Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends

Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 538 636
Rank change year-on-year -23 +98 +151
Contract jobs requiring a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 13 26 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.070% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.076% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 8
10th Percentile £409 £625 £415
25th Percentile £500 £663 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £531
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +36.47% -21.30%
75th Percentile £675 £788 £550
90th Percentile £805 £815 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £696 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -18.52%

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 30,556 34,341 44,903
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.89% 93.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,309 20,704 30,643
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,701 1,344 1,531
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.04 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +64.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -37.50% -9.09% +91.30%

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior AWS DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies 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 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 9 Contract Job 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 25 October 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 -12 12 £650 -10.34% 2
London -11 8 £650 -10.34% 1
UK excluding London - 4 £696 - 2
North of England - 3 £696 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £696 -
Work from Home +1 2 £500 -31.03% 3
West Midlands - 2 £892 -
Midlands - 2 £892 -
South East - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 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 Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) Terraform
3 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (76.92%) GitLab
5 7 (53.85%) GCP
6 6 (46.15%) Azure
7 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
7 5 (38.46%) TeamCity
8 4 (30.77%) Ansible
8 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
8 4 (30.77%) Docker
8 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
8 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
8 4 (30.77%) Python
9 3 (23.08%) Agile
9 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (23.08%) Confluence
9 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
10 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
10 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (15.38%) Datadog
10 2 (15.38%) Degree
10 2 (15.38%) GitHub
10 2 (15.38%) JIRA

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (7.69%) Headless CMS
2 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) GCP
3 6 (46.15%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 2 (15.38%) Datadog
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 2 (15.38%) Kong
5 2 (15.38%) Serverless
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (7.69%) Contentful
6 1 (7.69%) Contentstack
6 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (7.69%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) GitLab
2 5 (38.46%) TeamCity
3 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (15.38%) JIRA
5 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
5 1 (7.69%) Git
5 1 (7.69%) Liquibase
5 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) Fastify
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) MACH
2 1 (7.69%) Next.js
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Public Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 2 (15.38%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Observability
6 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (7.69%) High Availability
7 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 1 (7.69%) Non-Functional Testing
7 1 (7.69%) OCR
7 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) Go
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Argo
3 1 (7.69%) Consul
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) logstash
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) F5
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) UiPath