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 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 384 409
Rank change year-on-year -66 +25 -86
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 196 151 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.51% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.55% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 114 146
10th Percentile £400 £387 £400
25th Percentile £419 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £564 £669 £624
90th Percentile £633 £838 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £488 £463
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.41% -21.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 46,545 27,461 40,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.26% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,281 17,668 26,127
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,104 1,179 2,967
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.97 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.79 £16.37
Median hourly rate £43.61 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.56% -26.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -1.45%

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 18 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 18 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 -106 144 £500 -4.76% 14
London -37 96 £519 -13.54% 4
Work from Home -32 76 £506 -18.35% 6
UK excluding London -95 52 £450 -7.69% 9
North of England -77 21 £513 +2.50% 5
West Midlands -44 9 £451 +0.22%
Midlands -48 9 £451 +0.22%
Yorkshire -62 9 £525 +1.20%
Scotland -5 8 £412 +14.94%
North East -33 8 £425 -22.73% 2
South East -61 6 £450 -10.00% 3
South West -22 4 £400 -37.25% 1
East of England -24 4 £485 +10.86%
North West -44 4 £550 +39.95% 3

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 196 (100.00%) AWS
1 196 (100.00%) DevOps
2 149 (76.02%) CI/CD
3 145 (73.98%) Terraform
4 123 (62.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 115 (58.67%) Security Cleared
6 109 (55.61%) SC Cleared
7 97 (49.49%) Kubernetes
8 81 (41.33%) Docker
9 80 (40.82%) GitLab
10 74 (37.76%) Containerisation
11 65 (33.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 61 (31.12%) Python
13 54 (27.55%) Amazon EKS
14 53 (27.04%) Jenkins
15 50 (25.51%) GitHub
16 48 (24.49%) Linux
16 48 (24.49%) Serverless
17 46 (23.47%) Prometheus
18 44 (22.45%) Grafana
19 43 (21.94%) Agile
20 42 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
20 42 (21.43%) Observability
21 40 (20.41%) AWS Lambda
22 39 (19.90%) Ansible
23 38 (19.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 37 (18.88%) Amazon S3
25 33 (16.84%) Bash
25 33 (16.84%) Platform Engineering
26 32 (16.33%) 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 (6.12%) Confluence
2 3 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.53%) nginx
3 1 (0.51%) Apache
3 1 (0.51%) JBoss
3 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 196 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (33.16%) AWS CloudFormation
3 54 (27.55%) Amazon EKS
4 50 (25.51%) GitHub
5 48 (24.49%) Serverless
6 42 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
7 40 (20.41%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (19.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 37 (18.88%) Amazon S3
10 32 (16.33%) Amazon EC2
10 32 (16.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (12.76%) Azure
12 24 (12.24%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (6.63%) AWS CodePipeline
14 12 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (5.61%) GCP
16 9 (4.59%) Azure AKS
17 7 (3.57%) Pulumi
18 6 (3.06%) AWS CodeBuild
18 6 (3.06%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.04%) DNS
1 4 (2.04%) Network Security
1 4 (2.04%) VPN
2 3 (1.53%) Firewall
3 2 (1.02%) HTTP
3 2 (1.02%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.51%) AMQP
4 1 (0.51%) BGP
4 1 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.51%) SSL
4 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.18%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.10%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.53%) Big Data
6 3 (1.53%) MySQL
6 3 (1.53%) Redis
7 2 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.51%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 80 (40.82%) GitLab
2 53 (27.04%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.20%) Git
4 13 (6.63%) JIRA
5 8 (4.08%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.55%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.55%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.55%) Snyk
8 4 (2.04%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.51%) Ant
10 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.51%) Gatling
10 1 (0.51%) JMeter
10 1 (0.51%) Maven
10 1 (0.51%) Newman
10 1 (0.51%) Postman
10 1 (0.51%) Selenium
10 1 (0.51%) Terragrunt
General
1 48 (24.49%) Public Sector
2 17 (8.67%) Social Skills
3 13 (6.63%) Finance
4 7 (3.57%) Banking
5 6 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.53%) Law
8 2 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.51%) Police
9 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.65%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (6.12%) AWS CDK
2 12 (6.12%) Kafka
3 7 (3.57%) Keycloak
4 6 (3.06%) Node.js
5 4 (2.04%) React
5 4 (2.04%) REST
6 3 (1.53%) Loki
6 3 (1.53%) OAuth
6 3 (1.53%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.53%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.02%) boto
7 2 (1.02%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.02%) JSON
7 2 (1.02%) JWT
7 2 (1.02%) Middleware
7 2 (1.02%) OpenID
7 2 (1.02%) pytest
7 2 (1.02%) SAML
8 1 (0.51%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 43 (21.94%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.55%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.55%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.04%) PKI
3 4 (2.04%) Replication
4 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.02%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.02%) NHS
6 1 (0.51%) Clustering
6 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (24.49%) Linux
2 6 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (3.06%) Windows
3 5 (2.55%) Unix
4 3 (1.53%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (100.00%) DevOps
2 149 (76.02%) CI/CD
3 123 (62.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (37.76%) Containerisation
5 43 (21.94%) Agile
6 42 (21.43%) Observability
7 33 (16.84%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (13.27%) High Availability
10 25 (12.76%) Test Automation
11 19 (9.69%) Infrastructure Automation
12 18 (9.18%) Deployment Automation
12 18 (9.18%) Microservices
13 16 (8.16%) Configuration Management
14 15 (7.65%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (7.65%) Secrets Management
15 14 (7.14%) DevSecOps
15 14 (7.14%) Incident Response
16 13 (6.63%) Software Engineering
17 12 (6.12%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 61 (31.12%) Python
2 33 (16.84%) Bash
3 9 (4.59%) Go
3 9 (4.59%) Shell Script
4 8 (4.08%) Java
5 7 (3.57%) Groovy
6 6 (3.06%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.06%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.04%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.53%) SQL
9 2 (1.02%) Scala
10 1 (0.51%) C
10 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 115 (58.67%) Security Cleared
2 109 (55.61%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.63%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.55%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (1.02%) CCNP
7 2 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CCIE
8 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.51%) Degree
8 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.04%) QA
2 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.51%) GDPR
2 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 81 (41.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Squid
Systems Management
1 145 (73.98%) Terraform
2 97 (49.49%) Kubernetes
3 46 (23.47%) Prometheus
4 44 (22.45%) Grafana
5 39 (19.90%) Ansible
6 11 (5.61%) Argo
7 9 (4.59%) Puppet
8 5 (2.55%) Packer
9 4 (2.04%) Istio
9 4 (2.04%) Rancher
10 3 (1.53%) Consul
11 2 (1.02%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.02%) linkerd
11 2 (1.02%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.51%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.51%) Opsview
12 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (2.55%) Dynatrace
2 4 (2.04%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.53%) Fortinet
3 3 (1.53%) Splunk
4 2 (1.02%) Google
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle
5 1 (0.51%) New Relic
5 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.51%) Tanium
5 1 (0.51%) Tenable
5 1 (0.51%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.51%) Trend Micro