AWS DevOps Job Trends

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 24 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 483 584
Rank change year-on-year -137 +101 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 73 203 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.43% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.47% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 54 161 199
10th Percentile £50,225 £77,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £87,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +33.33% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £143,250 - £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +3.70%

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 63,267 43,239 71,576
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 91.36% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 39,857 22,950 55,756
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,420
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -118 64 £75,000 -31.82% 20
UK excluding London +13 38 £62,500 -7.41% 17
London -118 28 £100,000 -9.09% 6
Work from Home -72 25 £87,500 -20.45% 7
North of England -5 17 £60,000 -25.00% 7
North West +14 13 £70,000 -22.22% 6
Midlands +3 8 £51,500 -35.63%
South East -5 6 £63,750 - 5
South West -17 5 £100,000 +53.85% 5
East Midlands -19 5 £75,000 -6.25%
Scotland -13 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £51,500 -
East of England +3 1 £57,500 -11.54%

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

For the 6 months to 24 February 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 73 (100.00%) AWS
1 73 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (57.53%) CI/CD
3 38 (52.05%) Terraform
4 33 (45.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (39.73%) Kubernetes
5 29 (39.73%) Python
6 21 (28.77%) GitHub
7 20 (27.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (26.03%) Docker
9 18 (24.66%) Ansible
9 18 (24.66%) Jenkins
9 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
10 17 (23.29%) Azure
11 15 (20.55%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (20.55%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (20.55%) Serverless
12 14 (19.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (17.81%) Agile
13 13 (17.81%) SC Cleared
14 12 (16.44%) Observability
14 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (15.07%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (15.07%) Bash
15 11 (15.07%) Containerisation
15 11 (15.07%) Grafana
15 11 (15.07%) Kafka
15 11 (15.07%) Linux
16 10 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (13.70%) Git

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 (1.37%) Apache
1 1 (1.37%) JBoss
1 1 (1.37%) SAS
1 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 73 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (28.77%) GitHub
3 20 (27.40%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (23.29%) Azure
5 15 (20.55%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (20.55%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (20.55%) Serverless
6 14 (19.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (15.07%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (10.96%) Datadog
10 7 (9.59%) Amazon S3
10 7 (9.59%) OpenShift
11 6 (8.22%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (6.85%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (6.85%) PaaS
13 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (5.48%) Azure AKS
14 3 (4.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) DNS
1 1 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) DynamoDB
2 6 (8.22%) Flink
2 6 (8.22%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.37%) Metadata
4 1 (1.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (24.66%) Jenkins
2 10 (13.70%) Git
2 10 (13.70%) GitLab
3 4 (5.48%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.11%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.11%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.74%) Maven
5 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.37%) Ant
6 1 (1.37%) Gradle
6 1 (1.37%) JIRA
6 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (23.29%) Finance
2 13 (17.81%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Banking
4 6 (8.22%) Front Office
5 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.74%) Advertising
6 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Law
7 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.37%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) Kafka
2 8 (10.96%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (8.22%) AWS CDK
4 4 (5.48%) .NET
4 4 (5.48%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.48%) React
5 3 (4.11%) ARM Templates
5 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET
5 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (4.11%) Blazor
5 3 (4.11%) RESTful
6 2 (2.74%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.74%) JWT
6 2 (2.74%) Node.js
6 2 (2.74%) OAuth
7 1 (1.37%) JSON
7 1 (1.37%) Middleware
7 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.22%) Fixed Income
3 5 (6.85%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.48%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.11%) Clustering
6 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.07%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (57.53%) CI/CD
3 33 (45.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (17.81%) Agile
5 12 (16.44%) Observability
5 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (15.07%) Containerisation
7 10 (13.70%) Microservices
7 10 (13.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 9 (12.33%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (10.96%) High Availability
10 7 (9.59%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (9.59%) Mentoring
11 6 (8.22%) Fintech
11 6 (8.22%) Front End Development
11 6 (8.22%) Investment Management
11 6 (8.22%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (8.22%) Software Engineering
12 5 (6.85%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (39.73%) Python
2 11 (15.07%) Bash
3 10 (13.70%) Java
4 7 (9.59%) Go
5 6 (8.22%) SQL
6 4 (5.48%) Bicep
6 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.37%) Groovy
9 1 (1.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.81%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.22%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) SLA
2 3 (4.11%) GDPR
2 3 (4.11%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.11%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 19 (26.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (52.05%) Terraform
2 29 (39.73%) Kubernetes
3 18 (24.66%) Ansible
4 11 (15.07%) Grafana
5 8 (10.96%) Prometheus
6 7 (9.59%) Argo
7 2 (2.74%) Sysdig
8 1 (1.37%) Podman
8 1 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (5.48%) LogicMonitor
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.11%) SolarWinds
3 2 (2.74%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.37%) Splunk