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 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 375 428
Rank change year-on-year -12 +53 -95
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 197 191 184
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.55% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.60% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 164 158
10th Percentile £363 £387 £425
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £570 £728 £638
90th Percentile £675 £825 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -4.55%

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 33,137 32,079 41,606
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 92.76% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,987 19,722 27,981
10th Percentile £290 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £723 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 1,044 1,467
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.98 £21.05 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £73.28 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 -27 164 £500 -13.04% 10
UK excluding London -4 89 £500 +11.11% 8
London -23 88 £513 -19.61% 5
Work from Home -21 57 £481 -19.79% 1
North of England -22 43 £500 +17.65% 3
West Midlands -14 23 £475 +35.71%
Midlands -19 23 £475 +163.16%
North West -3 19 £438 -7.89%
Yorkshire -47 18 £500 +25.00% 1
South East +9 10 £500 -6.98% 3
Scotland +4 9 £417 -16.70%
North East -8 7 £575 - 2
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
South West -11 2 £488 -25.00% 1
East of England - 1 £600 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 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.

1 197 (100.00%) AWS
1 197 (100.00%) DevOps
2 154 (78.17%) Terraform
3 148 (75.13%) CI/CD
4 97 (49.24%) Kubernetes
4 97 (49.24%) Security Cleared
5 93 (47.21%) Python
5 93 (47.21%) SC Cleared
6 92 (46.70%) Docker
7 89 (45.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 67 (34.01%) Jenkins
9 66 (33.50%) GitHub
10 64 (32.49%) GitLab
11 61 (30.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 57 (28.93%) Grafana
12 57 (28.93%) Linux
13 53 (26.90%) Containerisation
13 53 (26.90%) Prometheus
14 52 (26.40%) Amazon RDS
15 51 (25.89%) Amazon EC2
15 51 (25.89%) Amazon S3
16 48 (24.37%) Serverless
17 43 (21.83%) AWS Lambda
17 43 (21.83%) Cloud Security
17 43 (21.83%) GitHub Actions
18 42 (21.32%) Git
19 41 (20.81%) AWS CloudFormation
20 40 (20.30%) Agile
20 40 (20.30%) Amazon EKS
20 40 (20.30%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 27 (13.71%) Confluence
2 13 (6.60%) nginx
3 10 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.51%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (4.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 197 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (33.50%) GitHub
3 61 (30.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 51 (25.89%) Amazon EC2
4 51 (25.89%) Amazon S3
5 48 (24.37%) Serverless
6 43 (21.83%) AWS Lambda
6 43 (21.83%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (20.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 40 (20.30%) Amazon EKS
8 40 (20.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 39 (19.80%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (17.77%) Azure
11 18 (9.14%) AWS CodePipeline
12 17 (8.63%) Amazon ELB
13 16 (8.12%) AWS KMS
13 16 (8.12%) GCP
14 15 (7.61%) Route 53
15 13 (6.60%) AWS Fargate
16 11 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.18%) DNS
2 20 (10.15%) Firewall
3 16 (8.12%) HTTP
3 16 (8.12%) SMTP
4 15 (7.61%) FTP
4 15 (7.61%) SSH
5 9 (4.57%) IMAP
5 9 (4.57%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (4.06%) VPN
7 4 (2.03%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.51%) LAN
8 1 (0.51%) Network Security
8 1 (0.51%) SSL
8 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (26.40%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (5.58%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.05%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.05%) Flink
6 5 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.54%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.54%) Redis
7 4 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.03%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.52%) MySQL
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 67 (34.01%) Jenkins
2 64 (32.49%) GitLab
3 42 (21.32%) Git
4 32 (16.24%) JIRA
5 16 (8.12%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.57%) Artifactory
7 6 (3.05%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.54%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.54%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.54%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.52%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.52%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.02%) IntelliJ
10 2 (1.02%) Maven
10 2 (1.02%) PyCharm
10 2 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
General
1 51 (25.89%) Public Sector
2 38 (19.29%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.68%) Finance
4 18 (9.14%) Banking
5 9 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.05%) Front Office
7 4 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.51%) Games
9 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.68%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (10.15%) Kafka
3 10 (5.08%) AWS CDK
4 9 (4.57%) LDAP
5 8 (4.06%) Keycloak
5 8 (4.06%) Node.js
6 7 (3.55%) .NET
7 6 (3.05%) React
8 4 (2.03%) OAuth
9 3 (1.52%) cloud-init
9 3 (1.52%) JWT
9 3 (1.52%) REST
9 3 (1.52%) RESTful
10 2 (1.02%) Middleware
11 1 (0.51%) Django
11 1 (0.51%) HTML
11 1 (0.51%) Laravel
11 1 (0.51%) SAML
11 1 (0.51%) Spring
11 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.64%) Replication
2 15 (7.61%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.06%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.55%) NHS
6 6 (3.05%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.54%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.52%) PKI
10 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.51%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.51%) Clustering
11 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (28.93%) Linux
2 20 (10.15%) Windows
3 16 (8.12%) Amazon Linux
3 16 (8.12%) VMS
4 8 (4.06%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.03%) Unix
6 3 (1.52%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (100.00%) DevOps
2 148 (75.13%) CI/CD
3 89 (45.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (26.90%) Containerisation
5 43 (21.83%) Cloud Security
6 40 (20.30%) Agile
7 34 (17.26%) Observability
8 32 (16.24%) Platform Engineering
9 31 (15.74%) Configuration Management
10 25 (12.69%) Microservices
11 23 (11.68%) Change Management
12 22 (11.17%) Infrastructure Automation
13 20 (10.15%) Migration
14 19 (9.64%) Performance Tuning
15 15 (7.61%) Patch Management
16 14 (7.11%) DevSecOps
16 14 (7.11%) Incident Response
16 14 (7.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 14 (7.11%) Test Automation
17 12 (6.09%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 93 (47.21%) Python
2 35 (17.77%) Bash
3 27 (13.71%) Java
4 26 (13.20%) PowerShell
5 22 (11.17%) Groovy
5 22 (11.17%) SQL
6 12 (6.09%) Go
6 12 (6.09%) Perl
7 6 (3.05%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.54%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.52%) C#
9 3 (1.52%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.52%) Ruby
10 1 (0.51%) PHP
10 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (49.24%) Security Cleared
2 93 (47.21%) SC Cleared
3 31 (15.74%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.60%) Degree
5 9 (4.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (4.06%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (4.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.06%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 4 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.03%) QA
2 3 (1.52%) NCSC
3 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 92 (46.70%) Docker
2 15 (7.61%) DFS Replication
3 9 (4.57%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.57%) Dovecot
3 9 (4.57%) Postfix
3 9 (4.57%) Squid
4 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 154 (78.17%) Terraform
2 97 (49.24%) Kubernetes
3 57 (28.93%) Grafana
4 53 (26.90%) Prometheus
5 31 (15.74%) Ansible
6 15 (7.61%) Argo
7 9 (4.57%) Nessus
7 9 (4.57%) Progress Chef
8 8 (4.06%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.55%) Sysdig
10 6 (3.05%) Packer
11 5 (2.54%) Puppet
12 4 (2.03%) Kibana
12 4 (2.03%) Rancher
13 3 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (1.02%) Consul
15 1 (0.51%) Istio
15 1 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
15 1 (0.51%) linkerd
15 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (10.15%) ServiceNow
2 9 (4.57%) Dynatrace
2 9 (4.57%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (4.06%) Splunk
4 6 (3.05%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.52%) Okta
6 2 (1.02%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.02%) CloudEndure
6 2 (1.02%) Databricks
6 2 (1.02%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.51%) Avaya
7 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco
7 1 (0.51%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.51%) F5
7 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.51%) Google
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle
7 1 (0.51%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat