Hybrid/Remote AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 302 358
Rank change year-on-year -10 +56 +157
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 5 5 10
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.047% 0.047% 0.060%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% 0.18% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile £385 - £525
25th Percentile £391 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £625
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -44.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £488 £453 £675
90th Percentile £540 £515 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £605 £625
% change year-on-year -21.42% -3.28% +19.05%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,708 2,799 4,791
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.11% 26.32% 28.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,560 1,756 2,991
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £427 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £715 £712
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -1.52% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 92 229
10th Percentile £20.00 £21.25 £16.08
25th Percentile £29.61 £25.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £40.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.65% -20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £65.56 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £94.88 £75.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.52 £46.18
% change year-on-year -36.36% -14.42% +2.62%

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (40.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
5 1 (20.00%) Datadog
5 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
5 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Cost Management
3 2 (40.00%) FinOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) GitOps
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace