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 6 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 766 671 773
Rank change year-on-year -95 +102 -16
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 21 9 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.018% 0.026%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.053% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 18
10th Percentile £61,250 - £57,375
25th Percentile £69,375 £56,745 £65,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -14.75% -7.58%
75th Percentile £100,000 £71,250 £84,375
90th Percentile £121,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £56,745 £65,000
% change year-on-year +32.17% -12.70% -10.34%

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 19,994 16,978 20,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.91% 34.30% 26.31%
Number of salaries quoted 10,967 7,644 10,352
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,447 £36,925 £41,315
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% -

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -98 21 £75,000 +32.17% 16
UK excluding London -85 16 £75,000 +32.17% 4
North of England -55 11 £76,250 +17.31%
Yorkshire - 11 £76,250 -
London -62 5 £95,000 +40.74% 11
Work from Home -48 2 - - 5
South West -75 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 (9.52%) Confluence
1 2 (9.52%) nginx
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (85.71%) Amazon ECS
2 18 (85.71%) AWS CloudFormation
2 18 (85.71%) AWS Lambda
2 18 (85.71%) Serverless
3 16 (76.19%) Amazon ECR
3 16 (76.19%) Amazon S3
4 14 (66.67%) Apigee
4 14 (66.67%) AWS Step Functions
5 11 (52.38%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (9.52%) Azure
7 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (9.52%) GitHub
7 2 (9.52%) Route 53
7 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (66.67%) DynamoDB
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.76%) Big Data
3 1 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (80.95%) Jenkins
2 16 (76.19%) GitLab
3 14 (66.67%) Cypress.io
3 14 (66.67%) Maven
3 14 (66.67%) SonarQube
4 3 (14.29%) JIRA
5 2 (9.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
5 2 (9.52%) Git
5 2 (9.52%) git-flow
General
1 1 (4.76%) Finance
1 1 (4.76%) Games
1 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
1 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Developer
2 13 (61.90%) Java Developer
3 9 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (42.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 5 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) AWS Developer
5 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Architect
6 2 (9.52%) React Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Angular Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Databricks Architect
7 1 (4.76%) DevOps Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Lead
7 1 (4.76%) Senior
7 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 14 (66.67%) Gherkin
1 14 (66.67%) Jest
1 14 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 7 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CDK
3 2 (9.52%) React
4 1 (4.76%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Media Streaming
3 1 (4.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (95.24%) CI/CD
3 18 (85.71%) Agile
4 16 (76.19%) ITIL
5 14 (66.67%) SDLC
5 14 (66.67%) Secure Coding
5 14 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 9 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (38.10%) Clean Code
7 8 (38.10%) Prototyping
8 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
9 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (19.05%) Observability
11 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
11 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
11 3 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
11 3 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
11 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 2 (9.52%) Scrum
12 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) Bash
2 16 (76.19%) Java
3 14 (66.67%) Groovy
3 14 (66.67%) TypeScript
4 6 (28.57%) Python
5 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 2 (9.52%) SQL
7 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 14 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 2 (9.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 18 (85.71%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (66.67%) HP Fortify
2 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Puppet
3 2 (9.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
1 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.76%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle