AWS DevOps Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £675, 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 210 270 254
Rank change year-on-year +60 -16 +7
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 94 75 239
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.95% 0.49% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.52% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 69 197
10th Percentile £426 £425 £488
25th Percentile £525 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £838 £646 £713
90th Percentile - £700 £863
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured AWS DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS DevOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS DevOps.

AWS DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS DevOps.

AWS DevOps hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS DevOps 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 94 (100.00%) AWS
1 94 (100.00%) DevOps
2 86 (91.49%) Terraform
3 73 (77.66%) Kubernetes
4 70 (74.47%) CI/CD
4 70 (74.47%) Python
5 65 (69.15%) Docker
6 46 (48.94%) Agile
7 45 (47.87%) Serverless
7 45 (47.87%) AWS Lambda
8 42 (44.68%) Amazon ECS
8 42 (44.68%) Software Engineering
9 41 (43.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 40 (42.55%) Finance
11 39 (41.49%) Front Office
11 39 (41.49%) Asset Management
12 37 (39.36%) Go
13 34 (36.17%) Apache Iceberg
14 33 (35.11%) Kafka
15 32 (34.04%) Java
15 32 (34.04%) Apache Spark
16 31 (32.98%) Security Cleared
17 30 (31.91%) Apache
17 30 (31.91%) Artifactory
17 30 (31.91%) Data Engineering
17 30 (31.91%) Apache Airflow
17 30 (31.91%) Amazon Athena
17 30 (31.91%) Infrastructure as Code
17 30 (31.91%) Dremio
17 30 (31.91%) dbt

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 32 (34.04%) Apache Spark
2 30 (31.91%) Apache
2 30 (31.91%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (7.45%) nginx
4 5 (5.32%) Confluence
5 1 (1.06%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (47.87%) AWS Lambda
2 45 (47.87%) Serverless
3 42 (44.68%) Amazon ECS
4 30 (31.91%) dbt
5 28 (29.79%) OpenShift
6 27 (28.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (22.34%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (19.15%) Amazon S3
9 17 (18.09%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (11.70%) GitHub
11 9 (9.57%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (9.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (6.38%) Azure
14 5 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (4.26%) IaaS
15 4 (4.26%) PaaS
15 4 (4.26%) Route 53
16 3 (3.19%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.57%) HTTP
2 8 (8.51%) Firewall
2 8 (8.51%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.38%) DNS
4 4 (4.26%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (2.13%) Internet
5 2 (2.13%) SSL
6 1 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (36.17%) Apache Iceberg
2 30 (31.91%) Amazon Athena
2 30 (31.91%) Dremio
3 28 (29.79%) Apache Arrow
3 28 (29.79%) Apache Ignite
4 16 (17.02%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (13.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (4.26%) Apache Hive
7 4 (4.26%) Hadoop
7 4 (4.26%) Parquet
7 4 (4.26%) Presto
8 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.13%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.06%) MySQL
9 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.06%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (31.91%) Artifactory
2 21 (22.34%) GitLab
3 18 (19.15%) Jenkins
4 10 (10.64%) Git
5 4 (4.26%) Poetry
6 3 (3.19%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.19%) JIRA
6 3 (3.19%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.06%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.06%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.06%) Terragrunt
General
1 40 (42.55%) Finance
2 39 (41.49%) Front Office
3 12 (12.77%) Banking
4 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.19%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.13%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.06%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (35.11%) Kafka
2 28 (29.79%) J2EE
2 28 (29.79%) PySpark
3 9 (9.57%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (5.32%) React
5 4 (4.26%) Dask
5 4 (4.26%) LAPP Stack
6 3 (3.19%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.19%) Node.js
7 2 (2.13%) AWS SAM
7 2 (2.13%) REST
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Amplify
8 1 (1.06%) cloud-init
8 1 (1.06%) Next.js
8 1 (1.06%) SOAP
8 1 (1.06%) Spring
8 1 (1.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.06%) Blockchain
2 1 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.06%) FMCG
2 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.15%) Linux
2 4 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.26%) Unix
3 2 (2.13%) CentOS
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.06%) Windows
4 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) DevOps
2 70 (74.47%) CI/CD
3 46 (48.94%) Agile
4 42 (44.68%) Software Engineering
5 41 (43.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 39 (41.49%) Asset Management
7 30 (31.91%) Data Engineering
7 30 (31.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (29.79%) Open Source
9 13 (13.83%) Containerisation
10 12 (12.77%) Fintech
11 11 (11.70%) Configuration Management
12 10 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (10.64%) Microservices
13 9 (9.57%) Platform Engineering
14 7 (7.45%) Cloud Security
14 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure Automation
14 7 (7.45%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (7.45%) Task Automation
15 6 (6.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 70 (74.47%) Python
2 37 (39.36%) Go
3 32 (34.04%) Java
4 16 (17.02%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.64%) Bash
6 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.26%) SQL
8 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.06%) C#
9 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (32.98%) Security Cleared
2 27 (28.72%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.45%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.32%) Degree
5 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 65 (69.15%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 86 (91.49%) Terraform
2 73 (77.66%) Kubernetes
3 15 (15.96%) Ansible
4 14 (14.89%) Grafana
5 12 (12.77%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.45%) Progress Chef
7 6 (6.38%) Puppet
8 3 (3.19%) logstash
8 3 (3.19%) Packer
9 2 (2.13%) Argo
9 2 (2.13%) Consul
9 2 (2.13%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (4.26%) Red Hat
2 2 (2.13%) Cribl.io
2 2 (2.13%) Dynatrace
2 2 (2.13%) Splunk
3 1 (1.06%) Black Duck
3 1 (1.06%) Checkmarx
3 1 (1.06%) Google
3 1 (1.06%) New Relic
3 1 (1.06%) SAP
3 1 (1.06%) Tenable
3 1 (1.06%) VMware