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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 324 444
Rank change year-on-year -101 +120 -118
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 190 195 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.67% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.72% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 165 135
10th Percentile £371 £407 £425
25th Percentile £400 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +9.77% -10.42%
75th Percentile £587 £788 £625
90th Percentile £663 £838 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £522 £531
% change year-on-year -4.28% -1.63% +1.14%

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 40,988 26,987 41,095
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 92.82% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,540 17,745 26,925
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,566 944 2,532
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.72 £20.92 £16.25
Median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.91 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £31.88 £32.90
% change year-on-year +25.47% -3.09% -21.32%

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 March 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 March 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 -121 149 £519 -13.54% 16
London -84 97 £525 -22.22% 6
Work from Home -78 61 £525 -23.64% 9
UK excluding London -76 57 £500 -4.28% 12
North of England -62 29 £500 -4.76% 6
North West -27 13 £488 +22.68% 4
South East -47 11 £500 - 3
Yorkshire -52 10 £525 -
Scotland +9 7 £313 -32.27%
North East -13 6 £425 -26.09% 2
East of England -32 4 £600 +37.14% 2
West Midlands -53 3 £659 +88.14% 1
Midlands -63 3 £659 +88.14% 1
South West -26 2 £400 -36.00%
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 31 March 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.

1 190 (100.00%) AWS
1 190 (100.00%) DevOps
2 138 (72.63%) CI/CD
3 133 (70.00%) Terraform
4 100 (52.63%) Security Cleared
5 94 (49.47%) SC Cleared
6 91 (47.89%) Kubernetes
7 90 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
8 75 (39.47%) GitLab
9 72 (37.89%) Docker
10 66 (34.74%) Python
11 59 (31.05%) GitHub
12 56 (29.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 54 (28.42%) Containerisation
14 52 (27.37%) Linux
15 49 (25.79%) Serverless
16 45 (23.68%) Jenkins
17 44 (23.16%) Amazon EKS
18 43 (22.63%) Grafana
18 43 (22.63%) Prometheus
19 41 (21.58%) AWS Lambda
20 38 (20.00%) Agile
21 35 (18.42%) Observability
22 34 (17.89%) GitHub Actions
23 33 (17.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 30 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
25 26 (13.68%) Amazon ECS
26 25 (13.16%) Amazon S3
26 25 (13.16%) Bash
26 25 (13.16%) Elastic Stack

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 9 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (4.74%) Confluence
2 4 (2.11%) nginx
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 190 (100.00%) AWS
2 59 (31.05%) GitHub
3 56 (29.47%) AWS CloudFormation
4 49 (25.79%) Serverless
5 44 (23.16%) Amazon EKS
6 41 (21.58%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (17.89%) GitHub Actions
8 33 (17.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (13.68%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (13.16%) Amazon S3
12 24 (12.63%) Azure
13 17 (8.95%) AWS CodePipeline
14 16 (8.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (6.32%) Amazon ECR
17 11 (5.79%) GCP
18 10 (5.26%) Azure AKS
19 8 (4.21%) Pulumi
20 7 (3.68%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.16%) Firewall
1 6 (3.16%) VPN
2 2 (1.05%) DNS
2 2 (1.05%) HTTP
2 2 (1.05%) Network Security
2 2 (1.05%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.53%) BGP
3 1 (0.53%) LAN
3 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.05%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.32%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.16%) Flink
5 5 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (2.63%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.63%) Redis
6 3 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.58%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.05%) Big Data
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.53%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 75 (39.47%) GitLab
2 45 (23.68%) Jenkins
3 19 (10.00%) Git
4 11 (5.79%) JIRA
5 9 (4.74%) Artifactory
6 6 (3.16%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.16%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.11%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.58%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.58%) Snyk
9 2 (1.05%) Liquibase
9 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.53%) Gatling
10 1 (0.53%) JMeter
10 1 (0.53%) Newman
10 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.53%) Selenium
10 1 (0.53%) Terragrunt
General
1 44 (23.16%) Public Sector
2 24 (12.63%) Finance
3 17 (8.95%) Banking
4 14 (7.37%) Social Skills
5 6 (3.16%) Front Office
6 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.53%) Games
7 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.53%) Retail
7 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.16%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (7.89%) Kafka
3 11 (5.79%) Node.js
4 7 (3.68%) Keycloak
5 6 (3.16%) AWS CDK
6 5 (2.63%) JWT
6 5 (2.63%) OAuth
7 4 (2.11%) REST
8 3 (1.58%) Middleware
8 3 (1.58%) RESTful
9 2 (1.05%) .NET
9 2 (1.05%) boto
9 2 (1.05%) JSON
9 2 (1.05%) Loki
9 2 (1.05%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.05%) pytest
9 2 (1.05%) React
10 1 (0.53%) cloud-init
10 1 (0.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.05%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.16%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.16%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.63%) Hedge funds
4 5 (2.63%) Replication
5 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.11%) NHS
6 2 (1.05%) Clustering
6 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) PKI
7 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (27.37%) Linux
2 4 (2.11%) Unix
2 4 (2.11%) Windows
3 1 (0.53%) CentOS
3 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.53%) VMS
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (100.00%) DevOps
2 138 (72.63%) CI/CD
3 90 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (28.42%) Containerisation
5 38 (20.00%) Agile
6 35 (18.42%) Observability
7 23 (12.11%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 18 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (8.95%) High Availability
10 17 (8.95%) Microservices
11 16 (8.42%) Test Automation
12 13 (6.84%) Secrets Management
13 12 (6.32%) Migration
13 12 (6.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (5.79%) Incident Response
14 11 (5.79%) Software Delivery
15 10 (5.26%) Configuration Management
15 10 (5.26%) Cost Optimisation
15 10 (5.26%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (34.74%) Python
2 25 (13.16%) Bash
3 16 (8.42%) Java
4 11 (5.79%) Shell Script
5 8 (4.21%) Go
6 7 (3.68%) SQL
7 6 (3.16%) Groovy
8 5 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.11%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.11%) Ruby
10 2 (1.05%) Perl
10 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.53%) C
11 1 (0.53%) C#
11 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 94 (49.47%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.95%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 8 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.16%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 4 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.58%) Degree
8 2 (1.05%) CCNP
8 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.53%) CCIE
9 1 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.58%) QA
2 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.53%) GDPR
2 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.53%) NCSC
2 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (37.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 133 (70.00%) Terraform
2 91 (47.89%) Kubernetes
3 43 (22.63%) Grafana
3 43 (22.63%) Prometheus
4 24 (12.63%) Ansible
5 16 (8.42%) Argo
6 9 (4.74%) Sysdig
7 6 (3.16%) Rancher
8 5 (2.63%) Packer
9 3 (1.58%) Consul
10 2 (1.05%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.05%) Puppet
11 1 (0.53%) CASB
11 1 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.53%) Istio
11 1 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.53%) Opsview
11 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (3.16%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.63%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.11%) Splunk
4 2 (1.05%) CloudEndure
4 2 (1.05%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.05%) Google
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle
5 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.53%) New Relic
5 1 (0.53%) Okta
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.53%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.53%) Virgin Media