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 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 445 610
Rank change year-on-year -169 +165 -32
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 84 203 235
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.47% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.52% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 69 162 211
10th Percentile £45,000 £77,625 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £88,438 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +33.33% +5.10%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 - £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +1.85%

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 68,785 38,695 80,406
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.46% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 43,819 23,042 61,532
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,500 £38,750
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -142 77 £81,250 -26.14% 18
UK excluding London -21 40 £62,500 -3.85% 13
London -126 38 £95,500 -13.18% 6
Work from Home -96 34 £95,500 -13.18% 9
North of England -29 18 £60,000 -25.00% 7
North West -5 14 £63,750 -29.17% 4
South West -24 8 £100,000 +81.82% 1
South East -5 6 £63,750 +34.21% 4
Midlands -14 5 £62,500 -21.88% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £60,000 - 2
East Midlands -33 3 £75,000 -6.25%
Scotland -19 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £57,000 - 1
East of England -21 1 £57,500 -11.54%

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 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 84 (100.00%) AWS
1 84 (100.00%) DevOps
2 43 (51.19%) Terraform
3 40 (47.62%) CI/CD
4 36 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (42.86%) Python
5 32 (38.10%) Kubernetes
6 28 (33.33%) Azure
7 25 (29.76%) Docker
8 22 (26.19%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (26.19%) Containerisation
9 20 (23.81%) Kafka
10 19 (22.62%) GitHub
11 18 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 17 (20.24%) Ansible
12 17 (20.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (20.24%) Security Cleared
13 16 (19.05%) Jenkins
13 16 (19.05%) Serverless
14 15 (17.86%) Go
15 14 (16.67%) GCP
15 14 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (15.48%) Grafana
17 12 (14.29%) Microservices
17 12 (14.29%) SC Cleared
18 11 (13.10%) Prometheus
19 10 (11.90%) Agile
19 10 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 10 (11.90%) 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 (1.19%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 84 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (33.33%) Azure
3 22 (26.19%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (22.62%) GitHub
5 17 (20.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (19.05%) Serverless
7 14 (16.67%) GCP
7 14 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (11.90%) OpenShift
9 9 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (10.71%) Datadog
10 8 (9.52%) Amazon MSK
11 7 (8.33%) Amazon S3
12 6 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (3.57%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.71%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 6 (7.14%) Flink
4 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.19%) Metadata
5 1 (1.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.90%) GitLab
3 8 (9.52%) Git
4 6 (7.14%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.38%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.19%) Gradle
7 1 (1.19%) Maven
General
1 26 (30.95%) Finance
2 22 (26.19%) Banking
3 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.14%) Front Office
5 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.38%) Advertising
6 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Law
7 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.81%) Kafka
2 9 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (5.95%) AWS CDK
4 4 (4.76%) .NET
4 4 (4.76%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.57%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (3.57%) Blazor
5 3 (3.57%) React
5 3 (3.57%) RESTful
6 2 (2.38%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.38%) JWT
6 2 (2.38%) Node.js
6 2 (2.38%) OAuth
7 1 (1.19%) AWS SAM
7 1 (1.19%) JSON
7 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.14%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) Clustering
4 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 36 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (26.19%) Containerisation
5 18 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 14 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (14.29%) Microservices
8 10 (11.90%) Agile
8 10 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (10.71%) Fintech
9 9 (10.71%) High Availability
9 9 (10.71%) Mentoring
9 9 (10.71%) Observability
9 9 (10.71%) Open Source
9 9 (10.71%) Software Engineering
10 8 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (7.14%) Incident Management
11 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
11 6 (7.14%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (42.86%) Python
2 15 (17.86%) Go
3 10 (11.90%) Bash
4 9 (10.71%) SQL
5 8 (9.52%) Java
6 3 (3.57%) Bicep
6 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.19%) PHP
8 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) GDPR
1 6 (7.14%) PCI DSS
1 6 (7.14%) SOC 2
2 4 (4.76%) SLA
3 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 25 (29.76%) Docker
2 8 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (51.19%) Terraform
2 32 (38.10%) Kubernetes
3 17 (20.24%) Ansible
4 13 (15.48%) Grafana
5 11 (13.10%) Prometheus
6 8 (9.52%) Istio
7 7 (8.33%) Argo
8 2 (2.38%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 8 (9.52%) Confluent
2 3 (3.57%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.38%) SolarWinds