AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 March 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 453 623
Rank change year-on-year -157 +170 -58
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 88 199 229
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.52% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 73 158 207
10th Percentile £45,000 £78,375 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £91,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +33.33% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 - £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +1.85%

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 70,373 38,297 82,127
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 90.31% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 44,805 23,130 62,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,290 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -4.76%

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 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Top 14 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 March 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 -126 81 £80,000 -27.27% 15
UK excluding London -24 42 £62,500 -3.85% 10
London -129 40 £95,000 -13.64% 6
Work from Home -90 35 £95,250 -13.41% 7
North of England -38 18 £60,000 -25.00% 5
North West -9 14 £63,750 -29.17% 4
South West -24 9 £100,000 +81.82%
South East -20 7 £65,000 +36.84% 4
Midlands -27 5 £62,500 -21.88% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £60,000 -
East Midlands -37 3 £75,000 -6.25%
Scotland -20 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £57,000 - 1
East of England -18 1 £57,500 -11.54%

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

For the 6 months to 22 March 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 88 (100.00%) AWS
1 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (52.27%) Terraform
3 44 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 39 (44.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (43.18%) Python
6 34 (38.64%) Kubernetes
7 30 (34.09%) Azure
8 27 (30.68%) Docker
9 24 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (27.27%) Containerisation
10 21 (23.86%) GitHub
10 21 (23.86%) Kafka
11 19 (21.59%) Ansible
11 19 (21.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (21.59%) Security Cleared
12 18 (20.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (19.32%) Jenkins
13 17 (19.32%) Serverless
14 16 (18.18%) GCP
14 16 (18.18%) Go
15 15 (17.05%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (15.91%) Grafana
17 13 (14.77%) Microservices
17 13 (14.77%) SC Cleared
18 12 (13.64%) Bash
18 12 (13.64%) GitLab
18 12 (13.64%) Prometheus
19 11 (12.50%) Agile

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 1 (1.14%) Apache
1 1 (1.14%) Confluence
1 1 (1.14%) Drupal
1 1 (1.14%) IIS
1 1 (1.14%) nginx
1 1 (1.14%) SAS
1 1 (1.14%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 88 (100.00%) AWS
2 30 (34.09%) Azure
3 24 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (23.86%) GitHub
5 19 (21.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (19.32%) Serverless
7 16 (18.18%) GCP
8 15 (17.05%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (11.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (11.36%) Datadog
9 10 (11.36%) OpenShift
10 9 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (9.09%) Amazon S3
12 6 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (6.82%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
14 3 (3.41%) Amazon EventBridge
14 3 (3.41%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.36%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.95%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.82%) Flink
4 4 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.14%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.14%) Metadata
7 1 (1.14%) MySQL
7 1 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (19.32%) Jenkins
2 12 (13.64%) GitLab
3 8 (9.09%) Git
4 7 (7.95%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.27%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.14%) Gatling
7 1 (1.14%) Gradle
7 1 (1.14%) JIRA
7 1 (1.14%) JMeter
7 1 (1.14%) Maven
7 1 (1.14%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (30.68%) Finance
2 23 (26.14%) Banking
3 17 (19.32%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.82%) Front Office
5 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.27%) Advertising
6 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.27%) Law
7 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.14%) Games
7 1 (1.14%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.86%) Kafka
2 10 (11.36%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (5.68%) .NET
3 5 (5.68%) AWS CDK
4 4 (4.55%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.41%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (3.41%) Blazor
5 3 (3.41%) React
5 3 (3.41%) RESTful
6 2 (2.27%) JWT
6 2 (2.27%) Node.js
6 2 (2.27%) OAuth
7 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.14%) AWS SAM
7 1 (1.14%) JSON
7 1 (1.14%) Memcached
7 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.82%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.27%) Clustering
4 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.14%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.23%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Unix
2 1 (1.14%) Windows
2 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 39 (44.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 18 (20.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 15 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (14.77%) Microservices
8 11 (12.50%) Agile
8 11 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 10 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (11.36%) Fintech
9 10 (11.36%) High Availability
9 10 (11.36%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (11.36%) Software Engineering
10 9 (10.23%) Observability
10 9 (10.23%) Open Source
11 7 (7.95%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (7.95%) Incident Management
11 7 (7.95%) Infrastructure Management
12 6 (6.82%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (43.18%) Python
2 16 (18.18%) Go
3 12 (13.64%) Bash
4 10 (11.36%) SQL
5 8 (9.09%) Java
6 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.41%) Bicep
8 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.27%) PHP
9 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (21.59%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) GDPR
1 7 (7.95%) PCI DSS
1 7 (7.95%) SOC 2
2 4 (4.55%) SLA
3 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.14%) NCSC
3 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 27 (30.68%) Docker
2 8 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (52.27%) Terraform
2 34 (38.64%) Kubernetes
3 19 (21.59%) Ansible
4 14 (15.91%) Grafana
5 12 (13.64%) Prometheus
6 8 (9.09%) Istio
7 7 (7.95%) Argo
8 2 (2.27%) Sysdig
9 1 (1.14%) Consul
9 1 (1.14%) Packer
9 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (9.09%) Confluent
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.41%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (2.27%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.14%) Google
5 1 (1.14%) TOWER Software