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 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 746 682
Rank change year-on-year +101 -64 +367
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 4 13 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.020% 0.080%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.023% 0.064% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 30
10th Percentile - £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,125 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £79,375 £81,250
90th Percentile - £97,500 £95,375
UK excluding London median annual salary - £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -15.15%

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 17,219 20,347 16,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.82% 30.71% 31.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,911 8,404 11,019
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £31,125
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,033 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +0.93% +0.77%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,293 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.19% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Top 3 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 29 November 2025. 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 +94 2 £67,500 -6.90% 5
Work from Home +88 2 £67,500 -20.59% 1
London +63 1 £67,500 -10.00% 2

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus