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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 472 678
Rank change year-on-year -154 +206 -157
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 85 187 210
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.094% 0.43% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.48% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 74 138 181
10th Percentile £47,900 £75,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £85,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +30.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £125,250 - £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -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 84,208 39,316 91,343
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 89.55% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,431 23,382 67,108
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +10.37% -12.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 May 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 May 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 -138 81 £72,500 -34.09% 7
UK excluding London -46 43 £62,500 -3.85% 2
London -132 36 £87,500 -20.45% 5
Work from Home -88 30 £90,000 -18.18% 5
North of England -32 25 £60,000 -22.58%
North West 0 16 £61,250 -20.97%
South West -43 9 £100,000 +110.53%
South East -19 7 £75,000 +100.00% 2
North East - 6 £60,000 -
Midlands -34 3 £75,000 -6.25%
Yorkshire - 3 £60,000 -
East Midlands -26 2 £75,000 -6.25%
West Midlands -24 1 £62,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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 85 (100.00%) AWS
1 85 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (47.06%) Terraform
3 39 (45.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 30 (35.29%) Kubernetes
6 29 (34.12%) Python
7 27 (31.76%) Docker
8 26 (30.59%) Azure
8 26 (30.59%) Containerisation
8 26 (30.59%) Security Cleared
9 20 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (21.18%) Kafka
11 17 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (20.00%) GCP
12 16 (18.82%) GitHub
12 16 (18.82%) Jenkins
12 16 (18.82%) Serverless
13 15 (17.65%) Go
13 15 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (16.47%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (16.47%) GitLab
14 14 (16.47%) SC Cleared
15 12 (14.12%) Ansible
16 11 (12.94%) Fintech
16 11 (12.94%) Grafana
16 11 (12.94%) Microservices
16 11 (12.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 10 (11.76%) Agile
17 10 (11.76%) Bash

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 (1.18%) Apache
1 1 (1.18%) Confluence
1 1 (1.18%) Drupal
1 1 (1.18%) IIS
1 1 (1.18%) nginx
1 1 (1.18%) SAS
1 1 (1.18%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (30.59%) Azure
3 20 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (20.00%) GCP
5 16 (18.82%) GitHub
5 16 (18.82%) Serverless
6 14 (16.47%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (11.76%) Datadog
8 9 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (9.41%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (9.41%) OpenShift
10 7 (8.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (8.24%) Amazon S3
11 6 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (4.71%) SaaS
13 4 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (3.53%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.53%) Flink
3 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.18%) Big Data
5 1 (1.18%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.18%) Metadata
5 1 (1.18%) MySQL
5 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (18.82%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.47%) GitLab
3 7 (8.24%) CircleCI
4 5 (5.88%) Git
5 2 (2.35%) JIRA
5 2 (2.35%) Maven
6 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.18%) Gatling
6 1 (1.18%) git-flow
6 1 (1.18%) Gradle
6 1 (1.18%) JMeter
6 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.18%) Vagrant
General
1 21 (24.71%) Finance
2 19 (22.35%) Banking
3 13 (15.29%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.53%) Front Office
6 2 (2.35%) Games
6 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.18%) Advertising
7 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.18%) Kafka
2 8 (9.41%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.53%) .NET
3 3 (3.53%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.35%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.35%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (2.35%) Blazor
4 2 (2.35%) JSON
4 2 (2.35%) React
4 2 (2.35%) RESTful
4 2 (2.35%) YAML
5 1 (1.18%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.18%) Memcached
5 1 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.53%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.18%) Life Science
4 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.18%) Windows
2 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (45.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 26 (30.59%) Containerisation
5 15 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (12.94%) Fintech
6 11 (12.94%) Microservices
6 11 (12.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 10 (11.76%) Agile
7 10 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 10 (11.76%) Software Engineering
8 9 (10.59%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (10.59%) High Availability
8 9 (10.59%) Incident Management
8 9 (10.59%) Open Source
9 7 (8.24%) Continuous Delivery
9 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure Management
9 7 (8.24%) Observability
9 7 (8.24%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.12%) Python
2 15 (17.65%) Go
3 10 (11.76%) Bash
4 9 (10.59%) SQL
5 6 (7.06%) Java
6 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.35%) Bicep
7 2 (2.35%) Groovy
8 1 (1.18%) Perl
8 1 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.47%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.24%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) GDPR
1 7 (8.24%) PCI DSS
1 7 (8.24%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.18%) NCSC
2 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 27 (31.76%) Docker
2 8 (9.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (47.06%) Terraform
2 30 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 12 (14.12%) Ansible
4 11 (12.94%) Grafana
5 10 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 8 (9.41%) Istio
7 3 (3.53%) Argo
8 2 (2.35%) Packer
8 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.18%) Consul
9 1 (1.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (9.41%) Confluent
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.35%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.18%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.18%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.18%) Google
4 1 (1.18%) IBM
4 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.18%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.18%) TOWER Software