AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Job Trends

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 766 684 794
Rank change year-on-year -82 +110 -8
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 24 12 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.024% 0.028%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% 0.070% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 20
10th Percentile £59,375 £49,550 £59,125
25th Percentile £69,063 £56,745 £64,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,873 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.32% -16.04% -12.12%
75th Percentile £110,000 £72,813 £83,125
90th Percentile £121,250 £83,125 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £56,745 £67,500
% change year-on-year +32.17% -15.93% -15.63%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,864 17,249 21,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.85% 34.57% 25.78%
Number of salaries quoted 10,568 7,913 11,862
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -2.86%

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 August 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
England -70 24 £77,500 +27.32% 16
UK excluding London -70 20 £75,000 +32.17% 7
North of England -25 15 £76,250 +17.31% 2
Yorkshire - 15 £76,250 -
London -50 4 £115,000 +61.40% 9
Work from Home -36 2 - - 9
South West -62 2 - - 2
South East - 2 - - 2
East of England - 1 £75,000 -

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Confluence
1 2 (8.33%) nginx
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (91.67%) Amazon ECS
2 22 (91.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 22 (91.67%) AWS Lambda
2 22 (91.67%) Serverless
3 20 (83.33%) Amazon ECR
4 19 (79.17%) Amazon S3
5 18 (75.00%) Apigee
5 18 (75.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 15 (62.50%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (8.33%) Azure
8 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.33%) GitHub
8 2 (8.33%) Route 53
8 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
9 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (75.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 19 (79.17%) GitLab
3 18 (75.00%) Cypress.io
3 18 (75.00%) Maven
3 18 (75.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (12.50%) JIRA
5 2 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (8.33%) Git
5 2 (8.33%) git-flow
General
1 1 (4.17%) Finance
1 1 (4.17%) Games
1 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
1 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (75.00%) Developer
2 17 (70.83%) Java Developer
3 9 (37.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (37.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Developer
5 3 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Architect
6 2 (8.33%) React Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Angular Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) DevOps Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Lead
7 1 (4.17%) Lead Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 18 (75.00%) Gherkin
1 18 (75.00%) Jest
1 18 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 2 (8.33%) React
3 1 (4.17%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Media Streaming
3 1 (4.17%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (95.83%) CI/CD
3 22 (91.67%) Agile
4 20 (83.33%) ITIL
5 18 (75.00%) SDLC
5 18 (75.00%) Secure Coding
5 18 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 9 (37.50%) Clean Code
6 9 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (37.50%) Prototyping
7 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
8 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (16.67%) Observability
9 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
9 3 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 2 (8.33%) AI
10 2 (8.33%) Analytics
10 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (8.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) Bash
2 20 (83.33%) Java
3 18 (75.00%) Groovy
3 18 (75.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (20.83%) Python
5 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.33%) SQL
7 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 18 (75.00%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 21 (87.50%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) HP Fortify
2 6 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (8.33%) Ansible
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Puppet
3 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.17%) Databricks