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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 392 402
Rank change year-on-year -77 +10 -86
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 197 163 181
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.54% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 115 142
10th Percentile £400 £360 £364
25th Percentile £425 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £638
90th Percentile £638 £715 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £420
% change year-on-year -10.53% +13.10% -28.51%
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 49,051 29,963 37,757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 91.58% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,625 19,061 24,462
10th Percentile £328 £285 £300
25th Percentile £420 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £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 3,310 1,445 2,320
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.71 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.24
Median hourly rate £42.85 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.39% -39.40% -5.26%
75th Percentile £67.88 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £74.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +8.04%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -98 149 £500 - 26
London -48 92 £525 - 14
Work from Home -38 80 £500 -9.09% 9
UK excluding London -91 61 £425 -10.53% 13
North of England -80 28 £425 +2.78% 5
North East -30 16 £425 -8.60% 4
Midlands -55 10 £451 -2.49%
West Midlands -55 10 £451 -2.49%
Scotland -16 8 £412 -1.20% 2
Yorkshire -57 7 £538 +3.61%
South West -27 6 £425 -33.33% 4
North West -61 5 £718 +82.57% 1
South East -75 5 £450 -10.00% 2
East of England - 4 £485 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 July 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.

1 197 (100.00%) AWS
1 197 (100.00%) DevOps
2 150 (76.14%) CI/CD
3 145 (73.60%) Terraform
4 128 (64.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 106 (53.81%) Kubernetes
5 106 (53.81%) Security Cleared
6 100 (50.76%) SC Cleared
7 86 (43.65%) Containerisation
8 84 (42.64%) Docker
9 77 (39.09%) GitLab
10 66 (33.50%) Python
11 60 (30.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 55 (27.92%) Jenkins
13 54 (27.41%) Amazon EKS
14 47 (23.86%) GitHub
15 45 (22.84%) Prometheus
16 44 (22.34%) Grafana
17 42 (21.32%) Observability
18 41 (20.81%) Agile
18 41 (20.81%) Serverless
19 40 (20.30%) GitHub Actions
19 40 (20.30%) Linux
19 40 (20.30%) Platform Engineering
20 37 (18.78%) Ansible
21 36 (18.27%) Amazon S3
21 36 (18.27%) AWS Lambda
21 36 (18.27%) Bash
22 35 (17.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 35 (17.77%) 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 (5.58%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.02%) nginx
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 197 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (30.46%) AWS CloudFormation
3 54 (27.41%) Amazon EKS
4 47 (23.86%) GitHub
5 41 (20.81%) Serverless
6 40 (20.30%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (18.27%) Amazon S3
7 36 (18.27%) AWS Lambda
8 35 (17.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 34 (17.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 31 (15.74%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (12.18%) Azure
12 23 (11.68%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (6.09%) GCP
14 10 (5.08%) AWS CodePipeline
15 9 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
17 5 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
17 5 (2.54%) CloudFront
17 5 (2.54%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.03%) DNS
1 4 (2.03%) Network Security
1 4 (2.03%) VPN
2 3 (1.52%) Firewall
3 2 (1.02%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.51%) AMQP
4 1 (0.51%) BGP
4 1 (0.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.51%) SSL
4 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.64%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.58%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.54%) MySQL
8 3 (1.52%) Redis
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.51%) Big Data
10 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 77 (39.09%) GitLab
2 55 (27.92%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.17%) Git
4 13 (6.60%) JIRA
5 8 (4.06%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.06%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.54%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.54%) CircleCI
6 5 (2.54%) Snyk
7 4 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.02%) Maven
8 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.51%) Ant
9 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.51%) Gatling
9 1 (0.51%) JMeter
9 1 (0.51%) Newman
9 1 (0.51%) Postman
9 1 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 48 (24.37%) Public Sector
2 17 (8.63%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.11%) Finance
4 7 (3.55%) Banking
4 7 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.52%) Law
7 2 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.51%) Military
8 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.51%) Police
8 1 (0.51%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.63%) Kafka
2 11 (5.58%) AWS CDK
3 10 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.06%) Keycloak
5 6 (3.05%) Node.js
6 5 (2.54%) React
7 4 (2.03%) REST
8 3 (1.52%) OAuth
8 3 (1.52%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.02%) boto
9 2 (1.02%) FastAPI
9 2 (1.02%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.02%) JSON
9 2 (1.02%) JWT
9 2 (1.02%) Loki
9 2 (1.02%) Middleware
9 2 (1.02%) OpenID
9 2 (1.02%) RESTful
9 2 (1.02%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (21.83%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.05%) PKI
3 5 (2.54%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.03%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.03%) Replication
5 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.02%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.02%) NHS
7 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (20.30%) Linux
2 6 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.54%) Windows
4 3 (1.52%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.52%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (100.00%) DevOps
2 150 (76.14%) CI/CD
3 128 (64.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (43.65%) Containerisation
5 42 (21.32%) Observability
6 41 (20.81%) Agile
7 40 (20.30%) Platform Engineering
8 35 (17.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (15.74%) Test Automation
10 28 (14.21%) High Availability
11 22 (11.17%) Deployment Automation
12 21 (10.66%) Microservices
13 20 (10.15%) Infrastructure Automation
14 18 (9.14%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (8.12%) Configuration Management
16 14 (7.11%) DevSecOps
16 14 (7.11%) Software Engineering
17 13 (6.60%) Migration
18 12 (6.09%) AI
18 12 (6.09%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 66 (33.50%) Python
2 36 (18.27%) Bash
3 9 (4.57%) Go
4 8 (4.06%) Java
4 8 (4.06%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.55%) Shell Script
6 6 (3.05%) Groovy
6 6 (3.05%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.52%) SQL
7 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.02%) Scala
9 1 (0.51%) C
9 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 106 (53.81%) Security Cleared
2 100 (50.76%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (6.09%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.05%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.54%) SAFe Agilist
8 2 (1.02%) CCNP
8 2 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CCIE
9 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.51%) Degree
9 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.03%) QA
2 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.51%) GDPR
2 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.51%) SLA
2 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (42.64%) Docker
2 3 (1.52%) Squid
3 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.51%) zsh
Systems Management
1 145 (73.60%) Terraform
2 106 (53.81%) Kubernetes
3 45 (22.84%) Prometheus
4 44 (22.34%) Grafana
5 37 (18.78%) Ansible
6 13 (6.60%) Argo
7 8 (4.06%) Puppet
8 4 (2.03%) Istio
8 4 (2.03%) Packer
8 4 (2.03%) Rancher
9 2 (1.02%) Consul
9 2 (1.02%) linkerd
9 2 (1.02%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.51%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.51%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.51%) Opsview
10 1 (0.51%) Podman
10 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (3.05%) Dynatrace
2 4 (2.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.03%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.52%) Google
3 3 (1.52%) Splunk
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle
4 2 (1.02%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.51%) Databricks
5 1 (0.51%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.51%) Informatica
5 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.51%) Sonatype
5 1 (0.51%) Tanium
5 1 (0.51%) Tenable
5 1 (0.51%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.51%) VMware