AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > UK excluding London

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK excluding London is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 339 397
Rank change year-on-year -9 +58 -31
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 37 108 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.50% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 99 83
10th Percentile £428 £450 £463
25th Percentile £444 £488 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +13.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £616
90th Percentile £670 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £531 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.46% +4.35% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
North of England +1 18 £481 -12.50% 4
North West +12 15 £481 -3.75% 3
Scotland +46 9 £516 -11.37%
South East -5 4 £663 +12.77% 8
Midlands +30 3 £450 -10.00% 3
Yorkshire -3 3 £519 -13.54% 1
East Midlands +13 2 £450 -14.29% 2
South West -18 2 £475 -17.39%
West Midlands +25 1 £350 -22.22% 1
Wales - 1 £643 -
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) AWS
1 37 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (86.49%) Terraform
3 30 (81.08%) Kubernetes
4 24 (64.86%) Python
5 21 (56.76%) CI/CD
6 20 (54.05%) Docker
7 19 (51.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (43.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (40.54%) Containerisation
10 13 (35.14%) Ansible
10 13 (35.14%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (32.43%) Bash
11 12 (32.43%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (32.43%) Serverless
12 11 (29.73%) Jenkins
13 10 (27.03%) GitLab
14 9 (24.32%) Software Delivery
14 9 (24.32%) Amazon S3
14 9 (24.32%) Linux
15 8 (21.62%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (18.92%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (18.92%) AWS Certification
16 7 (18.92%) Groovy
16 7 (18.92%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
17 6 (16.22%) Git
17 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
17 6 (16.22%) Grafana
17 6 (16.22%) Platform Engineering

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (43.24%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (35.14%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (32.43%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (32.43%) Serverless
5 9 (24.32%) Amazon S3
6 8 (21.62%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (18.92%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (16.22%) Snowflake
9 5 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (13.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (13.51%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (13.51%) Azure
9 5 (13.51%) OpenShift
10 4 (10.81%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (8.11%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (8.11%) GitHub
11 3 (8.11%) Route 53
11 3 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (13.51%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (8.11%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
3 3 (8.11%) InfluxDB
3 3 (8.11%) MySQL
3 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Jenkins
2 10 (27.03%) GitLab
3 6 (16.22%) Git
4 5 (13.51%) Artifactory
5 4 (10.81%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.70%) Burp Suite
6 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
1 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
3 1 (2.70%) Banking
3 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) AWS CDK
2 3 (8.11%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Ubuntu
3 3 (8.11%) Windows
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (56.76%) CI/CD
3 19 (51.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (40.54%) Containerisation
5 9 (24.32%) Software Delivery
6 6 (16.22%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.51%) Agile
7 5 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (10.81%) Observability
8 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
9 3 (8.11%) Cloud Operations
9 3 (8.11%) Configuration Management
9 3 (8.11%) High Availability
9 3 (8.11%) IT Strategy
9 3 (8.11%) Technology Strategy
10 2 (5.41%) DataOps
10 2 (5.41%) DevSecOps
10 2 (5.41%) Migration
10 2 (5.41%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) Python
2 12 (32.43%) Bash
3 7 (18.92%) Groovy
4 4 (10.81%) Go
5 3 (8.11%) Java
5 3 (8.11%) Ruby
5 3 (8.11%) SQL
6 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.41%) Scala
7 1 (2.70%) Bicep
7 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.70%) PHP
7 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) AWS Certification
2 6 (16.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) GDPR
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (54.05%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (86.49%) Terraform
2 30 (81.08%) Kubernetes
3 13 (35.14%) Ansible
4 6 (16.22%) Grafana
5 5 (13.51%) Kibana
6 3 (8.11%) HP Fortify
7 1 (2.70%) Graylog
7 1 (2.70%) Nagios
7 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Splunk
2 2 (5.41%) Databricks
3 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.70%) Checkmarx
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft