Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 432 644
Rank change year-on-year -170 +212 -79
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 96 201 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.49% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.55% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 80 159 199
10th Percentile £46,800 £78,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £90,625 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +33.33% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 - £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +3.70%

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 74,250 36,762 86,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 89.83% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 47,841 23,292 64,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.79% -8.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -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 4 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Top 15 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 4 April 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 -153 89 £75,000 -31.82% 16
UK excluding London -54 47 £62,500 -3.85% 12
London -129 42 £90,000 -18.18% 6
Work from Home -105 35 £95,250 -13.41% 9
North of England -43 24 £60,000 -25.00% 6
North West -14 16 £65,000 -27.78% 4
South West -32 9 £100,000 +81.82%
South East -29 8 £75,000 +57.89% 3
Yorkshire - 5 £60,000 -
Midlands -42 4 £68,750 -14.06% 1
North East -20 3 £60,000 -14.29% 2
East Midlands -42 3 £75,000 -6.25%
Scotland -26 2 - -
East of England -29 1 £57,500 -11.54% 2
West Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 April 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 47 (48.96%) Terraform
3 46 (47.92%) CI/CD
4 42 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (40.63%) Python
6 35 (36.46%) Kubernetes
7 29 (30.21%) Azure
7 29 (30.21%) Docker
8 26 (27.08%) Containerisation
9 25 (26.04%) Security Cleared
10 24 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (21.88%) Kafka
12 20 (20.83%) Ansible
12 20 (20.83%) GitHub
13 19 (19.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (19.79%) Serverless
14 17 (17.71%) Jenkins
14 17 (17.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 16 (16.67%) GCP
15 16 (16.67%) Go
15 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (15.63%) SC Cleared
17 14 (14.58%) Microservices
18 13 (13.54%) Grafana
19 12 (12.50%) Agile
19 12 (12.50%) GitLab
20 11 (11.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 11 (11.46%) AWS Lambda

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 1 (1.04%) Apache
1 1 (1.04%) Confluence
1 1 (1.04%) Drupal
1 1 (1.04%) IIS
1 1 (1.04%) nginx
1 1 (1.04%) SAS
1 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (30.21%) Azure
3 24 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (20.83%) GitHub
5 19 (19.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (19.79%) Serverless
6 16 (16.67%) GCP
7 15 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (11.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (11.46%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (10.42%) Amazon S3
9 10 (10.42%) Datadog
9 10 (10.42%) OpenShift
10 9 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
12 7 (7.29%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (4.17%) Amazon ECR
15 4 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.42%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.25%) Flink
4 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.04%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.04%) Metadata
6 1 (1.04%) MySQL
6 1 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (17.71%) Jenkins
2 12 (12.50%) GitLab
3 9 (9.38%) Git
4 7 (7.29%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.08%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.08%) JIRA
6 2 (2.08%) Maven
7 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.04%) Gatling
7 1 (1.04%) git-flow
7 1 (1.04%) Gradle
7 1 (1.04%) JMeter
7 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.04%) Vagrant
General
1 28 (29.17%) Finance
2 23 (23.96%) Banking
3 17 (17.71%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Front Office
5 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.13%) Advertising
7 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Games
7 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Law
8 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.04%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.88%) Kafka
2 10 (10.42%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.25%) AWS CDK
4 5 (5.21%) .NET
5 4 (4.17%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.13%) ASP.NET
6 3 (3.13%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (3.13%) Blazor
6 3 (3.13%) React
6 3 (3.13%) RESTful
7 2 (2.08%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.08%) JSON
7 2 (2.08%) JWT
7 2 (2.08%) Node.js
7 2 (2.08%) OAuth
7 2 (2.08%) YAML
8 1 (1.04%) AWS SAM
8 1 (1.04%) Memcached
8 1 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.25%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.08%) Clustering
5 1 (1.04%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.46%) Linux
2 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.04%) Unix
2 1 (1.04%) Windows
2 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (47.92%) CI/CD
3 42 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (27.08%) Containerisation
5 17 (17.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (14.58%) Microservices
8 12 (12.50%) Agile
9 11 (11.46%) Mentoring
10 10 (10.42%) Fintech
10 10 (10.42%) High Availability
10 10 (10.42%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (10.42%) Software Engineering
11 9 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (9.38%) Open Source
12 8 (8.33%) Observability
13 7 (7.29%) Continuous Delivery
13 7 (7.29%) Incident Management
13 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Management
14 6 (6.25%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (40.63%) Python
2 16 (16.67%) Go
3 11 (11.46%) Bash
4 10 (10.42%) SQL
5 9 (9.38%) Java
6 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.08%) Bicep
7 2 (2.08%) Groovy
7 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.08%) PHP
8 1 (1.04%) Perl
8 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) GDPR
1 7 (7.29%) PCI DSS
1 7 (7.29%) SOC 2
2 3 (3.13%) SLA
3 2 (2.08%) QA
4 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (30.21%) Docker
2 8 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (48.96%) Terraform
2 35 (36.46%) Kubernetes
3 20 (20.83%) Ansible
4 13 (13.54%) Grafana
5 11 (11.46%) Prometheus
6 8 (8.33%) Istio
7 7 (7.29%) Argo
8 2 (2.08%) Packer
8 2 (2.08%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.04%) Consul
9 1 (1.04%) Puppet
9 1 (1.04%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 8 (8.33%) Confluent
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.08%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.04%) Google
4 1 (1.04%) IBM
4 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.04%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.04%) TOWER Software