Hybrid/Remote AWS DevOps Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 254 236
Rank change year-on-year -5 -18 +47
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 47 77 193
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.61% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.65% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 62 176
10th Percentile £363 £376 £450
25th Percentile £419 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £514 £619 £688
90th Percentile £600 £721 £863
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £77.50 -

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 9,101 11,840 19,221
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 93.49% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,001 7,583 13,590
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 291 441
10th Percentile £13.25 £19.59 £16.98
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.38 £25.71
Median hourly rate £39.10 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.11% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.26 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote AWS DevOps job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote AWS DevOps job vacancies

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 21 September 2025.

AWS DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote AWS DevOps job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote AWS DevOps job vacancies

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) AWS
1 47 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (95.74%) Terraform
3 37 (78.72%) CI/CD
4 32 (68.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (68.09%) Docker
5 28 (59.57%) Kubernetes
6 25 (53.19%) Security Cleared
7 23 (48.94%) SC Cleared
8 20 (42.55%) Containerisation
9 18 (38.30%) GitHub
10 17 (36.17%) Jenkins
11 15 (31.91%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (29.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (29.79%) Python
13 13 (27.66%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (25.53%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (23.40%) Configuration Management
15 11 (23.40%) GitLab
15 11 (23.40%) Ansible
15 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
16 10 (21.28%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (21.28%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (21.28%) Observability
16 10 (21.28%) Serverless
16 10 (21.28%) Cloud Security
16 10 (21.28%) AWS Certification
16 10 (21.28%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (21.28%) Progress Chef
16 10 (21.28%) Amazon S3

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 1 (2.13%) Confluence
1 1 (2.13%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (38.30%) GitHub
3 15 (31.91%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (29.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (25.53%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (21.28%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (21.28%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (21.28%) Amazon S3
6 10 (21.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (21.28%) Serverless
7 9 (19.15%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (12.77%) AWS CodePipeline
8 6 (12.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (10.64%) Datadog
10 4 (8.51%) Route 53
11 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (6.38%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (6.38%) IaaS
12 2 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) DNS
2 3 (6.38%) HTTP
2 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.38%) VPN
3 2 (4.26%) Firewall
3 2 (4.26%) Internet
3 2 (4.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.51%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (2.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (36.17%) Jenkins
2 11 (23.40%) GitLab
3 5 (10.64%) Git
4 3 (6.38%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.26%) Maven
5 2 (4.26%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.26%) Finance
3 2 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) AWS CDK
1 6 (12.77%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (8.51%) .NET
3 2 (4.26%) Node.js
3 2 (4.26%) React
4 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.13%) Laravel
4 1 (2.13%) Loki
4 1 (2.13%) OAuth
4 1 (2.13%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.13%) OpenID
4 1 (2.13%) SAML
4 1 (2.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.15%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
2 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (78.72%) CI/CD
3 32 (68.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (42.55%) Containerisation
5 11 (23.40%) Configuration Management
6 10 (21.28%) Cloud Security
6 10 (21.28%) Observability
7 8 (17.02%) Agile
7 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (17.02%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (14.89%) DevSecOps
9 6 (12.77%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (12.77%) Microservices
9 6 (12.77%) Migration
10 5 (10.64%) Clean Code
10 5 (10.64%) Incident Response
10 5 (10.64%) Load Balancing
10 5 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (10.64%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (8.51%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.79%) Python
2 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
3 8 (17.02%) Bash
4 5 (10.64%) Java
5 2 (4.26%) Groovy
5 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.13%) C#
6 1 (2.13%) SQL
6 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (53.19%) Security Cleared
2 23 (48.94%) SC Cleared
3 10 (21.28%) AWS Certification
4 5 (10.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (6.38%) Degree
6 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.26%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 32 (68.09%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (95.74%) Terraform
2 28 (59.57%) Kubernetes
3 11 (23.40%) Ansible
4 10 (21.28%) Progress Chef
5 9 (19.15%) Grafana
6 8 (17.02%) Prometheus
7 7 (14.89%) Puppet
8 3 (6.38%) Argo
9 2 (4.26%) Kibana
10 1 (2.13%) Consul
10 1 (2.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.13%) Databricks
2 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.13%) Google
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.13%) SAP
2 1 (2.13%) Splunk