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 19 October 2026.
The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 19 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 738 | 583 | 648 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -155 | +65 | -180 |
| Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer | 93 | 67 | 100 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in the UK | 0.078% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.084% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 72 | 31 | 77 |
| 10th Percentile | £56,375 | £50,000 | £51,250 |
| 25th Percentile | £60,000 | £52,500 | £65,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £70,000 | £80,000 | £82,500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -12.50% | -3.03% | +3.13% |
| 75th Percentile | £80,000 | £83,750 | £105,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £90,000 | £115,000 | £128,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £70,000 | £52,750 | £70,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +32.70% | -24.64% | - |
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.
| 6 months to 19 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title | 110,575 | 43,887 | 66,229 |
| % of permanent jobs with a recognized job title | 92.35% | 89.81% | 95.36% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 74,795 | 25,885 | 37,895 |
| 10th Percentile | £30,250 | £28,000 | £31,250 |
| 25th Percentile | £41,250 | £35,000 | £41,250 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £59,000 | £52,500 | £56,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +12.38% | -6.25% | -6.67% |
| 75th Percentile | £76,250 | £73,750 | £75,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £98,750 | £93,750 | £95,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £55,000 | £45,000 | £50,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +22.22% | -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 Salary Trend
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 19 October 2026.
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 19 October 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 | -146 | 80 | £70,000 | -12.50% | 100 |
| UK excluding London | -113 | 50 | £70,000 | +32.70% | 54 |
| London | -88 | 37 | £70,000 | -12.50% | 48 |
| North of England | -49 | 25 | £75,000 | - | 23 |
| Work from Home | -76 | 21 | £75,000 | -4.76% | 47 |
| North West | -34 | 19 | £77,500 | - | 16 |
| South West | - | 14 | £60,000 | - | 5 |
| Scotland | +13 | 7 | £100,000 | - | 3 |
| South East | -51 | 4 | £80,000 | +113.33% | 7 |
| Yorkshire | - | 3 | £70,000 | - | 3 |
| North East | - | 3 | £60,000 | - | 4 |
AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities
For the 6 months to 19 October 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.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 93 |
| 1 | DevOps | 100.0% | 93 |
| 3 | Security Cleared | 47.3% | 44 |
| 4 | Terraform | 45.2% | 42 |
| 5 | CI/CD | 43.0% | 40 |
| 5 | Infrastructure as Code | 43.0% | 40 |
| 7 | SC Cleared | 38.7% | 36 |
| 8 | Agile | 33.3% | 31 |
| 9 | Kubernetes | 32.3% | 30 |
| 10 | Observability | 31.2% | 29 |
| 11 | Docker | 28.0% | 26 |
| 12 | Python | 24.7% | 23 |
| 13 | Bash | 22.6% | 21 |
| 14 | Grafana | 21.5% | 20 |
| 14 | Test Automation | 21.5% | 20 |
| 16 | Jenkins | 20.4% | 19 |
| 17 | Prometheus | 19.4% | 18 |
| 18 | Containerisation | 18.3% | 17 |
| 18 | Problem-Solving | 18.3% | 17 |
| 20 | AWS CloudFormation | 17.2% | 16 |
| 20 | GitLab | 17.2% | 16 |
| 22 | Git | 15.1% | 14 |
| 23 | Amazon EKS | 14.0% | 13 |
| 23 | Amazon RDS | 14.0% | 13 |
| 23 | Elastic Stack | 14.0% | 13 |
| 23 | Platform Engineering | 14.0% | 13 |
| 27 | Continuous Improvement | 12.9% | 12 |
| 27 | Secrets Management | 12.9% | 12 |
| 29 | Amazon CloudWatch | 11.8% | 11 |
| 29 | Change Management | 11.8% | 11 |
AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Senior AWS DevOps Engineer | 15.1% | 14 |
| 2 | Cloud Native Engineer | 14.0% | 13 |
| 3 | Lead DevOps Engineer | 11.8% | 11 |
| 4 | AWS Infrastructure Engineer | 6.5% | 6 |
| 4 | AWS Infrastructure Lead | 6.5% | 6 |
| 4 | Lead Infrastructure Engineer | 6.5% | 6 |
| 4 | Senior Infrastructure Engineer | 6.5% | 6 |
| 8 | Azure DevOps Engineer | 4.3% | 4 |
| 8 | DevOps Engineer - Fintech | 4.3% | 4 |
| 10 | Associate Engineer | 2.2% | 2 |
| 10 | Kubernetes Engineer | 2.2% | 2 |
| 10 | Senior Server Engineer | 2.2% | 2 |
| 10 | Serverless Engineer | 2.2% | 2 |
| 14 | AWS Software Engineer | 1.1% | 1 |
| 14 | DevOps Automation Engineer | 1.1% | 1 |
| 14 | Python Engineer | 1.1% | 1 |