AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £81,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 610 457
Rank change year-on-year +43 -153 +243
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 70 148 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.22% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.23% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 36 112 241
10th Percentile £50,375 £60,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% -3.45% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 48,061 64,786 49,849
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 30,303 36,624 38,666
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% -

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS DevOps' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS DevOps job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS DevOps
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies in the UK

AWS DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 22 November 2025. 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 +29 65 £80,000 -17.95% 31
UK excluding London +71 34 £57,500 -17.86% 22
London -4 34 £100,000 -9.09% 18
Work from Home +52 30 £80,000 -11.11% 14
North of England +54 15 £60,000 +2.13% 9
Midlands +75 13 £51,500 -31.33% 1
North West +55 12 £100,000 +90.48% 5
West Midlands - 9 £51,500 -
South East +30 4 £62,500 -10.71% 10
East Midlands +29 4 £50,000 -33.33% 1
Scotland +16 4 - - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £60,000 - 2
East of England +21 1 £57,500 -43.21% 1

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, AWS DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 70 (100.00%) AWS
1 70 (100.00%) DevOps
2 57 (81.43%) CI/CD
3 46 (65.71%) Python
4 40 (57.14%) Terraform
5 36 (51.43%) Kubernetes
6 29 (41.43%) Docker
7 24 (34.29%) Azure
8 23 (32.86%) Jenkins
9 22 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (30.00%) Agile
10 21 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (25.71%) Ansible
11 18 (25.71%) Containerisation
11 18 (25.71%) Java
12 17 (24.29%) GitHub
12 17 (24.29%) Linux
13 16 (22.86%) Git
14 15 (21.43%) Bash
14 15 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
14 15 (21.43%) Grafana
14 15 (21.43%) SQL
15 14 (20.00%) AWS Certification
15 14 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (20.00%) Security Cleared
16 13 (18.57%) Observability
16 13 (18.57%) Platform Engineering
17 12 (17.14%) Azure Certification
17 12 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (17.14%) Microservices

AWS DevOps 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 5 (7.14%) Confluence
1 5 (7.14%) nginx
2 3 (4.29%) Apache
2 3 (4.29%) JBoss
2 3 (4.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (34.29%) Azure
3 21 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (24.29%) GitHub
5 14 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (15.71%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (15.71%) Amazon S3
8 10 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (12.86%) OpenShift
9 9 (12.86%) Serverless
10 8 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (10.00%) GCP
12 6 (8.57%) PaaS
13 5 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (7.14%) Datadog
13 5 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (7.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) DNS
1 6 (8.57%) Firewall
1 6 (8.57%) HTTP
2 5 (7.14%) FTP
2 5 (7.14%) IMAP
2 5 (7.14%) OpenLDAP
2 5 (7.14%) SMTP
2 5 (7.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) NoSQL
2 8 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 5 (7.14%) Flink
5 3 (4.29%) KDB
5 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.43%) MySQL
6 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (32.86%) Jenkins
2 16 (22.86%) Git
3 11 (15.71%) GitLab
4 8 (11.43%) JIRA
4 8 (11.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (7.14%) Artifactory
5 5 (7.14%) Vagrant
6 4 (5.71%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.29%) Ant
7 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.29%) Maven
General
1 21 (30.00%) Finance
2 12 (17.14%) Banking
3 11 (15.71%) Social Skills
4 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (7.14%) Front Office
6 5 (7.14%) Law
6 5 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Advertising
7 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) Kafka
2 8 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (8.57%) .NET
4 5 (7.14%) AWS CDK
4 5 (7.14%) LDAP
4 5 (7.14%) Node.js
5 3 (4.29%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.29%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.29%) Middleware
5 3 (4.29%) React
6 2 (2.86%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (2.86%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.86%) Blazor
6 2 (2.86%) JWT
6 2 (2.86%) OAuth
6 2 (2.86%) REST
6 2 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 14 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.14%) Fixed Income
2 5 (7.14%) Replication
3 4 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.29%) Clustering
4 3 (4.29%) e-Learning
4 3 (4.29%) Equities
4 3 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (24.29%) Linux
2 8 (11.43%) Windows
3 6 (8.57%) Unix
4 5 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (7.14%) Ubuntu
4 5 (7.14%) VMS
5 3 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) DevOps
2 57 (81.43%) CI/CD
3 22 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (30.00%) Agile
5 18 (25.71%) Containerisation
6 15 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (18.57%) Observability
7 13 (18.57%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (17.14%) Microservices
8 12 (17.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (14.29%) Configuration Management
9 10 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (11.43%) SDLC
11 7 (10.00%) Architectural Design
11 7 (10.00%) Data Management
11 7 (10.00%) Data Privacy
11 7 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
11 7 (10.00%) Roadmaps
11 7 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
11 7 (10.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 46 (65.71%) Python
2 18 (25.71%) Java
3 15 (21.43%) Bash
3 15 (21.43%) SQL
4 11 (15.71%) Groovy
4 11 (15.71%) PowerShell
5 10 (14.29%) C#
6 8 (11.43%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.57%) Go
8 3 (4.29%) Bicep
8 3 (4.29%) C++
8 3 (4.29%) Ruby
8 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.43%) PHP
9 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 14 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.14%) Azure Certification
2 12 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (7.14%) Degree
5 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.00%) GDPR
1 7 (10.00%) HIPAA
1 7 (10.00%) NIST
2 4 (5.71%) SLA
3 2 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 29 (41.43%) Docker
2 5 (7.14%) DFS Replication
2 5 (7.14%) Dovecot
2 5 (7.14%) Postfix
2 5 (7.14%) Squid
Systems Management
1 40 (57.14%) Terraform
2 36 (51.43%) Kubernetes
3 18 (25.71%) Ansible
4 15 (21.43%) Grafana
5 11 (15.71%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.57%) Argo
7 5 (7.14%) Nessus
7 5 (7.14%) Proxmox
8 3 (4.29%) Podman
8 3 (4.29%) Puppet
9 2 (2.86%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 7 (10.00%) Google
2 5 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
2 5 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.29%) Cribl.io
3 3 (4.29%) IBM
3 3 (4.29%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.29%) Sonatype
4 2 (2.86%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.86%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) Splunk