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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 790 674 762
Rank change year-on-year -116 +88 -39
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 19 9 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.018% 0.024%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.091% 0.053% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 16
10th Percentile £70,625 - £56,875
25th Percentile £73,438 £56,745 £65,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £65,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -17.46% -1.56%
75th Percentile £120,625 £71,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £121,750 £85,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £56,745 £65,000
% change year-on-year +27.76% -12.70% -7.14%

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 20,829 16,879 21,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.92% 34.24% 27.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,379 7,455 9,707
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,250 £37,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -4.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,424 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -

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 20 September 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 20 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 -121 19 £95,000 +67.42% 26
UK excluding London -136 15 £72,500 +27.76% 13
North of England -62 11 £72,500 +11.54% 2
Yorkshire - 11 £72,500 - 1
London -66 4 £115,000 +70.37% 13
Work from Home -47 2 - - 12
South West -74 2 - - 1
South East - 2 - - 5

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 (10.53%) Confluence
1 2 (10.53%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (89.47%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (89.47%) AWS CloudFormation
2 17 (89.47%) AWS Lambda
2 17 (89.47%) Serverless
3 16 (84.21%) Amazon ECR
4 15 (78.95%) Amazon S3
5 14 (73.68%) Apigee
5 14 (73.68%) AWS Step Functions
6 10 (52.63%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (10.53%) Azure
7 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (10.53%) Route 53
7 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (5.26%) AWS KMS
8 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (73.68%) DynamoDB
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 16 (84.21%) Jenkins
2 15 (78.95%) GitLab
3 14 (73.68%) Cypress.io
3 14 (73.68%) Maven
3 14 (73.68%) SonarQube
4 2 (10.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
4 2 (10.53%) Git
4 2 (10.53%) git-flow
4 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Developer
2 12 (63.16%) Java Developer
3 10 (52.63%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (52.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Developer
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Architect
5 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) React Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Angular Developer
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (73.68%) AngularJS
1 14 (73.68%) Gherkin
1 14 (73.68%) Jest
1 14 (73.68%) Spring Boot
2 5 (26.32%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
3 2 (10.53%) React
4 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Media Streaming
3 1 (5.26%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (94.74%) CI/CD
3 16 (84.21%) Agile
3 16 (84.21%) ITIL
4 14 (73.68%) SDLC
4 14 (73.68%) Secure Coding
4 14 (73.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 10 (52.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (42.11%) Clean Code
6 8 (42.11%) Prototyping
7 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
7 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
8 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
8 3 (15.79%) Observability
8 3 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
9 2 (10.53%) Change Management
9 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Bash
2 16 (84.21%) Java
3 14 (73.68%) Groovy
3 14 (73.68%) TypeScript
4 4 (21.05%) Python
5 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 14 (73.68%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
4 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (10.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 17 (89.47%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) HP Fortify
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) Puppet
3 2 (10.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
1 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle