AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 463 608
Rank change year-on-year -137 +145 -21
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 78 203 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.46% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.51% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 62 163 211
10th Percentile £45,000 £79,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £88,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +33.33% +5.10%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 - £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -3.85% -8.77% +5.56%

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 66,980 39,779 79,178
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.76% 90.72% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 42,499 22,997 60,965
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -152 70 £77,500 -29.55% 15
UK excluding London -4 40 £62,500 -3.85% 10
London -124 31 £100,000 -9.09% 6
Work from Home -88 27 £100,000 -9.09% 7
North of England -16 19 £60,000 -25.00% 5
North West +4 15 £63,750 -29.17% 4
South West -15 8 £100,000 +81.82% 1
South East -9 6 £63,750 - 3
Midlands -10 5 £63,250 -20.94% 1
East Midlands -30 4 £75,000 -6.25%
Yorkshire - 4 £60,000 - 1
Scotland -15 2 - -
East of England -7 1 £57,500 -11.54%
West Midlands - 1 £51,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 11 March 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 78 (100.00%) AWS
1 78 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 39 (50.00%) Terraform
3 36 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (38.46%) Python
5 28 (35.90%) Kubernetes
6 20 (25.64%) Azure
6 20 (25.64%) Docker
7 19 (24.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (24.36%) GitHub
8 18 (23.08%) Security Cleared
9 17 (21.79%) Ansible
9 17 (21.79%) Serverless
10 16 (20.51%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (20.51%) Jenkins
11 15 (19.23%) Containerisation
12 14 (17.95%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (17.95%) Kafka
13 13 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (16.67%) Grafana
13 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (16.67%) SC Cleared
14 12 (15.38%) Microservices
14 12 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (14.10%) Agile
15 11 (14.10%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (14.10%) Observability
16 10 (12.82%) Bash
16 10 (12.82%) GitLab

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 (1.28%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 78 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (25.64%) Azure
3 19 (24.36%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (24.36%) GitHub
4 17 (21.79%) Serverless
5 16 (20.51%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (17.95%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (14.10%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (10.26%) Datadog
11 7 (8.97%) Amazon S3
11 7 (8.97%) GCP
12 6 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (6.41%) OpenShift
14 4 (5.13%) Amazon ECR
14 4 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
15 3 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
15 3 (3.85%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.26%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.97%) DynamoDB
3 6 (7.69%) Flink
4 3 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.28%) Metadata
5 1 (1.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (20.51%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.82%) GitLab
3 8 (10.26%) Git
4 5 (6.41%) CircleCI
5 4 (5.13%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.28%) Gradle
7 1 (1.28%) Maven
7 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (24.36%) Finance
2 15 (19.23%) Banking
2 15 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.69%) Front Office
4 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.56%) Advertising
5 2 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Law
6 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.28%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.95%) Kafka
2 9 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (7.69%) AWS CDK
4 4 (5.13%) .NET
4 4 (5.13%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.13%) React
5 3 (3.85%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (3.85%) Blazor
5 3 (3.85%) RESTful
6 2 (2.56%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.56%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.56%) JWT
6 2 (2.56%) Node.js
6 2 (2.56%) OAuth
7 1 (1.28%) JSON
7 1 (1.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 4 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.56%) Clustering
4 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 36 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (19.23%) Containerisation
5 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.38%) Microservices
6 12 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (14.10%) Agile
7 11 (14.10%) Observability
8 10 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (11.54%) High Availability
9 9 (11.54%) Mentoring
10 8 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (10.26%) Fintech
10 8 (10.26%) Software Engineering
11 7 (8.97%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (7.69%) Front End Development
12 6 (7.69%) Investment Management
13 5 (6.41%) Continuous Delivery
13 5 (6.41%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (38.46%) Python
2 10 (12.82%) Bash
2 10 (12.82%) Go
3 9 (11.54%) Java
4 8 (10.26%) SQL
5 3 (3.85%) Bicep
5 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) GDPR
1 5 (6.41%) PCI DSS
1 5 (6.41%) SOC 2
2 4 (5.13%) SLA
3 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 20 (25.64%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (50.00%) Terraform
2 28 (35.90%) Kubernetes
3 17 (21.79%) Ansible
4 13 (16.67%) Grafana
5 10 (12.82%) Prometheus
6 7 (8.97%) Argo
7 2 (2.56%) Istio
7 2 (2.56%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 3 (3.85%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.56%) Confluent
2 2 (2.56%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.28%) AppDynamics