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 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 700 586 692
Rank change year-on-year -114 +106 -245
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 92 94 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 80 38 73
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,525 £52,900
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 £81,875 £89,375 £91,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £127,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,250 £54,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +28.24% -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 107,222 44,266 74,164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 89.67% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73,597 26,014 44,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,400 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 17 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 17 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 -111 87 £70,000 -12.50% 105
UK excluding London -112 52 £69,250 +28.24% 51
London -74 36 £75,000 -6.25% 59
North of England -40 31 £65,000 - 18
Work from Home -54 21 £72,500 -9.38% 35
North West -26 15 £78,750 +21.15% 14
South West -63 13 £60,000 - 4
North East - 13 £55,000 - 1
South East -46 7 £80,000 +113.33% 6
Yorkshire - 3 £69,250 - 3
Scotland +1 2 £100,000 - 9

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 92 (100.00%) AWS
1 92 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (54.35%) Security Cleared
3 49 (53.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (52.17%) CI/CD
5 47 (51.09%) Terraform
6 40 (43.48%) SC Cleared
7 36 (39.13%) Docker
8 31 (33.70%) Agile
8 31 (33.70%) Python
9 28 (30.43%) Kubernetes
10 27 (29.35%) Containerisation
10 27 (29.35%) GitLab
11 26 (28.26%) Observability
12 22 (23.91%) Test Automation
13 21 (22.83%) Jenkins
14 19 (20.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (20.65%) Bash
15 18 (19.57%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (19.57%) Grafana
15 18 (19.57%) Infrastructure Automation
16 17 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
17 16 (17.39%) Prometheus
18 14 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (15.22%) Mentoring
19 13 (14.13%) Git
19 13 (14.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 12 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
20 12 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
20 12 (13.04%) Amazon S3

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 (8.70%) Apache
2 7 (7.61%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.61%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.61%) Jupyter
3 3 (3.26%) Confluence
3 3 (3.26%) nginx
4 1 (1.09%) Drupal
4 1 (1.09%) IIS
4 1 (1.09%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (20.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (19.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (13.04%) Amazon S3
5 12 (13.04%) GitHub
6 11 (11.96%) Serverless
7 10 (10.87%) Amazon ECR
7 10 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (9.78%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (7.61%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 7 (7.61%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (7.61%) Azure
10 7 (7.61%) Textract
11 6 (6.52%) Datadog
11 6 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (5.43%) Route 53
13 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) DNS
1 1 (1.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.70%) DynamoDB
2 8 (8.70%) Redis
3 7 (7.61%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (6.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.17%) Big Data
6 1 (1.09%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.09%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.09%) MySQL
6 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (29.35%) GitLab
2 21 (22.83%) Jenkins
3 13 (14.13%) Git
4 4 (4.35%) git-flow
4 4 (4.35%) JIRA
5 2 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.17%) Snyk
6 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.09%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.09%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.09%) Gatling
6 1 (1.09%) JMeter
6 1 (1.09%) Maven
6 1 (1.09%) Postman
6 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.09%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (16.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (6.52%) Finance
2 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.35%) Banking
4 3 (3.26%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Games
6 1 (1.09%) Advertising
6 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (51.09%) Terraform
2 12 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (8.70%) Pulumi
4 7 (7.61%) Kafka
4 7 (7.61%) PySpark
5 6 (6.52%) Keycloak
6 5 (5.43%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.17%) OpenTofu
8 1 (1.09%) .NET
8 1 (1.09%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.09%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.09%) JSON
8 1 (1.09%) Memcached
8 1 (1.09%) Next.js
8 1 (1.09%) Node.js
8 1 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.09%) React
8 1 (1.09%) React Native
8 1 (1.09%) REST
8 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (27.17%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.61%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.52%) Replication
4 4 (4.35%) Life Science
4 4 (4.35%) PropTech
5 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.17%) Genomics
5 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.70%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Windows
3 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (53.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (52.17%) CI/CD
4 31 (33.70%) Agile
5 27 (29.35%) Containerisation
6 26 (28.26%) Observability
7 22 (23.91%) Test Automation
8 18 (19.57%) Infrastructure Automation
9 17 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (15.22%) Mentoring
11 13 (14.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 11 (11.96%) Cloud Security
12 11 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (10.87%) Secrets Management
14 9 (9.78%) Data Engineering
14 9 (9.78%) Data Pipeline
14 9 (9.78%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (9.78%) Workflow
15 8 (8.70%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (33.70%) Python
2 19 (20.65%) Bash
3 11 (11.96%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.70%) Groovy
4 8 (8.70%) SQL
5 4 (4.35%) Java
6 2 (2.17%) C#
7 1 (1.09%) C++
7 1 (1.09%) Go
7 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.09%) Perl
7 1 (1.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (54.35%) Security Cleared
2 40 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.09%) GDPR
2 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.09%) NCSC
2 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.09%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (39.13%) Docker
2 3 (3.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 18 (19.57%) Grafana
3 16 (17.39%) Prometheus
4 10 (10.87%) Argo
5 7 (7.61%) Ansible
6 6 (6.52%) Rancher
7 3 (3.26%) Puppet
8 2 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.17%) Packer
8 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.09%) Consul
Vendors
1 6 (6.52%) Dynatrace
1 6 (6.52%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.17%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.17%) Intel
4 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.09%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.09%) Google
4 1 (1.09%) IBM
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle
4 1 (1.09%) TOWER Software