AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Work from Home

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Work from Home 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 269 262 308
Rank change year-on-year -7 +46 -21
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 80 209 366
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.86% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.90% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 177 287
10th Percentile £425 £488 £463
25th Percentile £480 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £600 £808 £628
90th Percentile £650 £863 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,696 23,095 42,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,252 16,383 30,711
10th Percentile £325 £360 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.60
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +32.91% +70.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS DevOps Engineer.

AWS DevOps Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

AWS DevOps Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 80 (100.00%) AWS
1 80 (100.00%) DevOps
2 58 (72.50%) Terraform
3 42 (52.50%) Security Cleared
4 40 (50.00%) SC Cleared
5 38 (47.50%) CI/CD
6 36 (45.00%) Kubernetes
6 36 (45.00%) Python
7 30 (37.50%) Docker
8 26 (32.50%) Ansible
9 25 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (28.75%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (28.75%) Serverless
11 22 (27.50%) Public Sector
12 20 (25.00%) Linux
13 19 (23.75%) Jenkins
14 18 (22.50%) Bash
15 17 (21.25%) Amazon S3
15 17 (21.25%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (20.00%) GitLab
17 15 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
17 15 (18.75%) Agile
18 14 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
19 13 (16.25%) GitHub
19 13 (16.25%) Containerisation
19 13 (16.25%) Amazon RDS
19 13 (16.25%) Grafana
20 12 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
21 11 (13.75%) Amazon EKS
21 11 (13.75%) GitHub Actions

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (28.75%) AWS Lambda
2 23 (28.75%) Serverless
3 17 (21.25%) Amazon S3
3 17 (21.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (16.25%) GitHub
7 11 (13.75%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (13.75%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (11.25%) Azure
9 9 (11.25%) Route 53
10 8 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
11 6 (7.50%) PaaS
11 6 (7.50%) SaaS
12 5 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.25%) Firewall
2 4 (5.00%) DNS
3 3 (3.75%) DHCP
3 3 (3.75%) LAN
3 3 (3.75%) WLAN
4 2 (2.50%) Network Security
4 2 (2.50%) VPN
5 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.25%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.75%) InfluxDB
3 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.50%) MySQL
5 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (23.75%) Jenkins
2 16 (20.00%) GitLab
3 9 (11.25%) Git
4 4 (5.00%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.75%) JIRA
6 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.25%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.25%) Gradle
6 1 (1.25%) Maven
6 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (27.50%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.00%) Law
2 8 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.50%) Finance
4 3 (3.75%) Banking
4 3 (3.75%) Retail
5 1 (1.25%) Front Office
5 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Marketing
5 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 6 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (5.00%) AWS SAM
4 3 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.50%) Kafka
5 2 (2.50%) React
6 1 (1.25%) ADO
6 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.25%) EDI
6 1 (1.25%) JSON
6 1 (1.25%) LDAP
6 1 (1.25%) Next.js
6 1 (1.25%) Node.js
6 1 (1.25%) RESTful
6 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.50%) Life Science
2 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.25%) Clustering
3 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.25%) NHS
3 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (6.25%) Windows
4 4 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.00%) Unix
5 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (47.50%) CI/CD
3 25 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (18.75%) Agile
5 13 (16.25%) Containerisation
6 11 (13.75%) Test Automation
7 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (10.00%) Observability
9 7 (8.75%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (6.25%) Project Management
11 4 (5.00%) Computer Science
11 4 (5.00%) DevSecOps
11 4 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (5.00%) Migration
11 4 (5.00%) OOP
11 4 (5.00%) Performance Testing
11 4 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 3 (3.75%) Deployment Automation
12 3 (3.75%) Roadmaps
12 3 (3.75%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.00%) Python
2 18 (22.50%) Bash
3 10 (12.50%) Go
3 10 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.00%) Groovy
5 4 (5.00%) Ruby
6 2 (2.50%) Java
6 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.25%) PHP
7 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (52.50%) Security Cleared
2 40 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) Degree
4 5 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) GDPR
1 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.25%) NIST
2 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (72.50%) Terraform
2 36 (45.00%) Kubernetes
3 26 (32.50%) Ansible
4 13 (16.25%) Grafana
5 7 (8.75%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.25%) Kibana
7 3 (3.75%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.50%) Karpenter
8 2 (2.50%) Nagios
9 1 (1.25%) Graylog
9 1 (1.25%) logstash
9 1 (1.25%) Packer
9 1 (1.25%) Puppet
9 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Splunk
2 4 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.75%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.25%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.25%) Confluent
4 1 (1.25%) Databricks
4 1 (1.25%) Google
4 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.25%) VMware