Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 663 555 668
Rank change year-on-year -108 +113 -194
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 105 123 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.28% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 94 57 125
10th Percentile £50,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £76,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% +6.45% -3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,000 £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 97,263 44,589 81,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 90.05% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 66,554 26,541 55,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £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 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 1 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 1 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 -86 102 £72,500 -19.44% 25
UK excluding London -53 60 £67,500 +23.85% 12
London -78 40 £82,500 -25.00% 14
North of England -17 37 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Work from Home -61 34 £82,500 - 5
North West +7 23 £70,000 +7.69% 3
South West -57 15 £67,500 - 5
North East - 13 £55,000 -
South East -34 7 £80,000 +113.33% 1
Midlands -38 2 £68,750 -4.51%
East Midlands -28 1 £75,000 +38.89%
West Midlands -36 1 £62,500 -30.56%
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 105 (100.00%) AWS
1 105 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (49.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (47.62%) Terraform
4 45 (42.86%) Security Cleared
5 44 (41.90%) CI/CD
6 39 (37.14%) Containerisation
6 39 (37.14%) Docker
7 36 (34.29%) Python
8 34 (32.38%) SC Cleared
9 32 (30.48%) Kubernetes
10 29 (27.62%) GitLab
11 25 (23.81%) Azure
12 21 (20.00%) Agile
13 20 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (18.10%) Jenkins
14 19 (18.10%) Mentoring
14 19 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (16.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (16.19%) Bash
15 17 (16.19%) GCP
16 16 (15.24%) Grafana
16 16 (15.24%) Infrastructure Automation
17 15 (14.29%) Go
17 15 (14.29%) Kafka
17 15 (14.29%) Observability
17 15 (14.29%) Prometheus
18 14 (13.33%) SQL
19 13 (12.38%) Amazon EKS
19 13 (12.38%) 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 (7.62%) Apache
2 7 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.67%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.90%) Confluence
3 2 (1.90%) nginx
4 1 (0.95%) Drupal
4 1 (0.95%) IIS
4 1 (0.95%) SAS
4 1 (0.95%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 105 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (23.81%) Azure
3 20 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (16.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (16.19%) GCP
5 13 (12.38%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (11.43%) Serverless
7 11 (10.48%) Amazon S3
7 11 (10.48%) Datadog
8 10 (9.52%) GitHub
9 9 (8.57%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (7.62%) Amazon MSK
10 8 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (7.62%) OpenShift
11 7 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (6.67%) Textract
12 6 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (5.71%) Pulumi
13 5 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) DNS
1 1 (0.95%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) DynamoDB
2 7 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.90%) Big Data
4 2 (1.90%) Redis
5 1 (0.95%) DocumentDB
5 1 (0.95%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.95%) Metadata
5 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.95%) MySQL
5 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (27.62%) GitLab
2 19 (18.10%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.67%) CircleCI
4 5 (4.76%) Git
5 3 (2.86%) git-flow
5 3 (2.86%) JIRA
6 1 (0.95%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.95%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.95%) Gatling
6 1 (0.95%) JMeter
6 1 (0.95%) Maven
6 1 (0.95%) Postman
6 1 (0.95%) Snyk
6 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.95%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (17.14%) Finance
2 16 (15.24%) Banking
3 9 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (8.57%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.90%) Games
5 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.95%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.29%) Kafka
2 11 (10.48%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.67%) PySpark
4 3 (2.86%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.90%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.95%) .NET
6 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.95%) JSON
6 1 (0.95%) Memcached
6 1 (0.95%) Next.js
6 1 (0.95%) Node.js
6 1 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.95%) React
6 1 (0.95%) React Native
6 1 (0.95%) REST
6 1 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.19%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.81%) Life Science
3 4 (3.81%) PropTech
4 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.90%) Genomics
4 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (1.90%) Windows
3 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (49.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (41.90%) CI/CD
4 39 (37.14%) Containerisation
5 21 (20.00%) Agile
6 19 (18.10%) Mentoring
6 19 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (15.24%) Infrastructure Automation
8 15 (14.29%) Observability
9 13 (12.38%) Test Automation
10 12 (11.43%) Fintech
11 11 (10.48%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (9.52%) Incident Management
13 9 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (8.57%) High Availability
13 9 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (8.57%) Software Engineering
13 9 (8.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 36 (34.29%) Python
2 17 (16.19%) Bash
3 15 (14.29%) Go
4 14 (13.33%) SQL
5 9 (8.57%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.81%) Java
7 2 (1.90%) C#
7 2 (1.90%) Groovy
8 1 (0.95%) Bicep
8 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.95%) Perl
8 1 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 34 (32.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.62%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.67%) GDPR
2 7 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 7 (6.67%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.95%) NCSC
3 1 (0.95%) QA
System Software
1 39 (37.14%) Docker
2 8 (7.62%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (47.62%) Terraform
2 32 (30.48%) Kubernetes
3 16 (15.24%) Grafana
4 15 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.48%) Ansible
6 8 (7.62%) Istio
7 7 (6.67%) Argo
8 2 (1.90%) Packer
8 2 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.90%) Puppet
9 1 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.95%) Consul
9 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (7.62%) Confluent
2 2 (1.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.95%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.95%) Cognizant
3 1 (0.95%) Google
3 1 (0.95%) IBM
3 1 (0.95%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (0.95%) SolarWinds
3 1 (0.95%) TOWER Software