Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 681 566 677
Rank change year-on-year -115 +111 -216
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 106 116 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.26% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 94 53 119
10th Percentile £50,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £76,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +6.45% -3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £54,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +23.85% -22.14% -

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 98,814 44,648 79,271
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 90.01% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 67,613 26,525 53,451
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £49,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.85% -0.80% -6.54%

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 7 August 2026.

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 7 August 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 -95 103 £70,000 -15.15% 43
UK excluding London -51 61 £67,500 +23.85% 10
London -69 40 £82,500 -25.00% 34
North of England -27 36 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Work from Home -57 34 £82,500 - 16
North West -1 22 £70,000 +7.69% 2
South West -48 17 £65,000 - 3
North East - 13 £55,000 - 1
South East -22 7 £80,000 +113.33%
Midlands -41 2 £68,750 -4.51% 2
East Midlands -27 1 £75,000 +38.89%
West Midlands -39 1 £62,500 -30.56% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 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.

1 106 (100.00%) AWS
1 106 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 51 (48.11%) Terraform
4 46 (43.40%) Security Cleared
5 45 (42.45%) CI/CD
6 40 (37.74%) Containerisation
6 40 (37.74%) Docker
7 36 (33.96%) Python
8 35 (33.02%) SC Cleared
9 32 (30.19%) Kubernetes
10 29 (27.36%) GitLab
11 25 (23.58%) Azure
12 22 (20.75%) Agile
13 21 (19.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (17.92%) Jenkins
16 18 (16.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (16.98%) Mentoring
17 17 (16.04%) Bash
17 17 (16.04%) Infrastructure Automation
17 17 (16.04%) Observability
18 16 (15.09%) GCP
18 16 (15.09%) Grafana
19 15 (14.15%) Test Automation
20 14 (13.21%) Amazon EC2
20 14 (13.21%) Amazon EKS
20 14 (13.21%) Go
20 14 (13.21%) Kafka
20 14 (13.21%) Prometheus

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 8 (7.55%) Apache
2 7 (6.60%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.60%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.60%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.83%) Confluence
3 3 (2.83%) nginx
4 1 (0.94%) Drupal
4 1 (0.94%) IIS
4 1 (0.94%) SAS
4 1 (0.94%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 106 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (23.58%) Azure
3 21 (19.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (16.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 16 (15.09%) GCP
6 14 (13.21%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (13.21%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (11.32%) Amazon S3
7 12 (11.32%) Serverless
8 11 (10.38%) Datadog
8 11 (10.38%) GitHub
9 10 (9.43%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (7.55%) Amazon MSK
10 8 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (7.55%) OpenShift
11 7 (6.60%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (6.60%) Textract
12 6 (5.66%) Pulumi
12 6 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) DNS
1 1 (0.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.55%) DynamoDB
2 7 (6.60%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.66%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.89%) Big Data
4 2 (1.89%) Redis
5 1 (0.94%) DocumentDB
5 1 (0.94%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.94%) Metadata
5 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.94%) MySQL
5 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (27.36%) GitLab
2 19 (17.92%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.60%) Git
4 6 (5.66%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.77%) git-flow
5 4 (3.77%) JIRA
6 2 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.89%) Snyk
7 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.94%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.94%) Gatling
7 1 (0.94%) JMeter
7 1 (0.94%) Maven
7 1 (0.94%) Postman
7 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.94%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (16.98%) Finance
2 16 (15.09%) Banking
3 9 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (7.55%) Social Skills
5 5 (4.72%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.89%) Games
6 2 (1.89%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.94%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.21%) Kafka
2 11 (10.38%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.60%) PySpark
4 5 (4.72%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.89%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.94%) .NET
6 1 (0.94%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.94%) JSON
6 1 (0.94%) Memcached
6 1 (0.94%) Next.js
6 1 (0.94%) Node.js
6 1 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.94%) React
6 1 (0.94%) React Native
6 1 (0.94%) REST
6 1 (0.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.92%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.60%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.77%) Life Science
3 4 (3.77%) PropTech
4 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.89%) Genomics
4 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.55%) Linux
2 3 (2.83%) Windows
3 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 45 (42.45%) CI/CD
4 40 (37.74%) Containerisation
5 22 (20.75%) Agile
6 20 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (16.98%) Mentoring
8 17 (16.04%) Infrastructure Automation
8 17 (16.04%) Observability
9 15 (14.15%) Test Automation
10 11 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (10.38%) Fintech
10 11 (10.38%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (9.43%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (8.49%) Cloud Security
12 9 (8.49%) Data Engineering
12 9 (8.49%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (8.49%) Incident Management
12 9 (8.49%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 36 (33.96%) Python
2 17 (16.04%) Bash
3 14 (13.21%) Go
4 13 (12.26%) SQL
5 10 (9.43%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.77%) Java
7 2 (1.89%) C#
7 2 (1.89%) Groovy
8 1 (0.94%) Bicep
8 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.94%) Perl
8 1 (0.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (43.40%) Security Cleared
2 35 (33.02%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.72%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.66%) GDPR
2 6 (5.66%) PCI DSS
2 6 (5.66%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.94%) NCSC
3 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 40 (37.74%) Docker
2 8 (7.55%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (48.11%) Terraform
2 32 (30.19%) Kubernetes
3 16 (15.09%) Grafana
4 14 (13.21%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.38%) Ansible
6 8 (7.55%) Argo
6 8 (7.55%) Istio
7 3 (2.83%) Puppet
8 2 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.89%) Packer
8 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.94%) Consul
Vendors
1 8 (7.55%) Confluent
2 3 (2.83%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.89%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.94%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.94%) Cognizant
4 1 (0.94%) Google
4 1 (0.94%) IBM
4 1 (0.94%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (0.94%) SolarWinds
4 1 (0.94%) TOWER Software