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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 391 388
Rank change year-on-year -81 -3 -52
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 193 166 185
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.55% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 117 143
10th Percentile £400 £361 £343
25th Percentile £425 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £567 £575 £638
90th Percentile £640 £675 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £413
% change year-on-year -10.53% +15.15% -31.25%
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 49,634 30,076 36,192
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 91.43% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,863 19,075 23,380
10th Percentile £328 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £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 3,458 1,498 2,043
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.64 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.30 £20.24
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +20.00%

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 8 August 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 14 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 8 August 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 -99 147 £480 -4.00% 48
London -50 91 £519 -1.19% 37
Work from Home -35 79 £500 -0.99% 16
UK excluding London -106 61 £425 -10.53% 13
North of England -85 28 £425 -15.00% 3
North East -28 19 £425 -20.56% 1
Midlands -56 10 £451 -5.05% 2
West Midlands -58 10 £451 -5.05% 2
Scotland -11 8 £412 -13.37% 2
South West -41 6 £450 -28.00% 5
North West -54 5 £718 +82.57% 2
South East -66 5 £450 -5.26%
Yorkshire -52 4 £550 +8.64%
East of England - 4 £485 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 August 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.

1 193 (100.00%) AWS
1 193 (100.00%) DevOps
2 147 (76.17%) CI/CD
3 138 (71.50%) Terraform
4 126 (65.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 104 (53.89%) Security Cleared
6 103 (53.37%) Kubernetes
7 98 (50.78%) SC Cleared
8 85 (44.04%) Docker
9 80 (41.45%) Containerisation
10 77 (39.90%) GitLab
11 66 (34.20%) Python
12 58 (30.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 55 (28.50%) Jenkins
14 53 (27.46%) Amazon EKS
15 48 (24.87%) Prometheus
16 47 (24.35%) GitHub
16 47 (24.35%) Grafana
17 44 (22.80%) Observability
18 41 (21.24%) GitHub Actions
18 41 (21.24%) Linux
18 41 (21.24%) Serverless
19 38 (19.69%) Agile
19 38 (19.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 38 (19.69%) Amazon S3
19 38 (19.69%) AWS Lambda
19 38 (19.69%) Bash
19 38 (19.69%) Platform Engineering
20 36 (18.65%) Ansible
21 35 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement

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 11 (5.70%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.55%) nginx
3 2 (1.04%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 193 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (30.05%) AWS CloudFormation
3 53 (27.46%) Amazon EKS
4 47 (24.35%) GitHub
5 41 (21.24%) GitHub Actions
5 41 (21.24%) Serverless
6 38 (19.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 38 (19.69%) Amazon S3
6 38 (19.69%) AWS Lambda
7 35 (18.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 33 (17.10%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (12.95%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (12.44%) Azure
11 11 (5.70%) GCP
12 10 (5.18%) AWS CodePipeline
13 9 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (3.63%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (3.63%) AWS KMS
14 7 (3.63%) Route 53
15 5 (2.59%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) DNS
2 5 (2.59%) Network Security
3 4 (2.07%) VPN
4 3 (1.55%) Firewall
4 3 (1.55%) SSL
5 2 (1.04%) HTTP
5 2 (1.04%) OpenVPN
5 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.52%) AMQP
6 1 (0.52%) BGP
6 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.52%) Internet
6 1 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.40%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.70%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.66%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.59%) MySQL
7 3 (1.55%) Redis
8 2 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.04%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.52%) Big Data
9 1 (0.52%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.52%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 77 (39.90%) GitLab
2 55 (28.50%) Jenkins
3 24 (12.44%) Git
4 14 (7.25%) JIRA
5 9 (4.66%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.15%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (2.59%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.59%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.59%) Snyk
9 3 (1.55%) Maven
10 2 (1.04%) JMeter
11 1 (0.52%) Ant
11 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.52%) Gatling
11 1 (0.52%) Newman
11 1 (0.52%) Postman
11 1 (0.52%) Selenium
11 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 47 (24.35%) Public Sector
2 16 (8.29%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.25%) Finance
4 9 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.59%) Banking
6 4 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.55%) Law
8 2 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Military
9 1 (0.52%) Police
9 1 (0.52%) Publishing
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.84%) Kafka
2 11 (5.70%) AWS CDK
3 8 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (4.15%) Keycloak
4 7 (3.63%) Node.js
4 7 (3.63%) React
5 5 (2.59%) OAuth
5 5 (2.59%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.59%) OpenID
5 5 (2.59%) SAML
6 4 (2.07%) REST
7 3 (1.55%) .NET
7 3 (1.55%) JWT
7 3 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.04%) cloud-init
8 2 (1.04%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.04%) JSON
8 2 (1.04%) LDAP
8 2 (1.04%) Loki
8 2 (1.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 42 (21.76%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.11%) PKI
3 5 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.59%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.07%) Replication
5 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.04%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (21.24%) Linux
2 7 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.59%) Windows
4 4 (2.07%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.07%) Unix
5 2 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (100.00%) DevOps
2 147 (76.17%) CI/CD
3 126 (65.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (41.45%) Containerisation
5 44 (22.80%) Observability
6 38 (19.69%) Agile
6 38 (19.69%) Platform Engineering
7 35 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (17.10%) Test Automation
9 27 (13.99%) High Availability
10 24 (12.44%) Microservices
11 23 (11.92%) Deployment Automation
12 20 (10.36%) Infrastructure Automation
13 19 (9.84%) Root Cause Analysis
14 17 (8.81%) Configuration Management
15 15 (7.77%) DevSecOps
15 15 (7.77%) Migration
16 14 (7.25%) Secrets Management
16 14 (7.25%) Software Engineering
17 13 (6.74%) AI
Programming Languages
1 66 (34.20%) Python
2 38 (19.69%) Bash
3 10 (5.18%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.66%) Go
4 9 (4.66%) Java
5 8 (4.15%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.15%) Shell Script
6 7 (3.63%) Groovy
7 3 (1.55%) Scala
7 3 (1.55%) SQL
7 3 (1.55%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.52%) C
8 1 (0.52%) C#
8 1 (0.52%) Perl
8 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 104 (53.89%) Security Cleared
2 98 (50.78%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (5.70%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.59%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (1.04%) CCNP
7 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.52%) CCIE
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.07%) QA
2 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.04%) WCAG
3 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (44.04%) Docker
2 3 (1.55%) Squid
3 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) zsh
Systems Management
1 138 (71.50%) Terraform
2 103 (53.37%) Kubernetes
3 48 (24.87%) Prometheus
4 47 (24.35%) Grafana
5 36 (18.65%) Ansible
6 11 (5.70%) Argo
7 8 (4.15%) Puppet
8 6 (3.11%) Istio
9 5 (2.59%) Packer
10 4 (2.07%) Rancher
11 3 (1.55%) Consul
12 2 (1.04%) Kustomize
12 2 (1.04%) linkerd
12 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.04%) Sysdig
12 2 (1.04%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.52%) Kibana
13 1 (0.52%) Opsview
13 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.52%) systemd
Vendors
1 8 (4.15%) Dynatrace
2 4 (2.07%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.07%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.55%) Google
3 3 (1.55%) Splunk
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle
4 2 (1.04%) Sonatype
4 2 (1.04%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.52%) Databricks
5 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.52%) Informatica
5 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.52%) Tanium
5 1 (0.52%) Tenable
5 1 (0.52%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.52%) VMware