AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2026.

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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 646 496 688
Rank change year-on-year -150 +192 -89
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 81 158 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.36% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.41% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 72 134 165
10th Percentile £47,300 £75,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £85,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +33.33% +3.13%
75th Percentile £92,500 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £118,325 - £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -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 84,369 38,923 91,211
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 89.45% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 55,003 23,201 67,042
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +9.90% -12.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -103 77 £72,500 -34.09% 8
UK excluding London -40 41 £62,500 -3.85% 3
London -111 34 £85,000 -22.73% 5
Work from Home -75 28 £92,500 -15.91% 5
North of England -42 23 £60,000 -22.58%
North West -6 16 £61,250 -20.97%
South West -42 9 £100,000 +110.53% 1
South East -19 7 £75,000 +100.00% 2
North East - 6 £60,000 -
Midlands -35 3 £75,000 -6.25%
East Midlands -23 2 £75,000 -6.25%
Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £62,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 81 (100.00%) AWS
1 81 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (45.68%) Terraform
3 36 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (39.51%) CI/CD
5 29 (35.80%) Kubernetes
5 29 (35.80%) Python
6 26 (32.10%) Security Cleared
7 24 (29.63%) Docker
8 23 (28.40%) Azure
8 23 (28.40%) Containerisation
9 20 (24.69%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (22.22%) Kafka
11 16 (19.75%) GCP
12 15 (18.52%) Go
12 15 (18.52%) Jenkins
13 14 (17.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (17.28%) SC Cleared
13 14 (17.28%) Serverless
14 13 (16.05%) GitHub
14 13 (16.05%) GitLab
14 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (14.81%) Ansible
16 11 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (13.58%) Grafana
16 11 (13.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 10 (12.35%) Bash
17 10 (12.35%) Datadog
17 10 (12.35%) Fintech
17 10 (12.35%) Mentoring

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 (1.23%) Apache
1 1 (1.23%) Confluence
1 1 (1.23%) Drupal
1 1 (1.23%) IIS
1 1 (1.23%) nginx
1 1 (1.23%) SAS
1 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (28.40%) Azure
3 20 (24.69%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (19.75%) GCP
5 14 (17.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (17.28%) Serverless
6 13 (16.05%) GitHub
7 11 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (12.35%) Datadog
9 8 (9.88%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (9.88%) OpenShift
10 7 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (6.17%) Amazon S3
12 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (4.94%) SaaS
12 4 (4.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.64%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.70%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.70%) Flink
3 1 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.23%) Big Data
3 1 (1.23%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.23%) Metadata
3 1 (1.23%) MySQL
3 1 (1.23%) Redis
3 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 13 (16.05%) GitLab
3 7 (8.64%) CircleCI
4 3 (3.70%) Git
5 2 (2.47%) JIRA
5 2 (2.47%) Maven
6 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.23%) Gatling
6 1 (1.23%) git-flow
6 1 (1.23%) Gradle
6 1 (1.23%) JMeter
6 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.23%) Vagrant
General
1 20 (24.69%) Finance
2 18 (22.22%) Banking
3 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.70%) Front Office
6 2 (2.47%) Games
6 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.23%) Advertising
7 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.22%) Kafka
2 8 (9.88%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.47%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.47%) JSON
3 2 (2.47%) YAML
4 1 (1.23%) .NET
4 1 (1.23%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.23%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.23%) Memcached
4 1 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.70%) Fixed Income
2 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.23%) Hedge funds
2 1 (1.23%) Life Science
2 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.88%) Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (39.51%) CI/CD
4 23 (28.40%) Containerisation
5 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (13.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 10 (12.35%) Fintech
7 10 (12.35%) Mentoring
7 10 (12.35%) Software Engineering
8 9 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (11.11%) High Availability
8 9 (11.11%) Microservices
8 9 (11.11%) Open Source
9 8 (9.88%) Agile
9 8 (9.88%) Incident Management
10 7 (8.64%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure Management
11 6 (7.41%) Observability
11 6 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
12 4 (4.94%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 29 (35.80%) Python
2 15 (18.52%) Go
3 10 (12.35%) Bash
4 7 (8.64%) SQL
5 6 (7.41%) Java
6 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.47%) Bicep
7 2 (2.47%) Groovy
8 1 (1.23%) Perl
8 1 (1.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (32.10%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) GDPR
1 7 (8.64%) PCI DSS
1 7 (8.64%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.23%) NCSC
2 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 24 (29.63%) Docker
2 8 (9.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (45.68%) Terraform
2 29 (35.80%) Kubernetes
3 12 (14.81%) Ansible
4 11 (13.58%) Grafana
5 10 (12.35%) Prometheus
6 8 (9.88%) Istio
7 3 (3.70%) Argo
8 2 (2.47%) Packer
8 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.23%) Consul
9 1 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (9.88%) Confluent
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.47%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.23%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.23%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.23%) Google
4 1 (1.23%) IBM
4 1 (1.23%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.23%) TOWER Software