AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > West Midlands

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the West Midlands is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 113 124
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +47
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.048% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.053% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £444 £335 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £478 £365 £475
90th Percentile £484 - -
England median daily rate £505 £515 £600
% change year-on-year -1.94% -14.17% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,365 1,886 2,099
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 91.29% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 1,274 1,452
10th Percentile £203 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 140 59
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.92 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.59 £15.12
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% -8.23% +18.31%
75th Percentile £33.91 £35.63 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.13 £54.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
% change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Birmingham +13 2 £463 +32.14% 1
Solihull - 2 £450 - 1
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Vagrant
2 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (75.00%) Confluence
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) Groovy
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) VMS
2 3 (75.00%) SMTP
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (75.00%) Confluence
2 2 (50.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (75.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Route 53
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SMTP
2 2 (50.00%) IMAP
2 2 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) FTP
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) VMS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Groovy
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) Dovecot
2 2 (50.00%) Postfix
2 2 (50.00%) Squid
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Nessus
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) Jaspersoft