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 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 711 589 702
Rank change year-on-year -122 +113 -235
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 86 76 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 72 38 62
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,525 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.92% -4.69%
75th Percentile £81,875 £89,375 £89,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £127,500 £104,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £54,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +29.63% -22.86% -

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 108,248 44,029 73,823
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 89.64% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 74,086 25,880 44,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -101 80 £70,000 -12.50% 104
UK excluding London -90 46 £70,000 +29.63% 53
London -83 36 £70,000 -12.50% 51
North of England -48 25 £70,000 +7.69% 21
Work from Home -56 20 £75,000 -6.25% 38
North West -22 15 £78,750 +21.15% 16
South West -59 13 £60,000 - 5
South East -52 6 £80,000 +113.33% 5
North East - 6 £60,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +14 3 £100,000 - 9

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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 86 (100.00%) AWS
1 86 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (51.16%) Security Cleared
3 41 (47.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (46.51%) Terraform
5 39 (45.35%) CI/CD
6 35 (40.70%) SC Cleared
7 29 (33.72%) Docker
8 28 (32.56%) Kubernetes
8 28 (32.56%) Observability
9 26 (30.23%) Agile
10 25 (29.07%) Python
11 22 (25.58%) Jenkins
12 20 (23.26%) Bash
12 20 (23.26%) Grafana
13 18 (20.93%) Prometheus
13 18 (20.93%) Test Automation
14 17 (19.77%) Containerisation
14 17 (19.77%) GitLab
15 16 (18.60%) Git
15 16 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (17.44%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (16.28%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (16.28%) Elastic Stack
18 13 (15.12%) Amazon EKS
18 13 (15.12%) Secrets Management
19 12 (13.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 12 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
19 12 (13.95%) Serverless
20 11 (12.79%) Change Management

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 (2.33%) Confluence
1 2 (2.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (17.44%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (15.12%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (13.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (13.95%) Serverless
5 9 (10.47%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 9 (10.47%) GitHub
6 7 (8.14%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (5.81%) Azure
8 5 (5.81%) Datadog
8 5 (5.81%) Route 53
8 5 (5.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) DNS
1 1 (1.16%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.28%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (11.63%) Redis
3 9 (10.47%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.33%) Big Data
5 1 (1.16%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.16%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (25.58%) Jenkins
2 17 (19.77%) GitLab
3 16 (18.60%) Git
4 4 (4.65%) git-flow
5 3 (3.49%) JIRA
6 2 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.33%) Snyk
7 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.16%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.16%) Maven
7 1 (1.16%) Postman
7 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (12.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.65%) Finance
4 2 (2.33%) Banking
4 2 (2.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.16%) Advertising
5 1 (1.16%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (46.51%) Terraform
2 14 (16.28%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (10.47%) Kafka
3 9 (10.47%) Keycloak
4 8 (9.30%) Pulumi
5 5 (5.81%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.33%) OpenTofu
7 1 (1.16%) .NET
7 1 (1.16%) JSON
7 1 (1.16%) Next.js
7 1 (1.16%) Node.js
7 1 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.16%) React
7 1 (1.16%) React Native
7 1 (1.16%) REST
7 1 (1.16%) RESTful
7 1 (1.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.91%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.47%) Replication
3 4 (4.65%) Life Science
3 4 (4.65%) PropTech
4 2 (2.33%) Genomics
4 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.14%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (47.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (45.35%) CI/CD
4 28 (32.56%) Observability
5 26 (30.23%) Agile
6 18 (20.93%) Test Automation
7 17 (19.77%) Containerisation
8 16 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (15.12%) Secrets Management
10 11 (12.79%) Change Management
10 11 (12.79%) Identity Management
10 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (12.79%) ITIL
10 11 (12.79%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (11.63%) Cloud Security
11 10 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (11.63%) Roadmaps
12 9 (10.47%) Build Automation
12 9 (10.47%) Product Roadmap
12 9 (10.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.07%) Python
2 20 (23.26%) Bash
3 11 (12.79%) Groovy
4 10 (11.63%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.65%) Java
6 2 (2.33%) C#
6 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.16%) C++
7 1 (1.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (51.16%) Security Cleared
2 35 (40.70%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 29 (33.72%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (32.56%) Kubernetes
2 20 (23.26%) Grafana
3 18 (20.93%) Prometheus
4 10 (11.63%) Argo
5 9 (10.47%) Rancher
6 5 (5.81%) Ansible
7 2 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.33%) Puppet
7 2 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.16%) Packer
8 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (10.47%) Dynatrace
1 9 (10.47%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.49%) Intel
2 3 (3.49%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.16%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.16%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.16%) IBM
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle