AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 505 585
Rank change year-on-year -112 +80 +79
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 55 179 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.36% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.40% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 45 157 191
10th Percentile £50,750 £76,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £87,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +29.41% +8.28%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 - £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%

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 61,931 45,044 70,794
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 91.56% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 38,987 23,380 55,351
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 13 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 18 February 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 -92 46 £75,000 -31.82% 23
UK excluding London +13 29 £65,000 -3.70% 16
London -101 19 £100,000 -9.09% 11
Work from Home -63 16 £92,500 -15.91% 13
North West +16 11 £70,000 -22.22% 6
North of England -10 11 £70,000 -12.50% 7
Midlands +19 8 £51,500 -35.63%
East Midlands -11 5 £75,000 -6.25%
South East +16 4 £65,000 - 5
South West 0 4 £100,000 +53.85% 4
Scotland -5 4 - -
West Midlands - 3 £51,500 -
East of England +11 1 £57,500 -11.54%

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

For the 6 months to 18 February 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 55 (100.00%) AWS
1 55 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (56.36%) CI/CD
3 27 (49.09%) Terraform
4 25 (45.45%) Kubernetes
5 23 (41.82%) Python
6 21 (38.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (29.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (29.09%) GitHub
8 15 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (25.45%) Docker
10 13 (23.64%) Security Cleared
11 12 (21.82%) Ansible
11 12 (21.82%) Azure
11 12 (21.82%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (21.82%) Jenkins
12 11 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (18.18%) Agile
13 10 (18.18%) Bash
13 10 (18.18%) Java
13 10 (18.18%) Kafka
13 10 (18.18%) Serverless
14 9 (16.36%) Linux
14 9 (16.36%) Platform Engineering
14 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
15 8 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (14.55%) Continuous Integration
15 8 (14.55%) Grafana
15 8 (14.55%) Observability
16 7 (12.73%) Argo

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 (1.82%) Apache
1 1 (1.82%) JBoss
1 1 (1.82%) SAS
1 1 (1.82%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 55 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (29.09%) AWS CloudFormation
2 16 (29.09%) GitHub
3 15 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (21.82%) Azure
4 12 (21.82%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (18.18%) Serverless
7 8 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (10.91%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (10.91%) Datadog
9 6 (10.91%) OpenShift
10 5 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (9.09%) PaaS
11 4 (7.27%) Amazon S3
11 4 (7.27%) Azure AKS
12 2 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (3.64%) GCP
12 2 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) DNS
1 1 (1.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) Flink
2 4 (7.27%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.82%) Metadata
4 1 (1.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (21.82%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.73%) GitLab
3 4 (7.27%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.45%) Git
5 2 (3.64%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.64%) Maven
5 2 (3.64%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.82%) Ant
6 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.82%) Gradle
6 1 (1.82%) JIRA
6 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (20.00%) Finance
2 7 (12.73%) Banking
2 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.91%) Front Office
4 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.64%) Advertising
5 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Law
6 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.82%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) Kafka
2 5 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.45%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.45%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.64%) AWS SAM
4 2 (3.64%) JWT
4 2 (3.64%) Node.js
4 2 (3.64%) OAuth
5 1 (1.82%) JSON
5 1 (1.82%) Middleware
5 1 (1.82%) React
5 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Fixed Income
2 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.45%) Clustering
4 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.36%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Unix
3 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (56.36%) CI/CD
3 21 (38.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (18.18%) Agile
5 9 (16.36%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (14.55%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (14.55%) Observability
7 7 (12.73%) Containerisation
7 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.91%) Front End Development
8 6 (10.91%) High Availability
8 6 (10.91%) Investment Management
8 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.91%) Microservices
8 6 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (9.09%) Fintech
9 5 (9.09%) Software Engineering
10 4 (7.27%) RBAC
10 4 (7.27%) Test Automation
11 3 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.82%) Python
2 10 (18.18%) Bash
2 10 (18.18%) Java
3 6 (10.91%) Go
4 4 (7.27%) Bicep
4 4 (7.27%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.64%) SQL
6 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.82%) Groovy
7 1 (1.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) GDPR
1 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.64%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 14 (25.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (49.09%) Terraform
2 25 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 12 (21.82%) Ansible
4 8 (14.55%) Grafana
5 7 (12.73%) Argo
6 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.82%) Podman
7 1 (1.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (7.27%) LogicMonitor
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) SolarWinds
3 2 (3.64%) AppDynamics