AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 458 634
Rank change year-on-year -155 +176 +21
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 80 178 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.44% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.49% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73 157 191
10th Percentile £45,400 £76,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £90,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +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% -1.85%

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 71,448 36,544 83,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 90.03% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 45,655 22,888 63,388
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,574 £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 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 27 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 14 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 27 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 -147 73 £80,000 -27.27% 16
UK excluding London -30 37 £65,000 - 12
London -110 37 £90,000 -18.18% 6
Work from Home -93 28 £97,750 -11.14% 9
North of England -35 16 £62,500 -21.88% 6
North West -7 15 £65,000 -27.78% 4
South West -34 9 £100,000 +81.82%
South East -36 5 £70,000 +47.37% 3
Midlands -26 4 £68,750 -14.06% 1
East Midlands -45 3 £75,000 -6.25%
Scotland -24 2 - -
East of England -26 1 £57,500 -11.54% 2
North East -29 1 £60,000 -14.29% 2
West Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 80 (100.00%) AWS
1 80 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (47.50%) Terraform
3 36 (45.00%) CI/CD
4 34 (42.50%) Python
5 32 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (40.00%) Kubernetes
6 26 (32.50%) Azure
7 25 (31.25%) Docker
8 23 (28.75%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (27.50%) Containerisation
10 21 (26.25%) Kafka
11 20 (25.00%) Security Cleared
12 16 (20.00%) Ansible
12 16 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (20.00%) GCP
12 16 (20.00%) GitHub
12 16 (20.00%) Go
13 14 (17.50%) Serverless
13 14 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (16.25%) Jenkins
14 13 (16.25%) SC Cleared
15 12 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (15.00%) Grafana
15 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (13.75%) Bash
16 11 (13.75%) Mentoring
17 10 (12.50%) Datadog
17 10 (12.50%) Fintech
17 10 (12.50%) GitLab

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 (1.25%) Apache
1 1 (1.25%) Confluence
1 1 (1.25%) Drupal
1 1 (1.25%) IIS
1 1 (1.25%) nginx
1 1 (1.25%) SAS
1 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (32.50%) Azure
3 23 (28.75%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (20.00%) GCP
4 16 (20.00%) GitHub
5 14 (17.50%) Serverless
6 12 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (12.50%) Datadog
7 10 (12.50%) OpenShift
8 8 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (10.00%) Amazon MSK
9 7 (8.75%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (7.50%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (7.50%) Amazon S3
10 6 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (3.75%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) NoSQL
2 6 (7.50%) Flink
3 5 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.25%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.25%) Metadata
5 1 (1.25%) MySQL
5 1 (1.25%) Redis
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.50%) GitLab
3 7 (8.75%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.50%) Git
5 2 (2.50%) Maven
6 1 (1.25%) Gatling
6 1 (1.25%) git-flow
6 1 (1.25%) Gradle
6 1 (1.25%) JIRA
6 1 (1.25%) JMeter
6 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.25%) Vagrant
General
1 24 (30.00%) Finance
2 19 (23.75%) Banking
3 12 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Front Office
5 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Advertising
7 2 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.25%) Games
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.25%) Kafka
2 8 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.75%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.50%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.50%) JWT
4 2 (2.50%) Node.js
4 2 (2.50%) OAuth
5 1 (1.25%) .NET
5 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.25%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.25%) JSON
5 1 (1.25%) Memcached
5 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Fixed Income
2 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.50%) Clustering
3 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
2 1 (1.25%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 32 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (27.50%) Containerisation
5 14 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (13.75%) Mentoring
8 10 (12.50%) Fintech
8 10 (12.50%) High Availability
8 10 (12.50%) Microservices
8 10 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 9 (11.25%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (11.25%) Open Source
10 8 (10.00%) Agile
11 7 (8.75%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (8.75%) Incident Management
11 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure Management
12 6 (7.50%) Front End Development
12 6 (7.50%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (42.50%) Python
2 16 (20.00%) Go
3 11 (13.75%) Bash
4 8 (10.00%) Java
5 7 (8.75%) SQL
6 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.50%) Bicep
7 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.50%) PHP
8 1 (1.25%) Groovy
8 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) GDPR
1 7 (8.75%) PCI DSS
1 7 (8.75%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.25%) NCSC
2 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 25 (31.25%) Docker
2 8 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (47.50%) Terraform
2 32 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (20.00%) Ansible
4 12 (15.00%) Grafana
5 10 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 8 (10.00%) Istio
7 7 (8.75%) Argo
8 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.25%) Consul
9 1 (1.25%) Packer
9 1 (1.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (10.00%) Confluent
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.50%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.25%) Google
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.25%) TOWER Software