 1,564 1,744
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.69 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.07 £17.06 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.60 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +12.50%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -119 133 £473 -0.53% 73
London -62 78 £500 - 47
Work from Home -45 74 £500 +9.59% 15
UK excluding London -119 60 £444 -6.58% 36
North of England -78 28 £425 -2.86% 14
North East -32 18 £425 -20.56% 1
Midlands -62 11 £425 -10.53% 5
West Midlands -61 10 £451 -5.05% 3
Scotland -17 7 £450 -5.26% 8
South West -43 7 £450 -28.00% 4
North West -51 7 £634 +62.50% 9
South East -62 4 £450 -10.00% 3
Yorkshire -51 3 £550 +10.00% 4
East of England - 3 £485 - 1
East Midlands -13 1 £358 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 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.

1 181 (100.00%) AWS
1 181 (100.00%) DevOps
2 146 (80.66%) CI/CD
3 136 (75.14%) Terraform
4 130 (71.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 104 (57.46%) Kubernetes
6 96 (53.04%) Security Cleared
7 93 (51.38%) SC Cleared
8 88 (48.62%) Docker
9 81 (44.75%) Containerisation
10 80 (44.20%) GitLab
11 64 (35.36%) Python
12 58 (32.04%) Amazon EKS
13 56 (30.94%) Jenkins
14 51 (28.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 50 (27.62%) Grafana
16 49 (27.07%) Prometheus
17 48 (26.52%) GitHub
18 47 (25.97%) Observability
19 43 (23.76%) Agile
20 42 (23.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 42 (23.20%) Serverless
21 41 (22.65%) GitHub Actions
22 39 (21.55%) Ansible
22 39 (21.55%) Bash
23 38 (20.99%) Amazon S3
23 38 (20.99%) AWS Lambda
23 38 (20.99%) Linux
24 37 (20.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
25 35 (19.34%) Amazon EC2

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 14 (7.73%) Confluence
2 5 (2.76%) nginx
3 3 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.10%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) CMS
5 1 (0.55%) Drupal
5 1 (0.55%) JBoss
5 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Magento
1 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 181 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (32.04%) Amazon EKS
3 51 (28.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 48 (26.52%) GitHub
5 42 (23.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 42 (23.20%) Serverless
6 41 (22.65%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (20.99%) Amazon S3
7 38 (20.99%) AWS Lambda
8 37 (20.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 35 (19.34%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (16.57%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (13.26%) Azure
12 10 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (5.52%) Route 53
13 8 (4.42%) GCP
14 7 (3.87%) AWS CodePipeline
14 7 (3.87%) AWS KMS
15 6 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
16 5 (2.76%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.52%) DNS
2 6 (3.31%) Network Security
3 5 (2.76%) Firewall
4 4 (2.21%) HTTP
4 4 (2.21%) VPN
5 3 (1.66%) SSL
6 2 (1.10%) FTP
6 2 (1.10%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.10%) IMAP
6 2 (1.10%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.10%) SMTP
6 2 (1.10%) SSH
6 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.55%) AMQP
7 1 (0.55%) Internet
7 1 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.92%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (4.97%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.42%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.31%) MySQL
7 5 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.76%) Redis
8 3 (1.66%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.55%) Big Data
10 1 (0.55%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.55%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 80 (44.20%) GitLab
2 56 (30.94%) Jenkins
3 28 (15.47%) Git
4 17 (9.39%) JIRA
5 8 (4.42%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (2.76%) Snyk
6 5 (2.76%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.21%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.21%) Maven
8 3 (1.66%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.66%) JMeter
9 2 (1.10%) Terragrunt
9 2 (1.10%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.55%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.55%) Gatling
10 1 (0.55%) Newman
10 1 (0.55%) Postman
10 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
General
1 41 (22.65%) Public Sector
2 17 (9.39%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.97%) Finance
5 4 (2.21%) Banking
6 3 (1.66%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.66%) Law
7 2 (1.10%) Military
7 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.10%) Retail
8 1 (0.55%) Billing
8 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.55%) Police
8 1 (0.55%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (75.14%) Terraform
2 20 (11.05%) Kafka
3 10 (5.52%) AWS CDK
3 10 (5.52%) Keycloak
4 8 (4.42%) React
5 7 (3.87%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (3.87%) Node.js
6 5 (2.76%) OpenID
6 5 (2.76%) Pulumi
6 5 (2.76%) SAML
7 4 (2.21%) .NET
7 4 (2.21%) FastAPI
7 4 (2.21%) REST
8 3 (1.66%) LDAP
8 3 (1.66%) Loki
8 3 (1.66%) OAuth
8 3 (1.66%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.66%) RESTful
9 2 (1.10%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.55%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.87%) PKI
2 7 (3.87%) Replication
3 5 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.10%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.55%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (20.99%) Linux
2 8 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.87%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.31%) Windows
5 4 (2.21%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (2.21%) Unix
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (100.00%) DevOps
2 146 (80.66%) CI/CD
3 130 (71.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (44.75%) Containerisation
5 47 (25.97%) Observability
6 43 (23.76%) Agile
7 35 (19.34%) Test Automation
8 34 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (18.78%) Platform Engineering
9 28 (15.47%) Deployment Automation
10 24 (13.26%) High Availability
11 23 (12.71%) Microservices
12 21 (11.60%) Configuration Management
13 20 (11.05%) Root Cause Analysis
14 19 (10.50%) Infrastructure Automation
15 16 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (8.84%) Secrets Management
16 15 (8.29%) DevSecOps
17 14 (7.73%) Event-Driven
17 14 (7.73%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 64 (35.36%) Python
2 39 (21.55%) Bash
3 12 (6.63%) JavaScript
4 11 (6.08%) Groovy
5 9 (4.97%) Java
5 9 (4.97%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.42%) Go
7 7 (3.87%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.76%) SQL
9 4 (2.21%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.66%) Scala
11 1 (0.55%) C#
11 1 (0.55%) Perl
11 1 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 96 (53.04%) Security Cleared
2 93 (51.38%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (6.63%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.76%) SAFe Agilist
6 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.10%) Degree
8 1 (0.55%) CCIE
8 1 (0.55%) CCNP
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.76%) QA
2 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.10%) WCAG
3 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (48.62%) Docker
2 5 (2.76%) Squid
3 4 (2.21%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.10%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.10%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.10%) Postfix
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.55%) zsh
Systems Management
1 104 (57.46%) Kubernetes
2 50 (27.62%) Grafana
3 49 (27.07%) Prometheus
4 39 (21.55%) Ansible
5 12 (6.63%) Argo
6 8 (4.42%) Puppet
7 7 (3.87%) Packer
8 6 (3.31%) Istio
9 4 (2.21%) Rancher
10 3 (1.66%) Consul
10 3 (1.66%) Nessus
11 2 (1.10%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.10%) linkerd
11 2 (1.10%) Proxmox
11 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.10%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.55%) Kibana
12 1 (0.55%) Podman
12 1 (0.55%) systemd
Vendors
1 9 (4.97%) Dynatrace
2 8 (4.42%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.21%) Splunk
5 3 (1.66%) Oracle
6 2 (1.10%) Google
6 2 (1.10%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.10%) Sonatype
6 2 (1.10%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.55%) Adobe
7 1 (0.55%) Databricks
7 1 (0.55%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.55%) New Relic
7 1 (0.55%) Okta
7 1 (0.55%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.55%) Tanium
7 1 (0.55%) Tenable
7 1 (0.55%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.55%) VMware