Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 713 589 667
Rank change year-on-year -124 +78 -217
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 96 94 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 82 38 77
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,525 £52,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £80,000 £89,375 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £127,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £54,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +29.63% -22.86% -

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 108,283 44,200 74,178
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 89.65% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 74,199 25,992 44,363
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 20 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Top 11 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 20 September 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 -130 90 £70,000 -12.50% 106
UK excluding London -127 55 £70,000 +29.63% 52
London -86 37 £70,000 -12.50% 58
North of England -57 32 £66,750 +2.69% 20
Work from Home -67 21 £72,500 -9.38% 39
North West -27 15 £78,750 +21.15% 16
South West -60 14 £60,000 - 4
North East - 13 £55,000 - 1
South East -41 7 £80,000 +113.33% 5
Yorkshire - 4 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +13 3 £100,000 - 9

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 96 (100.00%) AWS
1 96 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (54.17%) Security Cleared
3 50 (52.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (51.04%) CI/CD
4 49 (51.04%) Terraform
5 42 (43.75%) SC Cleared
6 38 (39.58%) Docker
7 33 (34.38%) Agile
8 32 (33.33%) Python
9 29 (30.21%) Kubernetes
9 29 (30.21%) Observability
10 25 (26.04%) Containerisation
10 25 (26.04%) GitLab
10 25 (26.04%) Test Automation
11 23 (23.96%) Jenkins
12 20 (20.83%) Bash
12 20 (20.83%) Grafana
13 19 (19.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
14 18 (18.75%) Prometheus
15 17 (17.71%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (16.67%) Git
16 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 15 (15.63%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (14.58%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (14.58%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (14.58%) Elastic Stack
18 14 (14.58%) Mentoring

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 (8.33%) Apache
2 7 (7.29%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.29%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.29%) Jupyter
3 3 (3.13%) Confluence
3 3 (3.13%) nginx
4 1 (1.04%) Drupal
4 1 (1.04%) IIS
4 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (19.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 17 (17.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (14.58%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (14.58%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 12 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (12.50%) Serverless
6 11 (11.46%) GitHub
7 10 (10.42%) Amazon ECR
7 10 (10.42%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 9 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (7.29%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (7.29%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (7.29%) Azure
9 7 (7.29%) Textract
10 6 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (5.21%) Datadog
11 5 (5.21%) Route 53
12 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) DNS
1 1 (1.04%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.63%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (11.46%) Redis
3 9 (9.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.33%) DynamoDB
5 7 (7.29%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.08%) Big Data
7 1 (1.04%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.04%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.04%) MySQL
7 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (26.04%) GitLab
2 23 (23.96%) Jenkins
3 16 (16.67%) Git
4 4 (4.17%) git-flow
4 4 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.08%) Snyk
6 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.04%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.04%) Gatling
6 1 (1.04%) JMeter
6 1 (1.04%) Maven
6 1 (1.04%) Postman
6 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.04%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.21%) Finance
4 3 (3.13%) Banking
5 2 (2.08%) Games
5 2 (2.08%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (51.04%) Terraform
2 14 (14.58%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (9.38%) Kafka
3 9 (9.38%) Keycloak
4 8 (8.33%) Pulumi
5 7 (7.29%) PySpark
6 5 (5.21%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.08%) .NET
7 2 (2.08%) OpenTofu
8 1 (1.04%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.04%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.04%) JSON
8 1 (1.04%) Memcached
8 1 (1.04%) Next.js
8 1 (1.04%) Node.js
8 1 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.04%) React Native
8 1 (1.04%) REST
8 1 (1.04%) RESTful
8 1 (1.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.04%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.38%) Replication
3 7 (7.29%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.17%) Life Science
4 4 (4.17%) PropTech
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Genomics
5 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (52.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 49 (51.04%) CI/CD
4 33 (34.38%) Agile
5 29 (30.21%) Observability
6 25 (26.04%) Containerisation
6 25 (26.04%) Test Automation
7 18 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
8 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 14 (14.58%) Mentoring
10 13 (13.54%) Secrets Management
11 12 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (11.46%) Change Management
12 11 (11.46%) Cloud Security
12 11 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (11.46%) Identity Management
12 11 (11.46%) ITIL
13 10 (10.42%) Roadmaps
14 9 (9.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 32 (33.33%) Python
2 20 (20.83%) Bash
3 11 (11.46%) Groovy
4 10 (10.42%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.29%) SQL
6 4 (4.17%) Java
7 2 (2.08%) C#
7 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.04%) C++
8 1 (1.04%) Perl
8 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 52 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 42 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.04%) NCSC
2 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 38 (39.58%) Docker
2 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (30.21%) Kubernetes
2 20 (20.83%) Grafana
3 18 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 10 (10.42%) Argo
5 9 (9.38%) Rancher
6 6 (6.25%) Ansible
7 3 (3.13%) Puppet
8 2 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.08%) Packer
8 2 (2.08%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.04%) Consul
Vendors
1 9 (9.38%) Dynatrace
1 9 (9.38%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.13%) Intel
2 3 (3.13%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.04%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.04%) Google
4 1 (1.04%) IBM
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle
4 1 (1.04%) TOWER Software