AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 591 564 487
Rank change year-on-year -27 -77 +168
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 62 162 227
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.29% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.30% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 37 127 204
10th Percentile £50,450 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £82,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £107,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.26% +30.30% +3.13%
75th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%

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 53,173 53,172 46,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 93.59% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32,782 28,551 36,094
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,589 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% - -

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 -5 57 £75,000 -31.82% 21
UK excluding London +63 32 £60,000 -14.29% 18
London -38 28 £110,000 - 6
Work from Home +1 26 £82,500 -25.00% 2
North of England +35 13 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Midlands +24 10 £51,500 -35.63% 5
North West +35 9 £100,000 +70.21% 1
South East +37 6 £63,750 -12.07% 6
West Midlands - 6 £51,500 - 3
Scotland +13 4 - -
East Midlands -7 4 £50,000 -37.50% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £60,000 - 2
East of England +28 1 £57,500 -39.47% 1
South West +14 1 £60,000 -14.29% 3

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 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 62 (100.00%) AWS
1 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (77.42%) CI/CD
3 35 (56.45%) Python
4 34 (54.84%) Terraform
5 32 (51.61%) Kubernetes
6 22 (35.48%) Docker
7 21 (33.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (32.26%) GitHub
8 20 (32.26%) Jenkins
9 19 (30.65%) Azure
10 18 (29.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (27.42%) Agile
12 16 (25.81%) Ansible
12 16 (25.81%) Java
13 15 (24.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (22.58%) Bash
14 14 (22.58%) Containerisation
14 14 (22.58%) Git
14 14 (22.58%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (22.58%) Linux
15 13 (20.97%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (20.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (19.35%) Observability
17 11 (17.74%) Disaster Recovery
17 11 (17.74%) Grafana
17 11 (17.74%) Security Cleared
18 10 (16.13%) Kafka
18 10 (16.13%) Microservices
18 10 (16.13%) Serverless

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 3 (4.84%) Apache
1 3 (4.84%) JBoss
1 3 (4.84%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.23%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (32.26%) GitHub
3 19 (30.65%) Azure
4 18 (29.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 15 (24.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (22.58%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (20.97%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (16.13%) Serverless
9 9 (14.52%) Amazon S3
9 9 (14.52%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (14.52%) OpenShift
10 8 (12.90%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (9.68%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (9.68%) PaaS
12 5 (8.06%) Datadog
13 4 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (6.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) DNS
1 3 (4.84%) HTTP
2 2 (3.23%) Firewall
2 2 (3.23%) FTP
2 2 (3.23%) IMAP
2 2 (3.23%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (3.23%) SMTP
2 2 (3.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) DynamoDB
1 7 (11.29%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.68%) Flink
2 6 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.84%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.61%) MySQL
6 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (32.26%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.58%) Git
3 9 (14.52%) GitLab
4 6 (9.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (8.06%) Artifactory
5 5 (8.06%) JIRA
6 4 (6.45%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.84%) Ant
7 3 (4.84%) Maven
8 2 (3.23%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.23%) Vagrant
General
1 19 (30.65%) Finance
2 10 (16.13%) Banking
2 10 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.68%) Front Office
4 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.23%) Advertising
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Law
5 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.61%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) Kafka
2 7 (11.29%) .NET
2 7 (11.29%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (9.68%) AWS CDK
4 5 (8.06%) Node.js
5 4 (6.45%) .NET Core
5 4 (6.45%) React
6 3 (4.84%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (4.84%) Blazor
6 3 (4.84%) Middleware
6 3 (4.84%) RESTful
7 2 (3.23%) ARM Templates
7 2 (3.23%) AWS SAM
7 2 (3.23%) JWT
7 2 (3.23%) LDAP
7 2 (3.23%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Management Information System
2 9 (14.52%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.68%) Fixed Income
4 4 (6.45%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.84%) Clustering
6 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.23%) Replication
7 1 (1.61%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.58%) Linux
2 5 (8.06%) Windows
3 3 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.23%) Unix
4 2 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (77.42%) CI/CD
3 21 (33.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (27.42%) Agile
5 14 (22.58%) Containerisation
6 13 (20.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (19.35%) Observability
8 11 (17.74%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (16.13%) Microservices
10 9 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (9.68%) Configuration Management
12 6 (9.68%) Front End Development
12 6 (9.68%) Investment Management
13 5 (8.06%) Continuous Integration
13 5 (8.06%) Root Cause Analysis
13 5 (8.06%) SDLC
13 5 (8.06%) Software Delivery
14 4 (6.45%) Data Privacy
14 4 (6.45%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 35 (56.45%) Python
2 16 (25.81%) Java
3 14 (22.58%) Bash
4 10 (16.13%) SQL
5 8 (12.90%) Groovy
5 8 (12.90%) PowerShell
6 7 (11.29%) C#
6 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.06%) Go
8 3 (4.84%) Bicep
8 3 (4.84%) C++
8 3 (4.84%) Ruby
8 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.61%) PHP
9 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.52%) AWS Certification
2 9 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.23%) Degree
6 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) GDPR
1 4 (6.45%) HIPAA
1 4 (6.45%) NIST
1 4 (6.45%) SLA
2 2 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 22 (35.48%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) DFS Replication
2 2 (3.23%) Dovecot
2 2 (3.23%) Postfix
2 2 (3.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 34 (54.84%) Terraform
2 32 (51.61%) Kubernetes
3 16 (25.81%) Ansible
4 11 (17.74%) Grafana
5 8 (12.90%) Prometheus
6 7 (11.29%) Argo
7 3 (4.84%) Podman
7 3 (4.84%) Puppet
8 2 (3.23%) Nessus
8 2 (3.23%) Proxmox
8 2 (3.23%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 4 (6.45%) Google
2 3 (4.84%) Cribl.io
2 3 (4.84%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) Sonatype
3 2 (3.23%) AppDynamics
3 2 (3.23%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.23%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle
4 1 (1.61%) Splunk