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 23 February 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 496 591
Rank change year-on-year -105 +95 +49
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 60 181 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.38% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.41% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 50 159 191
10th Percentile £50,675 £77,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £86,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +29.41% +8.28%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 - £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +5.66%

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 62,963 43,992 71,553
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.36% 91.41% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39,692 23,186 55,777
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,268
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 23 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 23 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 -106 51 £77,500 -29.55% 19
UK excluding London +16 32 £67,500 - 16
London -103 21 £100,000 -9.09% 6
Work from Home -59 17 £90,000 -18.18% 8
North West +18 13 £70,000 -22.22% 5
North of England -9 13 £70,000 -12.50% 6
Midlands +7 8 £51,500 -35.63%
South West -14 5 £100,000 +53.85% 5
East Midlands -17 5 £75,000 -6.25%
South East 0 4 £65,000 - 5
Scotland -5 4 - -
West Midlands - 3 £51,500 -
East of England +5 1 £57,500 -11.54%

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 60 (100.00%) AWS
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 28 (46.67%) Terraform
4 26 (43.33%) Kubernetes
5 24 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (40.00%) Python
6 17 (28.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (26.67%) GitHub
8 15 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (25.00%) Docker
8 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
9 13 (21.67%) Ansible
9 13 (21.67%) Azure
9 13 (21.67%) Jenkins
10 12 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (18.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (18.33%) Bash
11 11 (18.33%) Kafka
11 11 (18.33%) Serverless
12 10 (16.67%) Agile
12 10 (16.67%) Java
12 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
13 9 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (15.00%) Grafana
13 9 (15.00%) Linux
13 9 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
14 8 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (13.33%) Containerisation
14 8 (13.33%) 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 (1.67%) Apache
1 1 (1.67%) JBoss
1 1 (1.67%) SAS
1 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (28.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 16 (26.67%) GitHub
4 15 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (21.67%) Azure
6 12 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (18.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (18.33%) Serverless
8 8 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (11.67%) Datadog
10 6 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (10.00%) OpenShift
11 5 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (8.33%) PaaS
12 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
12 4 (6.67%) Azure AKS
13 3 (5.00%) GCP
14 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) DNS
1 1 (1.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) Flink
2 4 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) Metadata
4 1 (1.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (13.33%) GitLab
3 4 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.00%) CircleCI
4 3 (5.00%) Git
5 2 (3.33%) Maven
5 2 (3.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.67%) Ant
6 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.67%) Gradle
6 1 (1.67%) JIRA
6 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (20.00%) Finance
2 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Banking
4 6 (10.00%) Front Office
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Advertising
6 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Law
7 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.33%) Kafka
2 6 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.00%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.33%) AWS SAM
4 2 (3.33%) JWT
4 2 (3.33%) Node.js
4 2 (3.33%) OAuth
5 1 (1.67%) JSON
5 1 (1.67%) Middleware
5 1 (1.67%) React
5 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.00%) Clustering
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.00%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Unix
3 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 24 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (16.67%) Agile
5 9 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 8 (13.33%) Observability
6 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.67%) High Availability
7 7 (11.67%) Mentoring
7 7 (11.67%) Microservices
8 6 (10.00%) Fintech
8 6 (10.00%) Front End Development
8 6 (10.00%) Investment Management
8 6 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 4 (6.67%) RBAC
9 4 (6.67%) Test Automation
10 3 (5.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.00%) Python
2 11 (18.33%) Bash
3 10 (16.67%) Java
4 7 (11.67%) Go
5 4 (6.67%) Bicep
5 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.00%) SQL
7 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.67%) Groovy
8 1 (1.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) GDPR
1 3 (5.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (5.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (46.67%) Terraform
2 26 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 13 (21.67%) Ansible
4 9 (15.00%) Grafana
5 7 (11.67%) Argo
6 6 (10.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.67%) Podman
7 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (6.67%) LogicMonitor
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (3.33%) AppDynamics