AWS DevOps Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 399 363
Rank change year-on-year -7 -36 -13
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 162 164 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.43% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.46% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 130 252
10th Percentile £358 £369 £450
25th Percentile £414 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £538 £647 £688
90th Percentile £675 £691 £861
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +18.75% -33.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 30,003 35,798 46,379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 92.95% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,960 22,064 31,748
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,577 1,684 1,483
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +4.65% +95.45%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps 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 September 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 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 18 September 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 +14 133 £475 -9.52% 30
UK excluding London +24 79 £475 +18.75% 25
London -1 66 £500 -13.04% 10
Work from Home -1 45 £450 -18.18% 16
North of England -6 35 £500 +25.00% 10
Midlands +5 25 £475 +163.16% 1
West Midlands +13 24 £475 +35.71% 1
Yorkshire -23 18 £500 +25.00% 3
North West -2 14 £390 - 7
Scotland 0 9 £475 -5.00%
South East +24 8 £500 -18.37% 11
North East - 4 £535 -
South West +24 3 £625 +8.70% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East Midlands -4 1 - -

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, AWS DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 162 (100.00%) AWS
1 162 (100.00%) DevOps
2 138 (85.19%) Terraform
3 117 (72.22%) CI/CD
4 85 (52.47%) Kubernetes
5 84 (51.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 80 (49.38%) Docker
7 76 (46.91%) Security Cleared
8 73 (45.06%) SC Cleared
8 73 (45.06%) Python
9 71 (43.83%) Jenkins
10 52 (32.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (31.48%) Amazon S3
12 50 (30.86%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (29.01%) Linux
14 46 (28.40%) Amazon RDS
15 44 (27.16%) Containerisation
16 42 (25.93%) Git
17 40 (24.69%) Prometheus
18 39 (24.07%) GitHub
18 39 (24.07%) GitLab
18 39 (24.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 37 (22.84%) Configuration Management
19 37 (22.84%) Grafana
19 37 (22.84%) Public Sector
19 37 (22.84%) Social Skills
20 35 (21.60%) Cloud Security
20 35 (21.60%) Ansible
20 35 (21.60%) Bash
21 34 (20.99%) GitHub Actions

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (15.43%) Confluence
2 15 (9.26%) nginx
3 6 (3.70%) Apache
4 4 (2.47%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.85%) JBoss
6 2 (1.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (6.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 162 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (32.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 51 (31.48%) Amazon S3
4 50 (30.86%) Amazon EC2
5 39 (24.07%) GitHub
5 39 (24.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 34 (20.99%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (19.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (19.75%) Serverless
8 31 (19.14%) Amazon ECS
8 31 (19.14%) Azure
9 28 (17.28%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (13.58%) AWS KMS
12 19 (11.73%) Amazon ELB
13 15 (9.26%) Route 53
14 13 (8.02%) GCP
15 10 (6.17%) AWS CodePipeline
15 10 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
16 8 (4.94%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (17.28%) DNS
2 23 (14.20%) Firewall
3 18 (11.11%) HTTP
4 17 (10.49%) SMTP
5 16 (9.88%) SSH
6 15 (9.26%) FTP
7 10 (6.17%) IMAP
7 10 (6.17%) OpenLDAP
8 9 (5.56%) VPN
9 6 (3.70%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.47%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.85%) Internet
12 2 (1.23%) SSL
13 1 (0.62%) NAS
13 1 (0.62%) Network Security
13 1 (0.62%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (28.40%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (9.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 15 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.94%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.09%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.47%) MySQL
6 4 (2.47%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.47%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.23%) Redis
9 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.62%) Metadata
9 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 71 (43.83%) Jenkins
2 42 (25.93%) Git
3 39 (24.07%) GitLab
4 31 (19.14%) JIRA
5 17 (10.49%) Vagrant
6 6 (3.70%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.09%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.09%) Maven
8 4 (2.47%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (2.47%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.85%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.85%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.23%) Gradle
10 2 (1.23%) IntelliJ
10 2 (1.23%) PyCharm
10 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.62%) Ant
General
1 37 (22.84%) Public Sector
1 37 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.64%) Finance
3 10 (6.17%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (5.56%) Banking
5 6 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.62%) Law
7 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.26%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (6.17%) .NET
2 10 (6.17%) LDAP
3 9 (5.56%) Kafka
4 7 (4.32%) AWS CDK
5 5 (3.09%) OAuth
5 5 (3.09%) React
6 3 (1.85%) Node.js
7 2 (1.23%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.23%) Laravel
7 2 (1.23%) Middleware
8 1 (0.62%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.62%) cloud-init
8 1 (0.62%) Django
8 1 (0.62%) HTML
8 1 (0.62%) JSON
8 1 (0.62%) Loki
8 1 (0.62%) SAML
8 1 (0.62%) Spring
8 1 (0.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.88%) Cloud Native
1 16 (9.88%) Replication
2 11 (6.79%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.85%) NHS
5 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.62%) PKI
7 1 (0.62%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (29.01%) Linux
2 21 (12.96%) Windows
3 17 (10.49%) Amazon Linux
3 17 (10.49%) VMS
4 9 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.94%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.70%) Unix
7 1 (0.62%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (100.00%) DevOps
2 117 (72.22%) CI/CD
3 84 (51.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (27.16%) Containerisation
5 37 (22.84%) Configuration Management
6 35 (21.60%) Cloud Security
7 33 (20.37%) Agile
8 28 (17.28%) Platform Engineering
9 21 (12.96%) Change Management
10 20 (12.35%) Infrastructure Automation
10 20 (12.35%) Observability
11 19 (11.73%) Microservices
12 17 (10.49%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (10.49%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (9.26%) Patch Management
14 14 (8.64%) Migration
15 13 (8.02%) DevSecOps
15 13 (8.02%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (7.41%) Test Automation
17 10 (6.17%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 73 (45.06%) Python
2 35 (21.60%) Bash
3 28 (17.28%) PowerShell
4 25 (15.43%) Java
5 22 (13.58%) Groovy
5 22 (13.58%) SQL
6 13 (8.02%) Go
7 12 (7.41%) Perl
8 7 (4.32%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.47%) C#
9 4 (2.47%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.85%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.23%) PHP
12 1 (0.62%) C++
Qualifications
1 76 (46.91%) Security Cleared
2 73 (45.06%) SC Cleared
3 31 (19.14%) AWS Certification
4 13 (8.02%) Degree
5 11 (6.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 10 (6.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.94%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.70%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (3.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.70%) QA
2 4 (2.47%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.62%) GDPR
4 1 (0.62%) NCSC
4 1 (0.62%) NIST
4 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (49.38%) Docker
2 15 (9.26%) DFS Replication
3 10 (6.17%) Dovecot
3 10 (6.17%) Postfix
3 10 (6.17%) Squid
4 9 (5.56%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 138 (85.19%) Terraform
2 85 (52.47%) Kubernetes
3 40 (24.69%) Prometheus
4 37 (22.84%) Grafana
5 35 (21.60%) Ansible
6 15 (9.26%) Progress Chef
7 13 (8.02%) Puppet
8 10 (6.17%) Nessus
9 8 (4.94%) Kibana
9 8 (4.94%) Proxmox
10 7 (4.32%) Argo
11 2 (1.23%) Packer
11 2 (1.23%) Podman
12 1 (0.62%) Consul
12 1 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.62%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.62%) linkerd
12 1 (0.62%) logstash
12 1 (0.62%) Rancher
12 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 10 (6.17%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (4.32%) AppDynamics
4 5 (3.09%) Dynatrace
4 5 (3.09%) Splunk
5 4 (2.47%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.85%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.23%) Databricks
7 2 (1.23%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.23%) Google
8 1 (0.62%) Avaya
8 1 (0.62%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.62%) Cisco
8 1 (0.62%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.62%) F5
8 1 (0.62%) Okta
8 1 (0.62%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.62%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.62%) UiPath
8 1 (0.62%) Virgin Media