AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 332 378
Rank change year-on-year -96 +46 +11
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 151 401 600
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.71% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.75% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 321 454
10th Percentile £419 £475 £469
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £688 £863 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -14.04% +6.82% +10.00%
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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -108 117 £525 -12.50% 32
London -58 85 £538 -14.00% 16
Work from Home -7 80 £525 -16.00% 22
UK excluding London -20 38 £505 -14.04% 16
North of England +10 19 £463 -19.57% 3
North West +12 14 £463 -7.50% 3
Scotland +43 9 £516 -1.67%
Yorkshire +10 5 £381 -36.46%
South East -18 4 £663 +12.77% 7
Midlands +25 3 £450 -10.00% 2
East Midlands +10 2 £450 -14.29% 2
South West -9 2 £475 -17.39% 3
West Midlands +15 1 £350 -22.22%
Wales - 1 £643 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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.

1 151 (100.00%) AWS
1 151 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (72.19%) Terraform
3 85 (56.29%) CI/CD
4 76 (50.33%) Kubernetes
5 73 (48.34%) Python
6 68 (45.03%) Security Cleared
7 66 (43.71%) SC Cleared
8 56 (37.09%) Docker
8 56 (37.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 48 (31.79%) Ansible
10 43 (28.48%) Serverless
11 38 (25.17%) AWS Lambda
12 37 (24.50%) Jenkins
12 37 (24.50%) Bash
12 37 (24.50%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (24.50%) Linux
13 36 (23.84%) Containerisation
14 32 (21.19%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (21.19%) GitLab
15 31 (20.53%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (20.53%) Amazon S3
16 29 (19.21%) Amazon ECS
16 29 (19.21%) Public Sector
17 28 (18.54%) GitHub
18 26 (17.22%) Agile
18 26 (17.22%) GitHub Actions
19 24 (15.89%) Git
20 22 (14.57%) Amazon RDS
21 21 (13.91%) 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 4 (2.65%) Confluence
1 4 (2.65%) nginx
2 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.66%) Apache
3 1 (0.66%) JBoss
3 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 151 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (28.48%) Serverless
3 38 (25.17%) AWS Lambda
4 37 (24.50%) Amazon EC2
5 32 (21.19%) Amazon EKS
6 31 (20.53%) Amazon S3
6 31 (20.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (19.21%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (18.54%) GitHub
9 26 (17.22%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (13.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (11.26%) Azure
12 13 (8.61%) Route 53
13 12 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (7.95%) AWS Control Tower
14 11 (7.28%) SaaS
15 10 (6.62%) OpenShift
16 9 (5.96%) PaaS
17 8 (5.30%) Amazon ECR
17 8 (5.30%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.96%) Firewall
2 5 (3.31%) DNS
3 3 (1.99%) DHCP
3 3 (1.99%) LAN
3 3 (1.99%) Network Security
3 3 (1.99%) WLAN
4 2 (1.32%) VPN
5 1 (0.66%) IPv4
5 1 (0.66%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.66%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.57%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.65%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.99%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.99%) InfluxDB
4 3 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.32%) MySQL
5 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (24.50%) Jenkins
2 32 (21.19%) GitLab
3 24 (15.89%) Git
4 7 (4.64%) Artifactory
5 6 (3.97%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.31%) JIRA
7 2 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.32%) Maven
7 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.66%) Ant
8 1 (0.66%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.66%) Gradle
8 1 (0.66%) Terragrunt
General
1 29 (19.21%) Public Sector
2 17 (11.26%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.93%) Finance
4 9 (5.96%) Law
5 7 (4.64%) Banking
6 3 (1.99%) Retail
7 2 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.32%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.66%) Front Office
8 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Marketing
8 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.62%) AWS CDK
2 8 (5.30%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.31%) Kafka
4 4 (2.65%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.65%) AWS SAM
5 3 (1.99%) .NET
5 3 (1.99%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (1.99%) Node.js
5 3 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.32%) React
7 1 (0.66%) ADO
7 1 (0.66%) Django
7 1 (0.66%) EDI
7 1 (0.66%) Flask
7 1 (0.66%) JSON
7 1 (0.66%) Laravel
7 1 (0.66%) LDAP
7 1 (0.66%) Loki
7 1 (0.66%) Middleware
7 1 (0.66%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.61%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (1.99%) PKI
2 3 (1.99%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.32%) Life Science
3 2 (1.32%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.66%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.66%) Clustering
4 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.66%) NHS
4 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.66%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 37 (24.50%) Linux
2 12 (7.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (7.28%) Windows
4 6 (3.97%) Unix
5 5 (3.31%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.65%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.66%) VMS
7 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (100.00%) DevOps
2 85 (56.29%) CI/CD
3 56 (37.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (23.84%) Containerisation
5 26 (17.22%) Agile
6 17 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (9.27%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (8.61%) Test Automation
9 11 (7.28%) Observability
9 11 (7.28%) Software Delivery
10 9 (5.96%) Configuration Management
10 9 (5.96%) DevSecOps
10 9 (5.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (5.30%) Computer Science
11 8 (5.30%) High Availability
11 8 (5.30%) Migration
12 7 (4.64%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (4.64%) Microservices
13 5 (3.31%) OOP
13 5 (3.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (48.34%) Python
2 37 (24.50%) Bash
3 16 (10.60%) Go
4 12 (7.95%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.96%) Groovy
5 9 (5.96%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.30%) Java
6 8 (5.30%) Ruby
7 5 (3.31%) SQL
8 4 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.65%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.32%) Scala
10 1 (0.66%) C
10 1 (0.66%) C#
10 1 (0.66%) C++
10 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.66%) Perl
10 1 (0.66%) PHP
10 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 68 (45.03%) Security Cleared
2 66 (43.71%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.93%) AWS Certification
4 11 (7.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 10 (6.62%) Degree
6 5 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.32%) GDPR
1 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.32%) NIST
1 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.66%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (37.09%) Docker
2 3 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 109 (72.19%) Terraform
2 76 (50.33%) Kubernetes
3 48 (31.79%) Ansible
4 17 (11.26%) Grafana
5 10 (6.62%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.97%) Kibana
7 3 (1.99%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.99%) Packer
7 3 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.32%) Karpenter
8 2 (1.32%) Nagios
8 2 (1.32%) Puppet
8 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.66%) Consul
9 1 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.66%) Graylog
9 1 (0.66%) logstash
9 1 (0.66%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (8.61%) Splunk
2 7 (4.64%) Dynatrace
3 6 (3.97%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.99%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.32%) Databricks
5 2 (1.32%) UiPath
6 1 (0.66%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.66%) Brio
6 1 (0.66%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.66%) Confluent
6 1 (0.66%) Google
6 1 (0.66%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle
6 1 (0.66%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.66%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.66%) VMware
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