AWS DevOps Contracts

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK is £545 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 434 323 333
Rank change year-on-year -111 +10 -23
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 159 462 724
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.78% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.82% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 377 575
10th Percentile £425 £475 £478
25th Percentile £459 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £640 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £825 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £522 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% - +11.11%
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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
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 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 -102 125 £550 -8.33% 33
London -73 86 £550 -8.33% 16
Work from Home -15 77 £550 -8.33% 23
UK excluding London -25 45 £522 -5.09% 17
North of England +2 26 £550 -4.35% 8
North West +14 23 £550 +10.00% 5
Scotland +31 9 £516 +0.05%
South East -6 4 £663 +12.77% 4
Midlands +29 3 £450 -10.00% 3
Yorkshire +2 3 £519 -13.54% 3
East Midlands +21 2 £450 -14.29% 2
South West -1 2 £475 -13.64% 1
West Midlands +25 1 £350 -22.22% 1
Wales - 1 £643 -

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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 job ads featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 159 (100.00%) AWS
1 159 (100.00%) DevOps
2 113 (71.07%) Terraform
3 99 (62.26%) CI/CD
4 85 (53.46%) Kubernetes
5 77 (48.43%) Python
6 64 (40.25%) Security Cleared
7 63 (39.62%) Docker
8 62 (38.99%) SC Cleared
8 62 (38.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 56 (35.22%) Serverless
10 52 (32.70%) Ansible
11 51 (32.08%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (28.30%) Bash
13 43 (27.04%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (26.42%) Containerisation
15 41 (25.79%) Jenkins
16 38 (23.90%) Amazon S3
17 36 (22.64%) Linux
18 35 (22.01%) GitLab
19 34 (21.38%) Amazon EKS
20 32 (20.13%) Git
21 31 (19.50%) Amazon ECS
22 29 (18.24%) Agile
23 28 (17.61%) AWS CloudFormation
23 28 (17.61%) Amazon RDS
24 27 (16.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
25 25 (15.72%) GitHub
26 23 (14.47%) GitHub Actions
27 22 (13.84%) Public Sector

AWS DevOps 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 (3.14%) nginx
2 4 (2.52%) Confluence
3 2 (1.26%) Apache
3 2 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.63%) JBoss
4 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 159 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (35.22%) Serverless
3 51 (32.08%) AWS Lambda
4 43 (27.04%) Amazon EC2
5 38 (23.90%) Amazon S3
6 34 (21.38%) Amazon EKS
7 31 (19.50%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (17.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (16.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 25 (15.72%) GitHub
11 23 (14.47%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (12.58%) Azure
13 16 (10.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (8.81%) Route 53
15 11 (6.92%) OpenShift
15 11 (6.92%) SaaS
16 10 (6.29%) PaaS
17 9 (5.66%) AWS CodePipeline
18 8 (5.03%) AWS Fargate
18 8 (5.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.66%) Firewall
2 7 (4.40%) Network Security
3 5 (3.14%) DNS
4 3 (1.89%) DHCP
4 3 (1.89%) LAN
4 3 (1.89%) WLAN
5 2 (1.26%) VPN
6 1 (0.63%) IPv4
6 1 (0.63%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.61%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (7.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.52%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.89%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.89%) MySQL
6 2 (1.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.63%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (25.79%) Jenkins
2 35 (22.01%) GitLab
3 32 (20.13%) Git
4 7 (4.40%) Artifactory
5 6 (3.77%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.14%) JIRA
7 4 (2.52%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.52%) Maven
8 2 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.63%) Ant
9 1 (0.63%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.63%) Gradle
9 1 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (13.84%) Public Sector
2 19 (11.95%) Finance
2 19 (11.95%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.66%) Law
4 7 (4.40%) Banking
5 3 (1.89%) Retail
6 2 (1.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.26%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.63%) Marketing
7 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.55%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (6.92%) AWS CDK
3 8 (5.03%) Node.js
4 5 (3.14%) AWS SAM
5 4 (2.52%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.89%) .NET
6 3 (1.89%) Kafka
6 3 (1.89%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.26%) React
8 1 (0.63%) ADO
8 1 (0.63%) EDI
8 1 (0.63%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.63%) Flask
8 1 (0.63%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (0.63%) Laravel
8 1 (0.63%) LDAP
8 1 (0.63%) Middleware
8 1 (0.63%) Next.js
8 1 (0.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.43%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.52%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.89%) PKI
5 2 (1.26%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.26%) Life Science
5 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.26%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.63%) Clustering
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.63%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 36 (22.64%) Linux
2 11 (6.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (6.29%) Windows
4 6 (3.77%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.77%) Unix
5 4 (2.52%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.26%) VMS
7 1 (0.63%) CentOS
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (100.00%) DevOps
2 99 (62.26%) CI/CD
3 62 (38.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (26.42%) Containerisation
5 29 (18.24%) Agile
6 22 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (8.81%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (8.18%) DevSecOps
8 13 (8.18%) Test Automation
9 12 (7.55%) Software Delivery
10 11 (6.92%) Microservices
10 11 (6.92%) Observability
11 9 (5.66%) Configuration Management
11 9 (5.66%) Migration
12 8 (5.03%) Computer Science
12 8 (5.03%) Kanban
13 7 (4.40%) High Availability
13 7 (4.40%) Infrastructure Management
13 7 (4.40%) Scrum
13 7 (4.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (48.43%) Python
2 45 (28.30%) Bash
3 15 (9.43%) JavaScript
4 13 (8.18%) Go
5 11 (6.92%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.29%) Groovy
7 8 (5.03%) Java
8 6 (3.77%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.77%) SQL
9 4 (2.52%) Ruby
10 3 (1.89%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.26%) R
11 2 (1.26%) Scala
12 1 (0.63%) Bicep
12 1 (0.63%) C
12 1 (0.63%) C#
12 1 (0.63%) Perl
12 1 (0.63%) PHP
12 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 64 (40.25%) Security Cleared
2 62 (38.99%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.06%) AWS Certification
4 13 (8.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 10 (6.29%) Degree
6 6 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.26%) GDPR
1 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.26%) NIST
2 1 (0.63%) NCSC
2 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (39.62%) Docker
2 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (71.07%) Terraform
2 85 (53.46%) Kubernetes
3 52 (32.70%) Ansible
4 16 (10.06%) Grafana
5 10 (6.29%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.77%) Kibana
7 3 (1.89%) Consul
7 3 (1.89%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.26%) Packer
8 2 (1.26%) Puppet
8 2 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.63%) Argo
9 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.63%) Graylog
9 1 (0.63%) logstash
9 1 (0.63%) Nagios
9 1 (0.63%) Podman
9 1 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (5.03%) Splunk
2 7 (4.40%) Dynatrace
3 5 (3.14%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.89%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.26%) Databricks
5 2 (1.26%) MKS
5 2 (1.26%) UiPath
5 2 (1.26%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.26%) VMware
6 1 (0.63%) Ariba
6 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.63%) Brio
6 1 (0.63%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.63%) Cylance
6 1 (0.63%) Google
6 1 (0.63%) ICL
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle
6 1 (0.63%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.63%) SAP
6 1 (0.63%) Teradata