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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 390 404
Rank change year-on-year -116 +14 -34
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 180 159 167
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.54% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 108 133
10th Percentile £400 £358 £375
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -8.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £650
90th Percentile £639 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -7.89% +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 49,584 29,450 35,463
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.15% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,603 18,569 22,312
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% -1.69%
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 3,590 1,537 1,792
10th Percentile £14.85 £13.60 £14.42
25th Percentile £20.48 £17.00 £20.21
Median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.50% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +12.50%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -111 133 £463 -3.90% 69
London -74 77 £500 -1.23% 46
Work from Home -25 74 £500 +5.26% 19
UK excluding London -113 61 £438 -7.89% 33
North of England -82 29 £425 - 9
North East -21 20 £425 -20.56% 1
Midlands -60 11 £425 -10.53% 6
West Midlands -59 10 £451 -5.05% 4
Scotland -23 7 £450 -5.26% 8
South West -41 7 £450 -28.00% 5
North West -57 6 £634 +62.50% 5
South East -76 4 £450 -10.00% 3
Yorkshire -54 3 £550 +10.00% 3
East of England - 3 £485 - 1
East Midlands -21 1 £358 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 4 September 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.

1 180 (100.00%) AWS
1 180 (100.00%) DevOps
2 146 (81.11%) CI/CD
3 136 (75.56%) Terraform
4 130 (72.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 105 (58.33%) Kubernetes
6 94 (52.22%) Security Cleared
7 92 (51.11%) SC Cleared
8 88 (48.89%) Docker
9 81 (45.00%) Containerisation
10 79 (43.89%) GitLab
11 62 (34.44%) Python
12 57 (31.67%) Amazon EKS
13 54 (30.00%) Jenkins
14 52 (28.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 50 (27.78%) Grafana
15 50 (27.78%) Prometheus
16 46 (25.56%) GitHub
16 46 (25.56%) Observability
17 42 (23.33%) Agile
17 42 (23.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 42 (23.33%) GitHub Actions
17 42 (23.33%) Serverless
18 39 (21.67%) Amazon S3
19 38 (21.11%) Ansible
19 38 (21.11%) AWS Lambda
19 38 (21.11%) Bash
19 38 (21.11%) Linux
20 37 (20.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 35 (19.44%) Test Automation

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 14 (7.78%) Confluence
2 5 (2.78%) nginx
3 3 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) Drupal
5 1 (0.56%) JBoss
5 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Magento
1 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 180 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (31.67%) Amazon EKS
3 52 (28.89%) AWS CloudFormation
4 46 (25.56%) GitHub
5 42 (23.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 42 (23.33%) GitHub Actions
5 42 (23.33%) Serverless
6 39 (21.67%) Amazon S3
7 38 (21.11%) AWS Lambda
8 37 (20.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 34 (18.89%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (15.56%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (13.33%) Azure
12 10 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (5.56%) Route 53
13 8 (4.44%) GCP
14 7 (3.89%) AWS CodePipeline
14 7 (3.89%) AWS KMS
15 6 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
16 5 (2.78%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.56%) DNS
2 6 (3.33%) Network Security
3 5 (2.78%) Firewall
4 4 (2.22%) HTTP
4 4 (2.22%) VPN
5 3 (1.67%) SSL
6 2 (1.11%) FTP
6 2 (1.11%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.11%) IMAP
6 2 (1.11%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.11%) SMTP
6 2 (1.11%) SSH
6 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.56%) AMQP
7 1 (0.56%) Internet
7 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.33%) MySQL
7 5 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.78%) Redis
8 3 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.11%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.56%) Big Data
10 1 (0.56%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 79 (43.89%) GitLab
2 54 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 28 (15.56%) Git
4 17 (9.44%) JIRA
5 8 (4.44%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.78%) Snyk
7 5 (2.78%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.22%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.67%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.67%) JMeter
9 3 (1.67%) Maven
10 2 (1.11%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.56%) Ant
11 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.56%) Gatling
11 1 (0.56%) JUnit
11 1 (0.56%) Mocha
11 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 40 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 17 (9.44%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (5.00%) Finance
5 4 (2.22%) Banking
6 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.67%) Law
7 2 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.11%) Retail
8 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.56%) Military
8 1 (0.56%) Police
8 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (75.56%) Terraform
2 20 (11.11%) Kafka
3 10 (5.56%) AWS CDK
3 10 (5.56%) Keycloak
4 8 (4.44%) React
5 7 (3.89%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (3.89%) Node.js
6 5 (2.78%) OpenID
6 5 (2.78%) Pulumi
6 5 (2.78%) SAML
7 4 (2.22%) .NET
7 4 (2.22%) FastAPI
7 4 (2.22%) REST
8 3 (1.67%) LDAP
8 3 (1.67%) Loki
8 3 (1.67%) OAuth
8 3 (1.67%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.67%) RESTful
9 2 (1.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.89%) PKI
2 7 (3.89%) Replication
3 5 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.11%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.11%) Linux
2 8 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.89%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.33%) Windows
5 4 (2.22%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (2.22%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (100.00%) DevOps
2 146 (81.11%) CI/CD
3 130 (72.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (45.00%) Containerisation
5 46 (25.56%) Observability
6 42 (23.33%) Agile
7 35 (19.44%) Test Automation
8 34 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (18.89%) Platform Engineering
9 28 (15.56%) Deployment Automation
10 25 (13.89%) High Availability
11 23 (12.78%) Microservices
12 20 (11.11%) Configuration Management
12 20 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
13 19 (10.56%) Infrastructure Automation
14 16 (8.89%) Secrets Management
15 15 (8.33%) DevSecOps
15 15 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (7.78%) Event-Driven
16 14 (7.78%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (34.44%) Python
2 38 (21.11%) Bash
3 11 (6.11%) Groovy
3 11 (6.11%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.44%) Java
6 7 (3.89%) Go
6 7 (3.89%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.78%) SQL
8 4 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.67%) Scala
10 1 (0.56%) C#
10 1 (0.56%) Perl
10 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 94 (52.22%) Security Cleared
2 92 (51.11%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (6.11%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.78%) SAFe Agilist
6 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.11%) Degree
9 1 (0.56%) CCIE
9 1 (0.56%) CCNP
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.78%) QA
2 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.11%) WCAG
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (48.89%) Docker
2 5 (2.78%) Squid
3 4 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.11%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.11%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.11%) Postfix
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.56%) zsh
Systems Management
1 105 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 50 (27.78%) Grafana
2 50 (27.78%) Prometheus
3 38 (21.11%) Ansible
4 13 (7.22%) Argo
5 8 (4.44%) Puppet
6 7 (3.89%) Packer
7 6 (3.33%) Istio
8 4 (2.22%) Rancher
9 3 (1.67%) Consul
9 3 (1.67%) Nessus
10 2 (1.11%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.11%) linkerd
10 2 (1.11%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.11%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.56%) Podman
11 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (5.00%) Dynatrace
2 7 (3.89%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.22%) Splunk
5 3 (1.67%) Oracle
6 2 (1.11%) Google
6 2 (1.11%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.11%) Sonatype
6 2 (1.11%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.56%) Adobe
7 1 (0.56%) Databricks
7 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.56%) Informatica
7 1 (0.56%) Okta
7 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.56%) Tanium
7 1 (0.56%) Tenable
7 1 (0.56%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.56%) VMware