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 January 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 551 543
Rank change year-on-year -59 -8 +138
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 40 149 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.30% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 29 130 175
10th Percentile £50,600 £72,250 £55,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £85,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +29.41% +13.33%
75th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 - £142,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +3.70%

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 55,541 49,002 57,717
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 92.63% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 34,360 25,280 44,689
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,272 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.04%

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 January 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 January 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 -40 35 £75,000 -31.82% 53
UK excluding London +54 21 £60,000 -14.29% 52
London -57 17 £117,500 +6.82% 10
Work from Home -13 14 £85,000 -22.73% 8
Midlands +35 9 £51,500 -35.63% 7
North West +23 5 £100,000 +11.11% 6
North of England +8 5 £100,000 +25.00% 12
West Midlands - 5 £51,500 - 1
Scotland 0 4 - - 1
East Midlands -5 4 £60,500 -24.38% 5
South East - 4 £65,000 - 15
East of England +22 1 £57,500 -11.54% 6
South West +6 1 £60,000 -14.29% 8

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

For the 6 months to 20 January 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 40 (100.00%) AWS
1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (72.50%) CI/CD
3 22 (55.00%) Terraform
4 21 (52.50%) Kubernetes
5 20 (50.00%) Python
6 14 (35.00%) GitHub
7 13 (32.50%) Docker
8 12 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (27.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (27.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (25.00%) Agile
10 10 (25.00%) Ansible
10 10 (25.00%) Azure
10 10 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (25.00%) Jenkins
10 10 (25.00%) Linux
11 9 (22.50%) Bash
11 9 (22.50%) Java
11 9 (22.50%) Kafka
11 9 (22.50%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (17.50%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (17.50%) Argo
12 7 (17.50%) OpenShift
12 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
13 6 (15.00%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (15.00%) Flink
13 6 (15.00%) Front End Development
13 6 (15.00%) Git

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 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
1 2 (5.00%) JBoss
1 2 (5.00%) nginx
1 2 (5.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (35.00%) GitHub
3 12 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (27.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (27.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (25.00%) Azure
5 10 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (17.50%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (17.50%) OpenShift
7 6 (15.00%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (15.00%) PaaS
8 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (12.50%) Serverless
9 4 (10.00%) Datadog
10 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (7.50%) Azure AKS
11 2 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (5.00%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) DNS
1 3 (7.50%) HTTP
2 2 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) FTP
2 2 (5.00%) IMAP
2 2 (5.00%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (5.00%) SMTP
2 2 (5.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Flink
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.50%) MySQL
4 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.00%) Git
3 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 4 (10.00%) GitLab
3 4 (10.00%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) Ant
4 2 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.00%) Maven
4 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.00%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (27.50%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Banking
2 6 (15.00%) Front Office
3 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Advertising
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Law
4 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.50%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) Kafka
2 4 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (7.50%) AWS CDK
4 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.00%) AWS SAM
4 2 (5.00%) JWT
4 2 (5.00%) LDAP
4 2 (5.00%) Middleware
4 2 (5.00%) Node.js
4 2 (5.00%) OAuth
5 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Fixed Income
2 3 (7.50%) Clustering
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (10.00%) Windows
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.00%) Unix
3 2 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (72.50%) CI/CD
3 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (25.00%) Agile
5 9 (22.50%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (15.00%) Front End Development
6 6 (15.00%) Investment Management
6 6 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (12.50%) Configuration Management
7 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (12.50%) Observability
8 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
9 3 (7.50%) Containerisation
9 3 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (7.50%) Fintech
9 3 (7.50%) High Availability
9 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (7.50%) Load Balancing
9 3 (7.50%) Microservices
9 3 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (22.50%) Bash
2 9 (22.50%) Java
3 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.00%) Go
4 4 (10.00%) Groovy
5 3 (7.50%) Bicep
5 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.50%) SQL
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.50%) PHP
6 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) DFS Replication
2 2 (5.00%) Dovecot
2 2 (5.00%) Postfix
2 2 (5.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (55.00%) Terraform
2 21 (52.50%) Kubernetes
3 10 (25.00%) Ansible
4 7 (17.50%) Argo
5 5 (12.50%) Grafana
6 2 (5.00%) Nessus
6 2 (5.00%) Podman
6 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.00%) Proxmox
6 2 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (5.00%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle