AWS DevOps Contracts

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 330 335
Rank change year-on-year -84 +5 +9
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 181 427 705
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.77% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.81% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 343 538
10th Percentile £400 £470 £473
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 £624 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £863 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -21.28% +6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £78.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,533 52,506 83,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,086 36,648 58,637
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,481 1,935
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.18 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.71 £65.75 £49.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%

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 11 June 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 11 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 -80 146 £525 -12.50% 31
London -74 98 £550 -12.00% 11
Work from Home -12 89 £538 -14.00% 20
UK excluding London -22 54 £463 -21.28% 20
North of England +18 33 £450 -25.00% 7
North West +12 21 £525 +5.00% 6
Yorkshire -1 12 £400 -33.33% 1
Scotland +37 9 £516 +0.73%
South West -12 4 £475 -15.56% 3
South East -15 4 £663 +12.77% 7
Midlands +16 3 £450 -10.00% 3
East Midlands +9 2 £450 -14.29% 3
West Midlands +12 1 £350 -22.22%
Wales - 1 £643 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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.

1 181 (100.00%) AWS
1 181 (100.00%) DevOps
2 127 (70.17%) Terraform
3 103 (56.91%) CI/CD
4 94 (51.93%) Kubernetes
5 86 (47.51%) Python
6 82 (45.30%) Security Cleared
7 80 (44.20%) SC Cleared
8 71 (39.23%) Docker
9 67 (37.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 52 (28.73%) Serverless
10 52 (28.73%) Ansible
11 51 (28.18%) Containerisation
12 47 (25.97%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (25.41%) Bash
14 43 (23.76%) Jenkins
15 41 (22.65%) GitLab
16 40 (22.10%) Amazon EC2
17 37 (20.44%) Linux
18 36 (19.89%) Amazon S3
19 33 (18.23%) Agile
19 33 (18.23%) AWS CloudFormation
19 33 (18.23%) Amazon EKS
20 30 (16.57%) Amazon ECS
20 30 (16.57%) Public Sector
20 30 (16.57%) Git
21 28 (15.47%) GitHub
22 27 (14.92%) Amazon RDS
22 27 (14.92%) GitHub Actions
23 26 (14.36%) AWS Certification

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 4 (2.21%) Confluence
1 4 (2.21%) nginx
2 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) JBoss
3 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 181 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (28.73%) Serverless
3 47 (25.97%) AWS Lambda
4 40 (22.10%) Amazon EC2
5 36 (19.89%) Amazon S3
6 33 (18.23%) Amazon EKS
6 33 (18.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (16.57%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (15.47%) GitHub
9 27 (14.92%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (13.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (10.50%) Azure
12 13 (7.18%) AWS Control Tower
12 13 (7.18%) Route 53
13 12 (6.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (6.63%) SaaS
14 10 (5.52%) OpenShift
15 9 (4.97%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (4.97%) PaaS
16 8 (4.42%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.97%) Firewall
2 6 (3.31%) Network Security
3 5 (2.76%) DNS
4 3 (1.66%) DHCP
4 3 (1.66%) LAN
4 3 (1.66%) WLAN
5 2 (1.10%) VPN
6 1 (0.55%) IPv4
6 1 (0.55%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.92%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.21%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.66%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.66%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.66%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.10%) MySQL
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.55%) Power BI
7 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (23.76%) Jenkins
2 41 (22.65%) GitLab
3 30 (16.57%) Git
4 7 (3.87%) Artifactory
5 6 (3.31%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.76%) JIRA
7 2 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.10%) Maven
7 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.55%) Ant
8 1 (0.55%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.55%) Gradle
8 1 (0.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (16.57%) Public Sector
2 19 (10.50%) Finance
3 18 (9.94%) Social Skills
4 9 (4.97%) Law
5 8 (4.42%) Banking
6 3 (1.66%) Retail
7 2 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.55%) Front Office
8 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Marketing
8 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.52%) AWS CDK
2 8 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (4.42%) Node.js
3 5 (2.76%) Kafka
4 4 (2.21%) .NET
4 4 (2.21%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.21%) AWS SAM
5 3 (1.66%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.10%) React
7 1 (0.55%) ADO
7 1 (0.55%) EDI
7 1 (0.55%) Flask
7 1 (0.55%) JSON
7 1 (0.55%) Laravel
7 1 (0.55%) LDAP
7 1 (0.55%) Loki
7 1 (0.55%) Middleware
7 1 (0.55%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.84%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (1.66%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.66%) PKI
3 3 (1.66%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.10%) Life Science
4 2 (1.10%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.55%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.55%) Clustering
5 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.55%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.55%) NHS
5 1 (0.55%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.44%) Linux
2 12 (6.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (6.63%) Windows
3 7 (3.87%) Unix
4 5 (2.76%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (100.00%) DevOps
2 103 (56.91%) CI/CD
3 67 (37.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (28.18%) Containerisation
5 33 (18.23%) Agile
6 20 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (8.84%) High Availability
8 14 (7.73%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (7.18%) Test Automation
10 12 (6.63%) Configuration Management
10 12 (6.63%) DevSecOps
10 12 (6.63%) Infrastructure Automation
10 12 (6.63%) Microservices
11 11 (6.08%) Observability
11 11 (6.08%) Software Delivery
12 9 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 8 (4.42%) Computer Science
13 8 (4.42%) Kanban
13 8 (4.42%) Migration
14 7 (3.87%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 86 (47.51%) Python
2 46 (25.41%) Bash
3 17 (9.39%) JavaScript
4 16 (8.84%) Go
5 15 (8.29%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.52%) Java
7 9 (4.97%) Groovy
8 8 (4.42%) Ruby
9 7 (3.87%) SQL
10 5 (2.76%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.21%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.10%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.10%) Scala
13 1 (0.55%) C
13 1 (0.55%) C#
13 1 (0.55%) C++
13 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.55%) Perl
13 1 (0.55%) PHP
13 1 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 82 (45.30%) Security Cleared
2 80 (44.20%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.36%) AWS Certification
4 22 (12.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 10 (5.52%) Degree
6 8 (4.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.66%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.10%) GDPR
1 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.10%) NIST
1 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.55%) NCSC
2 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 71 (39.23%) Docker
2 3 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 127 (70.17%) Terraform
2 94 (51.93%) Kubernetes
3 52 (28.73%) Ansible
4 17 (9.39%) Grafana
5 10 (5.52%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.31%) Kibana
7 3 (1.66%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.66%) Packer
7 3 (1.66%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.10%) Karpenter
8 2 (1.10%) Nagios
8 2 (1.10%) Puppet
8 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.55%) Consul
9 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.55%) Graylog
9 1 (0.55%) logstash
9 1 (0.55%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (7.18%) Splunk
2 7 (3.87%) Dynatrace
2 7 (3.87%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.21%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.66%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.10%) Databricks
5 2 (1.10%) UiPath
6 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.55%) Brio
6 1 (0.55%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.55%) Confluent
6 1 (0.55%) Google
6 1 (0.55%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle
6 1 (0.55%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.55%) VMware