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 November 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 373 420
Rank change year-on-year -21 +47 -97
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 200 184 218
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.55% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 154 188
10th Percentile £362 £381 £425
25th Percentile £423 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% -2.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £561 £675 £638
90th Percentile £675 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +4.51%

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 32,472 33,653 43,373
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 92.85% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,595 20,286 29,396
10th Percentile £279 £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 £648
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,912 1,252 1,544
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +55.71%
75th Percentile £55.12 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.14 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +86.55%

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 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 19 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 -17 170 £500 -7.19% 33
UK excluding London 0 94 £500 +25.00% 21
London -14 88 £494 -19.16% 18
Work from Home -33 53 £461 -19.78% 16
North of England -31 42 £500 +25.00% 10
Midlands -12 26 £475 +163.16% 1
West Midlands -2 25 £475 +35.71%
Yorkshire -53 19 £500 +25.00% 4
North West -8 17 £402 -15.37% 4
South East +13 13 £500 -6.98% 8
Scotland +1 8 £475 -5.00% 1
North East -1 7 £575 +4.17% 2
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West 0 3 £625 +2.04% 1
East Midlands -21 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 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
2 161 (80.50%) Terraform
3 148 (74.00%) CI/CD
4 103 (51.50%) Kubernetes
5 97 (48.50%) Security Cleared
6 95 (47.50%) SC Cleared
7 93 (46.50%) Python
8 91 (45.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 90 (45.00%) Docker
10 70 (35.00%) Jenkins
11 68 (34.00%) GitHub
12 64 (32.00%) GitLab
13 59 (29.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 56 (28.00%) Linux
15 54 (27.00%) Amazon RDS
15 54 (27.00%) Grafana
15 54 (27.00%) Prometheus
16 53 (26.50%) Amazon S3
17 52 (26.00%) Amazon EC2
18 50 (25.00%) Containerisation
19 47 (23.50%) Serverless
20 46 (23.00%) Git
21 43 (21.50%) Cloud Security
21 43 (21.50%) GitHub Actions
22 42 (21.00%) AWS Lambda
22 42 (21.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 41 (20.50%) Amazon ECS
24 40 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
24 40 (20.00%) Bash

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 30 (15.00%) 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 68 (34.00%) GitHub
3 59 (29.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 53 (26.50%) Amazon S3
5 52 (26.00%) Amazon EC2
6 47 (23.50%) Serverless
7 43 (21.50%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (21.00%) AWS Lambda
8 42 (21.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 41 (20.50%) Amazon ECS
10 40 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (18.50%) Amazon EKS
12 36 (18.00%) Azure
13 18 (9.00%) Amazon ELB
13 18 (9.00%) AWS KMS
14 17 (8.50%) AWS CodePipeline
14 17 (8.50%) GCP
15 16 (8.00%) Route 53
16 13 (6.50%) AWS Fargate
17 11 (5.50%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.00%) DNS
2 21 (10.50%) Firewall
3 17 (8.50%) SMTP
4 16 (8.00%) SSH
5 15 (7.50%) FTP
5 15 (7.50%) HTTP
6 10 (5.00%) IMAP
6 10 (5.00%) OpenLDAP
7 8 (4.00%) VPN
8 4 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.00%) Network Security
10 2 (1.00%) SSL
11 1 (0.50%) Internet
11 1 (0.50%) NAS
11 1 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (27.00%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.00%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.00%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.50%) Redis
7 4 (2.00%) Flink
7 4 (2.00%) MongoDB
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 70 (35.00%) Jenkins
2 64 (32.00%) GitLab
3 46 (23.00%) Git
4 36 (18.00%) 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%) Atlassian Bamboo
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%) REST Assured
General
1 46 (23.00%) Public Sector
2 42 (21.00%) Social Skills
3 24 (12.00%) Finance
4 17 (8.50%) Banking
5 9 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.00%) Front Office
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 19 (9.50%) Kafka
3 10 (5.00%) LDAP
4 9 (4.50%) AWS CDK
5 8 (4.00%) Keycloak
6 7 (3.50%) .NET
7 6 (3.00%) Node.js
8 5 (2.50%) React
9 4 (2.00%) OAuth
10 3 (1.50%) cloud-init
10 3 (1.50%) JWT
10 3 (1.50%) Middleware
10 3 (1.50%) REST
10 3 (1.50%) RESTful
11 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.50%) Fastify
11 1 (0.50%) MACH
11 1 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.50%) Polars
11 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.50%) Cloud Native
1 19 (9.50%) Replication
2 9 (4.50%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.00%) NHS
5 4 (2.00%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.00%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.50%) PKI
7 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.50%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
8 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
5 5 (2.50%) Unix
6 3 (1.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (100.00%) DevOps
2 148 (74.00%) CI/CD
3 91 (45.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 43 (21.50%) Cloud Security
6 38 (19.00%) Agile
7 34 (17.00%) Configuration Management
8 30 (15.00%) Observability
8 30 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (13.00%) Microservices
10 24 (12.00%) Change Management
10 24 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 22 (11.00%) Migration
12 18 (9.00%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (7.50%) DevSecOps
13 15 (7.50%) Patch Management
13 15 (7.50%) Test Automation
14 14 (7.00%) High Availability
15 13 (6.50%) Incident Response
16 12 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 93 (46.50%) Python
2 40 (20.00%) Bash
3 28 (14.00%) PowerShell
4 25 (12.50%) Java
5 24 (12.00%) Groovy
6 23 (11.50%) SQL
7 13 (6.50%) Go
7 13 (6.50%) 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 97 (48.50%) Security Cleared
2 95 (47.50%) SC Cleared
3 35 (17.50%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.50%) Degree
5 11 (5.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (4.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (4.00%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.50%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.50%) QA
2 3 (1.50%) NCSC
2 3 (1.50%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.50%) GDPR
4 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) NIST
4 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (45.00%) 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
1 161 (80.50%) Terraform
2 103 (51.50%) Kubernetes
3 54 (27.00%) Grafana
3 54 (27.00%) Prometheus
4 36 (18.00%) Ansible
5 13 (6.50%) Argo
6 10 (5.00%) Nessus
7 9 (4.50%) Progress Chef
8 8 (4.00%) Proxmox
8 8 (4.00%) Puppet
9 7 (3.50%) Packer
9 7 (3.50%) Sysdig
10 4 (2.00%) Kibana
10 4 (2.00%) Rancher
11 3 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (1.00%) Consul
13 1 (0.50%) Istio
13 1 (0.50%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.50%) linkerd
13 1 (0.50%) Podman
Vendors
1 21 (10.50%) ServiceNow
2 10 (5.00%) Dynatrace
2 10 (5.00%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (4.50%) Splunk
4 6 (3.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.50%) Okta
6 2 (1.00%) CloudEndure
6 2 (1.00%) Databricks
6 2 (1.00%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.00%) Oracle
7 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.50%) Avaya
7 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco
7 1 (0.50%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.50%) F5
7 1 (0.50%) Google
7 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.50%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat