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 5 May 2026.

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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 351 433
Rank change year-on-year -91 +82 -106
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 185 176 159
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.60% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.65% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 151 128
10th Percentile £371 £400 £425
25th Percentile £400 £475 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -9.17%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £640
90th Percentile £653 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £506 £522
% change year-on-year -6.17% -3.02% -5.09%

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 43,868 27,092 40,027
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.49% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,987 17,695 26,061
10th Percentile £316 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,833 1,048 2,666
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.18 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.72% -20.55% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.25 £62.50 £61.29
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.56 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.70% -30.00% -5.35%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -124 136 £500 -13.04% 6
London -74 89 £525 -22.22% 3
Work from Home -61 69 £525 -20.75% 6
UK excluding London -69 57 £475 -6.17% 3
North of England -60 24 £500 -3.12%
Scotland -2 10 £329 -25.59%
North East -15 10 £425 -26.09%
South East -53 9 £525 +5.00% 2
Yorkshire -46 8 £525 -
North West -40 6 £500 +27.23%
East of England -41 4 £485 +10.86%
South West - 4 £425 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £425 -
Midlands - 4 £425 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 185 (100.00%) AWS
1 185 (100.00%) DevOps
2 136 (73.51%) CI/CD
3 130 (70.27%) Terraform
4 103 (55.68%) Security Cleared
5 101 (54.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 97 (52.43%) SC Cleared
7 85 (45.95%) Kubernetes
8 73 (39.46%) Docker
9 68 (36.76%) GitLab
10 61 (32.97%) Python
11 59 (31.89%) Containerisation
12 56 (30.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 49 (26.49%) GitHub
13 49 (26.49%) Linux
14 48 (25.95%) Serverless
15 46 (24.86%) Jenkins
16 45 (24.32%) Amazon EKS
17 41 (22.16%) Grafana
17 41 (22.16%) Prometheus
18 40 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
19 39 (21.08%) Agile
20 37 (20.00%) Observability
21 36 (19.46%) GitHub Actions
22 34 (18.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 30 (16.22%) Amazon EC2
24 27 (14.59%) Amazon S3
24 27 (14.59%) Ansible
24 27 (14.59%) Bash
25 25 (13.51%) 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 8 (4.32%) Confluence
2 3 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.62%) nginx
3 1 (0.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.54%) JBoss
3 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (30.27%) AWS CloudFormation
3 49 (26.49%) GitHub
4 48 (25.95%) Serverless
5 45 (24.32%) Amazon EKS
6 40 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (19.46%) GitHub Actions
8 34 (18.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (16.22%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (14.59%) Amazon S3
11 25 (13.51%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (13.51%) Azure
12 22 (11.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (8.65%) AWS CodePipeline
14 14 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (5.41%) Azure AKS
16 9 (4.86%) GCP
16 9 (4.86%) Pulumi
17 6 (3.24%) AWS CodeBuild
18 5 (2.70%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.16%) Firewall
1 4 (2.16%) VPN
2 3 (1.62%) DNS
2 3 (1.62%) HTTP
3 2 (1.08%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.54%) BGP
4 1 (0.54%) LAN
4 1 (0.54%) Network Security
4 1 (0.54%) SSL
4 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.27%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.49%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.16%) Flink
6 4 (2.16%) Redis
7 3 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.62%) Big Data
8 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.54%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.54%) MySQL
9 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (36.76%) GitLab
2 46 (24.86%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.19%) Git
4 11 (5.95%) JIRA
5 7 (3.78%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.78%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.70%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.16%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.16%) Snyk
7 4 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.16%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.54%) Ant
8 1 (0.54%) Gatling
8 1 (0.54%) JMeter
8 1 (0.54%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.54%) Maven
8 1 (0.54%) Newman
8 1 (0.54%) Postman
8 1 (0.54%) Selenium
8 1 (0.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 45 (24.32%) Public Sector
2 18 (9.73%) Finance
3 13 (7.03%) Banking
4 12 (6.49%) Social Skills
5 6 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.16%) Front Office
7 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Law
8 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.54%) Police
8 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.27%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (7.03%) Kafka
3 11 (5.95%) Node.js
4 7 (3.78%) AWS CDK
5 5 (2.70%) Keycloak
6 4 (2.16%) Loki
7 3 (1.62%) JWT
7 3 (1.62%) OAuth
7 3 (1.62%) React
8 2 (1.08%) .NET
8 2 (1.08%) boto
8 2 (1.08%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.08%) JSON
8 2 (1.08%) Middleware
8 2 (1.08%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.08%) pytest
8 2 (1.08%) REST
9 1 (0.54%) OpenAPI
9 1 (0.54%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.05%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.70%) Replication
4 4 (2.16%) Fixed Income
4 4 (2.16%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.62%) NHS
5 3 (1.62%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.08%) Clustering
6 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.08%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.08%) PKI
7 1 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (26.49%) Linux
2 5 (2.70%) Unix
2 5 (2.70%) Windows
3 3 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.54%) VMS
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (100.00%) DevOps
2 136 (73.51%) CI/CD
3 101 (54.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (31.89%) Containerisation
5 39 (21.08%) Agile
6 37 (20.00%) Observability
7 25 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (12.97%) Platform Engineering
9 20 (10.81%) High Availability
10 18 (9.73%) Test Automation
11 16 (8.65%) Infrastructure Automation
12 13 (7.03%) Configuration Management
12 13 (7.03%) Microservices
12 13 (7.03%) Secrets Management
13 12 (6.49%) DevSecOps
14 11 (5.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 10 (5.41%) ITIL
15 10 (5.41%) Root Cause Analysis
15 10 (5.41%) Scrum
15 10 (5.41%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 61 (32.97%) Python
2 27 (14.59%) Bash
3 16 (8.65%) Java
4 11 (5.95%) Shell Script
5 9 (4.86%) Go
6 8 (4.32%) Groovy
7 7 (3.78%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.16%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.16%) SQL
9 3 (1.62%) Perl
9 3 (1.62%) Ruby
9 3 (1.62%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.08%) Scala
11 1 (0.54%) C
11 1 (0.54%) C#
11 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (55.68%) Security Cleared
2 97 (52.43%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.65%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (3.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (1.62%) SAFe Agilist
8 2 (1.08%) CCNP
8 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CCIE
9 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.54%) Degree
9 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.62%) QA
2 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.54%) GDPR
2 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 73 (39.46%) Docker
2 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 130 (70.27%) Terraform
2 85 (45.95%) Kubernetes
3 41 (22.16%) Grafana
3 41 (22.16%) Prometheus
4 27 (14.59%) Ansible
5 14 (7.57%) Argo
6 6 (3.24%) Puppet
7 5 (2.70%) Rancher
8 4 (2.16%) Sysdig
9 2 (1.08%) Consul
9 2 (1.08%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.08%) linkerd
9 2 (1.08%) Packer
10 1 (0.54%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.54%) Istio
10 1 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.54%) Opsview
10 1 (0.54%) Podman
10 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (3.24%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.70%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.62%) Splunk
4 2 (1.08%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.08%) Google
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle
5 1 (0.54%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.54%) New Relic
5 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.54%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.54%) Virgin Media