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 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 695 538 688
Rank change year-on-year -157 +150 -334
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 210 508 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.50% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.55% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 181 472 502
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £138,750 £107,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year - +9.80% +15.91%

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 9 May 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 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -115 200 £84,000 +5.00% 33
London -27 120 £100,000 +5.26% 15
UK excluding London -108 87 £70,000 - 18
Work from Home -112 86 £75,000 - 22
South West -61 20 £77,500 +6.90% 1
Midlands -3 19 £60,000 -12.73% 3
North of England -13 18 £65,000 -3.70% 8
East Midlands -1 17 £55,000 -10.20% 2
South East -29 17 £84,000 +12.00% 5
North West -23 10 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Scotland -61 8 £65,000 -3.70%
East of England +20 5 £70,000 -17.65%
North East -3 5 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Yorkshire +59 3 £65,000 -1.89% 3
West Midlands +4 2 £80,000 +14.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 210 (100.00%) AWS
1 210 (100.00%) DevOps
2 164 (78.10%) Kubernetes
3 162 (77.14%) Terraform
4 145 (69.05%) CI/CD
5 115 (54.76%) Python
6 110 (52.38%) Docker
7 89 (42.38%) Agile
8 82 (39.05%) Serverless
9 78 (37.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 75 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
11 73 (34.76%) Infrastructure as Code
12 70 (33.33%) Jenkins
13 67 (31.90%) Amazon S3
13 67 (31.90%) Containerisation
14 65 (30.95%) Finance
15 64 (30.48%) Linux
15 64 (30.48%) Amazon RDS
16 61 (29.05%) Amazon EKS
17 60 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
18 55 (26.19%) Ansible
19 52 (24.76%) Java
19 52 (24.76%) Amazon EC2
20 45 (21.43%) Bash
20 45 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
21 42 (20.00%) Azure
21 42 (20.00%) Go
21 42 (20.00%) Software Engineering
22 41 (19.52%) GitHub
23 40 (19.05%) 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 (2.38%) Confluence
2 4 (1.90%) Drupal
3 2 (0.95%) nginx
4 1 (0.48%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 210 (100.00%) AWS
2 82 (39.05%) Serverless
3 78 (37.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 75 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
5 67 (31.90%) Amazon S3
6 61 (29.05%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
8 52 (24.76%) Amazon EC2
9 45 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
10 42 (20.00%) Azure
11 41 (19.52%) GitHub
12 34 (16.19%) OpenShift
13 23 (10.95%) SaaS
14 21 (10.00%) Azure AKS
15 20 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (9.05%) GCP
17 15 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
18 13 (6.19%) Route 53
19 12 (5.71%) Amazon ECR
19 12 (5.71%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.62%) Firewall
2 9 (4.29%) Network Security
3 7 (3.33%) DNS
4 4 (1.90%) VPN
5 2 (0.95%) HTTP
6 1 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (30.48%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (16.19%) Amazon Redshift
3 16 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.24%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (5.24%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.86%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.48%) Redis
7 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 70 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.62%) Artifactory
3 32 (15.24%) Git
4 27 (12.86%) GitLab
5 12 (5.71%) Bitbucket
6 11 (5.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (3.81%) JIRA
8 6 (2.86%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.43%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.48%) ClearCase
12 1 (0.48%) ClearQuest
12 1 (0.48%) NUnit
12 1 (0.48%) Redmine
12 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.48%) Selenium
12 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 65 (30.95%) Finance
2 32 (15.24%) Front Office
3 31 (14.76%) Social Skills
4 17 (8.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (7.62%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.19%) Law
7 10 (4.76%) Automotive
8 7 (3.33%) Games
9 5 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.90%) Legal
10 4 (1.90%) Retail
11 3 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.95%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.48%) Marketing
13 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.24%) J2EE
2 16 (7.62%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (7.14%) .NET
4 11 (5.24%) AWS CDK
4 11 (5.24%) Middleware
5 7 (3.33%) AWS SAM
6 4 (1.90%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.90%) React
7 2 (0.95%) Django
7 2 (0.95%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.95%) Node.js
7 2 (0.95%) React Native
7 2 (0.95%) REST
7 2 (0.95%) RESTful
8 1 (0.48%) CSS
8 1 (0.48%) HTML
8 1 (0.48%) JSON
8 1 (0.48%) OAuth
8 1 (0.48%) SAML
8 1 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.24%) Tandem
2 11 (5.24%) Client/Server
3 10 (4.76%) Blockchain
3 10 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.29%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.29%) e-Learning
4 9 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.81%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.33%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.86%) PKI
7 6 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.38%) Online Games
9 4 (1.90%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.95%) Genomics
11 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (30.48%) Linux
2 14 (6.67%) Windows
3 3 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.95%) Unix
5 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (100.00%) DevOps
2 145 (69.05%) CI/CD
3 89 (42.38%) Agile
4 73 (34.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (31.90%) Containerisation
6 42 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 40 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 39 (18.57%) Deployment Automation
9 38 (18.10%) Open Source
10 33 (15.71%) Decision-Making
11 32 (15.24%) Asset Management
11 32 (15.24%) Financial Modelling
12 29 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (10.95%) Microservices
14 20 (9.52%) Mentoring
15 19 (9.05%) Configuration Management
16 18 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
16 18 (8.57%) DevSecOps
17 17 (8.10%) Secrets Management
18 16 (7.62%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 115 (54.76%) Python
2 52 (24.76%) Java
3 45 (21.43%) Bash
4 42 (20.00%) Go
5 19 (9.05%) PowerShell
6 14 (6.67%) SQL
7 11 (5.24%) C#
7 11 (5.24%) PHP
8 10 (4.76%) Groovy
9 8 (3.81%) JavaScript
10 7 (3.33%) Ruby
11 3 (1.43%) Rust
12 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.86%) AWS Certification
3 26 (12.38%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.38%) Degree
6 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.33%) QA
2 5 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.43%) NIST
3 3 (1.43%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 110 (52.38%) Docker
2 11 (5.24%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) iptables
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 164 (78.10%) Kubernetes
2 162 (77.14%) Terraform
3 55 (26.19%) Ansible
4 26 (12.38%) Prometheus
5 23 (10.95%) Grafana
6 16 (7.62%) Progress Chef
7 11 (5.24%) Puppet
8 7 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.90%) Istio
9 4 (1.90%) Rancher
10 3 (1.43%) Argo
10 3 (1.43%) Consul
10 3 (1.43%) Packer
11 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.48%) Kibana
11 1 (0.48%) Nagios
11 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (5.71%) Dynatrace
1 12 (5.71%) Oracle
2 10 (4.76%) ForgeRock
2 10 (4.76%) IBM
2 10 (4.76%) Red Hat
2 10 (4.76%) Sitecore
3 5 (2.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.38%) VMware
4 2 (0.95%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.95%) Splunk
4 2 (0.95%) Veracode
5 1 (0.48%) Cisco
5 1 (0.48%) New Relic