AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 723 607 666
Rank change year-on-year -116 +59 -199
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 90 70 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 71 34 67
10th Percentile £56,250 £50,225 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £52,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +35.07% -24.64% -

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 109,627 44,572 70,730
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 89.76% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 74,613 25,684 40,879
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £35,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £54,824 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% -0.32% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.28% -7.00% -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 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 11 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 5 October 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 -99 79 £70,000 -12.50% 131
UK excluding London -108 48 £71,250 +35.07% 107
London -80 36 £70,000 -12.50% 52
North of England -33 25 £75,000 +15.38% 28
Work from Home -46 22 £75,000 -6.25% 96
North West -19 19 £78,750 +21.15% 20
South West - 14 £60,000 - 7
Scotland +4 5 £100,000 - 19
South East -47 4 £80,000 +113.33% 8
Yorkshire - 3 £70,000 - 5
North East - 3 £60,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 5 October 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 90 (100.00%) AWS
1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (48.89%) Security Cleared
3 42 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (46.67%) Terraform
4 41 (45.56%) CI/CD
5 37 (41.11%) SC Cleared
6 30 (33.33%) Agile
6 30 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 30 (33.33%) Observability
7 27 (30.00%) Docker
8 23 (25.56%) Python
9 21 (23.33%) Bash
10 20 (22.22%) Grafana
10 20 (22.22%) Jenkins
10 20 (22.22%) Test Automation
11 18 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (20.00%) Prometheus
12 17 (18.89%) GitLab
13 16 (17.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (15.56%) Git
15 13 (14.44%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (14.44%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (14.44%) Elastic Stack
15 13 (14.44%) Platform Engineering
16 12 (13.33%) Cloud Security
16 12 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (13.33%) Secrets Management
17 11 (12.22%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 2 (2.22%) Confluence
1 2 (2.22%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (17.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (14.44%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (12.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (11.11%) Serverless
6 9 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 9 (10.00%) GitHub
7 6 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (6.67%) Azure
7 6 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.44%) Datadog
8 4 (4.44%) Route 53
8 4 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.22%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (2.22%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) DNS
1 1 (1.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.44%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (11.11%) Redis
3 9 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.22%) Big Data
5 1 (1.11%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 20 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 17 (18.89%) GitLab
3 14 (15.56%) Git
4 3 (3.33%) git-flow
5 2 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.22%) JIRA
5 2 (2.22%) Snyk
6 1 (1.11%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.11%) Postman
General
1 11 (12.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.22%) Finance
5 1 (1.11%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (46.67%) Terraform
2 13 (14.44%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (10.00%) Kafka
3 9 (10.00%) Keycloak
4 8 (8.89%) Pulumi
5 4 (4.44%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.22%) .NET
6 2 (2.22%) OpenTofu
6 2 (2.22%) RESTful
7 1 (1.11%) Next.js
7 1 (1.11%) Node.js
7 1 (1.11%) React
7 1 (1.11%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.89%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.00%) Replication
3 4 (4.44%) Life Science
3 4 (4.44%) PropTech
4 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.22%) Genomics
5 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Linux
2 2 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (45.56%) CI/CD
4 30 (33.33%) Agile
4 30 (33.33%) Observability
5 20 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 18 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (14.44%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (13.33%) Cloud Security
8 12 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (13.33%) Secrets Management
9 11 (12.22%) Change Management
9 11 (12.22%) Identity Management
9 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Automation
9 11 (12.22%) ITIL
10 10 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (11.11%) Roadmaps
11 9 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
11 9 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.56%) Python
2 21 (23.33%) Bash
3 11 (12.22%) PowerShell
4 9 (10.00%) Groovy
5 3 (3.33%) Java
5 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.22%) C#
7 1 (1.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 44 (48.89%) Security Cleared
2 37 (41.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 20 (22.22%) Grafana
3 18 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 10 (11.11%) Argo
5 9 (10.00%) Rancher
6 3 (3.33%) Ansible
7 2 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.22%) Puppet
7 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (10.00%) Dynatrace
1 9 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (5.56%) Intel
3 2 (2.22%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.11%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle