Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 538 699
Rank change year-on-year -109 +161 -226
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 101 144 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.29% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.33% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 90 79 157
10th Percentile £52,250 £57,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +37.50% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -

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 92,640 44,062 96,051
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.87% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 63,517 25,939 68,728
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 11 July 2026.

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 11 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 -111 96 £75,000 -31.82% 20
UK excluding London -34 56 £70,000 +16.67% 10
London -89 38 £85,000 -22.73% 11
North of England -10 36 £60,000 -22.58% 5
Work from Home -78 35 £85,000 -22.73% 9
North West +5 24 £70,000 -9.68% 2
South West -53 11 £75,000 +57.89% 3
North East - 11 £57,500 - 3
South East -30 7 £80,000 +113.33% 2
Midlands -35 3 £75,000 -16.67%
East Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
West Midlands -23 1 £62,500 -30.56%
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 11 July 2026, 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.

1 101 (100.00%) AWS
1 101 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (51.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 51 (50.50%) Terraform
4 45 (44.55%) CI/CD
5 43 (42.57%) Security Cleared
6 37 (36.63%) Containerisation
6 37 (36.63%) Docker
6 37 (36.63%) Python
7 34 (33.66%) Kubernetes
8 31 (30.69%) SC Cleared
9 28 (27.72%) GitLab
10 26 (25.74%) Azure
11 22 (21.78%) Jenkins
12 21 (20.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (18.81%) Agile
15 18 (17.82%) Grafana
16 17 (16.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (16.83%) Bash
16 17 (16.83%) GCP
16 17 (16.83%) Prometheus
17 16 (15.84%) Mentoring
17 16 (15.84%) Observability
18 15 (14.85%) Amazon EKS
18 15 (14.85%) Go
18 15 (14.85%) Kafka
19 14 (13.86%) Infrastructure Automation
19 14 (13.86%) Serverless
20 12 (11.88%) GitHub

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 6 (5.94%) Apache
2 5 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.95%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.99%) Confluence
3 1 (0.99%) Drupal
3 1 (0.99%) IIS
3 1 (0.99%) nginx
3 1 (0.99%) SAS
3 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (25.74%) Azure
3 21 (20.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (16.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (16.83%) GCP
5 15 (14.85%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (13.86%) Serverless
7 12 (11.88%) GitHub
8 11 (10.89%) Datadog
8 11 (10.89%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (9.90%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (9.90%) Amazon S3
10 8 (7.92%) Amazon MSK
10 8 (7.92%) OpenShift
11 7 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (5.94%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (5.94%) Pulumi
13 5 (4.95%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (4.95%) Textract
14 4 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) DNS
1 1 (0.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.93%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.94%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.95%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.98%) Big Data
4 2 (1.98%) Redis
5 1 (0.99%) DocumentDB
5 1 (0.99%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.99%) Metadata
5 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.99%) MySQL
5 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (27.72%) GitLab
2 22 (21.78%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.93%) CircleCI
4 4 (3.96%) Git
5 2 (1.98%) git-flow
5 2 (1.98%) JIRA
5 2 (1.98%) Maven
6 1 (0.99%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.99%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.99%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.99%) Gatling
6 1 (0.99%) Gradle
6 1 (0.99%) JMeter
6 1 (0.99%) Postman
6 1 (0.99%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.99%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (17.82%) Finance
2 16 (15.84%) Banking
3 10 (9.90%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.95%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.98%) Games
6 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.85%) Kafka
2 10 (9.90%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.95%) PySpark
4 2 (1.98%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.98%) JSON
4 2 (1.98%) YAML
5 1 (0.99%) .NET
5 1 (0.99%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.99%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.99%) Memcached
5 1 (0.99%) Next.js
5 1 (0.99%) Node.js
5 1 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.99%) React
5 1 (0.99%) React Native
5 1 (0.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.84%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.95%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.96%) Life Science
4 3 (2.97%) PropTech
5 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Genomics
6 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.92%) Linux
2 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.99%) Windows
2 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (51.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 45 (44.55%) CI/CD
4 37 (36.63%) Containerisation
5 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (18.81%) Agile
7 16 (15.84%) Mentoring
7 16 (15.84%) Observability
8 14 (13.86%) Infrastructure Automation
9 11 (10.89%) Software Engineering
10 10 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (9.90%) Fintech
10 10 (9.90%) High Availability
10 10 (9.90%) Incident Management
11 9 (8.91%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (8.91%) Microservices
11 9 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (8.91%) Test Automation
12 8 (7.92%) Cloud Security
12 8 (7.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (36.63%) Python
2 17 (16.83%) Bash
3 15 (14.85%) Go
4 12 (11.88%) SQL
5 9 (8.91%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.97%) Java
7 2 (1.98%) Bicep
7 2 (1.98%) C#
7 2 (1.98%) Groovy
8 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.99%) Perl
8 1 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (42.57%) Security Cleared
2 31 (30.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.98%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) GDPR
1 7 (6.93%) PCI DSS
1 7 (6.93%) SOC 2
2 6 (5.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.99%) NCSC
3 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 37 (36.63%) Docker
2 8 (7.92%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (50.50%) Terraform
2 34 (33.66%) Kubernetes
3 18 (17.82%) Grafana
4 17 (16.83%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.89%) Ansible
6 8 (7.92%) Istio
7 6 (5.94%) Argo
8 2 (1.98%) Packer
8 2 (1.98%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.99%) Consul
9 1 (0.99%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (7.92%) Confluent
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.98%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (0.99%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.99%) Cognizant
4 1 (0.99%) Google
4 1 (0.99%) IBM
4 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds
4 1 (0.99%) TOWER Software