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 13 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 685 454
Rank change year-on-year +106 -231 +284
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 94 113 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.14% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.15% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 38 76 328
10th Percentile £50,525 £53,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% +3.13%
75th Percentile £89,375 £92,188 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £107,500 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.86% - -1.75%

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 44,459 74,568 58,777
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 95.26% 93.87%
Number of salaries quoted 26,159 45,575 45,404
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps 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 13 September 2025.

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 13 September 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 +88 87 £80,000 +3.23% 27
London +67 54 £80,000 -20.00% 11
Work from Home +68 47 £80,000 -3.03% 15
UK excluding London +86 36 £54,000 -22.86% 21
North of England +34 17 £65,000 - 10
North West +21 17 £65,000 +10.64% 9
Midlands +61 13 £52,750 -29.67% 1
West Midlands - 10 £51,500 - 1
East Midlands +17 3 £54,000 -28.00%
Scotland - 3 - -
South West +67 2 - - 2
Wales +25 2 £57,500 +35.29%
South East +17 2 £37,500 -51.61% 8

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 September 2025, AWS DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 94 (100.00%) AWS
1 94 (100.00%) DevOps
2 67 (71.28%) CI/CD
3 62 (65.96%) Python
4 51 (54.26%) Terraform
5 50 (53.19%) Kubernetes
5 50 (53.19%) Docker
6 34 (36.17%) Containerisation
7 33 (35.11%) Azure
8 32 (34.04%) Jenkins
8 32 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (31.91%) Linux
10 26 (27.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (26.60%) Ansible
11 25 (26.60%) Bash
12 24 (25.53%) Java
12 24 (25.53%) Agile
13 23 (24.47%) AWS Certification
14 22 (23.40%) GitLab
14 22 (23.40%) Grafana
14 22 (23.40%) IBM
15 21 (22.34%) Disaster Recovery
15 21 (22.34%) Management Information System
15 21 (22.34%) SQL
15 21 (22.34%) Public Sector
16 20 (21.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 20 (21.28%) Finance
17 19 (20.21%) Git
17 19 (20.21%) Artificial Intelligence
17 19 (20.21%) Amazon EKS

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.45%) Confluence
2 6 (6.38%) Apache
2 6 (6.38%) nginx
3 4 (4.26%) JBoss
3 4 (4.26%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.06%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (35.11%) Azure
3 26 (27.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 19 (20.21%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (19.15%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (19.15%) Amazon S3
5 18 (19.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (19.15%) GCP
6 14 (14.89%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (14.89%) Serverless
7 12 (12.77%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (12.77%) OpenShift
8 9 (9.57%) Datadog
8 9 (9.57%) GitHub
9 8 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (7.45%) Amazon ELB
10 7 (7.45%) AWS KMS
10 7 (7.45%) Route 53
11 6 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.77%) Firewall
2 8 (8.51%) HTTP
3 7 (7.45%) DNS
3 7 (7.45%) FTP
3 7 (7.45%) SMTP
3 7 (7.45%) SSH
4 6 (6.38%) IMAP
4 6 (6.38%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.77%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (12.77%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.26%) KDB
5 2 (2.13%) MySQL
5 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.06%) DB2
6 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (34.04%) Jenkins
2 22 (23.40%) GitLab
3 19 (20.21%) Git
4 15 (15.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (11.70%) JIRA
6 9 (9.57%) Maven
6 9 (9.57%) SonarQube
7 7 (7.45%) Vagrant
8 5 (5.32%) Artifactory
8 5 (5.32%) Cucumber
8 5 (5.32%) IntelliJ
8 5 (5.32%) JUnit
8 5 (5.32%) Mockito
9 4 (4.26%) Ant
10 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.06%) CircleCI
General
1 21 (22.34%) Public Sector
2 20 (21.28%) Finance
2 20 (21.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (11.70%) Banking
4 9 (9.57%) Social Skills
5 7 (7.45%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Law
7 1 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.64%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (9.57%) Kafka
3 7 (7.45%) REST
4 6 (6.38%) LDAP
5 5 (5.32%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (5.32%) JMS
5 5 (5.32%) Spring
5 5 (5.32%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.26%) .NET
6 4 (4.26%) Middleware
7 3 (3.19%) .NET Framework
7 3 (3.19%) AWS CDK
7 3 (3.19%) AWS SAM
7 3 (3.19%) Node.js
8 2 (2.13%) LAMP
8 2 (2.13%) React
9 1 (1.06%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.06%) Backbone.js
9 1 (1.06%) boto
9 1 (1.06%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.34%) Management Information System
2 16 (17.02%) Cloud Native
3 15 (15.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (14.89%) e-Learning
5 7 (7.45%) Replication
6 5 (5.32%) Credit Derivative
6 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (4.26%) Equities
8 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.06%) Clustering
9 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 30 (31.91%) Linux
2 13 (13.83%) Windows
3 10 (10.64%) Unix
4 8 (8.51%) VMS
5 7 (7.45%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (6.38%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.06%) Android
8 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) DevOps
2 67 (71.28%) CI/CD
3 34 (36.17%) Containerisation
4 32 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (25.53%) Agile
6 21 (22.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (20.21%) Artificial Intelligence
8 18 (19.15%) Mentoring
9 17 (18.09%) Coaching
9 17 (18.09%) Configuration Management
10 15 (15.96%) SDLC
10 15 (15.96%) Software Engineering
11 14 (14.89%) Observability
11 14 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (13.83%) Microservices
12 13 (13.83%) Roadmaps
13 12 (12.77%) Data Privacy
13 12 (12.77%) Machine Learning
13 12 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (12.77%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 62 (65.96%) Python
2 25 (26.60%) Bash
3 24 (25.53%) Java
4 21 (22.34%) SQL
5 15 (15.96%) C#
5 15 (15.96%) Groovy
6 13 (13.83%) Go
6 13 (13.83%) PowerShell
7 10 (10.64%) JavaScript
8 8 (8.51%) C++
9 4 (4.26%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.19%) Perl
10 3 (3.19%) PHP
10 3 (3.19%) Ruby
11 2 (2.13%) Bicep
11 2 (2.13%) C
12 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (24.47%) AWS Certification
2 19 (20.21%) Azure Certification
3 16 (17.02%) Security Cleared
4 13 (13.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (12.77%) SC Cleared
6 8 (8.51%) Degree
7 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.77%) GDPR
1 12 (12.77%) HIPAA
1 12 (12.77%) NIST
2 5 (5.32%) QA
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (53.19%) Docker
2 7 (7.45%) DFS Replication
3 6 (6.38%) Dovecot
3 6 (6.38%) Postfix
3 6 (6.38%) Squid
4 4 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (54.26%) Terraform
2 50 (53.19%) Kubernetes
3 25 (26.60%) Ansible
4 22 (23.40%) Grafana
5 15 (15.96%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.38%) Nessus
6 6 (6.38%) Proxmox
7 4 (4.26%) Istio
7 4 (4.26%) Podman
7 4 (4.26%) Puppet
8 2 (2.13%) Argo
9 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (23.40%) IBM
2 15 (15.96%) Red Hat
3 12 (12.77%) Google
4 7 (7.45%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.38%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (4.26%) Confluent
7 3 (3.19%) Cribl.io
7 3 (3.19%) Sonatype
8 2 (2.13%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.13%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (2.13%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.06%) Oracle
9 1 (1.06%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.06%) Splunk