AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £522, 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 422 348 370
Rank change year-on-year -74 +22 +20
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 163 395 601
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 135 318 454
10th Percentile £400 £463 £467
25th Percentile £447 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £688 £863 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -21.28% +6.82% +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

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +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 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 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 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
England -104 128 £520 -13.33% 26
London -65 88 £538 -14.00% 9
Work from Home -2 83 £525 -16.00% 17
UK excluding London -35 46 £463 -21.28% 17
North of England +5 25 £450 -14.29% 6
North West +9 13 £481 -3.75% 5
Yorkshire +11 12 £400 -33.33% 1
Scotland +51 9 £516 -1.67%
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%
Wales - 1 £643 -

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

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 featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 163 (100.00%) AWS
1 163 (100.00%) DevOps
2 118 (72.39%) Terraform
3 92 (56.44%) CI/CD
4 86 (52.76%) Kubernetes
5 78 (47.85%) Security Cleared
6 76 (46.63%) SC Cleared
6 76 (46.63%) Python
7 63 (38.65%) Docker
7 63 (38.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (29.45%) Ansible
9 44 (26.99%) Containerisation
10 42 (25.77%) Serverless
10 42 (25.77%) Jenkins
11 39 (23.93%) Bash
12 37 (22.70%) Linux
12 37 (22.70%) AWS Lambda
13 36 (22.09%) GitLab
13 36 (22.09%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (19.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (19.02%) Amazon S3
15 31 (19.02%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (18.40%) Public Sector
17 29 (17.79%) Amazon ECS
18 28 (17.18%) GitHub
19 27 (16.56%) Agile
19 27 (16.56%) GitHub Actions
20 23 (14.11%) Git
20 23 (14.11%) AWS Certification
21 22 (13.50%) Amazon RDS

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 (2.45%) Confluence
1 4 (2.45%) nginx
2 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.61%) Apache
3 1 (0.61%) JBoss
3 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 163 (100.00%) AWS
2 42 (25.77%) Serverless
3 37 (22.70%) AWS Lambda
4 36 (22.09%) Amazon EC2
5 32 (19.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (19.02%) Amazon EKS
6 31 (19.02%) Amazon S3
7 29 (17.79%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (17.18%) GitHub
9 27 (16.56%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (12.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (10.43%) Azure
12 13 (7.98%) AWS Control Tower
12 13 (7.98%) Route 53
13 11 (6.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (6.75%) SaaS
14 10 (6.13%) OpenShift
15 9 (5.52%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (5.52%) PaaS
16 8 (4.91%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.52%) Firewall
2 5 (3.07%) DNS
3 3 (1.84%) DHCP
3 3 (1.84%) LAN
3 3 (1.84%) Network Security
3 3 (1.84%) WLAN
4 2 (1.23%) VPN
5 1 (0.61%) IPv4
5 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.50%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.45%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.84%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.84%) InfluxDB
4 3 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.23%) MySQL
5 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (25.77%) Jenkins
2 36 (22.09%) GitLab
3 23 (14.11%) Git
4 7 (4.29%) Artifactory
5 6 (3.68%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.07%) 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 (0.61%) Ant
8 1 (0.61%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.61%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.61%) Gradle
8 1 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (18.40%) Public Sector
2 17 (10.43%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.20%) Finance
4 9 (5.52%) Law
5 7 (4.29%) Banking
6 3 (1.84%) Retail
7 2 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Front Office
8 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Marketing
8 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.13%) AWS CDK
2 8 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.07%) Kafka
4 4 (2.45%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.45%) AWS SAM
5 3 (1.84%) .NET
5 3 (1.84%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (1.84%) Node.js
5 3 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.23%) React
7 1 (0.61%) ADO
7 1 (0.61%) EDI
7 1 (0.61%) Flask
7 1 (0.61%) JSON
7 1 (0.61%) Laravel
7 1 (0.61%) LDAP
7 1 (0.61%) Loki
7 1 (0.61%) Middleware
7 1 (0.61%) Next.js
7 1 (0.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.98%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (1.84%) PKI
2 3 (1.84%) 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 (0.61%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.61%) Clustering
4 1 (0.61%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.61%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.61%) NHS
4 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.61%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.70%) Linux
2 12 (7.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (6.75%) Windows
4 7 (4.29%) Unix
5 5 (3.07%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.45%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.61%) VMS
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (100.00%) DevOps
2 92 (56.44%) CI/CD
3 63 (38.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (26.99%) Containerisation
5 27 (16.56%) Agile
6 17 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (9.82%) High Availability
8 14 (8.59%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (7.98%) Test Automation
10 12 (7.36%) Configuration Management
10 12 (7.36%) Infrastructure Automation
11 11 (6.75%) Observability
11 11 (6.75%) Software Delivery
12 9 (5.52%) DevSecOps
13 8 (4.91%) Computer Science
13 8 (4.91%) Migration
13 8 (4.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 7 (4.29%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (4.29%) Microservices
15 5 (3.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 76 (46.63%) Python
2 39 (23.93%) Bash
3 16 (9.82%) Go
4 12 (7.36%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.13%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.52%) Groovy
7 8 (4.91%) Java
7 8 (4.91%) Ruby
8 5 (3.07%) SQL
9 4 (2.45%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.23%) Scala
11 1 (0.61%) C
11 1 (0.61%) C#
11 1 (0.61%) C++
11 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.61%) Perl
11 1 (0.61%) PHP
11 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 78 (47.85%) Security Cleared
2 76 (46.63%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.11%) AWS Certification
4 19 (11.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 10 (6.13%) Degree
6 8 (4.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) 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 (0.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (38.65%) Docker
2 3 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 118 (72.39%) Terraform
2 86 (52.76%) Kubernetes
3 48 (29.45%) Ansible
4 17 (10.43%) Grafana
5 10 (6.13%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.68%) Kibana
7 3 (1.84%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.84%) Packer
7 3 (1.84%) 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 (0.61%) Consul
9 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.61%) Graylog
9 1 (0.61%) logstash
9 1 (0.61%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (7.98%) Splunk
2 7 (4.29%) Dynatrace
3 6 (3.68%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.84%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.23%) Databricks
5 2 (1.23%) UiPath
5 2 (1.23%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.61%) Brio
6 1 (0.61%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.61%) Confluent
6 1 (0.61%) Google
6 1 (0.61%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle
6 1 (0.61%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.61%) VMware
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