AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 452 658
Rank change year-on-year -172 +206 -27
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 87 178 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.44% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.48% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 77 156 182
10th Percentile £46,200 £78,125 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £89,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +33.33% +6.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 - £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year - -1.89% -1.85%

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 76,515 36,725 86,098
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 89.80% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 49,212 23,272 64,527
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,501
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -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 8 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 14 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 8 April 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 -144 81 £80,000 -27.27% 16
UK excluding London -49 41 £65,000 - 12
London -111 39 £90,000 -18.18% 6
Work from Home -99 30 £97,750 -11.14% 9
North of England -37 21 £60,000 -25.00% 6
North West -20 17 £65,000 -27.78% 4
South West -39 9 £100,000 +81.82%
South East -34 7 £75,000 +57.89% 3
Midlands -39 4 £68,750 -14.06% 1
North East -24 3 £60,000 -14.29% 2
East Midlands -54 3 £75,000 -6.25%
Scotland -24 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 8 April 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 87 (100.00%) AWS
1 87 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (45.98%) Terraform
3 39 (44.83%) CI/CD
4 37 (42.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (41.38%) Python
6 34 (39.08%) Kubernetes
7 26 (29.89%) Azure
7 26 (29.89%) Docker
8 24 (27.59%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (27.59%) Security Cleared
9 23 (26.44%) Containerisation
10 21 (24.14%) Kafka
11 17 (19.54%) Ansible
12 16 (18.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (18.39%) GCP
12 16 (18.39%) GitHub
12 16 (18.39%) Go
13 15 (17.24%) Jenkins
13 15 (17.24%) Serverless
14 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (16.09%) SC Cleared
14 14 (16.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 12 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (13.79%) GitLab
15 12 (13.79%) Grafana
16 11 (12.64%) Bash
16 11 (12.64%) Mentoring
16 11 (12.64%) Microservices
17 10 (11.49%) Agile

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 1 (1.15%) Apache
1 1 (1.15%) Confluence
1 1 (1.15%) Drupal
1 1 (1.15%) IIS
1 1 (1.15%) nginx
1 1 (1.15%) SAS
1 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (29.89%) Azure
3 24 (27.59%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (18.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (18.39%) GCP
4 16 (18.39%) GitHub
5 15 (17.24%) Serverless
6 12 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (11.49%) Datadog
8 9 (10.34%) OpenShift
9 8 (9.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (9.20%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (9.20%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (8.05%) Amazon S3
11 6 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (3.45%) Apigee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.05%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.90%) Flink
3 5 (5.75%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.15%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.15%) Metadata
5 1 (1.15%) MySQL
5 1 (1.15%) Redis
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 12 (13.79%) GitLab
3 7 (8.05%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.60%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.45%) Git
6 2 (2.30%) JIRA
6 2 (2.30%) Maven
7 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.15%) Gatling
7 1 (1.15%) git-flow
7 1 (1.15%) Gradle
7 1 (1.15%) JMeter
7 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.15%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (28.74%) Finance
2 20 (22.99%) Banking
3 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Front Office
5 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.45%) Advertising
7 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Games
7 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.15%) Law
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (24.14%) Kafka
2 9 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.45%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.30%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.30%) JSON
4 2 (2.30%) JWT
4 2 (2.30%) Node.js
4 2 (2.30%) OAuth
4 2 (2.30%) YAML
5 1 (1.15%) .NET
5 1 (1.15%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.15%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.15%) Memcached
5 1 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Fixed Income
2 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Clustering
4 1 (1.15%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.49%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Unix
2 1 (1.15%) Windows
2 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (44.83%) CI/CD
3 37 (42.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (26.44%) Containerisation
5 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (16.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (12.64%) Mentoring
6 11 (12.64%) Microservices
7 10 (11.49%) Agile
7 10 (11.49%) Fintech
7 10 (11.49%) High Availability
7 10 (11.49%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (11.49%) Software Engineering
8 9 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (10.34%) Open Source
9 7 (8.05%) Continuous Delivery
9 7 (8.05%) Incident Management
9 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (6.90%) Front End Development
10 6 (6.90%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (41.38%) Python
2 16 (18.39%) Go
3 11 (12.64%) Bash
4 9 (10.34%) Java
5 7 (8.05%) SQL
6 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.30%) Bicep
7 2 (2.30%) Groovy
7 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.30%) PHP
8 1 (1.15%) Perl
8 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) GDPR
1 7 (8.05%) PCI DSS
1 7 (8.05%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.15%) NCSC
2 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 26 (29.89%) Docker
2 8 (9.20%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (45.98%) Terraform
2 34 (39.08%) Kubernetes
3 17 (19.54%) Ansible
4 12 (13.79%) Grafana
5 10 (11.49%) Prometheus
6 8 (9.20%) Istio
7 7 (8.05%) Argo
8 2 (2.30%) Packer
8 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.15%) Consul
9 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (9.20%) Confluent
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.30%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.15%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.15%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.15%) Google
4 1 (1.15%) IBM
4 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.15%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.15%) TOWER Software