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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 382 407
Rank change year-on-year -69 +25 -79
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 204 153 181
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.54% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 114 146
10th Percentile £400 £387 £400
25th Percentile £422 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £553 £647 £624
90th Percentile £630 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -21.28%
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 47,423 28,164 40,143
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 92.05% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,738 18,025 25,769
10th Percentile £325 £288 £283
25th Percentile £415 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,196 1,261 2,867
10th Percentile £15.61 £13.78 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.23 £17.33 £16.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.26% -28.00% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -93 152 £500 -4.76% 17
London -67 101 £513 -12.77% 7
Work from Home -25 84 £500 -16.67% 9
UK excluding London -86 56 £450 -5.26% 11
North of England -77 24 £500 - 5
North East -28 10 £425 -8.60% 3
West Midlands -48 10 £451 +0.22%
Yorkshire -52 10 £525 +1.20% 1
Midlands -54 10 £451 +0.22%
Scotland -8 9 £412 -1.20%
South East -71 5 £450 -10.00% 4
South West -27 4 £400 -37.25% 2
North West -53 4 £550 +39.95% 1
East of England - 4 £485 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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.

1 204 (100.00%) AWS
1 204 (100.00%) DevOps
2 153 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 149 (73.04%) Terraform
4 125 (61.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 119 (58.33%) Security Cleared
6 113 (55.39%) SC Cleared
7 104 (50.98%) Kubernetes
8 86 (42.16%) Docker
9 81 (39.71%) GitLab
10 77 (37.75%) Containerisation
11 67 (32.84%) Python
12 66 (32.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 54 (26.47%) Jenkins
14 53 (25.98%) Amazon EKS
15 51 (25.00%) GitHub
16 48 (23.53%) Linux
17 47 (23.04%) Serverless
18 44 (21.57%) Prometheus
19 43 (21.08%) Agile
20 42 (20.59%) Grafana
20 42 (20.59%) Observability
21 41 (20.10%) GitHub Actions
22 40 (19.61%) Ansible
22 40 (19.61%) AWS Lambda
23 37 (18.14%) Amazon S3
24 36 (17.65%) Bash
25 35 (17.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
26 34 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
27 33 (16.18%) 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 12 (5.88%) Confluence
2 3 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.47%) nginx
3 1 (0.49%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) JBoss
3 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 204 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (32.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 53 (25.98%) Amazon EKS
4 51 (25.00%) GitHub
5 47 (23.04%) Serverless
6 41 (20.10%) GitHub Actions
7 40 (19.61%) AWS Lambda
8 37 (18.14%) Amazon S3
9 35 (17.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (16.18%) Amazon EC2
11 32 (15.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 26 (12.75%) Azure
13 23 (11.27%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (6.37%) AWS CodePipeline
15 12 (5.88%) GCP
16 10 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (3.43%) Azure AKS
18 6 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
18 6 (2.94%) AWS CodeBuild
18 6 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.96%) DNS
1 4 (1.96%) Network Security
1 4 (1.96%) VPN
2 3 (1.47%) Firewall
3 2 (0.98%) HTTP
3 2 (0.98%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.49%) AMQP
4 1 (0.49%) BGP
4 1 (0.49%) Internet
4 1 (0.49%) SSL
4 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.31%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.39%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (3.43%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.47%) Big Data
6 3 (1.47%) MySQL
6 3 (1.47%) Redis
7 2 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.98%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.49%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.49%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 81 (39.71%) GitLab
2 54 (26.47%) Jenkins
3 22 (10.78%) Git
4 14 (6.86%) JIRA
5 8 (3.92%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.92%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.45%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.45%) CircleCI
6 5 (2.45%) Snyk
7 3 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.47%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.98%) Maven
9 1 (0.49%) Ant
9 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.49%) Gatling
9 1 (0.49%) JMeter
9 1 (0.49%) Newman
9 1 (0.49%) Postman
9 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 47 (23.04%) Public Sector
2 17 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 14 (6.86%) Finance
4 7 (3.43%) Banking
5 6 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.47%) Law
8 2 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.49%) Police
9 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.37%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (5.88%) AWS CDK
2 12 (5.88%) Kafka
3 7 (3.43%) Keycloak
3 7 (3.43%) Node.js
4 4 (1.96%) React
4 4 (1.96%) REST
5 3 (1.47%) OAuth
5 3 (1.47%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.98%) boto
6 2 (0.98%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.98%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.98%) JSON
6 2 (0.98%) JWT
6 2 (0.98%) Loki
6 2 (0.98%) Middleware
6 2 (0.98%) OpenID
6 2 (0.98%) pytest
6 2 (0.98%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (22.55%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.45%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.96%) PKI
3 4 (1.96%) Public Cloud
3 4 (1.96%) Replication
4 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (0.98%) Mainframe
5 2 (0.98%) NHS
6 1 (0.49%) Clustering
6 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (23.53%) Linux
2 7 (3.43%) Windows
3 6 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.45%) Unix
5 3 (1.47%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (100.00%) DevOps
2 153 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 125 (61.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (37.75%) Containerisation
5 43 (21.08%) Agile
6 42 (20.59%) Observability
7 34 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
8 31 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (13.73%) Test Automation
10 25 (12.25%) High Availability
11 20 (9.80%) Deployment Automation
12 19 (9.31%) Infrastructure Automation
13 18 (8.82%) Microservices
14 16 (7.84%) Configuration Management
14 16 (7.84%) Root Cause Analysis
15 14 (6.86%) DevSecOps
15 14 (6.86%) Incident Response
15 14 (6.86%) Software Engineering
16 13 (6.37%) Secrets Management
17 12 (5.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 67 (32.84%) Python
2 36 (17.65%) Bash
3 9 (4.41%) Go
3 9 (4.41%) Java
3 9 (4.41%) Shell Script
4 7 (3.43%) Groovy
4 7 (3.43%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.96%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.47%) SQL
8 2 (0.98%) Scala
9 1 (0.49%) C
9 1 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 119 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 113 (55.39%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.37%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.45%) SAFe Agilist
8 2 (0.98%) CCNP
8 2 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.49%) CCIE
9 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.49%) Degree
9 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.47%) QA
2 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.49%) GDPR
2 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (42.16%) Docker
2 3 (1.47%) Squid
3 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.49%) zsh
Systems Management
1 149 (73.04%) Terraform
2 104 (50.98%) Kubernetes
3 44 (21.57%) Prometheus
4 42 (20.59%) Grafana
5 40 (19.61%) Ansible
6 10 (4.90%) Argo
7 8 (3.92%) Puppet
8 5 (2.45%) Packer
9 4 (1.96%) Istio
9 4 (1.96%) Rancher
10 3 (1.47%) Consul
11 2 (0.98%) linkerd
11 2 (0.98%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.49%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.49%) Opsview
12 1 (0.49%) Podman
12 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (2.45%) Dynatrace
2 4 (1.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.96%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.47%) Google
3 3 (1.47%) Splunk
4 2 (0.98%) Fortinet
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle
4 2 (0.98%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.49%) Databricks
5 1 (0.49%) Informatica
5 1 (0.49%) New Relic
5 1 (0.49%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.49%) Tanium
5 1 (0.49%) Tenable
5 1 (0.49%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.49%) VMware