Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts

Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 568 703
Rank change year-on-year +68 +135 +109
Contract jobs requiring a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 20 14 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.032% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.035% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 14
10th Percentile £465 £516 £520
25th Percentile £525 £550 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £621 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% -0.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £788 £656 £725
90th Percentile - £720 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £414 £643 £520
% change year-on-year -35.60% +23.56% -13.33%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior AWS DevOps Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior AWS DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior AWS DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Work from Home +49 18 £575 -4.17% 4
England +63 14 £563 -10.00% 8
London +46 11 £575 -10.51% 3
UK excluding London +59 2 £414 -35.60% 6
North of England +17 1 £390 -35.00% 2
North West +15 1 £390 -35.00% 2
East of England - 1 £438 -

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior AWS DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) AWS
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (95.00%) Terraform
3 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
4 17 (85.00%) Kubernetes
5 16 (80.00%) Python
6 13 (65.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (60.00%) Docker
8 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
8 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
10 9 (45.00%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (45.00%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
11 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
11 8 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (40.00%) Serverless
11 8 (40.00%) Ansible
11 8 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (35.00%) Agile
12 7 (35.00%) Go
12 7 (35.00%) Amazon S3
13 6 (30.00%) Linux
13 6 (30.00%) Configuration Management
13 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
13 6 (30.00%) GitLab
13 6 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
14 5 (25.00%) Grafana

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (65.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (45.00%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (40.00%) Serverless
5 7 (35.00%) Amazon S3
6 5 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (25.00%) GitHub
7 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (15.00%) Azure
9 2 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (10.00%) AWS KMS
9 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
9 2 (10.00%) GCP
9 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (30.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (25.00%) Banking
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
1 5 (25.00%) Front Office
2 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (10.00%) AWS SAM
3 1 (5.00%) cloud-init
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Unix
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (35.00%) Agile
5 6 (30.00%) Configuration Management
5 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (25.00%) Asset Management
6 5 (25.00%) Fintech
6 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
8 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (15.00%) Software Delivery
9 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 2 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
9 2 (10.00%) Observability
9 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
9 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (35.00%) Go
4 4 (20.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (95.00%) Terraform
2 17 (85.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (40.00%) Ansible
4 5 (25.00%) Grafana
5 3 (15.00%) Progress Chef
5 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (10.00%) Puppet
7 1 (5.00%) Argo
7 1 (5.00%) Consul
7 1 (5.00%) logstash
7 1 (5.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) VMware