AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 318 373
Rank change year-on-year -104 +55 +24
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 128 358 509
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.76% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.81% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 288 382
10th Percentile £349 £469 £469
25th Percentile £430 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £650
90th Percentile £688 £863 £700
UK median daily rate £522 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.00% +4.35% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London -65 88 £538 -14.00% 9
North of England +5 25 £450 -14.29% 6
North West +9 13 £481 -3.75% 5
Yorkshire +11 12 £400 -33.33% 1
South West -15 4 £475 -17.39% 2
South East -16 4 £663 +10.42% 7
Midlands +17 3 £450 -10.00% 2
East Midlands +7 2 £450 -14.29% 2
West Midlands +18 1 £350 -22.22%
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the England region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 128 (100.00%) AWS
1 128 (100.00%) DevOps
2 97 (75.78%) Terraform
3 79 (61.72%) CI/CD
4 70 (54.69%) Kubernetes
5 63 (49.22%) Security Cleared
6 62 (48.44%) SC Cleared
6 62 (48.44%) Python
7 57 (44.53%) Docker
8 53 (41.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (29.69%) Ansible
10 36 (28.13%) Containerisation
11 34 (26.56%) Serverless
12 32 (25.00%) Jenkins
13 31 (24.22%) Linux
14 30 (23.44%) Bash
15 29 (22.66%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (22.66%) GitLab
15 29 (22.66%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (19.53%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (19.53%) Public Sector
16 25 (19.53%) Amazon S3
17 24 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
18 23 (17.97%) Amazon ECS
19 21 (16.41%) AWS Certification
19 21 (16.41%) Amazon RDS
19 21 (16.41%) Git
20 19 (14.84%) GitHub
21 18 (14.06%) Agile
21 18 (14.06%) Virtual Private Cloud

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.13%) nginx
2 3 (2.34%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) JBoss
3 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (26.56%) Serverless
3 29 (22.66%) Amazon EC2
3 29 (22.66%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (19.53%) Amazon S3
4 25 (19.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (17.97%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (14.84%) GitHub
8 18 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (14.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (9.38%) AWS Control Tower
10 11 (8.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (8.59%) Route 53
11 9 (7.03%) Azure
11 9 (7.03%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
13 7 (5.47%) AWS CloudTrail
13 7 (5.47%) SaaS
14 6 (4.69%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.25%) Firewall
2 5 (3.91%) DNS
3 3 (2.34%) DHCP
3 3 (2.34%) LAN
3 3 (2.34%) Network Security
3 3 (2.34%) WLAN
4 2 (1.56%) VPN
5 1 (0.78%) IPv4
5 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.41%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.34%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.34%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.78%) MySQL
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 29 (22.66%) GitLab
3 21 (16.41%) Git
4 5 (3.91%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.13%) JIRA
6 2 (1.56%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.56%) Maven
6 2 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.78%) Ant
7 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.78%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.78%) Gradle
7 1 (0.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (19.53%) Public Sector
2 13 (10.16%) Finance
2 13 (10.16%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.03%) Law
4 6 (4.69%) Banking
5 3 (2.34%) Retail
6 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.78%) Front Office
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
7 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (3.91%) AWS CDK
2 5 (3.91%) Kafka
3 3 (2.34%) .NET
3 3 (2.34%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.34%) AWS SAM
3 3 (2.34%) Lambda Expressions
3 3 (2.34%) Node.js
4 1 (0.78%) Django
4 1 (0.78%) EDI
4 1 (0.78%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.78%) Flask
4 1 (0.78%) JSON
4 1 (0.78%) Laravel
4 1 (0.78%) LDAP
4 1 (0.78%) Middleware
4 1 (0.78%) React
4 1 (0.78%) RESTful
4 1 (0.78%) Vue
4 1 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.38%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.34%) PKI
3 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.56%) Life Science
3 2 (1.56%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.78%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.78%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.78%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.78%) NHS
4 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.78%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 31 (24.22%) Linux
2 7 (5.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (5.47%) Unix
3 6 (4.69%) Windows
4 1 (0.78%) VMS
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (100.00%) DevOps
2 79 (61.72%) CI/CD
3 53 (41.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (28.13%) Containerisation
5 18 (14.06%) Agile
6 16 (12.50%) High Availability
7 14 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (9.38%) Configuration Management
8 12 (9.38%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (7.81%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (7.03%) DevSecOps
11 8 (6.25%) Software Delivery
12 7 (5.47%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (5.47%) Microservices
12 7 (5.47%) Observability
13 6 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 5 (3.91%) Continuous Deployment
14 5 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 5 (3.91%) Runbook
14 5 (3.91%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 62 (48.44%) Python
2 30 (23.44%) Bash
3 15 (11.72%) Go
4 10 (7.81%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.03%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.47%) Ruby
7 6 (4.69%) Java
8 5 (3.91%) SQL
9 4 (3.13%) Groovy
9 4 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.34%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.78%) Bicep
11 1 (0.78%) C
11 1 (0.78%) C#
11 1 (0.78%) C++
11 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.78%) Perl
11 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 63 (49.22%) Security Cleared
2 62 (48.44%) SC Cleared
3 21 (16.41%) AWS Certification
4 18 (14.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (5.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.91%) Degree
7 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.56%) GDPR
1 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.56%) NIST
1 2 (1.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 57 (44.53%) Docker
2 3 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (75.78%) Terraform
2 70 (54.69%) Kubernetes
3 38 (29.69%) Ansible
4 9 (7.03%) Grafana
5 7 (5.47%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.34%) HP Fortify
6 3 (2.34%) Packer
7 2 (1.56%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.56%) Puppet
7 2 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.78%) Consul
8 1 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.78%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.78%) Kibana
8 1 (0.78%) logstash
8 1 (0.78%) Nagios
8 1 (0.78%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (5.47%) Splunk
2 6 (4.69%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.34%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.56%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.78%) Brio
5 1 (0.78%) Confluent
5 1 (0.78%) Google
5 1 (0.78%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle
5 1 (0.78%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.78%) VMware