AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 717 587 700
Rank change year-on-year -130 +113 -218
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 84 76 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 72 38 61
10th Percentile £56,375 £50,525 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,375 £86,000
90th Percentile £92,250 £127,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £54,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +29.63% -22.86% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 106,119 44,341 74,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.67% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,014 26,036 45,320
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 -77 79 £70,000 -12.50% 71
UK excluding London -93 41 £70,000 +29.63% 37
London -62 39 £75,000 -6.25% 41
Work from Home -42 27 £77,500 -3.13% 23
North of England -42 20 £72,500 +11.54% 13
North West -8 13 £80,000 +23.08% 10
South West -66 13 £60,000 - 4
South East -33 7 £80,000 +113.33% 2
North East - 6 £60,000 - 1
Scotland +6 2 £100,000 - 11
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 September 2026, AWS DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (100.00%) AWS
1 84 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (50.00%) Terraform
3 39 (46.43%) Security Cleared
4 38 (45.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (44.05%) CI/CD
6 32 (38.10%) Docker
7 30 (35.71%) Kubernetes
8 29 (34.52%) SC Cleared
9 27 (32.14%) Python
10 25 (29.76%) Containerisation
11 23 (27.38%) Observability
12 21 (25.00%) Agile
13 18 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (21.43%) Jenkins
14 17 (20.24%) Bash
14 17 (20.24%) GitLab
15 16 (19.05%) Grafana
16 15 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (17.86%) Test Automation
17 14 (16.67%) Prometheus
18 13 (15.48%) Git
18 13 (15.48%) Kafka
19 12 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
19 12 (14.29%) Azure
19 12 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
20 11 (13.10%) Serverless
21 10 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 10 (11.90%) AWS Lambda

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (3.57%) Confluence
1 3 (3.57%) nginx
2 1 (1.19%) Apache
2 1 (1.19%) Drupal
2 1 (1.19%) IIS
2 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 84 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
3 15 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (14.29%) Azure
5 11 (13.10%) Serverless
6 10 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (10.71%) GitHub
8 8 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (9.52%) GCP
9 7 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (8.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 6 (7.14%) Amazon MSK
10 6 (7.14%) Datadog
10 6 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (7.14%) OpenShift
10 6 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (5.95%) Amazon S3
11 5 (5.95%) Route 53
12 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) DNS
1 1 (1.19%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.52%) Redis
3 6 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.38%) Big Data
5 1 (1.19%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.19%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.19%) MySQL
5 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 17 (20.24%) GitLab
3 13 (15.48%) Git
4 4 (4.76%) git-flow
4 4 (4.76%) JIRA
5 2 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.38%) Snyk
6 1 (1.19%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.19%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.19%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.19%) Gatling
6 1 (1.19%) JMeter
6 1 (1.19%) Maven
6 1 (1.19%) Postman
6 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.19%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (13.10%) Finance
2 9 (10.71%) Banking
3 8 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.57%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Games
7 1 (1.19%) Advertising
7 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (50.00%) Terraform
2 13 (15.48%) Kafka
3 12 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (7.14%) Keycloak
4 6 (7.14%) Pulumi
5 5 (5.95%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.38%) OpenTofu
7 1 (1.19%) .NET
7 1 (1.19%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.19%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.19%) JSON
7 1 (1.19%) Memcached
7 1 (1.19%) Next.js
7 1 (1.19%) Node.js
7 1 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.19%) React
7 1 (1.19%) React Native
7 1 (1.19%) REST
7 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.62%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.14%) Replication
3 4 (4.76%) Life Science
3 4 (4.76%) PropTech
4 2 (2.38%) Genomics
4 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (45.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (44.05%) CI/CD
4 25 (29.76%) Containerisation
5 23 (27.38%) Observability
6 21 (25.00%) Agile
7 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (17.86%) Test Automation
8 10 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (11.90%) Secrets Management
8 10 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (9.52%) Change Management
10 8 (9.52%) Cloud Security
10 8 (9.52%) Identity Management
10 8 (9.52%) ITIL
10 8 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (8.33%) DevSecOps
11 7 (8.33%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.14%) Python
2 17 (20.24%) Bash
3 9 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.52%) Groovy
5 7 (8.33%) Go
6 4 (4.76%) Java
7 2 (2.38%) C#
8 1 (1.19%) C++
8 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.19%) Perl
8 1 (1.19%) PHP
8 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 29 (34.52%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.19%) GDPR
1 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.19%) NCSC
1 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.19%) QA
1 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (38.10%) Docker
2 6 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 16 (19.05%) Grafana
3 14 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 8 (9.52%) Argo
5 7 (8.33%) Ansible
6 6 (7.14%) Istio
6 6 (7.14%) Rancher
7 3 (3.57%) Puppet
8 2 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.38%) Packer
8 2 (2.38%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 6 (7.14%) Confluent
1 6 (7.14%) Dynatrace
1 6 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.57%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.38%) Intel
4 1 (1.19%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.19%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.19%) Google
4 1 (1.19%) IBM
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle
4 1 (1.19%) TOWER Software