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 22 June 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 545 732
Rank change year-on-year -108 +187 -191
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 92 130 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.29% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.32% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 82 91 150
10th Percentile £50,625 £62,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £63,969 £80,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +39.68% -1.56%
75th Percentile £90,000 £121,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -7.14%

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 88,903 40,378 103,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 89.46% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 61,009 23,013 74,813
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -83 88 £75,000 -31.82% 13
UK excluding London -45 49 £70,000 +12.00% 9
London -87 37 £85,000 -22.73% 5
Work from Home -48 35 £85,000 -22.73% 7
North of England -5 30 £65,000 -16.13% 5
North West +24 23 £70,000 -9.68% 3
South West -55 11 £75,000 +57.89% 1
South East -25 6 £80,000 +113.33% 3
North East - 6 £60,000 - 2
Midlands -31 3 £75,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
West Midlands -22 1 £62,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 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 92 (100.00%) AWS
1 92 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (47.83%) Terraform
4 39 (42.39%) CI/CD
5 37 (40.22%) Security Cleared
6 32 (34.78%) Kubernetes
6 32 (34.78%) Python
7 31 (33.70%) Containerisation
7 31 (33.70%) Docker
8 25 (27.17%) Azure
8 25 (27.17%) SC Cleared
9 22 (23.91%) GitLab
10 21 (22.83%) Jenkins
11 20 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (19.57%) Grafana
13 17 (18.48%) Bash
13 17 (18.48%) Prometheus
14 16 (17.39%) GCP
15 15 (16.30%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (16.30%) Go
15 15 (16.30%) Kafka
15 15 (16.30%) Observability
16 14 (15.22%) Agile
16 14 (15.22%) Serverless
17 12 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 11 (11.96%) Ansible
18 11 (11.96%) Datadog
18 11 (11.96%) GitHub

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 (1.09%) Apache
1 1 (1.09%) Confluence
1 1 (1.09%) Drupal
1 1 (1.09%) IIS
1 1 (1.09%) nginx
1 1 (1.09%) SAS
1 1 (1.09%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (27.17%) Azure
3 20 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (17.39%) GCP
5 15 (16.30%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (15.22%) Serverless
7 12 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (11.96%) Datadog
8 11 (11.96%) GitHub
9 10 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (8.70%) Amazon MSK
10 8 (8.70%) OpenShift
11 7 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (6.52%) Pulumi
13 5 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (5.43%) Amazon S3
14 4 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 3 (3.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) DNS
1 1 (1.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.61%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.17%) Big Data
2 2 (2.17%) Redis
3 1 (1.09%) DocumentDB
3 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.09%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.09%) Metadata
3 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.09%) MySQL
3 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (23.91%) GitLab
2 21 (22.83%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.61%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.35%) Git
5 2 (2.17%) git-flow
5 2 (2.17%) JIRA
5 2 (2.17%) Maven
6 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.09%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.09%) Gatling
6 1 (1.09%) Gradle
6 1 (1.09%) JMeter
6 1 (1.09%) Postman
6 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.09%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (18.48%) Finance
2 15 (16.30%) Banking
3 10 (10.87%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.17%) Games
5 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.09%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.30%) Kafka
2 10 (10.87%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.17%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.17%) JSON
3 2 (2.17%) YAML
4 1 (1.09%) .NET
4 1 (1.09%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.09%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.09%) Memcached
4 1 (1.09%) Next.js
4 1 (1.09%) Node.js
4 1 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.09%) React
4 1 (1.09%) React Native
4 1 (1.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.26%) Life Science
2 3 (3.26%) PropTech
3 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.09%) Genomics
3 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.09%) Windows
2 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (42.39%) CI/CD
4 31 (33.70%) Containerisation
5 20 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (16.30%) Observability
7 14 (15.22%) Agile
8 11 (11.96%) Software Engineering
9 10 (10.87%) High Availability
9 10 (10.87%) Mentoring
10 9 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (9.78%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (9.78%) Fintech
10 9 (9.78%) Incident Management
10 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (9.78%) Microservices
11 8 (8.70%) Cloud Security
11 8 (8.70%) Open Source
11 8 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (34.78%) Python
2 17 (18.48%) Bash
3 15 (16.30%) Go
4 9 (9.78%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.61%) SQL
6 3 (3.26%) Java
7 2 (2.17%) Bicep
7 2 (2.17%) C#
7 2 (2.17%) Groovy
8 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.09%) Perl
8 1 (1.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (40.22%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) GDPR
1 7 (7.61%) PCI DSS
1 7 (7.61%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.09%) NCSC
2 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 31 (33.70%) Docker
2 8 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (47.83%) Terraform
2 32 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 18 (19.57%) Grafana
4 17 (18.48%) Prometheus
5 11 (11.96%) Ansible
6 8 (8.70%) Istio
7 6 (6.52%) Argo
8 2 (2.17%) Packer
8 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.09%) Consul
9 1 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (8.70%) Confluent
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.17%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.09%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.09%) Google
4 1 (1.09%) IBM
4 1 (1.09%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.09%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.09%) TOWER Software