AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £531 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 336 384
Rank change year-on-year -88 +48 +5
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 147 403 591
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.71% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.75% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 325 465
10th Percentile £425 £475 £471
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £688 £863 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +12.24%
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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -105 112 £531 -11.46% 31
London -57 80 £538 -14.00% 20
Work from Home -13 75 £544 -13.00% 29
UK excluding London -13 37 £513 -6.82% 13
North of England +7 18 £481 -12.50% 4
North West +16 15 £481 -3.75% 3
Scotland +42 9 £516 -11.37%
South East +12 4 £663 +12.77% 6
Midlands +23 3 £450 -10.00% 3
Yorkshire -1 3 £519 -13.54% 1
East Midlands +14 2 £450 -14.29% 2
South West -14 2 £475 -17.39%
West Midlands +23 1 £350 -22.22% 1
Wales - 1 £643 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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.

1 147 (100.00%) AWS
1 147 (100.00%) DevOps
2 105 (71.43%) Terraform
3 89 (60.54%) CI/CD
4 74 (50.34%) Kubernetes
5 70 (47.62%) Python
6 62 (42.18%) Security Cleared
7 60 (40.82%) SC Cleared
8 57 (38.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 54 (36.73%) Docker
10 47 (31.97%) Ansible
11 44 (29.93%) Serverless
12 39 (26.53%) Jenkins
12 39 (26.53%) AWS Lambda
12 39 (26.53%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (25.17%) Linux
14 36 (24.49%) Bash
15 34 (23.13%) Containerisation
16 33 (22.45%) Amazon EKS
17 32 (21.77%) Amazon S3
18 30 (20.41%) GitLab
19 29 (19.73%) AWS CloudFormation
19 29 (19.73%) Amazon ECS
20 27 (18.37%) GitHub
21 26 (17.69%) Agile
22 25 (17.01%) Git
22 25 (17.01%) GitHub Actions
23 23 (15.65%) Public Sector
24 22 (14.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
25 21 (14.29%) 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 5 (3.40%) nginx
2 4 (2.72%) Confluence
3 2 (1.36%) Apache
3 2 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) JBoss
4 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 147 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (29.93%) Serverless
3 39 (26.53%) Amazon EC2
3 39 (26.53%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (22.45%) Amazon EKS
5 32 (21.77%) Amazon S3
6 29 (19.73%) Amazon ECS
6 29 (19.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (18.37%) GitHub
8 25 (17.01%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (14.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (11.56%) Azure
11 14 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (9.52%) Route 53
12 11 (7.48%) SaaS
13 10 (6.80%) OpenShift
13 10 (6.80%) PaaS
14 9 (6.12%) AWS CodePipeline
14 9 (6.12%) AWS Control Tower
15 8 (5.44%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.12%) Firewall
2 5 (3.40%) DNS
3 3 (2.04%) DHCP
3 3 (2.04%) LAN
3 3 (2.04%) Network Security
3 3 (2.04%) WLAN
4 2 (1.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.68%) IPv4
5 1 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.44%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.72%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.04%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.04%) InfluxDB
5 3 (2.04%) MySQL
6 2 (1.36%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (26.53%) Jenkins
2 30 (20.41%) GitLab
3 25 (17.01%) Git
4 7 (4.76%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.08%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.40%) JIRA
7 4 (2.72%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.72%) Maven
8 2 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.68%) Ant
9 1 (0.68%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.68%) Gradle
9 1 (0.68%) Terragrunt
General
1 23 (15.65%) Public Sector
2 18 (12.24%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.88%) Finance
4 9 (6.12%) Law
5 7 (4.76%) Banking
6 2 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.36%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.36%) Retail
7 1 (0.68%) Front Office
7 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Marketing
7 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.48%) AWS CDK
1 11 (7.48%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.72%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.72%) AWS SAM
2 4 (2.72%) Kafka
3 3 (2.04%) .NET
3 3 (2.04%) Lambda Expressions
3 3 (2.04%) Node.js
3 3 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.36%) React
5 1 (0.68%) ADO
5 1 (0.68%) EDI
5 1 (0.68%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.68%) Flask
5 1 (0.68%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (0.68%) Laravel
5 1 (0.68%) LDAP
5 1 (0.68%) Middleware
5 1 (0.68%) Next.js
5 1 (0.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.16%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.72%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.04%) PKI
4 2 (1.36%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.36%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.68%) Clustering
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.68%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.68%) Life Science
5 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.68%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 37 (25.17%) Linux
2 11 (7.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (7.48%) Windows
3 6 (4.08%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.40%) Unix
5 4 (2.72%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.36%) VMS
7 1 (0.68%) CentOS
7 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (100.00%) DevOps
2 89 (60.54%) CI/CD
3 57 (38.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (23.13%) Containerisation
5 26 (17.69%) Agile
6 17 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (8.84%) Test Automation
9 12 (8.16%) Software Delivery
10 10 (6.80%) DevSecOps
10 10 (6.80%) Observability
10 10 (6.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (5.44%) Computer Science
11 8 (5.44%) Configuration Management
11 8 (5.44%) Migration
12 7 (4.76%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (4.76%) Microservices
13 6 (4.08%) High Availability
14 5 (3.40%) Continuous Deployment
14 5 (3.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 70 (47.62%) Python
2 36 (24.49%) Bash
3 14 (9.52%) Go
4 11 (7.48%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.12%) Groovy
6 8 (5.44%) Java
6 8 (5.44%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.08%) Ruby
7 6 (4.08%) SQL
8 5 (3.40%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.72%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.36%) R
10 2 (1.36%) Scala
11 1 (0.68%) Bicep
11 1 (0.68%) C
11 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.68%) Perl
11 1 (0.68%) PHP
11 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 62 (42.18%) Security Cleared
2 60 (40.82%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.84%) AWS Certification
4 10 (6.80%) Degree
5 9 (6.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.36%) GDPR
1 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.36%) NIST
2 1 (0.68%) NCSC
2 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (36.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 105 (71.43%) Terraform
2 74 (50.34%) Kubernetes
3 47 (31.97%) Ansible
4 16 (10.88%) Grafana
5 11 (7.48%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.08%) Kibana
7 3 (2.04%) Consul
7 3 (2.04%) HP Fortify
7 3 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.36%) Nagios
8 2 (1.36%) Packer
8 2 (1.36%) Puppet
8 2 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.68%) Graylog
9 1 (0.68%) logstash
9 1 (0.68%) Podman
9 1 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (7.48%) Splunk
2 7 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 5 (3.40%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.04%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.36%) Databricks
5 2 (1.36%) MKS
5 2 (1.36%) UiPath
5 2 (1.36%) VMware
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.68%) Brio
6 1 (0.68%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.68%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle
6 1 (0.68%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.68%) Teradata
6 1 (0.68%) Virgin Media
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