Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £84,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 678 547 663
Rank change year-on-year -131 +116 -332
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 218 510 635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.49% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.53% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 188 474 513
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £47,100
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £138,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% +19.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -90 207 £84,000 +5.00% 27
London +12 125 £100,000 +5.26% 11
UK excluding London -115 89 £70,000 - 18
Work from Home -99 86 £75,000 - 18
South West -61 21 £77,500 +6.90% 2
Midlands +15 20 £60,000 -11.11% 2
East Midlands -2 17 £55,000 -15.38%
South East -3 17 £89,500 +23.45% 5
North of England -24 17 £65,000 -3.70% 7
North West -32 9 £60,000 -9.43% 3
Scotland -56 8 £65,000 -3.70% 1
East of England +24 6 £70,000 -18.84%
North East +1 5 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Yorkshire +65 3 £65,000 -1.89% 3
West Midlands +20 3 £70,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, AWS DevOps 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 permanent job ads featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 218 (100.00%) AWS
1 218 (100.00%) DevOps
2 171 (78.44%) Terraform
3 170 (77.98%) Kubernetes
4 154 (70.64%) CI/CD
5 127 (58.26%) Python
6 114 (52.29%) Docker
7 93 (42.66%) Agile
8 86 (39.45%) Serverless
9 80 (36.70%) AWS Lambda
9 80 (36.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 77 (35.32%) Jenkins
10 77 (35.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 73 (33.49%) Amazon RDS
11 73 (33.49%) Finance
12 70 (32.11%) Linux
12 70 (32.11%) Amazon S3
13 66 (30.28%) Amazon EKS
13 66 (30.28%) Containerisation
14 61 (27.98%) Amazon ECS
14 61 (27.98%) Ansible
15 59 (27.06%) Java
16 55 (25.23%) Amazon EC2
17 47 (21.56%) Amazon SQS
17 47 (21.56%) Bash
17 47 (21.56%) Go
17 47 (21.56%) Software Engineering
18 46 (21.10%) Artifactory
18 46 (21.10%) Deployment Automation
19 43 (19.72%) Site Reliability Engineering

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 (2.29%) Confluence
2 4 (1.83%) Drupal
3 2 (0.92%) nginx
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) JBoss
4 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 218 (100.00%) AWS
2 86 (39.45%) Serverless
3 80 (36.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 80 (36.70%) AWS Lambda
4 70 (32.11%) Amazon S3
5 66 (30.28%) Amazon EKS
6 61 (27.98%) Amazon ECS
7 55 (25.23%) Amazon EC2
8 47 (21.56%) Amazon SQS
9 43 (19.72%) GitHub
10 42 (19.27%) Azure
11 38 (17.43%) OpenShift
12 22 (10.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (9.63%) Azure AKS
13 21 (9.63%) SaaS
14 20 (9.17%) GCP
15 16 (7.34%) Route 53
16 14 (6.42%) AWS CloudTrail
17 13 (5.96%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
17 13 (5.96%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.34%) Firewall
2 9 (4.13%) Network Security
3 7 (3.21%) DNS
4 4 (1.83%) VPN
5 2 (0.92%) HTTP
6 1 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (33.49%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (17.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (5.96%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (5.96%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.75%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.46%) Redis
8 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 77 (35.32%) Jenkins
2 46 (21.10%) Artifactory
3 34 (15.60%) Git
4 31 (14.22%) GitLab
5 13 (5.96%) Bitbucket
5 13 (5.96%) JIRA
6 12 (5.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (5.05%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.38%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.38%) Maven
10 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.46%) ClearCase
11 1 (0.46%) ClearQuest
11 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.46%) NUnit
11 1 (0.46%) Redmine
11 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.46%) Selenium
11 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 73 (33.49%) Finance
2 36 (16.51%) Front Office
3 32 (14.68%) Social Skills
4 17 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.96%) Law
7 8 (3.67%) Automotive
8 7 (3.21%) Games
9 5 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.83%) Legal
10 4 (1.83%) Retail
11 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.92%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (16.51%) J2EE
2 19 (8.72%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (6.88%) .NET
4 13 (5.96%) Middleware
5 11 (5.05%) AWS CDK
6 7 (3.21%) AWS SAM
7 5 (2.29%) .NET Core
7 5 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.83%) React
9 3 (1.38%) LDAP
9 3 (1.38%) Node.js
9 3 (1.38%) REST
10 2 (0.92%) Django
10 2 (0.92%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.92%) JSON
10 2 (0.92%) React Native
10 2 (0.92%) RESTful
11 1 (0.46%) CSS3
11 1 (0.46%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.46%) MEAN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.51%) Tandem
2 12 (5.50%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.05%) Blockchain
3 11 (5.05%) Client/Server
4 9 (4.13%) e-Learning
4 9 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.13%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.67%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.21%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.75%) PKI
8 5 (2.29%) Online Games
9 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.83%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.92%) Genomics
11 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (32.11%) Linux
2 16 (7.34%) Windows
3 3 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.92%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (100.00%) DevOps
2 154 (70.64%) CI/CD
3 93 (42.66%) Agile
4 77 (35.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (30.28%) Containerisation
6 47 (21.56%) Software Engineering
7 46 (21.10%) Deployment Automation
8 43 (19.72%) Open Source
8 43 (19.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 37 (16.97%) Decision-Making
10 36 (16.51%) Asset Management
10 36 (16.51%) Financial Modelling
11 30 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (10.55%) Microservices
13 19 (8.72%) Configuration Management
13 19 (8.72%) Mentoring
14 17 (7.80%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (7.80%) Secrets Management
14 17 (7.80%) Test Automation
15 16 (7.34%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 127 (58.26%) Python
2 59 (27.06%) Java
3 47 (21.56%) Bash
3 47 (21.56%) Go
4 19 (8.72%) PowerShell
5 16 (7.34%) SQL
6 13 (5.96%) C#
7 11 (5.05%) PHP
8 9 (4.13%) Groovy
9 8 (3.67%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.67%) Ruby
10 4 (1.83%) Perl
10 4 (1.83%) Rust
11 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 28 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.47%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (3.21%) Degree
6 5 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.92%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.05%) QA
2 5 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.38%) NIST
3 3 (1.38%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 114 (52.29%) Docker
2 9 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.38%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.46%) iptables
5 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 171 (78.44%) Terraform
2 170 (77.98%) Kubernetes
3 61 (27.98%) Ansible
4 25 (11.47%) Prometheus
5 24 (11.01%) Grafana
6 16 (7.34%) Progress Chef
7 11 (5.05%) Puppet
8 7 (3.21%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.83%) Istio
9 4 (1.83%) Packer
9 4 (1.83%) Rancher
10 3 (1.38%) Argo
10 3 (1.38%) Consul
10 3 (1.38%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.46%) Kibana
11 1 (0.46%) Nagios
11 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (6.42%) Oracle
2 12 (5.50%) Dynatrace
3 11 (5.05%) IBM
4 10 (4.59%) Red Hat
5 8 (3.67%) ForgeRock
5 8 (3.67%) Sitecore
6 5 (2.29%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.83%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.83%) VMware
8 3 (1.38%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.92%) Splunk
9 2 (0.92%) Veracode
10 1 (0.46%) Cisco
10 1 (0.46%) New Relic