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 for remote or hybrid work is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 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
28 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 243 302
Rank change year-on-year -25 +59 -17
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 81 215 350
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.90% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.95% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 187 274
10th Percentile £425 £463 £463
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £613 £787 £638
90th Percentile £688 £863 £700
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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 13,734 22,662 42,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 95.14% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,246 16,020 30,581
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.87%
75th Percentile £633 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 534 562
10th Percentile £14.13 £16.98 £14.89
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.65 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +25.00% +72.34%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.35 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £43.86 £25.00
% change year-on-year -14.50% +75.44% +18.32%

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 28 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 28 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 81 (100.00%) AWS
1 81 (100.00%) DevOps
2 58 (71.60%) Terraform
3 42 (51.85%) Security Cleared
4 40 (49.38%) SC Cleared
5 37 (45.68%) Kubernetes
6 35 (43.21%) Python
7 32 (39.51%) CI/CD
8 28 (34.57%) Docker
9 24 (29.63%) Ansible
10 23 (28.40%) Public Sector
11 21 (25.93%) Serverless
11 21 (25.93%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (24.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (24.69%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (24.69%) Jenkins
13 18 (22.22%) Linux
14 16 (19.75%) Agile
14 16 (19.75%) Amazon S3
15 15 (18.52%) Bash
15 15 (18.52%) GitHub
16 14 (17.28%) GitLab
17 13 (16.05%) Grafana
17 13 (16.05%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (16.05%) Amazon ECS
17 13 (16.05%) Amazon EC2
18 12 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
19 11 (13.58%) Go
19 11 (13.58%) Test Automation
19 11 (13.58%) Containerisation

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 (2.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (25.93%) AWS Lambda
2 21 (25.93%) Serverless
3 20 (24.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (19.75%) Amazon S3
5 15 (18.52%) GitHub
6 13 (16.05%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (16.05%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (16.05%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (12.35%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (12.35%) AWS Control Tower
8 9 (11.11%) Azure
9 8 (9.88%) Route 53
9 8 (9.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (7.41%) PaaS
11 6 (7.41%) SaaS
12 5 (6.17%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (4.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (4.94%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) Firewall
2 3 (3.70%) DNS
3 2 (2.47%) DHCP
3 2 (2.47%) LAN
3 2 (2.47%) Network Security
3 2 (2.47%) WLAN
4 1 (1.23%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.23%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (1.23%) SSL
4 1 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.17%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.70%) InfluxDB
3 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.47%) MySQL
5 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (24.69%) Jenkins
2 14 (17.28%) GitLab
3 7 (8.64%) Git
4 4 (4.94%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.70%) JIRA
6 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.23%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.23%) Gradle
6 1 (1.23%) Maven
6 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (28.40%) Public Sector
2 7 (8.64%) Law
3 6 (7.41%) Finance
3 6 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Retail
5 2 (2.47%) Banking
6 1 (1.23%) Front Office
6 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Marketing
6 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) AWS CDK
2 5 (6.17%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (4.94%) AWS SAM
4 3 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.47%) Kafka
5 2 (2.47%) React
6 1 (1.23%) ADO
6 1 (1.23%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.23%) EDI
6 1 (1.23%) JSON
6 1 (1.23%) LDAP
6 1 (1.23%) Next.js
6 1 (1.23%) Node.js
6 1 (1.23%) RESTful
6 1 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.47%) Life Science
2 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.23%) Clustering
3 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.23%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.23%) NHS
3 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.22%) Linux
2 7 (8.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.41%) Windows
4 5 (6.17%) Unix
5 4 (4.94%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (39.51%) CI/CD
3 20 (24.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (19.75%) Agile
5 11 (13.58%) Containerisation
5 11 (13.58%) Test Automation
6 9 (11.11%) Observability
7 8 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (6.17%) Migration
9 5 (6.17%) Project Management
9 5 (6.17%) Service Catalogue
10 4 (4.94%) Computer Science
10 4 (4.94%) DevSecOps
10 4 (4.94%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (4.94%) GitOps
10 4 (4.94%) OOP
10 4 (4.94%) Performance Testing
10 4 (4.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 3 (3.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 35 (43.21%) Python
2 15 (18.52%) Bash
3 11 (13.58%) Go
4 9 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.94%) Groovy
6 4 (4.94%) Ruby
7 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.47%) Java
8 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.23%) PHP
9 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 40 (49.38%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.64%) Degree
4 4 (4.94%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.47%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) GDPR
1 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.23%) NIST
2 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (34.57%) Docker
2 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (71.60%) Terraform
2 37 (45.68%) Kubernetes
3 24 (29.63%) Ansible
4 13 (16.05%) Grafana
5 7 (8.64%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.17%) Kibana
7 3 (3.70%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.47%) Nagios
8 2 (2.47%) Packer
8 2 (2.47%) Puppet
9 1 (1.23%) Graylog
9 1 (1.23%) Istio
9 1 (1.23%) Karpenter
9 1 (1.23%) logstash
9 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (12.35%) Splunk
2 4 (4.94%) Dynatrace
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.23%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.23%) Confluent
5 1 (1.23%) Databricks
5 1 (1.23%) Google
5 1 (1.23%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.23%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.23%) VMware