AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 700 608 694
Rank change year-on-year -92 +86 -214
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 89 79 118
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 77 43 87
10th Percentile £48,800 £52,500 £52,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,625 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £54,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +28.44% -16.15% -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 100,717 45,123 78,702
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.93% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 68,844 26,712 52,410
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,350 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%

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 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 12 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 17 August 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 -53 87 £72,500 -9.38% 13
UK excluding London -67 49 £70,000 +28.44% 10
London -68 37 £82,500 - 5
Work from Home -49 34 £82,500 +3.13% 10
North of England -29 26 £70,000 +7.69% 3
North West +1 19 £75,000 +15.38% 2
South West -60 16 £60,000 - 3
South East -37 7 £80,000 +113.33%
North East - 6 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -24 1 £62,500 -30.56% 1
Midlands -34 1 £62,500 -13.19% 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 17 August 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 89 (100.00%) AWS
1 89 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (44.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 40 (44.94%) Terraform
3 35 (39.33%) CI/CD
4 34 (38.20%) Security Cleared
5 31 (34.83%) Docker
6 30 (33.71%) Containerisation
7 29 (32.58%) Kubernetes
8 26 (29.21%) Python
9 25 (28.09%) SC Cleared
10 21 (23.60%) Azure
11 20 (22.47%) GitLab
12 19 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (20.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (17.98%) Jenkins
15 15 (16.85%) Agile
15 15 (16.85%) Bash
15 15 (16.85%) Observability
16 14 (15.73%) GCP
16 14 (15.73%) Grafana
17 13 (14.61%) Amazon EKS
17 13 (14.61%) Go
17 13 (14.61%) Kafka
18 12 (13.48%) Prometheus
19 11 (12.36%) Serverless
20 10 (11.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 10 (11.24%) Ansible
20 10 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
20 10 (11.24%) Elastic Stack

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 (3.37%) Confluence
1 3 (3.37%) nginx
2 1 (1.12%) Apache
2 1 (1.12%) Drupal
2 1 (1.12%) IIS
2 1 (1.12%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (23.60%) Azure
3 18 (20.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (15.73%) GCP
5 13 (14.61%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (12.36%) Serverless
7 10 (11.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (10.11%) Datadog
8 9 (10.11%) GitHub
9 8 (8.99%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (8.99%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (8.99%) OpenShift
10 7 (7.87%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (6.74%) Pulumi
11 6 (6.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (5.62%) Amazon S3
12 5 (5.62%) Route 53
13 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) DNS
1 1 (1.12%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.25%) Big Data
3 2 (2.25%) Redis
4 1 (1.12%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.12%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.12%) MySQL
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (22.47%) GitLab
2 16 (17.98%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.87%) Git
4 5 (5.62%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.49%) git-flow
5 4 (4.49%) JIRA
6 2 (2.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.25%) Snyk
7 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.12%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.12%) Gatling
7 1 (1.12%) JMeter
7 1 (1.12%) Maven
7 1 (1.12%) Postman
7 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.12%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (17.98%) Finance
2 14 (15.73%) Banking
3 6 (6.74%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.25%) Games
5 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.61%) Kafka
2 10 (11.24%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (5.62%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.12%) .NET
4 1 (1.12%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.12%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.12%) JSON
4 1 (1.12%) Memcached
4 1 (1.12%) Next.js
4 1 (1.12%) Node.js
4 1 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.12%) React
4 1 (1.12%) React Native
4 1 (1.12%) REST
4 1 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.49%) Life Science
2 4 (4.49%) PropTech
3 2 (2.25%) Genomics
3 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Linux
2 3 (3.37%) Windows
3 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (44.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (39.33%) CI/CD
4 30 (33.71%) Containerisation
5 19 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (16.85%) Agile
6 15 (16.85%) Observability
7 10 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (11.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 9 (10.11%) Fintech
8 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (8.99%) Cloud Security
9 8 (8.99%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (8.99%) Mentoring
9 8 (8.99%) Open Source
9 8 (8.99%) Test Automation
10 7 (7.87%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (7.87%) DevSecOps
10 7 (7.87%) High Availability
10 7 (7.87%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.21%) Python
2 15 (16.85%) Bash
3 13 (14.61%) Go
4 9 (10.11%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.62%) SQL
6 3 (3.37%) Java
7 2 (2.25%) C#
7 2 (2.25%) Groovy
8 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.12%) Perl
8 1 (1.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (38.20%) Security Cleared
2 25 (28.09%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) GDPR
1 5 (5.62%) PCI DSS
1 5 (5.62%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.12%) NCSC
2 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 31 (34.83%) Docker
2 8 (8.99%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (44.94%) Terraform
2 29 (32.58%) Kubernetes
3 14 (15.73%) Grafana
4 12 (13.48%) Prometheus
5 10 (11.24%) Ansible
6 8 (8.99%) Argo
6 8 (8.99%) Istio
7 3 (3.37%) Puppet
8 2 (2.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.25%) Packer
8 2 (2.25%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.12%) Consul
Vendors
1 8 (8.99%) Confluent
2 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.25%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.12%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.12%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.12%) Google
4 1 (1.12%) IBM
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.12%) TOWER Software