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 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 700 690
Rank change year-on-year +62 -10 +290
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 13 12 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.022% 0.084%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.068% 0.062% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 40
10th Percentile £44,300 £56,900 £50,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £65,625 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £93,125 £80,000
90th Percentile - £99,625 £88,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -27.69% -7.14% -12.50%

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 19,068 19,475 16,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.97% 36.50% 29.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,707 7,594 11,040
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,953 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £51,300
% change year-on-year -10.91% +7.21% +1.40%

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 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Top 8 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 13 January 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 +72 11 £58,250 -22.33% 11
UK excluding London +69 9 £47,000 -27.69% 9
North of England +33 7 - - 3
Yorkshire - 7 - - 3
Work from Home +63 2 £67,500 -28.95% 3
Midlands +27 2 £47,000 -41.25% 2
West Midlands +25 2 £47,000 -41.25% 2
London +51 1 £67,500 -20.59% 3

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 13 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 13 (100.00%) Serverless
2 11 (84.62%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (69.23%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (53.85%) Amazon ECR
4 7 (53.85%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (53.85%) Apigee
4 7 (53.85%) AWS Step Functions
5 6 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (46.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (15.38%) GitHub
7 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) DynamoDB
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (69.23%) GitLab
3 7 (53.85%) Cypress.io
3 7 (53.85%) Maven
3 7 (53.85%) SonarQube
4 4 (30.77%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Advertising
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
1 7 (53.85%) Java Developer
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Developer
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) AngularJS
1 7 (53.85%) Gherkin
1 7 (53.85%) Jest
1 7 (53.85%) Spring Boot
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
2 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (84.62%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) ITIL
3 7 (53.85%) SDLC
3 7 (53.85%) Secure Coding
3 7 (53.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Clean Code
5 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 4 (30.77%) Prototyping
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Bash
2 7 (53.85%) Groovy
2 7 (53.85%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) TypeScript
3 4 (30.77%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 7 (53.85%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (46.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) HP Fortify
2 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 2 (15.38%) Grafana
3 2 (15.38%) Prometheus