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 28 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 715 589 671
Rank change year-on-year -126 +82 -223
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 96 91 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.21% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 79 35 77
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,300 £52,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,000 £65,000
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 £83,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £112,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £52,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +32.70% -24.64% -

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 109,191 44,243 72,281
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 89.71% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 74,643 25,711 42,130
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,598 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
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 28 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 28 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 -126 89 £70,000 -12.50% 125
UK excluding London -122 54 £70,000 +32.70% 64
London -63 37 £75,000 -6.25% 60
North of England -47 32 £70,000 +7.69% 22
Work from Home -55 21 £75,000 -6.25% 48
North West -36 16 £77,500 +19.23% 18
South West -70 14 £60,000 - 8
North East - 12 £55,000 - 1
South East -50 6 £80,000 +113.33% 5
Yorkshire - 4 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +6 3 £100,000 - 8

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 51 (53.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (51.04%) Terraform
5 48 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 42 (43.75%) SC Cleared
7 36 (37.50%) Docker
8 35 (36.46%) Agile
9 32 (33.33%) Python
10 31 (32.29%) Kubernetes
11 30 (31.25%) Observability
12 27 (28.13%) Test Automation
13 26 (27.08%) Containerisation
13 26 (27.08%) GitLab
14 22 (22.92%) Jenkins
15 21 (21.88%) Bash
16 20 (20.83%) Grafana
17 18 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 18 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (18.75%) Prometheus
18 17 (17.71%) Infrastructure Automation
19 16 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
19 16 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 15 (15.63%) Git
20 15 (15.63%) Mentoring
21 14 (14.58%) Amazon EKS
21 14 (14.58%) Elastic Stack
22 13 (13.54%) Amazon RDS
22 13 (13.54%) Platform Engineering

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 7 (7.29%) Apache
1 7 (7.29%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (7.29%) Apache Spark
1 7 (7.29%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.08%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 16 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (14.58%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (11.46%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (11.46%) Serverless
7 10 (10.42%) Amazon S3
7 10 (10.42%) GitHub
8 9 (9.38%) Amazon ECR
8 9 (9.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 7 (7.29%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (7.29%) Azure
9 7 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (7.29%) Textract
10 6 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (4.17%) Datadog
11 4 (4.17%) Route 53
11 4 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) DNS
1 1 (1.04%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.54%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (10.42%) Redis
3 9 (9.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.29%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (7.29%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.08%) Big Data
6 1 (1.04%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (27.08%) GitLab
2 22 (22.92%) Jenkins
3 15 (15.63%) Git
4 3 (3.13%) git-flow
4 3 (3.13%) 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%) Postman
6 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.17%) Finance
4 3 (3.13%) Banking
4 3 (3.13%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.04%) Games
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 4 (4.17%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.08%) .NET
7 2 (2.08%) OpenTofu
7 2 (2.08%) RESTful
8 1 (1.04%) JSON
8 1 (1.04%) Next.js
8 1 (1.04%) Node.js
8 1 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.04%) React
8 1 (1.04%) React Native
8 1 (1.04%) REST
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%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) DevOps
2 51 (53.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 35 (36.46%) Agile
5 30 (31.25%) Observability
6 27 (28.13%) Test Automation
7 26 (27.08%) Containerisation
8 18 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (17.71%) Infrastructure Automation
10 16 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 15 (15.63%) Mentoring
12 13 (13.54%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (13.54%) Secrets Management
13 12 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (11.46%) Change Management
14 11 (11.46%) Cloud Security
14 11 (11.46%) Identity Management
14 11 (11.46%) ITIL
15 10 (10.42%) Roadmaps
15 10 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (33.33%) Python
2 21 (21.88%) Bash
3 11 (11.46%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.42%) Groovy
5 7 (7.29%) SQL
6 4 (4.17%) Java
7 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.08%) C#
9 1 (1.04%) C++
9 1 (1.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 52 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 42 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 36 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (32.29%) Kubernetes
2 20 (20.83%) Grafana
3 18 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 10 (10.42%) Argo
5 9 (9.38%) Rancher
6 4 (4.17%) Ansible
7 2 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.08%) Puppet
7 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.04%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (9.38%) Dynatrace
1 9 (9.38%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.13%) Intel
3 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.04%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.04%) IBM
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle