AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 519 596
Rank change year-on-year -94 +77 +64
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 50 175 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.35% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.38% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 40 154 185
10th Percentile £50,750 £75,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,938 £87,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +29.41% +9.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 - £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% -3.57% +3.70%

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 60,248 45,561 70,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.14% 91.75% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 37,639 23,782 55,054
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,390
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 11 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 11 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 -101 42 £75,000 -31.82% 19
UK excluding London +18 26 £63,750 -5.56% 16
London -91 19 £100,000 -9.09% 7
Work from Home -39 16 £92,500 -15.91% 11
North West +28 9 £70,000 -22.22% 7
North of England -4 9 £70,000 -12.50% 8
Midlands +22 8 £51,500 -35.63% 1
East Midlands -10 5 £75,000 -6.25% 1
South East +12 4 £65,000 - 4
Scotland -8 4 - -
South West -13 3 £100,000 +53.85% 3
West Midlands - 3 £51,500 - 1
East of England +10 1 £57,500 -11.54%

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 50 (100.00%) AWS
1 50 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (62.00%) CI/CD
3 27 (54.00%) Terraform
4 25 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 23 (46.00%) Python
6 20 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (32.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (32.00%) GitHub
8 15 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (28.00%) Docker
10 12 (24.00%) Ansible
10 12 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (24.00%) Jenkins
11 11 (22.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (22.00%) Azure
12 10 (20.00%) Agile
12 10 (20.00%) Bash
12 10 (20.00%) Java
12 10 (20.00%) Kafka
12 10 (20.00%) Security Cleared
12 10 (20.00%) Serverless
13 9 (18.00%) Linux
13 9 (18.00%) Platform Engineering
14 8 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (16.00%) Grafana
14 8 (16.00%) Observability
15 7 (14.00%) Argo
15 7 (14.00%) Containerisation

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 (2.00%) Apache
1 1 (2.00%) JBoss
1 1 (2.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (32.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 16 (32.00%) GitHub
3 15 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (22.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (22.00%) Azure
6 10 (20.00%) Serverless
7 8 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (12.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (12.00%) Datadog
8 6 (12.00%) OpenShift
9 5 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (10.00%) PaaS
10 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
10 4 (8.00%) Azure AKS
11 2 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (4.00%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) DNS
1 1 (2.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) Flink
2 4 (8.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.00%) GitLab
3 4 (8.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (6.00%) Git
5 2 (4.00%) CircleCI
5 2 (4.00%) Maven
5 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.00%) Ant
6 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.00%) Gradle
6 1 (2.00%) JIRA
6 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (22.00%) Finance
2 7 (14.00%) Banking
2 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Front Office
4 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Advertising
5 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Law
6 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) Kafka
2 5 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (6.00%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.00%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.00%) AWS SAM
4 2 (4.00%) JWT
4 2 (4.00%) Node.js
4 2 (4.00%) OAuth
5 1 (2.00%) JSON
5 1 (2.00%) Middleware
5 1 (2.00%) React
5 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Fixed Income
2 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) Clustering
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (62.00%) CI/CD
3 20 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (20.00%) Agile
5 9 (18.00%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (16.00%) Observability
7 7 (14.00%) Containerisation
7 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.00%) Front End Development
8 6 (12.00%) High Availability
8 6 (12.00%) Investment Management
8 6 (12.00%) Microservices
8 6 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (10.00%) Fintech
9 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
10 4 (8.00%) RBAC
10 4 (8.00%) Software Engineering
10 4 (8.00%) Test Automation
11 3 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.00%) Python
2 10 (20.00%) Bash
2 10 (20.00%) Java
3 6 (12.00%) Go
4 4 (8.00%) Bicep
4 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.00%) SQL
6 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.00%) Groovy
7 1 (2.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) GDPR
1 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 14 (28.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (54.00%) Terraform
2 25 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (24.00%) Ansible
4 8 (16.00%) Grafana
5 7 (14.00%) Argo
6 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.00%) Podman
7 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (8.00%) LogicMonitor
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (4.00%) AppDynamics