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 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 367 411
Rank change year-on-year -18 +44 -74
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 200 199 215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.55% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.59% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 168 186
10th Percentile £363 £381 £425
25th Percentile £422 £425 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £638
90th Percentile £675 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +4.27%

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 32,783 33,839 42,964
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 92.83% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,795 20,464 29,004
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £649
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,905 1,235 1,530
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.89 £20.63 £19.08
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -25.84% +78.00%

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 29 November 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 16 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 29 November 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 -19 170 £500 -9.17% 19
UK excluding London +6 92 £500 +25.00% 16
London -2 89 £506 -22.12% 10
Work from Home -33 56 £475 -18.80% 9
North of England -34 44 £500 +25.00% 5
Midlands -11 25 £475 +163.16%
West Midlands -1 24 £475 +35.71%
North West -8 19 £425 -10.53% 2
Yorkshire -40 19 £500 +25.00% 1
South East +11 11 £500 -6.98% 9
Scotland +3 7 £475 -5.00% 1
North East -2 7 £575 -5.74% 2
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West +4 3 £625 +2.04% 1
East Midlands -14 1 - -
East of England - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 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.

1 200 (100.00%) AWS
1 200 (100.00%) DevOps
2 158 (79.00%) Terraform
3 147 (73.50%) CI/CD
4 99 (49.50%) Kubernetes
5 96 (48.00%) Security Cleared
6 93 (46.50%) Python
6 93 (46.50%) SC Cleared
7 91 (45.50%) Docker
8 90 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 69 (34.50%) GitHub
10 67 (33.50%) Jenkins
11 63 (31.50%) GitLab
12 59 (29.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 56 (28.00%) Linux
14 55 (27.50%) Grafana
15 53 (26.50%) Amazon RDS
15 53 (26.50%) Prometheus
16 52 (26.00%) Amazon S3
17 51 (25.50%) Containerisation
18 50 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
19 47 (23.50%) Serverless
20 44 (22.00%) GitHub Actions
21 43 (21.50%) Cloud Security
21 43 (21.50%) Git
22 42 (21.00%) AWS Lambda
23 41 (20.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
24 40 (20.00%) Agile
24 40 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
25 39 (19.50%) Amazon EKS

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 29 (14.50%) Confluence
2 14 (7.00%) nginx
3 9 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.00%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (5.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 200 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (34.50%) GitHub
3 59 (29.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 52 (26.00%) Amazon S3
5 50 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 47 (23.50%) Serverless
7 44 (22.00%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (21.00%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (20.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 40 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (19.50%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (19.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 35 (17.50%) Azure
14 18 (9.00%) Amazon ELB
14 18 (9.00%) AWS CodePipeline
15 17 (8.50%) AWS KMS
16 16 (8.00%) GCP
16 16 (8.00%) Route 53
17 12 (6.00%) AWS Fargate
18 11 (5.50%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.00%) DNS
2 20 (10.00%) Firewall
3 17 (8.50%) SMTP
4 15 (7.50%) FTP
4 15 (7.50%) HTTP
4 15 (7.50%) SSH
5 10 (5.00%) IMAP
5 10 (5.00%) OpenLDAP
6 7 (3.50%) VPN
7 4 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.50%) Network Security
8 1 (0.50%) SSL
8 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (26.50%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.00%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.00%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.00%) Flink
6 5 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.50%) Redis
7 4 (2.00%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.00%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.50%) MySQL
9 2 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.50%) Metadata
10 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 67 (33.50%) Jenkins
2 63 (31.50%) GitLab
3 43 (21.50%) Git
4 34 (17.00%) JIRA
5 17 (8.50%) Vagrant
6 10 (5.00%) Artifactory
7 6 (3.00%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.50%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.50%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.00%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.50%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.50%) Maven
10 3 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.50%) Terragrunt
11 2 (1.00%) IntelliJ
11 2 (1.00%) PyCharm
11 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.50%) Ant
12 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 49 (24.50%) Public Sector
2 39 (19.50%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.50%) Finance
4 19 (9.50%) Banking
5 9 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.00%) Front Office
7 4 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.50%) Games
9 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.50%) Publishing
9 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.50%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (10.50%) Kafka
3 10 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 10 (5.00%) LDAP
4 8 (4.00%) Keycloak
5 7 (3.50%) .NET
5 7 (3.50%) Node.js
6 5 (2.50%) React
7 4 (2.00%) OAuth
8 3 (1.50%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.50%) JWT
8 3 (1.50%) Middleware
8 3 (1.50%) REST
8 3 (1.50%) RESTful
9 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.50%) Django
9 1 (0.50%) HTML
9 1 (0.50%) JSON
9 1 (0.50%) SAML
9 1 (0.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.50%) Replication
2 18 (9.00%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.50%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.50%) NHS
5 6 (3.00%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.00%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.50%) PKI
8 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.50%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (28.00%) Linux
2 22 (11.00%) Windows
3 17 (8.50%) Amazon Linux
3 17 (8.50%) VMS
4 8 (4.00%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.00%) Unix
7 3 (1.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (100.00%) DevOps
2 147 (73.50%) CI/CD
3 90 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (25.50%) Containerisation
5 43 (21.50%) Cloud Security
6 40 (20.00%) Agile
7 33 (16.50%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (16.00%) Configuration Management
9 31 (15.50%) Observability
10 25 (12.50%) Microservices
11 24 (12.00%) Change Management
12 22 (11.00%) Infrastructure Automation
12 22 (11.00%) Migration
13 19 (9.50%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (7.50%) Patch Management
15 14 (7.00%) DevSecOps
15 14 (7.00%) Test Automation
16 13 (6.50%) High Availability
16 13 (6.50%) Incident Response
16 13 (6.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 93 (46.50%) Python
2 37 (18.50%) Bash
3 28 (14.00%) PowerShell
4 27 (13.50%) Java
5 24 (12.00%) Groovy
6 22 (11.00%) SQL
7 12 (6.00%) Go
7 12 (6.00%) Perl
8 5 (2.50%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.50%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.50%) C#
9 3 (1.50%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.00%) PHP
10 2 (1.00%) Ruby
11 1 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 96 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 93 (46.50%) SC Cleared
3 32 (16.00%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.50%) Degree
5 9 (4.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.00%) QA
2 3 (1.50%) NCSC
3 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 91 (45.50%) Docker
2 15 (7.50%) DFS Replication
3 10 (5.00%) Dovecot
3 10 (5.00%) Postfix
3 10 (5.00%) Squid
4 9 (4.50%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 158 (79.00%) Terraform
2 99 (49.50%) Kubernetes
3 55 (27.50%) Grafana
4 53 (26.50%) Prometheus
5 31 (15.50%) Ansible
6 15 (7.50%) Argo
7 10 (5.00%) Nessus
8 9 (4.50%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.00%) Proxmox
10 7 (3.50%) Puppet
10 7 (3.50%) Sysdig
11 6 (3.00%) Packer
12 4 (2.00%) Kibana
12 4 (2.00%) Rancher
13 3 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (1.00%) Consul
15 1 (0.50%) CASB
15 1 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
15 1 (0.50%) linkerd
15 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (10.50%) ServiceNow
2 10 (5.00%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (4.50%) Dynatrace
4 8 (4.00%) Splunk
5 6 (3.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.50%) Okta
7 2 (1.00%) CloudEndure
7 2 (1.00%) Databricks
7 2 (1.00%) Oracle
7 2 (1.00%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.50%) Avaya
8 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco
8 1 (0.50%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.50%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.50%) Google
8 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.50%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.50%) Red Hat