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 19 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 671 627 798
Rank change year-on-year -44 +171 +179
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 23 13 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.031% 0.046%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.078% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 37
10th Percentile £44,300 £48,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £49,375 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.29% - -15.15%
75th Percentile £57,500 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £71,000 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £56,250 £69,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% -19.06% -13.13%

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 20,682 16,756 23,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.55% 39.41% 27.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8,309 7,486 16,268
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,608 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £59,063 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.03% +7.39% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,900 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,825
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -

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 19 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Top 7 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 19 March 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 -12 21 £49,500 -34.00% 8
UK excluding London -12 21 £49,500 -12.00% 7
North of England -27 17 - - 6
Yorkshire - 17 - - 5
West Midlands 0 3 £49,000 -38.75%
Midlands -17 3 £49,000 -38.75%
East of England - 1 £75,000 - 1

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 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
1 23 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 23 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 23 (100.00%) Serverless
2 17 (73.91%) Amazon ECR
2 17 (73.91%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (73.91%) Amazon SQS
2 17 (73.91%) Apigee
2 17 (73.91%) AWS Step Functions
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (21.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.35%) Datadog
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (73.91%) DynamoDB
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 19 (82.61%) GitLab
3 17 (73.91%) Cypress.io
3 17 (73.91%) Maven
3 17 (73.91%) SonarQube
4 5 (21.74%) Git
5 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 3 (13.04%) Advertising
1 3 (13.04%) Banking
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
1 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Developer
1 17 (73.91%) Java Developer
2 6 (26.09%) AWS Developer
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (73.91%) AngularJS
1 17 (73.91%) Gherkin
1 17 (73.91%) Jest
1 17 (73.91%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (86.96%) Agile
3 17 (73.91%) ITIL
3 17 (73.91%) SDLC
3 17 (73.91%) Secure Coding
3 17 (73.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 9 (39.13%) Clean Code
4 9 (39.13%) Prototyping
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (13.04%) High Availability
6 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (8.70%) Cloud Operations
7 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
7 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) Bash
2 17 (73.91%) Groovy
2 17 (73.91%) Java
2 17 (73.91%) TypeScript
3 3 (13.04%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 17 (73.91%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (26.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
7 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (4.35%) Degree
7 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 23 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (73.91%) HP Fortify
2 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (26.09%) Terraform
3 3 (13.04%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana