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 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 591 618 468
Rank change year-on-year +27 -150 +223
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 79 134 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.21% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 38 101 250
10th Percentile £50,525 £60,000 £56,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £134,250 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% - -

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 47,393 64,241 50,771
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.95% 94.75% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 29,512 36,137 39,329
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,468 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.93% -3.81% -

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 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 +42 73 £80,000 -11.11% 31
London +11 41 £91,250 -17.05% 19
UK excluding London +83 35 £57,500 -17.86% 20
Work from Home +54 34 £80,000 -11.11% 17
North of England +54 15 £80,000 +36.17% 7
Midlands +69 13 £51,500 -31.33% 1
North West +55 13 £100,000 +90.48% 3
West Midlands - 9 £51,500 -
East Midlands +26 4 £50,000 -33.33% 1
South East +18 4 £62,500 -10.71% 10
Scotland +3 4 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £60,000 - 4
East of England +21 1 £57,500 -43.21%
Wales +11 1 £60,000 +41.18%

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 79 (100.00%) AWS
1 79 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (78.48%) CI/CD
3 51 (64.56%) Python
4 45 (56.96%) Terraform
5 38 (48.10%) Kubernetes
6 33 (41.77%) Docker
7 26 (32.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (31.65%) Jenkins
9 24 (30.38%) Azure
10 22 (27.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (26.58%) Agile
11 21 (26.58%) Ansible
11 21 (26.58%) Containerisation
12 20 (25.32%) Linux
13 19 (24.05%) Java
14 18 (22.78%) Disaster Recovery
15 17 (21.52%) Bash
15 17 (21.52%) Grafana
16 16 (20.25%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (20.25%) Git
16 16 (20.25%) GitHub
17 15 (18.99%) Security Cleared
17 15 (18.99%) SQL
18 14 (17.72%) AWS Certification
18 14 (17.72%) Observability
19 13 (16.46%) Azure Certification
19 13 (16.46%) GitLab
19 13 (16.46%) Platform Engineering
19 13 (16.46%) SC Cleared

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 (6.33%) Confluence
1 5 (6.33%) nginx
2 3 (3.80%) Apache
2 3 (3.80%) JBoss
2 3 (3.80%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (30.38%) Azure
3 22 (27.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 16 (20.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (20.25%) GitHub
5 12 (15.19%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (15.19%) Amazon S3
6 11 (13.92%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (12.66%) Serverless
8 9 (11.39%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (11.39%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (11.39%) OpenShift
9 8 (10.13%) GCP
10 6 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (7.59%) Datadog
10 6 (7.59%) PaaS
11 5 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (6.33%) Route 53
11 5 (6.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.86%) Firewall
2 6 (7.59%) DNS
2 6 (7.59%) HTTP
3 5 (6.33%) FTP
3 5 (6.33%) IMAP
3 5 (6.33%) OpenLDAP
3 5 (6.33%) SMTP
3 5 (6.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.39%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (11.39%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.06%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.06%) Flink
4 4 (5.06%) KDB
5 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.27%) MySQL
6 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (31.65%) Jenkins
2 16 (20.25%) Git
3 13 (16.46%) GitLab
4 9 (11.39%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (10.13%) JIRA
6 5 (6.33%) Artifactory
6 5 (6.33%) SonarQube
6 5 (6.33%) Vagrant
7 4 (5.06%) Bitbucket
7 4 (5.06%) Maven
8 3 (3.80%) Ant
9 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.27%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.27%) JUnit
9 1 (1.27%) Mockito
General
1 22 (27.85%) Finance
2 14 (17.72%) Public Sector
3 12 (15.19%) Banking
4 11 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (12.66%) Social Skills
6 6 (7.59%) Law
7 5 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (5.06%) Front Office
9 2 (2.53%) Advertising
9 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.27%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (10.13%) Kafka
3 5 (6.33%) .NET
3 5 (6.33%) LDAP
3 5 (6.33%) Node.js
4 4 (5.06%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.80%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.80%) Middleware
5 3 (3.80%) REST
6 2 (2.53%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.53%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.53%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.53%) JWT
6 2 (2.53%) OAuth
6 2 (2.53%) React
7 1 (1.27%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.27%) Blazor
7 1 (1.27%) RESTful
7 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.25%) Management Information System
2 15 (18.99%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.86%) e-Learning
3 7 (8.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.33%) Replication
5 4 (5.06%) Equities
5 4 (5.06%) Fixed Income
5 4 (5.06%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.80%) Clustering
7 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.27%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.32%) Linux
2 8 (10.13%) Unix
2 8 (10.13%) Windows
3 5 (6.33%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (6.33%) Ubuntu
3 5 (6.33%) VMS
4 3 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (78.48%) CI/CD
3 26 (32.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (26.58%) Agile
4 21 (26.58%) Containerisation
5 18 (22.78%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (17.72%) Observability
7 13 (16.46%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (15.19%) Microservices
8 12 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (13.92%) AI
9 11 (13.92%) Configuration Management
9 11 (13.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (12.66%) SDLC
11 9 (11.39%) Mentoring
12 8 (10.13%) Data Management
12 8 (10.13%) Data Privacy
12 8 (10.13%) Enterprise Architecture
12 8 (10.13%) Machine Learning
12 8 (10.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (64.56%) Python
2 19 (24.05%) Java
3 17 (21.52%) Bash
4 15 (18.99%) SQL
5 11 (13.92%) C#
5 11 (13.92%) Groovy
5 11 (13.92%) PowerShell
6 9 (11.39%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.86%) Go
8 4 (5.06%) C++
9 3 (3.80%) Bicep
9 3 (3.80%) Ruby
9 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.27%) PHP
10 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.72%) AWS Certification
3 13 (16.46%) Azure Certification
3 13 (16.46%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.33%) Degree
6 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) GDPR
1 8 (10.13%) HIPAA
1 8 (10.13%) NIST
2 4 (5.06%) SLA
3 3 (3.80%) QA
System Software
1 33 (41.77%) Docker
2 5 (6.33%) DFS Replication
2 5 (6.33%) Dovecot
2 5 (6.33%) Postfix
2 5 (6.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 45 (56.96%) Terraform
2 38 (48.10%) Kubernetes
3 21 (26.58%) Ansible
4 17 (21.52%) Grafana
5 12 (15.19%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.33%) Argo
6 5 (6.33%) Nessus
6 5 (6.33%) Proxmox
7 3 (3.80%) Podman
7 3 (3.80%) Puppet
8 2 (2.53%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 8 (10.13%) Google
1 8 (10.13%) IBM
2 7 (8.86%) Red Hat
3 5 (6.33%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (6.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.80%) Cribl.io
4 3 (3.80%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.80%) Sonatype
5 2 (2.53%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.53%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle
6 1 (1.27%) Splunk