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 £621 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 697 809
Rank change year-on-year +113 +112 -160
Contract jobs requiring a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 14 15 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.025% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.027% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 42
10th Percentile £516 £520 £513
25th Percentile £550 £528 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £621 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £675
90th Percentile £720 £785 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £643 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +23.56% -13.33% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

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 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 8 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 2024. 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 +130 10 £600 - 7
England +127 8 £625 -7.41% 6
UK excluding London +47 6 £643 +23.56% 4
London +96 3 £643 -8.21% 2
North of England +31 3 £600 -7.69%
North West - 3 £600 -
South East - 2 £675 - 1
Wales - 1 £643 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, 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 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (71.43%) Terraform
3 7 (50.00%) Azure
4 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
5 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
5 5 (35.71%) Splunk
5 5 (35.71%) Python
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) Degree
5 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (28.57%) Miro
6 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 4 (28.57%) Dynatrace
6 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Project Management
6 4 (28.57%) SaaS
6 4 (28.57%) PaaS
6 4 (28.57%) Bash
6 4 (28.57%) OOP
6 4 (28.57%) Trello
6 4 (28.57%) Ansible
6 4 (28.57%) Docker
7 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
7 3 (21.43%) Windows
7 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification

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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Miro
3 4 (28.57%) PaaS
3 4 (28.57%) SaaS
4 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (14.29%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 1 (7.14%) dbt
6 1 (7.14%) Route 53
6 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Burp Suite
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) ADO
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) AWS SAM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) VMS
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) OOP
4 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) Observability
5 2 (14.29%) Security Hardening
6 1 (7.14%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Fintech
6 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
6 1 (7.14%) Product Roadmap
6 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) Degree
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (7.14%) SANS
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Terraform
2 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 4 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Grafana
5 1 (7.14%) Graylog
5 1 (7.14%) Nagios
5 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Splunk
2 4 (28.57%) Dynatrace
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx
4 1 (7.14%) Guidewire