AWS DevOps Job Trends in London

Amazon Web Services DevOps
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in London is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 235 385
Rank change year-on-year -136 +150 -24
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 35 148 115
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.17% 1.21% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 1.34% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 32 109 102
10th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £56,625
25th Percentile £73,750 £98,750 £75,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £107,438 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 - £138,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £110,000 £83,250
% change year-on-year -34.09% +32.13% +4.06%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 19,110 11,052 22,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 90.06% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 13,058 7,184 16,617
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS DevOps' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

AWS DevOps job vacancy trend in London

AWS DevOps
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies in London

AWS DevOps
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in London

AWS DevOps
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS DevOps within the London region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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
Central London -7 6 £85,000 +13.33% 1
AWS DevOps
England

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 21 May 2026, AWS DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) AWS
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (77.14%) Terraform
3 23 (65.71%) Kubernetes
3 23 (65.71%) Python
4 21 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (54.29%) Containerisation
6 18 (51.43%) Docker
7 17 (48.57%) Kafka
8 16 (45.71%) Azure
8 16 (45.71%) CI/CD
8 16 (45.71%) GCP
9 15 (42.86%) Go
10 12 (34.29%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (31.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (31.43%) GitLab
11 11 (31.43%) Jenkins
11 11 (31.43%) Serverless
12 10 (28.57%) Ansible
12 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (25.71%) Incident Management
14 8 (22.86%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (22.86%) Bash
14 8 (22.86%) Confluent
14 8 (22.86%) Datadog
14 8 (22.86%) Fintech
14 8 (22.86%) High Availability
14 8 (22.86%) Istio
14 8 (22.86%) Open Source

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (45.71%) Azure
2 16 (45.71%) GCP
3 12 (34.29%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (31.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (31.43%) Serverless
5 8 (22.86%) Amazon MSK
5 8 (22.86%) Datadog
5 8 (22.86%) OpenShift
6 7 (20.00%) GitHub
7 6 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (5.71%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (5.71%) SaaS
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (2.86%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (2.86%) AWS KMS
10 1 (2.86%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.71%) Flink
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.86%) Big Data
3 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) GitLab
1 11 (31.43%) Jenkins
2 7 (20.00%) CircleCI
3 2 (5.71%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) Maven
4 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.86%) git-flow
4 1 (2.86%) Gradle
4 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (57.14%) Finance
2 18 (51.43%) Banking
3 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Front Office
4 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Advertising
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (48.57%) Kafka
2 7 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.86%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.86%) JSON
3 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Fixed Income
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (54.29%) Containerisation
4 16 (45.71%) CI/CD
5 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (25.71%) Incident Management
7 8 (22.86%) Fintech
7 8 (22.86%) High Availability
7 8 (22.86%) Open Source
8 7 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
8 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 7 (20.00%) Microservices
9 6 (17.14%) Agile
10 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
12 3 (8.57%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 23 (65.71%) Python
2 15 (42.86%) Go
3 8 (22.86%) Bash
4 7 (20.00%) SQL
5 4 (11.43%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) Groovy
6 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) GDPR
1 7 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 7 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (51.43%) Docker
2 8 (22.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (77.14%) Terraform
2 23 (65.71%) Kubernetes
3 10 (28.57%) Ansible
4 8 (22.86%) Istio
5 7 (20.00%) Grafana
5 7 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.71%) Argo
7 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Confluent
2 1 (2.86%) Cognizant
2 1 (2.86%) Red Hat