AWS DevOps Contracts

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK is £545 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 406 320 333
Rank change year-on-year -86 +13 +5
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 165 435 696
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.76% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.81% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 349 549
10th Percentile £425 £475 £475
25th Percentile £459 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £863 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £522 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.22% +4.55% +10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £78.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps.

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps.

Hourly rate trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
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 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 -104 129 £550 -8.33% 34
London -61 89 £550 -12.00% 20
Work from Home -14 81 £550 -12.00% 31
UK excluding London -14 45 £522 -9.22% 16
North of England +8 26 £550 -8.33% 6
North West +20 23 £550 +10.00% 3
Scotland +40 9 £516 -1.67%
South East +12 4 £663 +12.77% 7
Midlands +23 3 £450 -10.00% 3
Yorkshire -4 3 £519 -13.54% 3
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, AWS DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 165 (100.00%) AWS
1 165 (100.00%) DevOps
2 116 (70.30%) Terraform
3 102 (61.82%) CI/CD
4 83 (50.30%) Kubernetes
5 81 (49.09%) Python
6 67 (40.61%) Security Cleared
7 65 (39.39%) SC Cleared
8 64 (38.79%) Docker
9 62 (37.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 55 (33.33%) Serverless
11 52 (31.52%) Ansible
12 50 (30.30%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (27.27%) Bash
14 43 (26.06%) Amazon EC2
15 42 (25.45%) Jenkins
15 42 (25.45%) Containerisation
16 38 (23.03%) Linux
17 37 (22.42%) Amazon S3
18 35 (21.21%) GitLab
19 34 (20.61%) Amazon EKS
20 33 (20.00%) Git
21 31 (18.79%) Agile
22 30 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
22 30 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
23 27 (16.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 27 (16.36%) GitHub
23 27 (16.36%) Amazon RDS
24 25 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
25 23 (13.94%) Public Sector

AWS DevOps 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 (3.03%) nginx
2 4 (2.42%) Confluence
3 2 (1.21%) Apache
3 2 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.61%) JBoss
4 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 165 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (33.33%) Serverless
3 50 (30.30%) AWS Lambda
4 43 (26.06%) Amazon EC2
5 37 (22.42%) Amazon S3
6 34 (20.61%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
7 30 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (16.36%) GitHub
8 27 (16.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 25 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (11.52%) Azure
11 16 (9.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (8.48%) Route 53
13 11 (6.67%) OpenShift
13 11 (6.67%) SaaS
14 10 (6.06%) AWS Control Tower
14 10 (6.06%) PaaS
15 9 (5.45%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (4.85%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.06%) Firewall
2 7 (4.24%) Network Security
3 5 (3.03%) DNS
4 3 (1.82%) DHCP
4 3 (1.82%) LAN
4 3 (1.82%) WLAN
5 2 (1.21%) VPN
6 1 (0.61%) IPv4
6 1 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.36%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (7.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.42%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.82%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.82%) MySQL
6 2 (1.21%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.61%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.61%) Power BI
7 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (25.45%) Jenkins
2 35 (21.21%) GitLab
3 33 (20.00%) Git
4 7 (4.24%) Artifactory
5 6 (3.64%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.03%) JIRA
7 4 (2.42%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.42%) Maven
8 2 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.61%) Ant
9 1 (0.61%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.61%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.61%) Gradle
9 1 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 23 (13.94%) Public Sector
2 19 (11.52%) Finance
2 19 (11.52%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.45%) Law
4 7 (4.24%) Banking
5 2 (1.21%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.21%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.21%) Retail
6 1 (0.61%) Front Office
6 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.61%) Marketing
6 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (6.67%) AWS CDK
3 8 (4.85%) Node.js
4 5 (3.03%) AWS SAM
5 4 (2.42%) ARM Templates
5 4 (2.42%) Kafka
6 3 (1.82%) .NET
6 3 (1.82%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.21%) React
8 1 (0.61%) ADO
8 1 (0.61%) EDI
8 1 (0.61%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.61%) Flask
8 1 (0.61%) JSON
8 1 (0.61%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (0.61%) LDAP
8 1 (0.61%) Middleware
8 1 (0.61%) Next.js
8 1 (0.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.42%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.82%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.82%) PKI
5 2 (1.21%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.21%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.61%) Clustering
6 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.61%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.61%) Life Science
6 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.61%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.03%) Linux
2 11 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (6.67%) Windows
3 6 (3.64%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.64%) Unix
4 4 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.21%) VMS
6 1 (0.61%) CentOS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (61.82%) CI/CD
3 62 (37.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (25.45%) Containerisation
5 31 (18.79%) Agile
6 22 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (8.48%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (7.88%) DevSecOps
8 13 (7.88%) Test Automation
9 12 (7.27%) Software Delivery
10 11 (6.67%) Microservices
10 11 (6.67%) Observability
11 10 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (5.45%) Computer Science
12 9 (5.45%) Configuration Management
13 8 (4.85%) Kanban
13 8 (4.85%) Migration
14 7 (4.24%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (4.24%) High Availability
14 7 (4.24%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (49.09%) Python
2 45 (27.27%) Bash
3 17 (10.30%) JavaScript
4 15 (9.09%) Go
5 13 (7.88%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.06%) Groovy
7 9 (5.45%) Java
8 6 (3.64%) Ruby
8 6 (3.64%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.64%) SQL
9 4 (2.42%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.21%) R
10 2 (1.21%) Scala
11 1 (0.61%) Bicep
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 67 (40.61%) Security Cleared
2 65 (39.39%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.30%) AWS Certification
4 13 (7.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 11 (6.67%) Degree
6 6 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.21%) GDPR
1 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.21%) NIST
2 1 (0.61%) NCSC
2 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 64 (38.79%) Docker
2 2 (1.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 116 (70.30%) Terraform
2 83 (50.30%) Kubernetes
3 52 (31.52%) Ansible
4 17 (10.30%) Grafana
5 11 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.64%) Kibana
7 3 (1.82%) Consul
7 3 (1.82%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.82%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.21%) Nagios
8 2 (1.21%) Packer
8 2 (1.21%) Puppet
8 2 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.61%) Graylog
9 1 (0.61%) logstash
9 1 (0.61%) Podman
9 1 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (6.67%) Splunk
2 7 (4.24%) Dynatrace
3 5 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.82%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.21%) Databricks
5 2 (1.21%) MKS
5 2 (1.21%) UiPath
5 2 (1.21%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.21%) VMware
6 1 (0.61%) Ariba
6 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.61%) Brio
6 1 (0.61%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.61%) Google
6 1 (0.61%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.61%) ICL
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle
6 1 (0.61%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.61%) SAP
6 1 (0.61%) Teradata
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