Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 684 567 664
Rank change year-on-year -117 +97 -199
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 104 116 153
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 93 53 119
10th Percentile £50,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £76,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +6.45% -3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £95,625
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 97,595 44,677 79,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 90.06% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 66,719 26,547 53,755
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £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 £90,793
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 4 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 4 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 -79 101 £71,250 -13.64% 22
UK excluding London -52 60 £67,500 +23.85% 10
London -81 39 £83,750 -23.86% 14
North of England -13 37 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Work from Home -59 34 £82,500 - 3
North West +4 23 £70,000 +7.69% 3
South West -45 15 £67,500 - 3
North East - 13 £55,000 -
South East -26 7 £80,000 +113.33% 1
Midlands -46 2 £68,750 -4.51%
East Midlands -19 1 £75,000 +38.89%
West Midlands -39 1 £62,500 -30.56%
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 104 (100.00%) AWS
1 104 (100.00%) DevOps
2 51 (49.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 49 (47.12%) Terraform
4 45 (43.27%) Security Cleared
5 43 (41.35%) CI/CD
6 38 (36.54%) Containerisation
6 38 (36.54%) Docker
7 35 (33.65%) Python
8 34 (32.69%) SC Cleared
9 31 (29.81%) Kubernetes
10 28 (26.92%) GitLab
11 24 (23.08%) Azure
12 21 (20.19%) Agile
13 19 (18.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (17.31%) Jenkins
14 18 (17.31%) Mentoring
14 18 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (16.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (15.38%) Bash
16 16 (15.38%) GCP
16 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
17 15 (14.42%) Grafana
17 15 (14.42%) Observability
18 14 (13.46%) Go
18 14 (13.46%) Kafka
18 14 (13.46%) Prometheus
19 13 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
19 13 (12.50%) SQL
19 13 (12.50%) Test Automation

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 (7.69%) Apache
2 7 (6.73%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.73%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.73%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.92%) Confluence
3 2 (1.92%) nginx
4 1 (0.96%) Drupal
4 1 (0.96%) IIS
4 1 (0.96%) SAS
4 1 (0.96%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 104 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (23.08%) Azure
3 19 (18.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (16.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 16 (15.38%) GCP
6 13 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (10.58%) Amazon S3
8 11 (10.58%) Serverless
9 10 (9.62%) Datadog
9 10 (9.62%) GitHub
10 9 (8.65%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (7.69%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (7.69%) OpenShift
12 7 (6.73%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (6.73%) Textract
13 6 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (5.77%) Pulumi
14 5 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) DNS
1 1 (0.96%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 7 (6.73%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.92%) Big Data
5 2 (1.92%) Redis
6 1 (0.96%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.96%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.96%) Metadata
6 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.96%) MySQL
6 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (26.92%) GitLab
2 18 (17.31%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.77%) CircleCI
4 5 (4.81%) Git
5 3 (2.88%) git-flow
5 3 (2.88%) JIRA
6 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.96%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.96%) Gatling
6 1 (0.96%) JMeter
6 1 (0.96%) Maven
6 1 (0.96%) Postman
6 1 (0.96%) Snyk
6 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.96%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (17.31%) Finance
2 16 (15.38%) Banking
3 9 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.92%) Games
6 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.96%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.46%) Kafka
2 10 (9.62%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.73%) PySpark
4 3 (2.88%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.92%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.96%) .NET
6 1 (0.96%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.96%) JSON
6 1 (0.96%) Memcached
6 1 (0.96%) Next.js
6 1 (0.96%) Node.js
6 1 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.96%) React
6 1 (0.96%) React Native
6 1 (0.96%) REST
6 1 (0.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.35%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.73%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.85%) Life Science
3 4 (3.85%) PropTech
4 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.92%) Genomics
4 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.73%) Linux
2 2 (1.92%) Windows
3 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (100.00%) DevOps
2 51 (49.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (41.35%) CI/CD
4 38 (36.54%) Containerisation
5 21 (20.19%) Agile
6 18 (17.31%) Mentoring
6 18 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
8 15 (14.42%) Observability
9 13 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 11 (10.58%) Fintech
10 11 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (8.65%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (8.65%) Data Engineering
11 9 (8.65%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (8.65%) Incident Management
11 9 (8.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (8.65%) Workflow
12 8 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (33.65%) Python
2 16 (15.38%) Bash
3 14 (13.46%) Go
4 13 (12.50%) SQL
5 9 (8.65%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.88%) Java
7 2 (1.92%) C#
7 2 (1.92%) Groovy
8 1 (0.96%) Bicep
8 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.96%) Perl
8 1 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (43.27%) Security Cleared
2 34 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.77%) GDPR
2 6 (5.77%) PCI DSS
2 6 (5.77%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.96%) NCSC
3 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 38 (36.54%) Docker
2 8 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (47.12%) Terraform
2 31 (29.81%) Kubernetes
3 15 (14.42%) Grafana
4 14 (13.46%) Prometheus
5 10 (9.62%) Ansible
6 8 (7.69%) Istio
7 7 (6.73%) Argo
8 2 (1.92%) Packer
8 2 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.92%) Puppet
9 1 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.96%) Consul
9 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (7.69%) Confluent
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.96%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.96%) Cognizant
3 1 (0.96%) Google
3 1 (0.96%) IBM
3 1 (0.96%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (0.96%) SolarWinds
3 1 (0.96%) TOWER Software