AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 479 616
Rank change year-on-year -136 +137 +41
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 75 176 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.100% 0.42% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.46% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 68 155 193
10th Percentile £45,000 £78,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,688 £92,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +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% +1.92%

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 69,320 38,229 80,901
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 90.36% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 44,176 23,016 61,754
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,419 £38,750
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -127 68 £82,500 -25.00% 21
London -114 35 £95,000 -13.64% 8
UK excluding London -18 34 £65,000 - 14
Work from Home -81 27 £100,000 -9.09% 13
North West -7 14 £63,750 -29.17% 5
North of England -32 14 £63,750 -20.31% 9
South West -27 8 £100,000 +81.82%
Midlands -22 5 £62,500 -21.88% 1
South East -20 4 £65,000 +36.84% 4
East Midlands -49 3 £75,000 -6.25%
Scotland -19 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £57,000 - 1
East of England -17 1 £57,500 -11.54%

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

For the 6 months to 20 March 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 75 (100.00%) AWS
1 75 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (48.00%) Terraform
3 34 (45.33%) Python
4 33 (44.00%) CI/CD
5 32 (42.67%) Kubernetes
6 31 (41.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (34.67%) Azure
8 23 (30.67%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (30.67%) Docker
9 21 (28.00%) Containerisation
9 21 (28.00%) Kafka
10 16 (21.33%) Go
10 16 (21.33%) Security Cleared
11 15 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (20.00%) GCP
11 15 (20.00%) GitHub
12 14 (18.67%) Ansible
12 14 (18.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (17.33%) Jenkins
13 13 (17.33%) Serverless
14 12 (16.00%) Bash
14 12 (16.00%) Grafana
14 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (14.67%) SC Cleared
16 10 (13.33%) Datadog
16 10 (13.33%) Fintech
16 10 (13.33%) GitLab
16 10 (13.33%) High Availability

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 (1.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (34.67%) Azure
3 23 (30.67%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (20.00%) GCP
4 15 (20.00%) GitHub
5 13 (17.33%) Serverless
6 11 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (13.33%) Datadog
7 10 (13.33%) OpenShift
8 8 (10.67%) Amazon MSK
9 7 (9.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (8.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (5.33%) Amazon S3
13 3 (4.00%) Azure AKS
14 2 (2.67%) Amazon ECR
14 2 (2.67%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.00%) Flink
3 4 (5.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.33%) Metadata
4 1 (1.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (17.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (13.33%) GitLab
3 7 (9.33%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.33%) Git
5 1 (1.33%) Gradle
5 1 (1.33%) Maven
General
1 23 (30.67%) Finance
2 19 (25.33%) Banking
3 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.00%) Front Office
5 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.67%) Advertising
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Law
7 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (28.00%) Kafka
2 8 (10.67%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.67%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.67%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.67%) JWT
3 2 (2.67%) Node.js
3 2 (2.67%) OAuth
4 1 (1.33%) AWS SAM
4 1 (1.33%) JSON
4 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Fixed Income
2 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.67%) Clustering
3 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (44.00%) CI/CD
3 31 (41.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (28.00%) Containerisation
5 14 (18.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (13.33%) Fintech
7 10 (13.33%) High Availability
7 10 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 10 (13.33%) Microservices
7 10 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (12.00%) Open Source
8 9 (12.00%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.67%) Agile
10 7 (9.33%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (9.33%) Incident Management
10 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Management
11 6 (8.00%) Front End Development
11 6 (8.00%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (45.33%) Python
2 16 (21.33%) Go
3 12 (16.00%) Bash
4 8 (10.67%) Java
5 7 (9.33%) SQL
6 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.00%) Bicep
8 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.33%) PHP
9 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) GDPR
1 7 (9.33%) PCI DSS
1 7 (9.33%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 23 (30.67%) Docker
2 8 (10.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (48.00%) Terraform
2 32 (42.67%) Kubernetes
3 14 (18.67%) Ansible
4 12 (16.00%) Grafana
5 10 (13.33%) Prometheus
6 8 (10.67%) Istio
7 7 (9.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (10.67%) Confluent
2 3 (4.00%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.67%) SolarWinds