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 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 387 394
Rank change year-on-year -103 +7 -48
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 181 167 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.51% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.56% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 118 133
10th Percentile £400 £358 £375
25th Percentile £425 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £560 £561 £646
90th Percentile £640 £675 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -33.33%
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 49,605 29,863 36,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.22% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,683 18,859 22,977
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
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 3,539 1,568 1,933
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.64 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.21 £19.50
Median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.68% -41.51% -1.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +7.50%

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 25 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 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 25 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 -116 136 £475 -5.00% 13
London -61 79 £506 -1.22% 10
Work from Home -31 74 £500 +3.90% 5
UK excluding London -114 60 £425 -10.53% 6
North of England -72 29 £425 -15.00% 2
North East -24 19 £425 -20.56% 1
Midlands -71 11 £425 -10.53%
West Midlands -54 10 £451 -5.05%
Scotland -15 6 £450 -5.26% 1
South West -39 6 £450 -28.00% 3
North West -48 6 £634 +62.50% 1
Yorkshire -51 4 £550 +10.00%
South East -72 4 £450 -10.00%
East of England - 4 £485 -
East Midlands -18 1 £358 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 181 (100.00%) AWS
1 181 (100.00%) DevOps
2 145 (80.11%) CI/CD
3 137 (75.69%) Terraform
4 129 (71.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 106 (58.56%) Kubernetes
6 91 (50.28%) Security Cleared
7 89 (49.17%) SC Cleared
8 86 (47.51%) Docker
9 81 (44.75%) Containerisation
10 79 (43.65%) GitLab
11 61 (33.70%) Python
12 58 (32.04%) Jenkins
13 55 (30.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 54 (29.83%) Amazon EKS
15 50 (27.62%) GitHub
15 50 (27.62%) Grafana
15 50 (27.62%) Prometheus
16 45 (24.86%) GitHub Actions
16 45 (24.86%) Observability
17 40 (22.10%) Agile
17 40 (22.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 40 (22.10%) Serverless
18 39 (21.55%) Amazon S3
18 39 (21.55%) Linux
18 39 (21.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 38 (20.99%) Bash
20 36 (19.89%) Ansible
20 36 (19.89%) AWS Lambda
21 35 (19.34%) Amazon EC2

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 13 (7.18%) Confluence
2 5 (2.76%) nginx
3 3 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.10%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) JBoss
5 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 181 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (30.39%) AWS CloudFormation
3 54 (29.83%) Amazon EKS
4 50 (27.62%) GitHub
5 45 (24.86%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (22.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 40 (22.10%) Serverless
7 39 (21.55%) Amazon S3
7 39 (21.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 36 (19.89%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (19.34%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (13.81%) Amazon ECS
10 25 (13.81%) Azure
11 10 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (5.52%) GCP
11 10 (5.52%) Route 53
12 7 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.87%) AWS CodePipeline
12 7 (3.87%) AWS KMS
13 6 (3.31%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.97%) DNS
2 6 (3.31%) Network Security
3 5 (2.76%) Firewall
4 4 (2.21%) HTTP
4 4 (2.21%) VPN
5 3 (1.66%) SSL
6 2 (1.10%) FTP
6 2 (1.10%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.10%) IMAP
6 2 (1.10%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.10%) OpenVPN
6 2 (1.10%) SMTP
6 2 (1.10%) SSH
6 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.55%) AMQP
7 1 (0.55%) BGP
7 1 (0.55%) Internet
7 1 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.81%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.97%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (4.97%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.87%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (2.76%) MySQL
6 3 (1.66%) Redis
7 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.55%) Big Data
8 1 (0.55%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.55%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 79 (43.65%) GitLab
2 58 (32.04%) Jenkins
3 27 (14.92%) Git
4 16 (8.84%) JIRA
5 8 (4.42%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.42%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.31%) Snyk
6 6 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.76%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.76%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.66%) Maven
9 2 (1.10%) JMeter
9 2 (1.10%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.55%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.55%) Gatling
10 1 (0.55%) Newman
10 1 (0.55%) Postman
10 1 (0.55%) Selenium
10 1 (0.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 42 (23.20%) Public Sector
2 17 (9.39%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.63%) Finance
4 9 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.21%) Banking
6 3 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.66%) Law
7 2 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.10%) Retail
8 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.55%) Military
8 1 (0.55%) Police
8 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (75.69%) Terraform
2 20 (11.05%) Kafka
3 10 (5.52%) AWS CDK
4 9 (4.97%) Keycloak
5 8 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (3.87%) Node.js
6 7 (3.87%) React
7 5 (2.76%) OpenID
7 5 (2.76%) Pulumi
7 5 (2.76%) SAML
8 4 (2.21%) REST
9 3 (1.66%) .NET
9 3 (1.66%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.66%) LDAP
9 3 (1.66%) Loki
9 3 (1.66%) OAuth
9 3 (1.66%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.10%) Middleware
10 2 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.55%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.31%) PKI
2 6 (3.31%) Replication
3 5 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.10%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.55%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (21.55%) Linux
2 7 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.31%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.31%) Windows
4 4 (2.21%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.66%) Unix
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (100.00%) DevOps
2 145 (80.11%) CI/CD
3 129 (71.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (44.75%) Containerisation
5 45 (24.86%) Observability
6 40 (22.10%) Agile
7 34 (18.78%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (18.78%) Test Automation
8 33 (18.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (14.36%) High Availability
10 25 (13.81%) Deployment Automation
11 22 (12.15%) Microservices
12 20 (11.05%) Infrastructure Automation
13 19 (10.50%) Configuration Management
13 19 (10.50%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (8.29%) DevSecOps
14 15 (8.29%) Migration
15 14 (7.73%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (7.73%) Secrets Management
15 14 (7.73%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (33.70%) Python
2 38 (20.99%) Bash
3 10 (5.52%) Groovy
3 10 (5.52%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.97%) PowerShell
4 9 (4.97%) Shell Script
5 8 (4.42%) Go
5 8 (4.42%) Java
6 5 (2.76%) SQL
7 3 (1.66%) Scala
7 3 (1.66%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.55%) C
8 1 (0.55%) C#
8 1 (0.55%) Perl
8 1 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 91 (50.28%) Security Cleared
2 89 (49.17%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (6.08%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.76%) SAFe Agilist
6 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.10%) CCNP
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.10%) Degree
9 1 (0.55%) CCIE
9 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.76%) QA
2 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.10%) WCAG
3 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (47.51%) Docker
2 5 (2.76%) Squid
3 3 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.10%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.10%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.10%) Postfix
5 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.55%) zsh
Systems Management
1 106 (58.56%) Kubernetes
2 50 (27.62%) Grafana
2 50 (27.62%) Prometheus
3 36 (19.89%) Ansible
4 13 (7.18%) Argo
5 8 (4.42%) Puppet
6 6 (3.31%) Istio
6 6 (3.31%) Packer
7 3 (1.66%) Consul
7 3 (1.66%) Rancher
8 2 (1.10%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.10%) linkerd
8 2 (1.10%) Nessus
8 2 (1.10%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.10%) Sysdig
8 2 (1.10%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.55%) Podman
9 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (4.42%) Dynatrace
2 6 (3.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.31%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.21%) Splunk
4 3 (1.66%) Google
5 2 (1.10%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle
5 2 (1.10%) Sonatype
5 2 (1.10%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.55%) Databricks
6 1 (0.55%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.55%) Informatica
6 1 (0.55%) Okta
6 1 (0.55%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.55%) Tanium
6 1 (0.55%) Tenable
6 1 (0.55%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.55%) VMware