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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 678 576 686
Rank change year-on-year -102 +110 -177
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 99 103 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.23% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 88 62 115
10th Percentile £49,100 £52,600 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,344 £76,875 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £54,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +28.44% -12.80% -10.71%

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 95,592 44,533 83,697
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 90.08% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 65,383 26,478 58,009
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -73 95 £75,000 -31.82% 21
UK excluding London -35 53 £70,000 +28.44% 12
London -51 40 £82,500 -25.00% 10
Work from Home -52 36 £85,000 -15.00% 10
North of England 0 31 £70,000 +7.69% 4
North West +17 24 £70,000 +7.69% 1
South West -48 14 £71,250 - 4
South East -22 7 £80,000 +113.33% 2
North East - 6 £60,000 - 3
Midlands -36 2 £68,750 -4.51%
East Midlands -27 1 £75,000 +38.89%
West Midlands -31 1 £62,500 -30.56%
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 27 July 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 99 (100.00%) AWS
1 99 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (42.42%) Terraform
4 39 (39.39%) Security Cleared
5 36 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 32 (32.32%) Kubernetes
7 31 (31.31%) Docker
8 30 (30.30%) Containerisation
9 29 (29.29%) Python
10 27 (27.27%) SC Cleared
11 23 (23.23%) Azure
12 22 (22.22%) GitLab
13 19 (19.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (18.18%) Jenkins
15 17 (17.17%) Grafana
16 16 (16.16%) Bash
16 16 (16.16%) GCP
16 16 (16.16%) Prometheus
17 15 (15.15%) Go
17 15 (15.15%) Kafka
18 14 (14.14%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (14.14%) Observability
19 13 (13.13%) Agile
20 12 (12.12%) Mentoring
20 12 (12.12%) Serverless
21 11 (11.11%) Datadog
21 11 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
21 11 (11.11%) Fintech

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 (1.01%) Apache
1 1 (1.01%) Confluence
1 1 (1.01%) Drupal
1 1 (1.01%) IIS
1 1 (1.01%) nginx
1 1 (1.01%) SAS
1 1 (1.01%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (23.23%) Azure
3 19 (19.19%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (16.16%) GCP
5 14 (14.14%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (12.12%) Serverless
7 11 (11.11%) Datadog
8 10 (10.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (10.10%) GitHub
9 8 (8.08%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (8.08%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.08%) OpenShift
10 6 (6.06%) Pulumi
11 5 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (5.05%) Amazon S3
11 5 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) DNS
1 1 (1.01%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.07%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.02%) Big Data
3 2 (2.02%) Redis
4 1 (1.01%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.01%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.01%) Metadata
4 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.01%) MySQL
4 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (22.22%) GitLab
2 18 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.07%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.04%) Git
5 2 (2.02%) git-flow
5 2 (2.02%) JIRA
6 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.01%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.01%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.01%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.01%) Gatling
6 1 (1.01%) JMeter
6 1 (1.01%) Maven
6 1 (1.01%) Postman
6 1 (1.01%) Snyk
6 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.01%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (17.17%) Finance
2 15 (15.15%) Banking
3 9 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.05%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.02%) Games
5 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.01%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.15%) Kafka
2 11 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.02%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.02%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.01%) .NET
4 1 (1.01%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.01%) JSON
4 1 (1.01%) Memcached
4 1 (1.01%) Next.js
4 1 (1.01%) Node.js
4 1 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.01%) React
4 1 (1.01%) React Native
4 1 (1.01%) REST
4 1 (1.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.04%) Life Science
2 4 (4.04%) PropTech
3 2 (2.02%) Genomics
3 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.01%) Windows
2 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 30 (30.30%) Containerisation
5 19 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (14.14%) Observability
7 13 (13.13%) Agile
8 12 (12.12%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.11%) Fintech
10 10 (10.10%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (10.10%) Software Engineering
11 9 (9.09%) High Availability
11 9 (9.09%) Incident Management
11 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (8.08%) Cloud Security
12 8 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.08%) Microservices
12 8 (8.08%) Open Source
13 7 (7.07%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (29.29%) Python
2 16 (16.16%) Bash
3 15 (15.15%) Go
4 8 (8.08%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.07%) SQL
6 3 (3.03%) Java
7 2 (2.02%) C#
7 2 (2.02%) Groovy
8 1 (1.01%) Bicep
8 1 (1.01%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.01%) Perl
8 1 (1.01%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 27 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.04%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) GDPR
1 7 (7.07%) PCI DSS
1 7 (7.07%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.01%) NCSC
2 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 31 (31.31%) Docker
2 8 (8.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (42.42%) Terraform
2 32 (32.32%) Kubernetes
3 17 (17.17%) Grafana
4 16 (16.16%) Prometheus
5 10 (10.10%) Ansible
6 8 (8.08%) Istio
7 7 (7.07%) Argo
8 2 (2.02%) Packer
8 2 (2.02%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.01%) Consul
9 1 (1.01%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (8.08%) Confluent
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.01%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.01%) Cognizant
3 1 (1.01%) Google
3 1 (1.01%) IBM
3 1 (1.01%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (1.01%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.01%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.01%) TOWER Software