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 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 721 581 652
Rank change year-on-year -140 +71 -216
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 97 85 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.19% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 79 32 78
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,900 £52,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +1.61% -6.06%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £113,500 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £51,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +35.92% -26.43% -

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 109,799 44,474 69,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 89.76% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 74,691 25,606 40,305
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £35,718 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,589 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,566 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.11% -6.87% -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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -121 86 £70,000 -12.50% 132
UK excluding London -123 54 £70,000 +35.92% 67
London -81 37 £72,500 -9.38% 65
North of England -50 31 £70,000 +7.69% 25
Work from Home -55 21 £75,000 -3.23% 52
North West -28 18 £78,750 +21.15% 21
South West - 14 £60,000 - 6
North East - 10 £55,000 - 1
Scotland +1 5 £100,000 - 8
South East -41 4 £80,000 +113.33% 6
Yorkshire - 3 £70,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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 97 (100.00%) AWS
1 97 (100.00%) DevOps
2 51 (52.58%) Security Cleared
3 50 (51.55%) Terraform
4 49 (50.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (49.48%) CI/CD
6 44 (45.36%) SC Cleared
7 37 (38.14%) Agile
8 35 (36.08%) Docker
9 31 (31.96%) Kubernetes
9 31 (31.96%) Observability
10 30 (30.93%) Python
11 27 (27.84%) Test Automation
12 26 (26.80%) Containerisation
13 25 (25.77%) GitLab
14 21 (21.65%) Bash
14 21 (21.65%) Jenkins
15 20 (20.62%) Grafana
16 18 (18.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (18.56%) Infrastructure Automation
16 18 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (18.56%) Prometheus
17 17 (17.53%) AWS CloudFormation
18 16 (16.49%) Mentoring
18 16 (16.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 14 (14.43%) Git
19 14 (14.43%) Platform Engineering
20 13 (13.40%) Amazon EKS
20 13 (13.40%) Amazon RDS
20 13 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement

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 (7.22%) Apache
1 7 (7.22%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (7.22%) Apache Spark
1 7 (7.22%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.06%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (18.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 17 (17.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (13.40%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (11.34%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (10.31%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (10.31%) GitHub
6 10 (10.31%) Serverless
7 9 (9.28%) Amazon ECR
7 9 (9.28%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 9 (9.28%) Amazon S3
8 7 (7.22%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (7.22%) Azure
8 7 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (7.22%) Textract
9 6 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.12%) Datadog
10 4 (4.12%) Route 53
10 4 (4.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) DNS
1 1 (1.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.40%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (10.31%) Redis
3 9 (9.28%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.22%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (7.22%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.06%) Big Data
6 1 (1.03%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (25.77%) GitLab
2 21 (21.65%) Jenkins
3 14 (14.43%) Git
4 3 (3.09%) git-flow
5 2 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.06%) JIRA
5 2 (2.06%) Snyk
6 1 (1.03%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.03%) Postman
General
1 18 (18.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (8.25%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.09%) Finance
3 3 (3.09%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.06%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (51.55%) Terraform
2 13 (13.40%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (9.28%) Kafka
3 9 (9.28%) Keycloak
4 8 (8.25%) Pulumi
5 7 (7.22%) PySpark
6 4 (4.12%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.06%) .NET
7 2 (2.06%) OpenTofu
7 2 (2.06%) RESTful
8 1 (1.03%) Next.js
8 1 (1.03%) Node.js
8 1 (1.03%) React
8 1 (1.03%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 27 (27.84%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.28%) Replication
3 7 (7.22%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.12%) Life Science
4 4 (4.12%) PropTech
5 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.06%) Genomics
6 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Linux
2 2 (2.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (50.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (49.48%) CI/CD
4 37 (38.14%) Agile
5 31 (31.96%) Observability
6 27 (27.84%) Test Automation
7 26 (26.80%) Containerisation
8 18 (18.56%) Infrastructure Automation
8 18 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (16.49%) Mentoring
9 16 (16.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 14 (14.43%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (12.37%) Cloud Security
12 12 (12.37%) Secrets Management
13 11 (11.34%) Change Management
13 11 (11.34%) Identity Management
13 11 (11.34%) ITIL
14 10 (10.31%) Roadmaps
14 10 (10.31%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 30 (30.93%) Python
2 21 (21.65%) Bash
3 11 (11.34%) PowerShell
4 9 (9.28%) Groovy
5 7 (7.22%) SQL
6 3 (3.09%) Java
6 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.06%) C#
8 1 (1.03%) C++
Qualifications
1 51 (52.58%) Security Cleared
2 44 (45.36%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.09%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (36.08%) Docker
2 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (31.96%) Kubernetes
2 20 (20.62%) Grafana
3 18 (18.56%) Prometheus
4 10 (10.31%) Argo
5 9 (9.28%) Rancher
6 3 (3.09%) Ansible
7 2 (2.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.06%) Puppet
7 2 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (9.28%) Dynatrace
1 9 (9.28%) ServiceNow
2 5 (5.15%) Intel
3 2 (2.06%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.06%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.03%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle