AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £78,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 544 511
Rank change year-on-year -52 -33 +125
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 53 167 205
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.31% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.34% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 32 134 181
10th Percentile £50,075 £68,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £85,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.41% +29.41% +9.68%
75th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% -3.45% +3.57%

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 54,710 49,797 52,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 92.91% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,899 25,819 40,678
10th Percentile £28,560 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,325
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.18%

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 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Top 14 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 15 January 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 -53 48 £70,000 -36.36% 13
UK excluding London +37 27 £60,000 -14.29% 10
London -50 24 £115,000 +4.55% 9
Work from Home -21 21 £85,000 -22.73% 10
North of England +19 10 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Midlands +27 8 £50,750 -36.56% 1
South East +29 6 £63,750 -17.74% 6
North West +26 6 £100,000 +29.03% 1
West Midlands - 5 £51,500 -
Scotland +6 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 £60,000 -
East Midlands -11 3 £46,000 -42.50%
East of England +22 1 £57,500 -11.54%
South West -5 1 £60,000 -17.24% 1

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

For the 6 months to 15 January 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 53 (100.00%) AWS
1 53 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (75.47%) CI/CD
3 31 (58.49%) Terraform
4 26 (49.06%) Kubernetes
4 26 (49.06%) Python
5 20 (37.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (33.96%) Docker
6 18 (33.96%) GitHub
7 15 (28.30%) Ansible
7 15 (28.30%) Jenkins
8 14 (26.42%) Agile
8 14 (26.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (26.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (26.42%) Azure
9 13 (24.53%) Git
10 12 (22.64%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (22.64%) Linux
11 11 (20.75%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (20.75%) Java
11 11 (20.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
13 9 (16.98%) Bash
13 9 (16.98%) Kafka
13 9 (16.98%) Observability
13 9 (16.98%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (16.98%) SC Cleared
13 9 (16.98%) Serverless
14 8 (15.09%) Amazon S3
14 8 (15.09%) 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 2 (3.77%) Apache
1 2 (3.77%) Confluence
1 2 (3.77%) JBoss
1 2 (3.77%) nginx
1 2 (3.77%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 53 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (33.96%) GitHub
3 14 (26.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (26.42%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (26.42%) Azure
4 12 (22.64%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (20.75%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (16.98%) Serverless
7 8 (15.09%) Amazon S3
7 8 (15.09%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (15.09%) OpenShift
8 7 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (11.32%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (11.32%) PaaS
10 4 (7.55%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (7.55%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (7.55%) Datadog
11 3 (5.66%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (5.66%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) DNS
1 3 (5.66%) HTTP
2 2 (3.77%) Firewall
2 2 (3.77%) FTP
2 2 (3.77%) IMAP
2 2 (3.77%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (3.77%) SMTP
2 2 (3.77%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) DynamoDB
2 6 (11.32%) Flink
2 6 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.55%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.89%) MySQL
5 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (28.30%) Jenkins
2 13 (24.53%) Git
3 7 (13.21%) GitLab
4 4 (7.55%) Artifactory
4 4 (7.55%) Bitbucket
4 4 (7.55%) JIRA
5 3 (5.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.77%) Ant
6 2 (3.77%) Maven
6 2 (3.77%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.77%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (30.19%) Finance
2 10 (18.87%) Banking
2 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.32%) Front Office
4 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.77%) Advertising
5 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Law
5 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) Kafka
2 6 (11.32%) AWS CDK
2 6 (11.32%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (9.43%) .NET
4 4 (7.55%) .NET Core
4 4 (7.55%) React
5 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET
5 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (5.66%) Blazor
5 3 (5.66%) Node.js
5 3 (5.66%) RESTful
6 2 (3.77%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.77%) AWS SAM
6 2 (3.77%) JWT
6 2 (3.77%) LDAP
6 2 (3.77%) Middleware
6 2 (3.77%) OAuth
7 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Management Information System
2 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.32%) Fixed Income
3 4 (7.55%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.66%) Clustering
5 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.77%) Replication
6 1 (1.89%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.64%) Linux
2 4 (7.55%) Windows
3 2 (3.77%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.77%) Unix
3 2 (3.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (75.47%) CI/CD
3 20 (37.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (26.42%) Agile
5 11 (20.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (16.98%) Observability
6 9 (16.98%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (15.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (13.21%) Containerisation
8 7 (13.21%) Microservices
9 6 (11.32%) Front End Development
9 6 (11.32%) Investment Management
9 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (9.43%) Configuration Management
10 5 (9.43%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (9.43%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (7.55%) Asset Management
11 4 (7.55%) High Availability
11 4 (7.55%) Process Management
11 4 (7.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (49.06%) Python
2 11 (20.75%) Java
3 9 (16.98%) Bash
4 7 (13.21%) SQL
5 5 (9.43%) Groovy
5 5 (9.43%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.55%) Go
6 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.77%) Bicep
8 2 (3.77%) C#
9 1 (1.89%) C++
9 1 (1.89%) PHP
9 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (5.66%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.77%) Degree
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) SLA
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.89%) NIST
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 18 (33.96%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) DFS Replication
2 2 (3.77%) Dovecot
2 2 (3.77%) Postfix
2 2 (3.77%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (58.49%) Terraform
2 26 (49.06%) Kubernetes
3 15 (28.30%) Ansible
4 7 (13.21%) Argo
4 7 (13.21%) Grafana
5 5 (9.43%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.77%) Nessus
6 2 (3.77%) Podman
6 2 (3.77%) Proxmox
6 2 (3.77%) Puppet
6 2 (3.77%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 2 (3.77%) AppDynamics
1 2 (3.77%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (3.77%) LogicMonitor
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
1 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
1 2 (3.77%) SolarWinds
2 1 (1.89%) Cribl.io
2 1 (1.89%) Google
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle
2 1 (1.89%) Sonatype
2 1 (1.89%) Splunk