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 19 March 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 330 418
Rank change year-on-year -95 +88 -90
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 195 200 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.68% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.73% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 171 140
10th Percentile £371 £406 £425
25th Percentile £400 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £625
90th Percentile £663 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £519
% change year-on-year - -3.57% -1.24%

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 39,828 27,223 41,240
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.88% 92.95% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,890 17,719 27,066
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
75th Percentile £613 £636 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.46% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 888 2,490
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.24 £12.91
25th Percentile £19.22 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% - -23.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.94
90th Percentile £76.25 £77.50 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -18.75%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -111 155 £519 -13.54% 17
London -73 97 £525 -26.32% 5
UK excluding London -54 62 £500 - 13
Work from Home -70 61 £525 -25.00% 9
North of England -63 33 £500 -1.23% 7
North West -27 13 £488 +21.31% 4
Yorkshire -53 13 £525 +2.44% 2
South East -43 12 £500 - 4
Scotland +11 7 £313 -32.27%
North East -9 7 £500 -12.28% 1
East of England -18 3 £600 +37.14%
West Midlands -56 3 £659 +88.14% 1
Midlands -65 3 £659 +88.14% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
South West -20 2 £400 -36.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 March 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.

1 195 (100.00%) AWS
1 195 (100.00%) DevOps
2 143 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 137 (70.26%) Terraform
4 102 (52.31%) Security Cleared
5 96 (49.23%) SC Cleared
6 94 (48.21%) Kubernetes
7 92 (47.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 76 (38.97%) GitLab
9 70 (35.90%) Docker
10 68 (34.87%) Python
11 62 (31.79%) GitHub
12 56 (28.72%) Linux
13 55 (28.21%) AWS CloudFormation
14 54 (27.69%) Containerisation
15 47 (24.10%) Serverless
16 45 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
16 45 (23.08%) Grafana
16 45 (23.08%) Jenkins
17 43 (22.05%) Prometheus
18 39 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
19 36 (18.46%) Observability
20 35 (17.95%) Agile
21 34 (17.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 34 (17.44%) GitHub Actions
22 29 (14.87%) Amazon EC2
23 27 (13.85%) Amazon ECS
24 26 (13.33%) Azure
25 25 (12.82%) Bash
26 24 (12.31%) Amazon S3

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 9 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.59%) Confluence
3 4 (2.05%) nginx
4 1 (0.51%) CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 195 (100.00%) AWS
2 62 (31.79%) GitHub
3 55 (28.21%) AWS CloudFormation
4 47 (24.10%) Serverless
5 45 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
6 39 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (17.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 34 (17.44%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (14.87%) Amazon EC2
9 27 (13.85%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (13.33%) Azure
11 24 (12.31%) Amazon S3
12 19 (9.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 18 (9.23%) AWS CodePipeline
14 14 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (6.67%) Azure AKS
15 13 (6.67%) GCP
16 12 (6.15%) Amazon ECR
17 9 (4.62%) AWS CodeBuild
17 9 (4.62%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.08%) Firewall
2 5 (2.56%) DNS
2 5 (2.56%) VPN
3 2 (1.03%) HTTP
3 2 (1.03%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.51%) BGP
4 1 (0.51%) LAN
4 1 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.15%) DynamoDB
3 7 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.08%) Flink
4 6 (3.08%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.56%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.05%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.05%) Redis
7 3 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.03%) Big Data
9 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.51%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 76 (38.97%) GitLab
2 45 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.72%) Git
4 10 (5.13%) JIRA
5 9 (4.62%) Artifactory
6 6 (3.08%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.05%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.05%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.54%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.03%) Liquibase
9 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.03%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.51%) Snyk
General
1 46 (23.59%) Public Sector
2 24 (12.31%) Finance
3 17 (8.72%) Banking
4 15 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 6 (3.08%) Front Office
6 2 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.51%) Games
7 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.51%) Retail
7 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.31%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (7.69%) Kafka
3 11 (5.64%) Node.js
4 7 (3.59%) AWS CDK
4 7 (3.59%) Keycloak
5 5 (2.56%) JWT
5 5 (2.56%) OAuth
6 3 (1.54%) .NET
6 3 (1.54%) Middleware
6 3 (1.54%) REST
6 3 (1.54%) RESTful
7 2 (1.03%) boto
7 2 (1.03%) cloud-init
7 2 (1.03%) Loki
7 2 (1.03%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.03%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.03%) React
8 1 (0.51%) Fastify
8 1 (0.51%) MACH
8 1 (0.51%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.31%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.08%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.08%) NHS
3 6 (3.08%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.56%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.05%) Replication
6 2 (1.03%) Clustering
6 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.03%) PKI
7 1 (0.51%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (28.72%) Linux
2 5 (2.56%) Unix
3 4 (2.05%) Windows
4 2 (1.03%) CentOS
4 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (100.00%) DevOps
2 143 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 92 (47.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (27.69%) Containerisation
5 36 (18.46%) Observability
6 35 (17.95%) Agile
7 22 (11.28%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (9.74%) Infrastructure Automation
8 19 (9.74%) Microservices
9 18 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (9.23%) High Availability
10 14 (7.18%) Migration
11 12 (6.15%) Incident Response
11 12 (6.15%) Secrets Management
11 12 (6.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (6.15%) Test Automation
12 11 (5.64%) Cloud Security
12 11 (5.64%) Software Delivery
13 10 (5.13%) Configuration Management
13 10 (5.13%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (34.87%) Python
2 25 (12.82%) Bash
3 16 (8.21%) Java
4 12 (6.15%) Shell Script
5 9 (4.62%) Go
6 8 (4.10%) SQL
7 5 (2.56%) Groovy
7 5 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.05%) Ruby
9 3 (1.54%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.03%) Perl
10 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.51%) C
11 1 (0.51%) C#
11 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (52.31%) Security Cleared
2 96 (49.23%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.23%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 8 (4.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.08%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.54%) Degree
8 2 (1.03%) CCNP
8 2 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CCIE
9 1 (0.51%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.54%) QA
2 2 (1.03%) NCSC
3 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.51%) GDPR
3 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (35.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 137 (70.26%) Terraform
2 94 (48.21%) Kubernetes
3 45 (23.08%) Grafana
4 43 (22.05%) Prometheus
5 23 (11.79%) Ansible
6 17 (8.72%) Argo
7 9 (4.62%) Sysdig
8 6 (3.08%) Packer
9 5 (2.56%) Rancher
10 3 (1.54%) Consul
11 2 (1.03%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.03%) Puppet
12 1 (0.51%) CASB
12 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.51%) Istio
12 1 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.51%) Opsview
12 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (3.59%) Dynatrace
2 6 (3.08%) Splunk
3 5 (2.56%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.03%) CloudEndure
5 2 (1.03%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.03%) Google
5 2 (1.03%) Okta
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle
6 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.51%) New Relic
6 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.51%) Virgin Media