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 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 384 392
Rank change year-on-year -97 +8 -69
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 191 167 184
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.55% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 119 142
10th Percentile £400 £362 £338
25th Percentile £425 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £638
90th Percentile £640 £678 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £413
% change year-on-year -10.53% +15.15% -29.79%
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 48,942 30,093 36,428
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 91.45% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,465 19,115 23,531
10th Percentile £331 £282 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
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 3,396 1,494 2,063
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.60 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.10 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +78.93% -42.71% +17.07%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -101 145 £485 -3.00% 46
London -43 89 £525 - 34
Work from Home -24 79 £500 -1.72% 15
UK excluding London -108 60 £425 -10.53% 15
North of England -65 27 £425 -15.00% 3
North East -27 18 £425 -18.27% 1
Midlands -56 10 £451 -3.79% 3
West Midlands -60 10 £451 -3.79% 3
Scotland -14 8 £412 -13.37% 1
South West -40 6 £450 -28.00% 6
North West -60 5 £718 +82.57% 2
South East -70 5 £450 -5.26% 1
Yorkshire -54 4 £550 +8.64%
East of England - 4 £485 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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.

1 191 (100.00%) AWS
1 191 (100.00%) DevOps
2 144 (75.39%) CI/CD
3 136 (71.20%) Terraform
4 123 (64.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 103 (53.93%) Security Cleared
6 100 (52.36%) Kubernetes
7 97 (50.79%) SC Cleared
8 83 (43.46%) Docker
9 79 (41.36%) Containerisation
10 75 (39.27%) GitLab
11 64 (33.51%) Python
12 58 (30.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 52 (27.23%) Amazon EKS
13 52 (27.23%) Jenkins
14 46 (24.08%) Prometheus
15 45 (23.56%) GitHub
15 45 (23.56%) Grafana
16 42 (21.99%) Observability
17 39 (20.42%) GitHub Actions
17 39 (20.42%) Linux
17 39 (20.42%) Platform Engineering
17 39 (20.42%) Serverless
18 38 (19.90%) Agile
19 36 (18.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 36 (18.85%) Amazon S3
19 36 (18.85%) AWS Lambda
19 36 (18.85%) Bash
20 35 (18.32%) Ansible
20 35 (18.32%) 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 (5.76%) Confluence
2 3 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.57%) nginx
3 2 (1.05%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 191 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (30.37%) AWS CloudFormation
3 52 (27.23%) Amazon EKS
4 45 (23.56%) GitHub
5 39 (20.42%) GitHub Actions
5 39 (20.42%) Serverless
6 36 (18.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 36 (18.85%) Amazon S3
6 36 (18.85%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (17.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 32 (16.75%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (12.57%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (12.04%) Azure
11 10 (5.24%) AWS CodePipeline
11 10 (5.24%) GCP
12 9 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (3.66%) AWS KMS
13 7 (3.66%) Route 53
14 6 (3.14%) Amazon SQS
15 5 (2.62%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.62%) DNS
1 5 (2.62%) Network Security
2 4 (2.09%) VPN
3 3 (1.57%) Firewall
4 2 (1.05%) OpenVPN
4 2 (1.05%) SSL
5 1 (0.52%) AMQP
5 1 (0.52%) BGP
5 1 (0.52%) HTTP
5 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.52%) Internet
5 1 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.95%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.76%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.71%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.66%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.62%) MySQL
7 3 (1.57%) Redis
8 2 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.05%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.52%) Big Data
9 1 (0.52%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 75 (39.27%) GitLab
2 52 (27.23%) Jenkins
3 23 (12.04%) Git
4 14 (7.33%) JIRA
5 8 (4.19%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.19%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.62%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.62%) CircleCI
6 5 (2.62%) Snyk
6 5 (2.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.57%) Maven
8 2 (1.05%) JMeter
9 1 (0.52%) Ant
9 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.52%) Gatling
9 1 (0.52%) Newman
9 1 (0.52%) Postman
9 1 (0.52%) Selenium
9 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 44 (23.04%) Public Sector
2 16 (8.38%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.33%) Finance
4 8 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.62%) Banking
6 4 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.57%) Law
8 2 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Military
9 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.52%) Police
9 1 (0.52%) Publishing
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.42%) Kafka
2 11 (5.76%) AWS CDK
3 8 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (4.19%) Keycloak
4 6 (3.14%) Node.js
4 6 (3.14%) React
5 4 (2.09%) OAuth
5 4 (2.09%) OAuth2
5 4 (2.09%) REST
6 3 (1.57%) JWT
6 3 (1.57%) OpenID
6 3 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.57%) SAML
7 2 (1.05%) .NET
7 2 (1.05%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.05%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.05%) JSON
7 2 (1.05%) LDAP
7 2 (1.05%) Middleware
7 2 (1.05%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.47%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.14%) PKI
3 5 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.62%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.09%) Replication
5 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.05%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (20.42%) Linux
2 7 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.62%) Windows
4 4 (2.09%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.57%) Unix
6 2 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (100.00%) DevOps
2 144 (75.39%) CI/CD
3 123 (64.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (41.36%) Containerisation
5 42 (21.99%) Observability
6 39 (20.42%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (19.90%) Agile
8 35 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (16.75%) Test Automation
10 26 (13.61%) High Availability
11 23 (12.04%) Deployment Automation
11 23 (12.04%) Microservices
12 19 (9.95%) Infrastructure Automation
12 19 (9.95%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (8.38%) Configuration Management
14 15 (7.85%) DevSecOps
15 13 (6.81%) AI
15 13 (6.81%) Migration
15 13 (6.81%) Secrets Management
15 13 (6.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (33.51%) Python
2 36 (18.85%) Bash
3 9 (4.71%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.19%) Go
4 8 (4.19%) Java
5 7 (3.66%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.66%) Shell Script
6 6 (3.14%) Groovy
7 3 (1.57%) SQL
7 3 (1.57%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.05%) Scala
9 1 (0.52%) C
9 1 (0.52%) Perl
9 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (53.93%) Security Cleared
2 97 (50.79%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (5.76%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (3.14%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.62%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (1.05%) CCNP
7 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.52%) CCIE
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.09%) QA
2 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.05%) WCAG
3 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (43.46%) Docker
2 3 (1.57%) Squid
3 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) zsh
Systems Management
1 136 (71.20%) Terraform
2 100 (52.36%) Kubernetes
3 46 (24.08%) Prometheus
4 45 (23.56%) Grafana
5 35 (18.32%) Ansible
6 11 (5.76%) Argo
7 8 (4.19%) Puppet
8 5 (2.62%) Istio
9 4 (2.09%) Packer
9 4 (2.09%) Rancher
10 2 (1.05%) Consul
10 2 (1.05%) linkerd
10 2 (1.05%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.52%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.52%) Opsview
11 1 (0.52%) Podman
11 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.52%) systemd
Vendors
1 7 (3.66%) Dynatrace
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.09%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.57%) Google
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle
4 2 (1.05%) Sonatype
4 2 (1.05%) Splunk
4 2 (1.05%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.52%) Databricks
5 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.52%) Informatica
5 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.52%) Tanium
5 1 (0.52%) Tenable
5 1 (0.52%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.52%) VMware