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 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 347 431
Rank change year-on-year -42 +84 -101
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 187 183 168
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.58% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.63% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 157 146
10th Percentile £363 £400 £425
25th Percentile £400 £454 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £555 £788 £642
90th Percentile £679 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

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 33,096 29,209 40,038
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.69% 93.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,909 17,885 26,705
10th Percentile £300 £291 £280
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £500
% change year-on-year -0.73% -4.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,948 878 1,679
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.52 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +28.79%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.88 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.54% -31.39% +66.65%

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 12 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 12 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 -56 152 £500 -16.67% 15
London -38 83 £513 -21.15% 8
UK excluding London -8 80 £500 - 12
Work from Home -64 48 £513 -17.67% 11
North of England -30 40 £500 +5.26% 4
North West -15 18 £450 -7.69%
West Midlands -17 18 £475 +35.71%
Midlands -30 18 £475 +163.16% 1
Yorkshire -35 16 £500 +17.65% 4
South East -8 12 £500 -6.98% 5
Scotland +2 6 £329 -34.30%
North East -8 6 £548 -4.78%
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West -18 2 £488 -25.00% 1
East of England -19 1 £600 +37.14%

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 187 (100.00%) AWS
1 187 (100.00%) DevOps
2 150 (80.21%) Terraform
3 143 (76.47%) CI/CD
4 95 (50.80%) Security Cleared
5 92 (49.20%) SC Cleared
6 91 (48.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 91 (48.66%) Kubernetes
7 87 (46.52%) Python
8 83 (44.39%) Docker
9 69 (36.90%) GitLab
10 65 (34.76%) GitHub
11 62 (33.16%) Jenkins
12 58 (31.02%) Grafana
13 57 (30.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 57 (30.48%) Linux
14 55 (29.41%) Prometheus
15 51 (27.27%) Containerisation
16 46 (24.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 46 (24.60%) Serverless
17 43 (22.99%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (22.99%) Amazon RDS
18 42 (22.46%) GitHub Actions
19 41 (21.93%) Amazon EC2
20 39 (20.86%) Amazon S3
20 39 (20.86%) Observability
21 38 (20.32%) AWS Lambda
22 37 (19.79%) Amazon ECS
23 36 (19.25%) Agile
23 36 (19.25%) Azure

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 23 (12.30%) Confluence
2 11 (5.88%) nginx
3 10 (5.35%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.07%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.53%) CMS
5 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (3.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 187 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (34.76%) GitHub
3 57 (30.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 46 (24.60%) AWS CloudFormation
4 46 (24.60%) Serverless
5 43 (22.99%) Amazon EKS
6 42 (22.46%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (21.93%) Amazon EC2
8 39 (20.86%) Amazon S3
9 38 (20.32%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (19.79%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (19.25%) Azure
12 32 (17.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (8.56%) GCP
14 15 (8.02%) AWS CodePipeline
15 14 (7.49%) Amazon ELB
16 13 (6.95%) AWS KMS
16 13 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (6.95%) Route 53
17 12 (6.42%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.76%) DNS
2 19 (10.16%) Firewall
3 14 (7.49%) HTTP
4 13 (6.95%) FTP
4 13 (6.95%) SMTP
4 13 (6.95%) SSH
5 7 (3.74%) IMAP
5 7 (3.74%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (2.14%) VPN
7 1 (0.53%) LAN
7 1 (0.53%) Network Security
7 1 (0.53%) SSL
7 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.99%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.42%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.35%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.21%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.21%) Flink
6 5 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.67%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.67%) Redis
7 4 (2.14%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.60%) MySQL
9 2 (1.07%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 69 (36.90%) GitLab
2 62 (33.16%) Jenkins
3 34 (18.18%) Git
4 27 (14.44%) JIRA
5 13 (6.95%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.81%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.67%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.14%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.14%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.14%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.60%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.60%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.07%) Maven
10 2 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 52 (27.81%) Public Sector
2 30 (16.04%) Social Skills
3 20 (10.70%) Finance
4 19 (10.16%) Banking
5 7 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.21%) Front Office
7 3 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.07%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.53%) Games
9 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.37%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (10.70%) Kafka
3 9 (4.81%) Node.js
4 8 (4.28%) AWS CDK
4 8 (4.28%) Keycloak
5 7 (3.74%) LDAP
6 6 (3.21%) React
7 5 (2.67%) .NET
8 4 (2.14%) OAuth
9 3 (1.60%) cloud-init
9 3 (1.60%) JWT
9 3 (1.60%) REST
9 3 (1.60%) RESTful
10 2 (1.07%) Loki
10 2 (1.07%) Middleware
11 1 (0.53%) Django
11 1 (0.53%) OpenID
11 1 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (0.53%) Spring
11 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 17 (9.09%) Replication
2 10 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.74%) NHS
4 6 (3.21%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.21%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.67%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.60%) PKI
8 2 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.53%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (30.48%) Linux
2 15 (8.02%) Windows
3 13 (6.95%) Amazon Linux
3 13 (6.95%) VMS
4 7 (3.74%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.14%) Unix
6 3 (1.60%) CentOS
6 3 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (100.00%) DevOps
2 143 (76.47%) CI/CD
3 91 (48.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 39 (20.86%) Observability
6 36 (19.25%) Agile
7 35 (18.72%) Cloud Security
8 27 (14.44%) Configuration Management
9 26 (13.90%) Platform Engineering
10 23 (12.30%) Microservices
11 20 (10.70%) Performance Tuning
12 19 (10.16%) Change Management
13 18 (9.63%) Infrastructure Automation
13 18 (9.63%) Migration
14 16 (8.56%) Incident Response
15 15 (8.02%) High Availability
15 15 (8.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 14 (7.49%) DevSecOps
17 13 (6.95%) Patch Management
18 12 (6.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 87 (46.52%) Python
2 32 (17.11%) Bash
3 23 (12.30%) Java
4 22 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 20 (10.70%) SQL
6 19 (10.16%) Groovy
7 11 (5.88%) Shell Script
8 10 (5.35%) Go
8 10 (5.35%) Perl
9 4 (2.14%) Ruby
10 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.53%) C#
12 1 (0.53%) PHP
12 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (50.80%) Security Cleared
2 92 (49.20%) SC Cleared
3 29 (15.51%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.88%) Degree
5 10 (5.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.28%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (4.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.74%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 5 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.21%) QA
2 3 (1.60%) NCSC
3 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (44.39%) Docker
2 13 (6.95%) DFS Replication
3 7 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.74%) Dovecot
3 7 (3.74%) Postfix
3 7 (3.74%) Squid
4 2 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 150 (80.21%) Terraform
2 91 (48.66%) Kubernetes
3 58 (31.02%) Grafana
4 55 (29.41%) Prometheus
5 27 (14.44%) Ansible
6 16 (8.56%) Argo
7 7 (3.74%) Nessus
7 7 (3.74%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.74%) Proxmox
7 7 (3.74%) Puppet
7 7 (3.74%) Sysdig
8 6 (3.21%) Packer
9 4 (2.14%) Rancher
10 3 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.60%) Kibana
11 2 (1.07%) Consul
11 2 (1.07%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.53%) CASB
12 1 (0.53%) linkerd
12 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 8 (4.28%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.74%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (3.74%) Splunk
4 6 (3.21%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.60%) Okta
6 2 (1.07%) CloudEndure
6 2 (1.07%) Databricks
6 2 (1.07%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.07%) Oracle
7 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.53%) Avaya
7 1 (0.53%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco
7 1 (0.53%) F5
7 1 (0.53%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.53%) Google
7 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.53%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.53%) Virgin Media