AWS DevOps Contracts

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the UK is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 321 334
Rank change year-on-year -87 +13 +5
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 168 429 704
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.77% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.81% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 342 539
10th Percentile £425 £475 £475
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £863 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -12.77% +6.82% +10.00%
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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £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 1 June 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 1 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 -122 134 £538 -10.42% 32
London -62 95 £550 -12.00% 15
Work from Home -5 86 £538 -14.00% 23
UK excluding London -32 45 £513 -12.77% 17
North of England +4 26 £481 -19.79% 4
North West +20 21 £525 +5.00% 4
Scotland +37 9 £516 +0.73%
Yorkshire +4 5 £381 -37.76%
South East -18 4 £663 +12.77% 7
Midlands +23 3 £450 -10.00% 3
East Midlands +12 2 £450 -14.29% 3
South West -13 2 £475 -17.39% 2
West Midlands +14 1 £350 -22.22%
Wales - 1 £643 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 168 (100.00%) AWS
1 168 (100.00%) DevOps
2 118 (70.24%) Terraform
3 97 (57.74%) CI/CD
4 84 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 83 (49.40%) Python
6 73 (43.45%) Security Cleared
7 71 (42.26%) SC Cleared
8 64 (38.10%) Docker
9 61 (36.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 54 (32.14%) Serverless
11 53 (31.55%) Ansible
12 49 (29.17%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (26.79%) Bash
14 43 (25.60%) Containerisation
15 41 (24.40%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (23.21%) Jenkins
17 38 (22.62%) Linux
18 37 (22.02%) GitLab
19 36 (21.43%) Amazon S3
20 33 (19.64%) Amazon EKS
21 32 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
22 31 (18.45%) Git
22 31 (18.45%) Agile
23 30 (17.86%) Amazon ECS
24 29 (17.26%) Public Sector
25 28 (16.67%) GitHub
25 28 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
26 26 (15.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
26 26 (15.48%) GitHub Actions

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 4 (2.38%) Confluence
1 4 (2.38%) nginx
2 2 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) JBoss
3 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 168 (100.00%) AWS
2 54 (32.14%) Serverless
3 49 (29.17%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (24.40%) Amazon EC2
5 36 (21.43%) Amazon S3
6 33 (19.64%) Amazon EKS
7 32 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (17.86%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (16.67%) GitHub
10 26 (15.48%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (15.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (11.90%) Azure
12 14 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (7.74%) AWS Control Tower
13 13 (7.74%) Route 53
14 12 (7.14%) SaaS
15 10 (5.95%) OpenShift
16 9 (5.36%) PaaS
17 8 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
17 8 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.95%) Firewall
2 6 (3.57%) Network Security
3 5 (2.98%) DNS
4 3 (1.79%) DHCP
4 3 (1.79%) LAN
4 3 (1.79%) WLAN
5 2 (1.19%) VPN
6 1 (0.60%) IPv4
6 1 (0.60%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.60%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (6.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.79%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.79%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.79%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.19%) MySQL
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.60%) Power BI
7 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (23.21%) Jenkins
2 37 (22.02%) GitLab
3 31 (18.45%) Git
4 7 (4.17%) Artifactory
5 6 (3.57%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.98%) JIRA
7 2 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.19%) Maven
7 2 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.60%) Ant
8 1 (0.60%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.60%) Gradle
8 1 (0.60%) Terragrunt
General
1 29 (17.26%) Public Sector
2 19 (11.31%) Finance
3 18 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.36%) Law
5 8 (4.76%) Banking
6 3 (1.79%) Retail
7 2 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Front Office
8 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Marketing
8 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.95%) AWS CDK
2 9 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (4.76%) Node.js
4 5 (2.98%) AWS SAM
4 5 (2.98%) Kafka
5 4 (2.38%) .NET
5 4 (2.38%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.79%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.19%) React
8 1 (0.60%) ADO
8 1 (0.60%) EDI
8 1 (0.60%) Flask
8 1 (0.60%) Laravel
8 1 (0.60%) LDAP
8 1 (0.60%) Loki
8 1 (0.60%) Middleware
8 1 (0.60%) RESTful
8 1 (0.60%) Vue
8 1 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.79%) PKI
3 3 (1.79%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.19%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.19%) Life Science
4 2 (1.19%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.60%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.60%) Clustering
5 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.60%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.60%) NHS
5 1 (0.60%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 38 (22.62%) Linux
2 12 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (7.14%) Windows
3 7 (4.17%) Unix
4 5 (2.98%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.60%) VMS
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (100.00%) DevOps
2 97 (57.74%) CI/CD
3 61 (36.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (25.60%) Containerisation
5 31 (18.45%) Agile
6 21 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (7.74%) Test Automation
9 12 (7.14%) DevSecOps
9 12 (7.14%) Observability
10 11 (6.55%) Microservices
10 11 (6.55%) Software Delivery
11 10 (5.95%) Configuration Management
12 9 (5.36%) Computer Science
12 9 (5.36%) High Availability
12 9 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 8 (4.76%) Kanban
13 8 (4.76%) Migration
14 7 (4.17%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (4.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 83 (49.40%) Python
2 45 (26.79%) Bash
3 18 (10.71%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.12%) Go
5 14 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.36%) Groovy
6 9 (5.36%) Java
7 8 (4.76%) Ruby
8 6 (3.57%) SQL
9 5 (2.98%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.38%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.19%) Scala
12 1 (0.60%) C
12 1 (0.60%) C#
12 1 (0.60%) C++
12 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.60%) Perl
12 1 (0.60%) PHP
12 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 73 (43.45%) Security Cleared
2 71 (42.26%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 14 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 11 (6.55%) Degree
6 6 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.19%) GDPR
1 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.19%) NIST
1 2 (1.19%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.60%) NCSC
2 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 64 (38.10%) Docker
2 3 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 118 (70.24%) Terraform
2 84 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 53 (31.55%) Ansible
4 18 (10.71%) Grafana
5 10 (5.95%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.57%) Kibana
7 3 (1.79%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.79%) Packer
7 3 (1.79%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.19%) Karpenter
8 2 (1.19%) Nagios
8 2 (1.19%) Puppet
8 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.60%) Consul
9 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.60%) Graylog
9 1 (0.60%) logstash
9 1 (0.60%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (7.74%) Splunk
2 7 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 6 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.19%) Databricks
5 2 (1.19%) UiPath
5 2 (1.19%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.60%) Brio
6 1 (0.60%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.60%) Confluent
6 1 (0.60%) Google
6 1 (0.60%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle
6 1 (0.60%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.60%) VMware