AWS DevOps Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 379 386
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 -35
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 172 178 260
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.48% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.52% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 142 221
10th Percentile £363 £374 £425
25th Percentile £420 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £663 £675
90th Percentile £649 £785 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +18.75% -27.27% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 30,564 34,233 44,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.88% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,313 20,627 30,523
10th Percentile £279 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,698 1,333 1,531
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.07 £14.61
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +60.48%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.51 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% -10.11% +90.25%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 -3 144 £494 -5.95% 28
UK excluding London +16 89 £475 +18.75% 23
London -29 65 £481 -16.30% 6
Work from Home -21 45 £450 -17.43% 24
North of England -24 38 £500 +25.00% 12
Midlands -4 26 £475 +163.16% 2
West Midlands +5 25 £475 +35.71%
Yorkshire -36 19 £500 +25.00% 7
South East +21 14 £500 -13.04% 7
North West -9 14 £395 -16.84% 5
Scotland +4 8 £475 -5.00%
North East -2 6 £563 +23.90%
South West +12 3 £625 +2.04% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
East Midlands -9 1 - - 2
East of England - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 October 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.

1 172 (100.00%) AWS
1 172 (100.00%) DevOps
2 142 (82.56%) Terraform
3 129 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 96 (55.81%) Kubernetes
5 89 (51.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 82 (47.67%) Security Cleared
7 80 (46.51%) SC Cleared
8 79 (45.93%) Docker
8 79 (45.93%) Python
9 71 (41.28%) Jenkins
10 57 (33.14%) GitHub
11 54 (31.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 51 (29.65%) GitLab
13 50 (29.07%) Amazon RDS
14 48 (27.91%) Prometheus
15 47 (27.33%) Grafana
16 46 (26.74%) Linux
17 45 (26.16%) Amazon EC2
17 45 (26.16%) Amazon S3
17 45 (26.16%) Containerisation
18 43 (25.00%) Cloud Security
18 43 (25.00%) Git
19 42 (24.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 41 (23.84%) GitHub Actions
21 39 (22.67%) Bash
22 38 (22.09%) Serverless
23 34 (19.77%) Amazon ECS
23 34 (19.77%) Ansible
23 34 (19.77%) JIRA

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 27 (15.70%) Confluence
2 11 (6.40%) nginx
3 4 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.74%) JBoss
5 2 (1.16%) Apache
5 2 (1.16%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.58%) CMS
6 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (5.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 172 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (33.14%) GitHub
3 54 (31.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 45 (26.16%) Amazon EC2
4 45 (26.16%) Amazon S3
5 42 (24.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 41 (23.84%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (22.09%) Serverless
8 34 (19.77%) Amazon ECS
9 33 (19.19%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (19.19%) Azure
10 31 (18.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (16.86%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (11.05%) Amazon ELB
13 18 (10.47%) AWS KMS
13 18 (10.47%) GCP
14 16 (9.30%) Route 53
15 14 (8.14%) AWS CodePipeline
16 10 (5.81%) AWS Fargate
16 10 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.70%) DNS
2 22 (12.79%) Firewall
3 17 (9.88%) SMTP
4 16 (9.30%) SSH
5 15 (8.72%) FTP
5 15 (8.72%) HTTP
6 10 (5.81%) IMAP
6 10 (5.81%) OpenLDAP
7 9 (5.23%) VPN
8 4 (2.33%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.74%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.16%) Network Security
10 2 (1.16%) SSL
11 1 (0.58%) Internet
11 1 (0.58%) NAS
11 1 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (29.07%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.72%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (3.49%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.91%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.33%) MySQL
6 4 (2.33%) Redis
7 3 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.74%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.58%) Flink
9 1 (0.58%) Metadata
9 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 71 (41.28%) Jenkins
2 51 (29.65%) GitLab
3 43 (25.00%) Git
4 34 (19.77%) JIRA
5 17 (9.88%) Vagrant
6 8 (4.65%) Artifactory
7 6 (3.49%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.91%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.91%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.33%) Maven
9 4 (2.33%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.74%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.74%) Terragrunt
11 2 (1.16%) IntelliJ
11 2 (1.16%) PyCharm
11 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.58%) Ant
General
1 41 (23.84%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.26%) Public Sector
3 18 (10.47%) Finance
4 12 (6.98%) Banking
5 9 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.58%) Front Office
8 1 (0.58%) Games
8 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Publishing
8 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.05%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (8.14%) Kafka
3 10 (5.81%) LDAP
4 9 (5.23%) AWS CDK
5 7 (4.07%) .NET
5 7 (4.07%) Keycloak
6 5 (2.91%) React
7 4 (2.33%) Middleware
7 4 (2.33%) Node.js
8 3 (1.74%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.74%) RESTful
9 2 (1.16%) Laravel
9 2 (1.16%) REST
10 1 (0.58%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.58%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.58%) Loki
10 1 (0.58%) MACH
10 1 (0.58%) Next.js
10 1 (0.58%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.58%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.47%) Replication
2 17 (9.88%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.40%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.91%) NHS
5 4 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.74%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.74%) PKI
7 2 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.58%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.58%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (26.74%) Linux
2 22 (12.79%) Windows
3 17 (9.88%) Amazon Linux
3 17 (9.88%) VMS
4 8 (4.65%) Ubuntu
5 7 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.49%) Unix
7 3 (1.74%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (100.00%) DevOps
2 129 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 89 (51.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (26.16%) Containerisation
5 43 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 33 (19.19%) Agile
6 33 (19.19%) Configuration Management
7 28 (16.28%) Observability
7 28 (16.28%) Platform Engineering
8 24 (13.95%) Change Management
9 23 (13.37%) Infrastructure Automation
10 21 (12.21%) Microservices
11 20 (11.63%) Migration
12 16 (9.30%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (8.72%) Patch Management
14 14 (8.14%) DevSecOps
14 14 (8.14%) High Availability
14 14 (8.14%) Test Automation
15 12 (6.98%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (6.98%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 79 (45.93%) Python
2 39 (22.67%) Bash
3 28 (16.28%) PowerShell
4 24 (13.95%) Groovy
5 23 (13.37%) SQL
6 22 (12.79%) Java
7 14 (8.14%) Go
8 12 (6.98%) Perl
9 6 (3.49%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.91%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.74%) C#
12 2 (1.16%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.16%) PHP
13 1 (0.58%) C++
Qualifications
1 82 (47.67%) Security Cleared
2 80 (46.51%) SC Cleared
3 31 (18.02%) AWS Certification
4 15 (8.72%) Degree
5 9 (5.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.65%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.49%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (2.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.74%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.49%) QA
2 3 (1.74%) NCSC
2 3 (1.74%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.58%) NIST
4 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 79 (45.93%) Docker
2 15 (8.72%) DFS Replication
3 10 (5.81%) Dovecot
3 10 (5.81%) Postfix
3 10 (5.81%) Squid
4 9 (5.23%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 142 (82.56%) Terraform
2 96 (55.81%) Kubernetes
3 48 (27.91%) Prometheus
4 47 (27.33%) Grafana
5 34 (19.77%) Ansible
6 11 (6.40%) Progress Chef
7 10 (5.81%) Nessus
8 9 (5.23%) Argo
8 9 (5.23%) Puppet
9 8 (4.65%) Proxmox
10 4 (2.33%) Kibana
10 4 (2.33%) Packer
10 4 (2.33%) Sysdig
11 3 (1.74%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.74%) Rancher
12 2 (1.16%) Podman
13 1 (0.58%) CASB
13 1 (0.58%) Consul
13 1 (0.58%) linkerd
13 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (11.63%) ServiceNow
2 10 (5.81%) Dynatrace
2 10 (5.81%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (5.23%) Splunk
4 6 (3.49%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.74%) Okta
6 2 (1.16%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.16%) CloudEndure
6 2 (1.16%) Databricks
6 2 (1.16%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.16%) Google
7 1 (0.58%) Avaya
7 1 (0.58%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.58%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.58%) F5
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle
7 1 (0.58%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.58%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.58%) SAP
7 1 (0.58%) Virgin Media