AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 534 519
Rank change year-on-year -65 -15 +91
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 54 167 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.31% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.34% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 33 134 182
10th Percentile £50,150 £68,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £85,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +29.41% +8.97%
75th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -16.07% -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 54,426 49,714 53,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.90% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,710 25,743 40,880
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £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 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%

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 14 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 14 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 -49 49 £65,000 -40.91% 13
UK excluding London +59 28 £58,750 -16.07% 10
London -59 24 £115,000 +4.55% 8
Work from Home -21 22 £83,750 -23.86% 9
North of England +13 10 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Midlands +29 9 £51,500 -35.63% 1
South East +38 6 £63,750 -17.74% 5
North West +21 6 £100,000 +29.03% 1
West Midlands - 5 £51,500 -
Scotland +8 4 - -
East Midlands -5 4 £50,000 -37.50%
Yorkshire - 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England +21 1 £57,500 -11.54%
South West +7 1 £60,000 -17.24% 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 54 (100.00%) AWS
1 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (75.93%) CI/CD
3 32 (59.26%) Terraform
4 27 (50.00%) Python
5 26 (48.15%) Kubernetes
6 20 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (35.19%) GitHub
8 18 (33.33%) Docker
9 16 (29.63%) Jenkins
10 15 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (27.78%) Ansible
10 15 (27.78%) Azure
11 14 (25.93%) Agile
11 14 (25.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (24.07%) Git
12 13 (24.07%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (22.22%) Linux
14 11 (20.37%) Java
14 11 (20.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 10 (18.52%) Bash
15 10 (18.52%) Observability
15 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
16 9 (16.67%) Kafka
16 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
16 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
16 9 (16.67%) Serverless
17 8 (14.81%) Amazon S3
17 8 (14.81%) 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 (3.70%) Apache
1 2 (3.70%) Confluence
1 2 (3.70%) JBoss
1 2 (3.70%) nginx
1 2 (3.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (35.19%) GitHub
3 15 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 15 (27.78%) Azure
4 14 (25.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (24.07%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (16.67%) Serverless
8 8 (14.81%) Amazon S3
8 8 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (14.81%) OpenShift
9 7 (12.96%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (11.11%) PaaS
11 5 (9.26%) Datadog
12 4 (7.41%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (5.56%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) DNS
1 3 (5.56%) HTTP
2 2 (3.70%) Firewall
2 2 (3.70%) FTP
2 2 (3.70%) IMAP
2 2 (3.70%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (3.70%) SMTP
2 2 (3.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) DynamoDB
2 6 (11.11%) Flink
2 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.85%) MySQL
5 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 13 (24.07%) Git
3 7 (12.96%) GitLab
4 4 (7.41%) Artifactory
4 4 (7.41%) Bitbucket
4 4 (7.41%) JIRA
5 3 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.70%) Ant
6 2 (3.70%) Maven
6 2 (3.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.70%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (29.63%) Finance
2 10 (18.52%) Banking
2 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Front Office
4 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Advertising
5 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Law
5 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.85%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) Kafka
2 6 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 6 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (9.26%) .NET
4 4 (7.41%) .NET Core
4 4 (7.41%) React
5 3 (5.56%) ASP.NET
5 3 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (5.56%) Blazor
5 3 (5.56%) Node.js
5 3 (5.56%) RESTful
6 2 (3.70%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.70%) AWS SAM
6 2 (3.70%) JWT
6 2 (3.70%) LDAP
6 2 (3.70%) Middleware
6 2 (3.70%) OAuth
7 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Management Information System
2 6 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.11%) Fixed Income
3 4 (7.41%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.56%) Clustering
5 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.70%) Replication
6 1 (1.85%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (7.41%) Windows
3 2 (3.70%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.70%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.70%) Unix
3 2 (3.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (75.93%) CI/CD
3 20 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (25.93%) Agile
5 11 (20.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 10 (18.52%) Observability
7 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (14.81%) Containerisation
8 8 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (12.96%) Microservices
10 6 (11.11%) Front End Development
10 6 (11.11%) Investment Management
10 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (9.26%) Configuration Management
11 5 (9.26%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (9.26%) Root Cause Analysis
12 4 (7.41%) Asset Management
12 4 (7.41%) High Availability
12 4 (7.41%) Process Management
12 4 (7.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (20.37%) Java
3 10 (18.52%) Bash
4 7 (12.96%) SQL
5 6 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 5 (9.26%) Groovy
7 4 (7.41%) Go
7 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.56%) Bicep
8 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.70%) C#
10 1 (1.85%) C++
10 1 (1.85%) PHP
10 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.70%) Degree
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) SLA
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 18 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) DFS Replication
2 2 (3.70%) Dovecot
2 2 (3.70%) Postfix
2 2 (3.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 32 (59.26%) Terraform
2 26 (48.15%) Kubernetes
3 15 (27.78%) Ansible
4 8 (14.81%) Grafana
5 7 (12.96%) Argo
6 5 (9.26%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.70%) Nessus
7 2 (3.70%) Podman
7 2 (3.70%) Proxmox
7 2 (3.70%) Puppet
7 2 (3.70%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 3 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.70%) AppDynamics
2 2 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.70%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.85%) Cribl.io
3 1 (1.85%) Google
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle
3 1 (1.85%) Sonatype
3 1 (1.85%) Splunk