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 7 September 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 720 603 692
Rank change year-on-year -117 +89 -204
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 83 76 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 71 40 73
10th Percentile £56,250 £49,375 £51,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -12.12%
75th Percentile £90,000 £103,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - £127,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £52,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +32.70% -18.85% -7.14%

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 105,102 44,449 75,863
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 89.67% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 72,370 26,229 47,676
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,238 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 7 September 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 7 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 -117 79 £70,000 -12.50% 54
UK excluding London -93 43 £70,000 +32.70% 29
London -71 36 £80,000 -3.03% 36
Work from Home -41 29 £75,000 -6.25% 15
North of England -38 22 £70,000 +7.69% 6
North West -2 15 £75,000 +15.38% 4
South West -68 13 £60,000 - 5
South East -40 7 £80,000 +113.33% 4
North East - 6 £60,000 -
Scotland +3 1 £100,000 - 8
West Midlands -42 1 £62,500 +21.36% 3
Midlands -48 1 £62,500 +18.48% 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 83 (100.00%) AWS
1 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (48.19%) Terraform
3 37 (44.58%) CI/CD
3 37 (44.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (42.17%) Security Cleared
5 31 (37.35%) Docker
6 29 (34.94%) Kubernetes
7 27 (32.53%) Containerisation
8 26 (31.33%) SC Cleared
9 25 (30.12%) Python
10 19 (22.89%) Observability
11 18 (21.69%) Agile
11 18 (21.69%) GitLab
12 17 (20.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (20.48%) Jenkins
12 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (19.28%) Bash
14 15 (18.07%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (18.07%) Azure
14 15 (18.07%) Grafana
15 13 (15.66%) Prometheus
16 12 (14.46%) Kafka
16 12 (14.46%) Test Automation
17 11 (13.25%) Elastic Stack
17 11 (13.25%) Serverless
18 10 (12.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
18 10 (12.05%) GCP
18 10 (12.05%) 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 3 (3.61%) Confluence
1 3 (3.61%) nginx
2 1 (1.20%) Apache
2 1 (1.20%) Drupal
2 1 (1.20%) IIS
2 1 (1.20%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (20.48%) AWS CloudFormation
3 15 (18.07%) Amazon EKS
3 15 (18.07%) Azure
4 11 (13.25%) Serverless
5 10 (12.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (12.05%) GCP
6 9 (10.84%) GitHub
7 8 (9.64%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (8.43%) Datadog
9 6 (7.23%) Amazon MSK
9 6 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (7.23%) OpenShift
9 6 (7.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (6.02%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.02%) Route 53
11 4 (4.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (3.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) DNS
1 1 (1.20%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.84%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.02%) Redis
3 3 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.41%) Big Data
5 1 (1.20%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.20%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.20%) MySQL
5 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (21.69%) GitLab
2 17 (20.48%) Jenkins
3 10 (12.05%) Git
4 4 (4.82%) git-flow
4 4 (4.82%) JIRA
5 3 (3.61%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.41%) Snyk
7 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.20%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.20%) Gatling
7 1 (1.20%) JMeter
7 1 (1.20%) Maven
7 1 (1.20%) Postman
7 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.20%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (13.25%) Banking
1 11 (13.25%) Finance
2 5 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.82%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.41%) Games
4 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.20%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (48.19%) Terraform
2 12 (14.46%) Kafka
3 11 (13.25%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (7.23%) Pulumi
5 5 (6.02%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.61%) Keycloak
7 2 (2.41%) OpenTofu
8 1 (1.20%) .NET
8 1 (1.20%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.20%) JSON
8 1 (1.20%) Memcached
8 1 (1.20%) Next.js
8 1 (1.20%) Node.js
8 1 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.20%) React
8 1 (1.20%) React Native
8 1 (1.20%) REST
8 1 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.89%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.82%) Life Science
2 4 (4.82%) PropTech
3 3 (3.61%) Replication
4 2 (2.41%) Genomics
4 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Windows
3 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (44.58%) CI/CD
2 37 (44.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (32.53%) Containerisation
4 19 (22.89%) Observability
5 18 (21.69%) Agile
6 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (14.46%) Test Automation
8 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (10.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (9.64%) Cloud Security
11 7 (8.43%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (8.43%) DevSecOps
11 7 (8.43%) Fintech
11 7 (8.43%) Incident Response
11 7 (8.43%) Mentoring
11 7 (8.43%) Secrets Management
12 6 (7.23%) Open Source
12 6 (7.23%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (30.12%) Python
2 16 (19.28%) Bash
3 9 (10.84%) Go
3 9 (10.84%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.02%) Groovy
5 3 (3.61%) Java
5 3 (3.61%) SQL
6 2 (2.41%) C#
7 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.20%) Perl
7 1 (1.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (42.17%) Security Cleared
2 26 (31.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) GDPR
1 3 (3.61%) PCI DSS
1 3 (3.61%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.20%) NCSC
2 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 31 (37.35%) Docker
2 6 (7.23%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (34.94%) Kubernetes
2 15 (18.07%) Grafana
3 13 (15.66%) Prometheus
4 8 (9.64%) Ansible
4 8 (9.64%) Argo
5 6 (7.23%) Istio
6 3 (3.61%) Puppet
6 3 (3.61%) Rancher
7 2 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.41%) Packer
7 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.20%) Consul
Vendors
1 6 (7.23%) Confluent
2 3 (3.61%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.20%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.20%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.20%) Google
4 1 (1.20%) IBM
4 1 (1.20%) Intel
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.20%) TOWER Software