AWS DevOps Jobs

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 December 2024.

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

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 613 501 681
Rank change year-on-year -112 +180 -183
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 155 238 419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.45% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.47% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 119 216 390
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,438 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.30% +3.13% +16.36%
75th Percentile £122,500 £116,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £143,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +16.67%

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 64,932 50,573 117,209
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 95.45% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 32,232 36,954 73,757
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,798
25th Percentile £43,650 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps.

Salary trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

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 8 December 2024. 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 -132 150 £107,500 +30.30% 23
London -30 120 £112,500 +7.14% 14
Work from Home -9 85 £110,000 +46.67% 12
UK excluding London -135 32 £70,000 -6.67% 9
South East -47 12 £70,000 -6.67% 1
South West -16 10 £70,000 +12.00%
North of England -53 5 £58,750 -22.95% 6
North West -51 4 £52,500 -32.26%
Wales +25 2 £42,500 -50.00%
Scotland -11 1 £45,000 -30.77% 1
North East -35 1 £70,000 -6.67% 3
East Midlands -38 1 - -
Midlands -59 1 - -
East of England -70 1 £125,000 +51.52% 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 December 2024, 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.

1 155 (100.00%) AWS
1 155 (100.00%) DevOps
2 131 (84.52%) CI/CD
2 131 (84.52%) Terraform
3 118 (76.13%) Kubernetes
4 106 (68.39%) Docker
5 98 (63.23%) Python
6 96 (61.94%) Agile
7 95 (61.29%) AWS Lambda
7 95 (61.29%) Serverless
8 90 (58.06%) Software Engineering
9 88 (56.77%) Amazon S3
10 85 (54.84%) Finance
11 81 (52.26%) Amazon RDS
12 80 (51.61%) Amazon EC2
13 76 (49.03%) Amazon ECS
14 72 (46.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 72 (46.45%) Front Office
14 72 (46.45%) Asset Management
15 67 (43.23%) AWS CloudFormation
16 57 (36.77%) Amazon Redshift
17 56 (36.13%) Amazon SQS
18 50 (32.26%) Fintech
19 45 (29.03%) Banking
20 44 (28.39%) Java
21 41 (26.45%) JavaScript
22 40 (25.81%) Artifactory
23 36 (23.23%) Jenkins
24 35 (22.58%) Open Source
25 33 (21.29%) OpenShift

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 17 (10.97%) Apache
2 16 (10.32%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (10.32%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.58%) Confluence
3 4 (2.58%) nginx
4 1 (0.65%) JBoss
4 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 155 (100.00%) AWS
2 95 (61.29%) AWS Lambda
2 95 (61.29%) Serverless
3 88 (56.77%) Amazon S3
4 80 (51.61%) Amazon EC2
5 76 (49.03%) Amazon ECS
6 67 (43.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 56 (36.13%) Amazon SQS
8 33 (21.29%) OpenShift
9 22 (14.19%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (10.32%) dbt
11 15 (9.68%) Route 53
12 13 (8.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (7.74%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (7.10%) GitHub
15 10 (6.45%) Azure
15 10 (6.45%) Datadog
16 9 (5.81%) OCI
16 9 (5.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 7 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.29%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) DNS
2 1 (0.65%) Network Security
2 1 (0.65%) SSL
2 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (52.26%) Amazon RDS
2 57 (36.77%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (10.97%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (10.32%) Apache Arrow
4 16 (10.32%) Apache Iceberg
4 16 (10.32%) Apache Ignite
4 16 (10.32%) Dremio
5 12 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.58%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.94%) Big Data
7 3 (1.94%) MySQL
8 2 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.29%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.65%) Flink
Development Applications
1 40 (25.81%) Artifactory
2 36 (23.23%) Jenkins
3 29 (18.71%) GitLab
4 15 (9.68%) Git
5 10 (6.45%) Maven
6 9 (5.81%) Cucumber
6 9 (5.81%) IntelliJ
6 9 (5.81%) JUnit
6 9 (5.81%) Mockito
7 8 (5.16%) TeamCity
8 5 (3.23%) JIRA
9 3 (1.94%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.94%) NUnit
10 2 (1.29%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.65%) Ant
11 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 85 (54.84%) Finance
2 72 (46.45%) Front Office
3 45 (29.03%) Banking
4 16 (10.32%) Social Skills
5 12 (7.74%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.16%) Marketing
7 7 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.94%) Law
9 1 (0.65%) Games
9 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.65%) J2EE
2 20 (12.90%) Kafka
3 16 (10.32%) PySpark
4 9 (5.81%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (5.81%) JMS
4 9 (5.81%) Spring
4 9 (5.81%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (3.23%) RESTful
6 4 (2.58%) AWS SAM
7 3 (1.94%) .NET
7 3 (1.94%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.94%) COM+
7 3 (1.94%) Keycloak
8 2 (1.29%) Django
8 2 (1.29%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.65%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.65%) Node.js
9 1 (0.65%) REST
9 1 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.32%) Tandem
2 10 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.81%) Credit Derivative
3 9 (5.81%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.87%) Blockchain
5 6 (3.87%) e-Learning
5 6 (3.87%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.87%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.94%) IoT
6 3 (1.94%) Replication
7 2 (1.29%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.65%) Online Games
8 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.48%) Linux
2 3 (1.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.65%) Unix
3 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (100.00%) DevOps
2 131 (84.52%) CI/CD
3 96 (61.94%) Agile
4 90 (58.06%) Software Engineering
5 72 (46.45%) Asset Management
5 72 (46.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 50 (32.26%) Fintech
7 35 (22.58%) Open Source
8 33 (21.29%) Containerisation
9 32 (20.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (17.42%) Deployment Automation
11 21 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (12.90%) Data Engineering
13 19 (12.26%) Decision-Making
14 16 (10.32%) Financial Modelling
15 15 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
16 13 (8.39%) Analytics
17 11 (7.10%) Artificial Intelligence
17 11 (7.10%) Test Automation
18 9 (5.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 98 (63.23%) Python
2 44 (28.39%) Java
3 41 (26.45%) JavaScript
4 33 (21.29%) Go
5 9 (5.81%) C++
6 7 (4.52%) Bash
7 3 (1.94%) C#
8 2 (1.29%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.29%) SQL
9 1 (0.65%) Groovy
9 1 (0.65%) PHP
9 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (10.32%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.10%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.23%) Degree
5 4 (2.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.29%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.94%) MiFID
1 3 (1.94%) NIST
1 3 (1.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 106 (68.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 131 (84.52%) Terraform
2 118 (76.13%) Kubernetes
3 30 (19.35%) Ansible
4 16 (10.32%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.74%) Grafana
6 3 (1.94%) Rancher
7 1 (0.65%) Kibana
7 1 (0.65%) logstash
7 1 (0.65%) Podman
7 1 (0.65%) Puppet
7 1 (0.65%) SCOM
7 1 (0.65%) SCSM
7 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (10.32%) IBM
2 15 (9.68%) Red Hat
3 9 (5.81%) Dynatrace
4 6 (3.87%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.94%) New Relic
6 2 (1.29%) Oracle
7 1 (0.65%) F5
7 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds