AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 346 373
Rank change year-on-year -106 +27 -19
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 141 423 624
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.71% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.75% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 348 495
10th Percentile £425 £475 £475
25th Percentile £450 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £638
90th Percentile £680 £840 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England -96 108 £531 -11.46% 26
London -65 77 £538 -10.42% 14
Work from Home -10 72 £544 -9.38% 18
UK excluding London -23 37 £513 -6.82% 11
North of England +1 18 £481 -12.50% 4
North West +10 15 £481 -3.75% 3
Scotland +33 9 £516 -0.63%
South East -6 4 £663 +12.77% 3
Midlands +29 3 £450 -10.00% 3
Yorkshire +5 3 £519 -13.54% 1
East Midlands +21 2 £450 -14.29% 2
South West 0 2 £475 -13.64% 1
West Midlands +25 1 £350 -22.22% 1
Wales - 1 £643 -

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 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 featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 141 (100.00%) AWS
1 141 (100.00%) DevOps
2 101 (71.63%) Terraform
3 86 (60.99%) CI/CD
4 75 (53.19%) Kubernetes
5 67 (47.52%) Python
6 59 (41.84%) Security Cleared
7 57 (40.43%) SC Cleared
8 56 (39.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 53 (37.59%) Docker
10 46 (32.62%) Ansible
11 45 (31.91%) Serverless
12 40 (28.37%) AWS Lambda
13 39 (27.66%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (26.24%) Jenkins
15 36 (25.53%) Bash
16 35 (24.82%) Linux
17 33 (23.40%) Amazon S3
17 33 (23.40%) Amazon EKS
17 33 (23.40%) Containerisation
18 30 (21.28%) Amazon ECS
18 30 (21.28%) GitLab
19 27 (19.15%) AWS CloudFormation
20 24 (17.02%) GitHub
20 24 (17.02%) Git
20 24 (17.02%) Agile
21 23 (16.31%) GitHub Actions
22 22 (15.60%) Public Sector
22 22 (15.60%) Amazon RDS
22 22 (15.60%) Virtual Private Cloud

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (3.55%) nginx
2 4 (2.84%) Confluence
3 2 (1.42%) Apache
3 2 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.71%) JBoss
4 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 141 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (31.91%) Serverless
3 40 (28.37%) AWS Lambda
4 39 (27.66%) Amazon EC2
5 33 (23.40%) Amazon EKS
5 33 (23.40%) Amazon S3
6 30 (21.28%) Amazon ECS
7 27 (19.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (17.02%) GitHub
9 23 (16.31%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (15.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (12.06%) Azure
12 14 (9.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (9.93%) Route 53
13 11 (7.80%) SaaS
14 10 (7.09%) OpenShift
14 10 (7.09%) PaaS
15 9 (6.38%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (5.67%) Amazon ECR
16 8 (5.67%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.67%) Firewall
2 5 (3.55%) DNS
3 3 (2.13%) DHCP
3 3 (2.13%) LAN
3 3 (2.13%) Network Security
3 3 (2.13%) WLAN
4 2 (1.42%) VPN
5 1 (0.71%) IPv4
5 1 (0.71%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.60%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.67%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.84%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.13%) InfluxDB
5 3 (2.13%) MySQL
6 2 (1.42%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.71%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (26.24%) Jenkins
2 30 (21.28%) GitLab
3 24 (17.02%) Git
4 7 (4.96%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.26%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.55%) JIRA
7 4 (2.84%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.84%) Maven
8 2 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.71%) Ant
9 1 (0.71%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.71%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.71%) Gradle
9 1 (0.71%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (15.60%) Public Sector
2 18 (12.77%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.64%) Finance
4 9 (6.38%) Law
5 7 (4.96%) Banking
6 3 (2.13%) Retail
7 2 (1.42%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.42%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.80%) AWS CDK
1 11 (7.80%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.84%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.84%) AWS SAM
3 3 (2.13%) .NET
3 3 (2.13%) Kafka
3 3 (2.13%) Lambda Expressions
3 3 (2.13%) Node.js
3 3 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.42%) React
5 1 (0.71%) ADO
5 1 (0.71%) Django
5 1 (0.71%) EDI
5 1 (0.71%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.71%) JSON
5 1 (0.71%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (0.71%) LDAP
5 1 (0.71%) Middleware
5 1 (0.71%) Next.js
5 1 (0.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.51%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.84%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.13%) PKI
4 2 (1.42%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.42%) Life Science
4 2 (1.42%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.71%) Clustering
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.71%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 35 (24.82%) Linux
2 11 (7.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (7.09%) Windows
4 6 (4.26%) Ubuntu
5 5 (3.55%) Unix
6 4 (2.84%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.42%) VMS
8 1 (0.71%) CentOS
8 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (100.00%) DevOps
2 86 (60.99%) CI/CD
3 56 (39.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (23.40%) Containerisation
5 24 (17.02%) Agile
6 17 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (9.22%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (9.22%) Test Automation
8 12 (8.51%) Software Delivery
9 10 (7.09%) DevSecOps
9 10 (7.09%) Observability
10 9 (6.38%) Migration
11 8 (5.67%) Configuration Management
12 7 (4.96%) Computer Science
12 7 (4.96%) Microservices
12 7 (4.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (4.26%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (4.26%) High Availability
14 5 (3.55%) Disaster Recovery
14 5 (3.55%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (47.52%) Python
2 36 (25.53%) Bash
3 12 (8.51%) Go
4 9 (6.38%) Groovy
4 9 (6.38%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.96%) Java
6 6 (4.26%) SQL
6 6 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.55%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.84%) Ruby
9 3 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.42%) R
10 2 (1.42%) Scala
11 1 (0.71%) Bicep
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) C#
11 1 (0.71%) Perl
11 1 (0.71%) PHP
11 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (41.84%) Security Cleared
2 57 (40.43%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.51%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 9 (6.38%) Degree
5 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.42%) GDPR
1 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.42%) NIST
2 1 (0.71%) NCSC
2 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (37.59%) Docker
2 2 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 101 (71.63%) Terraform
2 75 (53.19%) Kubernetes
3 46 (32.62%) Ansible
4 15 (10.64%) Grafana
5 10 (7.09%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.26%) Kibana
7 3 (2.13%) Consul
7 3 (2.13%) HP Fortify
7 3 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.42%) Packer
8 2 (1.42%) Puppet
8 2 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.71%) Graylog
9 1 (0.71%) logstash
9 1 (0.71%) Nagios
9 1 (0.71%) Podman
9 1 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (5.67%) Splunk
2 7 (4.96%) Dynatrace
3 5 (3.55%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.13%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.42%) Databricks
5 2 (1.42%) MKS
5 2 (1.42%) UiPath
5 2 (1.42%) VMware
6 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.71%) Brio
6 1 (0.71%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.71%) Cylance
6 1 (0.71%) Google
6 1 (0.71%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle
6 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.71%) Teradata
6 1 (0.71%) Virgin Media
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