AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £524 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 342 384
Rank change year-on-year -99 +42 +5
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 162 396 602
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.71% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.75% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 319 455
10th Percentile £400 £468 £467
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £688 £863 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -19.57% +4.55% +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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
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% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 9 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 9 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 -98 127 £520 -13.33% 27
London -69 88 £538 -14.00% 11
Work from Home -4 83 £525 -16.00% 18
UK excluding London -23 45 £463 -19.57% 16
North of England +12 24 £450 -14.29% 4
North West +8 14 £463 -7.50% 4
Yorkshire +7 10 £300 -50.00%
Scotland +42 9 £516 -1.67%
South West -7 4 £475 -15.56% 2
South East -16 4 £663 +12.77% 7
Midlands +22 3 £450 -10.00% 2
East Midlands +12 2 £450 -14.29% 2
West Midlands +13 1 £350 -22.22%
Wales - 1 £643 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 162 (100.00%) AWS
1 162 (100.00%) DevOps
2 117 (72.22%) Terraform
3 90 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 85 (52.47%) Kubernetes
5 76 (46.91%) Security Cleared
5 76 (46.91%) Python
6 74 (45.68%) SC Cleared
7 62 (38.27%) Docker
8 61 (37.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 48 (29.63%) Ansible
10 42 (25.93%) Serverless
10 42 (25.93%) Containerisation
11 40 (24.69%) Jenkins
12 39 (24.07%) Bash
13 37 (22.84%) Linux
13 37 (22.84%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (20.99%) GitLab
16 32 (19.75%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (19.75%) Amazon EKS
17 31 (19.14%) Amazon S3
18 30 (18.52%) Public Sector
19 29 (17.90%) Amazon ECS
20 28 (17.28%) GitHub
21 27 (16.67%) Agile
21 27 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
22 23 (14.20%) Git
23 22 (13.58%) Amazon RDS
24 21 (12.96%) AWS Certification

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 (2.47%) Confluence
1 4 (2.47%) nginx
2 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.62%) JBoss
3 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 162 (100.00%) AWS
2 42 (25.93%) Serverless
3 37 (22.84%) AWS Lambda
4 36 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
5 32 (19.75%) Amazon EKS
5 32 (19.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (19.14%) Amazon S3
7 29 (17.90%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (17.28%) GitHub
9 27 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (12.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (10.49%) Azure
12 13 (8.02%) AWS Control Tower
12 13 (8.02%) Route 53
13 11 (6.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (6.79%) SaaS
14 10 (6.17%) OpenShift
15 9 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (5.56%) PaaS
16 8 (4.94%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.56%) Firewall
2 5 (3.09%) DNS
3 3 (1.85%) DHCP
3 3 (1.85%) LAN
3 3 (1.85%) Network Security
3 3 (1.85%) WLAN
4 2 (1.23%) VPN
5 1 (0.62%) IPv4
5 1 (0.62%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.62%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.58%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.47%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.85%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.85%) InfluxDB
4 3 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.23%) MySQL
5 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (24.69%) Jenkins
2 34 (20.99%) GitLab
3 23 (14.20%) Git
4 7 (4.32%) Artifactory
5 6 (3.70%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.09%) JIRA
7 2 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.23%) Maven
7 2 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.62%) Ant
8 1 (0.62%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.62%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.62%) Gradle
8 1 (0.62%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (18.52%) Public Sector
2 17 (10.49%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.26%) Finance
4 9 (5.56%) Law
5 7 (4.32%) Banking
6 3 (1.85%) Retail
7 2 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.62%) Front Office
8 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Marketing
8 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.17%) AWS CDK
2 8 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.09%) Kafka
4 4 (2.47%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.47%) AWS SAM
5 3 (1.85%) .NET
5 3 (1.85%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (1.85%) Node.js
5 3 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.23%) React
7 1 (0.62%) ADO
7 1 (0.62%) EDI
7 1 (0.62%) Flask
7 1 (0.62%) JSON
7 1 (0.62%) Laravel
7 1 (0.62%) LDAP
7 1 (0.62%) Loki
7 1 (0.62%) Middleware
7 1 (0.62%) Next.js
7 1 (0.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.02%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (1.85%) PKI
2 3 (1.85%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.23%) Life Science
3 2 (1.23%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.62%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.62%) Clustering
4 1 (0.62%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.62%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.62%) NHS
4 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.62%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.84%) Linux
2 12 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (6.79%) Windows
4 7 (4.32%) Unix
5 5 (3.09%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.47%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.62%) VMS
7 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (100.00%) DevOps
2 90 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 61 (37.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (25.93%) Containerisation
5 27 (16.67%) Agile
6 17 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (8.64%) High Availability
7 14 (8.64%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (8.02%) Test Automation
9 12 (7.41%) Configuration Management
10 11 (6.79%) Observability
10 11 (6.79%) Software Delivery
11 10 (6.17%) Infrastructure Automation
12 9 (5.56%) DevSecOps
12 9 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 8 (4.94%) Computer Science
13 8 (4.94%) Migration
14 7 (4.32%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (4.32%) Microservices
15 5 (3.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 76 (46.91%) Python
2 39 (24.07%) Bash
3 16 (9.88%) Go
4 12 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.17%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.56%) Groovy
7 8 (4.94%) Java
7 8 (4.94%) Ruby
8 5 (3.09%) SQL
9 4 (2.47%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.47%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.23%) Scala
11 1 (0.62%) C
11 1 (0.62%) C#
11 1 (0.62%) C++
11 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.62%) Perl
11 1 (0.62%) PHP
11 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 76 (46.91%) Security Cleared
2 74 (45.68%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.96%) AWS Certification
4 17 (10.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 10 (6.17%) Degree
6 6 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.23%) GDPR
1 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.23%) NIST
1 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.62%) NCSC
System Software
1 62 (38.27%) Docker
2 3 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 117 (72.22%) Terraform
2 85 (52.47%) Kubernetes
3 48 (29.63%) Ansible
4 17 (10.49%) Grafana
5 10 (6.17%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.70%) Kibana
7 3 (1.85%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.85%) Packer
7 3 (1.85%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.23%) Karpenter
8 2 (1.23%) Nagios
8 2 (1.23%) Puppet
8 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.62%) Consul
9 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.62%) Graylog
9 1 (0.62%) logstash
9 1 (0.62%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (8.02%) Splunk
2 7 (4.32%) Dynatrace
3 6 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.85%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.23%) Databricks
5 2 (1.23%) UiPath
5 2 (1.23%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.62%) Brio
6 1 (0.62%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.62%) Confluent
6 1 (0.62%) Google
6 1 (0.62%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle
6 1 (0.62%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.62%) VMware