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 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 368 420
Rank change year-on-year -21 +52 -86
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 198 190 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.56% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.61% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 163 146
10th Percentile £362 £381 £425
25th Percentile £402 £450 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £731 £638
90th Percentile £676 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £454 £550
% change year-on-year +10.13% -17.45% -

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 33,882 31,304 40,866
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 92.76% 93.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,416 19,227 27,402
10th Percentile £294 £300 £285
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,989 974 1,553
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £19.12
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% -26.67% +46.39%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £73.75 £76.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +83.52%

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 December 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 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 26 December 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 -45 162 £500 -13.04% 19
UK excluding London -11 90 £500 +10.13% 11
London -26 85 £513 -19.61% 10
Work from Home -38 54 £500 -14.53% 4
North of England -42 43 £500 +17.65%
West Midlands -11 22 £475 +35.71%
Midlands -28 22 £475 +163.16%
North West -11 19 £438 -10.26%
Yorkshire -39 18 £500 +25.00%
South East -4 12 £500 -6.98% 5
Scotland +5 9 £343 -31.35%
North East -8 7 £575 +0.88%
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West -9 2 £488 -20.41% 5
East of England -21 1 £600 +37.14% 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 December 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.

1 198 (100.00%) AWS
1 198 (100.00%) DevOps
2 155 (78.28%) Terraform
3 150 (75.76%) CI/CD
4 99 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 96 (48.48%) Kubernetes
6 95 (47.98%) SC Cleared
7 93 (46.97%) Python
8 92 (46.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 88 (44.44%) Docker
10 70 (35.35%) GitHub
11 66 (33.33%) Jenkins
12 65 (32.83%) GitLab
13 62 (31.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 60 (30.30%) Linux
15 58 (29.29%) Grafana
16 55 (27.78%) Prometheus
17 53 (26.77%) Containerisation
18 51 (25.76%) Amazon RDS
19 50 (25.25%) Amazon EC2
20 48 (24.24%) Serverless
21 47 (23.74%) Amazon S3
21 47 (23.74%) GitHub Actions
22 43 (21.72%) Amazon EKS
22 43 (21.72%) AWS CloudFormation
22 43 (21.72%) AWS Lambda
23 41 (20.71%) Cloud Security
23 41 (20.71%) Git
24 40 (20.20%) Agile
24 40 (20.20%) Amazon ECS

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 26 (13.13%) Confluence
2 12 (6.06%) nginx
3 10 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.01%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.51%) JBoss
Applications
1 8 (4.04%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 198 (100.00%) AWS
2 70 (35.35%) GitHub
3 62 (31.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 50 (25.25%) Amazon EC2
5 48 (24.24%) Serverless
6 47 (23.74%) Amazon S3
6 47 (23.74%) GitHub Actions
7 43 (21.72%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (21.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 43 (21.72%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (20.20%) Amazon ECS
9 39 (19.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 36 (18.18%) Azure
11 20 (10.10%) AWS CodePipeline
12 16 (8.08%) Amazon ELB
12 16 (8.08%) GCP
13 15 (7.58%) AWS KMS
14 14 (7.07%) Route 53
15 13 (6.57%) AWS Fargate
16 12 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.12%) DNS
2 21 (10.61%) Firewall
3 16 (8.08%) HTTP
4 15 (7.58%) FTP
4 15 (7.58%) SMTP
4 15 (7.58%) SSH
5 8 (4.04%) IMAP
5 8 (4.04%) OpenLDAP
5 8 (4.04%) VPN
6 4 (2.02%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.51%) LAN
7 1 (0.51%) Network Security
7 1 (0.51%) SSL
7 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (25.76%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.05%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.03%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.03%) Flink
6 5 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.53%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.53%) Redis
7 4 (2.02%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.52%) MySQL
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 66 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 65 (32.83%) GitLab
3 41 (20.71%) Git
4 32 (16.16%) JIRA
5 15 (7.58%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.55%) Artifactory
7 7 (3.54%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.53%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.53%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.53%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.52%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.52%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.01%) IntelliJ
10 2 (1.01%) Maven
10 2 (1.01%) PyCharm
10 2 (1.01%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 53 (26.77%) Public Sector
2 36 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 24 (12.12%) Finance
4 19 (9.60%) Banking
5 8 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.03%) Front Office
7 3 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.51%) Games
9 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (10.10%) Kafka
3 9 (4.55%) AWS CDK
3 9 (4.55%) Node.js
4 8 (4.04%) Keycloak
4 8 (4.04%) LDAP
5 6 (3.03%) .NET
5 6 (3.03%) React
6 4 (2.02%) OAuth
7 3 (1.52%) cloud-init
7 3 (1.52%) JWT
7 3 (1.52%) REST
7 3 (1.52%) RESTful
8 2 (1.01%) Loki
8 2 (1.01%) Middleware
9 1 (0.51%) Django
9 1 (0.51%) HTML
9 1 (0.51%) SAML
9 1 (0.51%) Spring
9 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.60%) Replication
2 16 (8.08%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.04%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.54%) NHS
6 6 (3.03%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.53%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.52%) PKI
10 2 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.51%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.51%) Clustering
11 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (30.30%) Linux
2 20 (10.10%) Windows
3 15 (7.58%) Amazon Linux
3 15 (7.58%) VMS
4 8 (4.04%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.02%) Unix
6 3 (1.52%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (100.00%) DevOps
2 150 (75.76%) CI/CD
3 92 (46.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (26.77%) Containerisation
5 41 (20.71%) Cloud Security
6 40 (20.20%) Agile
7 37 (18.69%) Observability
8 31 (15.66%) Configuration Management
8 31 (15.66%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (13.13%) Microservices
10 23 (11.62%) Infrastructure Automation
11 22 (11.11%) Change Management
12 19 (9.60%) Performance Tuning
13 18 (9.09%) Migration
14 16 (8.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 15 (7.58%) High Availability
15 15 (7.58%) Incident Response
15 15 (7.58%) Patch Management
16 14 (7.07%) DevSecOps
17 13 (6.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 93 (46.97%) Python
2 34 (17.17%) Bash
3 27 (13.64%) Java
4 25 (12.63%) PowerShell
5 21 (10.61%) Groovy
5 21 (10.61%) SQL
6 13 (6.57%) Perl
7 11 (5.56%) Go
8 8 (4.04%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.02%) Ruby
9 4 (2.02%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.52%) C#
10 3 (1.52%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.51%) PHP
11 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 95 (47.98%) SC Cleared
3 32 (16.16%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.57%) Degree
5 10 (5.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (4.04%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (4.04%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 4 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.03%) QA
2 3 (1.52%) NCSC
3 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.01%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 88 (44.44%) Docker
2 15 (7.58%) DFS Replication
3 9 (4.55%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.04%) Dovecot
4 8 (4.04%) Postfix
4 8 (4.04%) Squid
5 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 155 (78.28%) Terraform
2 96 (48.48%) Kubernetes
3 58 (29.29%) Grafana
4 55 (27.78%) Prometheus
5 32 (16.16%) Ansible
6 17 (8.59%) Argo
7 9 (4.55%) Progress Chef
8 8 (4.04%) Nessus
8 8 (4.04%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.54%) Puppet
9 7 (3.54%) Sysdig
10 6 (3.03%) Packer
11 4 (2.02%) Kibana
11 4 (2.02%) Rancher
12 3 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (1.01%) Consul
14 1 (0.51%) CASB
14 1 (0.51%) Istio
14 1 (0.51%) linkerd
14 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (9.60%) ServiceNow
2 9 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 8 (4.04%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (4.04%) Splunk
4 6 (3.03%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.52%) Okta
6 2 (1.01%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.01%) CloudEndure
6 2 (1.01%) Databricks
6 2 (1.01%) Oracle
6 2 (1.01%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.51%) Avaya
7 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco
7 1 (0.51%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.51%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.51%) Google
7 1 (0.51%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat