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 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 503 582
Rank change year-on-year -98 +79 +12
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 62 194 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.094% 0.39% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.43% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 43 156 198
10th Percentile £50,750 £75,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £86,875 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +31.34% +6.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 - £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +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 60,248 45,561 70,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.14% 91.75% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 37,639 23,782 55,054
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,390
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 11 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 11 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 -107 54 £75,000 -31.82% 18
UK excluding London +23 32 £60,000 -14.29% 14
London -102 25 £100,000 -9.09% 7
Work from Home -49 23 £85,000 -22.73% 8
North of England 0 13 £60,000 -25.00% 6
North West +28 9 £70,000 -22.22% 5
Midlands +22 8 £51,500 -35.63% 1
South East +13 6 £63,750 -17.74% 4
East Midlands -10 5 £75,000 -6.25% 1
Scotland -8 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 £60,000 - 1
South West -13 3 £100,000 +53.85% 3
West Midlands - 3 £51,500 - 1
East of England +10 1 £57,500 -11.54%

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 62 (100.00%) AWS
1 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (66.13%) CI/CD
3 37 (59.68%) Terraform
4 28 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (45.16%) Kubernetes
4 28 (45.16%) Python
5 21 (33.87%) GitHub
6 19 (30.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (29.03%) Docker
8 17 (27.42%) Ansible
8 17 (27.42%) Jenkins
9 15 (24.19%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (24.19%) Azure
9 15 (24.19%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (22.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (22.58%) Serverless
11 13 (20.97%) Agile
11 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
12 12 (19.35%) Observability
13 11 (17.74%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (17.74%) Linux
13 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (16.13%) Bash
14 10 (16.13%) Containerisation
14 10 (16.13%) Git
14 10 (16.13%) Grafana
14 10 (16.13%) Java
14 10 (16.13%) Kafka
14 10 (16.13%) 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 1 (1.61%) Apache
1 1 (1.61%) JBoss
1 1 (1.61%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (33.87%) GitHub
3 19 (30.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (24.19%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (24.19%) Azure
4 15 (24.19%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (22.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (22.58%) Serverless
6 11 (17.74%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (11.29%) Amazon S3
8 7 (11.29%) Datadog
8 7 (11.29%) OpenShift
9 6 (9.68%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (8.06%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (8.06%) PaaS
11 4 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (6.45%) Azure AKS
12 3 (4.84%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) DNS
1 1 (1.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) DynamoDB
2 6 (9.68%) Flink
3 5 (8.06%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (27.42%) Jenkins
2 10 (16.13%) Git
3 9 (14.52%) GitLab
4 4 (6.45%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.84%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.23%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.23%) Maven
6 2 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.61%) Ant
7 1 (1.61%) Gradle
7 1 (1.61%) JIRA
7 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (24.19%) Finance
2 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.74%) Banking
4 6 (9.68%) Front Office
5 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.23%) Advertising
6 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Law
7 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) Kafka
2 7 (11.29%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (9.68%) AWS CDK
4 4 (6.45%) .NET
4 4 (6.45%) .NET Core
4 4 (6.45%) React
5 3 (4.84%) ARM Templates
5 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET
5 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (4.84%) Blazor
5 3 (4.84%) RESTful
6 2 (3.23%) AWS SAM
6 2 (3.23%) JWT
6 2 (3.23%) Node.js
6 2 (3.23%) OAuth
7 1 (1.61%) JSON
7 1 (1.61%) Middleware
7 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.68%) Fixed Income
3 5 (8.06%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.45%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.84%) Clustering
6 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.61%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.74%) Linux
2 2 (3.23%) Unix
3 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (66.13%) CI/CD
3 28 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (20.97%) Agile
5 12 (19.35%) Observability
6 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (16.13%) Containerisation
7 10 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 9 (14.52%) Microservices
8 9 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (11.29%) High Availability
11 6 (9.68%) Front End Development
11 6 (9.68%) Investment Management
11 6 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (8.06%) Asset Management
12 5 (8.06%) Fintech
12 5 (8.06%) Mentoring
13 4 (6.45%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.16%) Python
2 10 (16.13%) Bash
2 10 (16.13%) Java
3 6 (9.68%) Go
4 5 (8.06%) SQL
5 4 (6.45%) Bicep
5 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.61%) Groovy
8 1 (1.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) SLA
2 2 (3.23%) GDPR
2 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.23%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 18 (29.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (59.68%) Terraform
2 28 (45.16%) Kubernetes
3 17 (27.42%) Ansible
4 10 (16.13%) Grafana
5 7 (11.29%) Argo
5 7 (11.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.23%) Sysdig
7 1 (1.61%) Podman
7 1 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (6.45%) LogicMonitor
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) SolarWinds
3 2 (3.23%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.61%) Splunk