AWS DevOps Jobs

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 681 542
Rank change year-on-year +179 -139 +127
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 192 215 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.22% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.23% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 146 186 470
10th Percentile £76,250 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £87,500 £62,813 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £84,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% +5.00% +10.34%
75th Percentile £138,750 £112,500 £105,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps.

Salary trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Top 12 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 May 2025. 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 +152 184 £110,000 +30.18% 26
London +141 159 £110,000 +10.00% 10
Work from Home +252 147 £110,000 +46.67% 13
UK excluding London +150 28 £65,000 -7.14% 19
North of England +75 7 £77,500 +19.23% 9
North West +30 7 £77,500 +29.17% 5
South East +99 6 £42,500 -52.51% 7
South West +92 6 £63,750 -17.74%
East of England +57 5 £65,000 -7.14%
Scotland +127 3 £85,000 +30.77% 1
Midlands +63 1 £80,000 +33.33% 2
East Midlands +34 1 £80,000 +45.45% 2

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 192 (100.00%) AWS
1 192 (100.00%) DevOps
2 169 (88.02%) CI/CD
3 165 (85.94%) Terraform
4 160 (83.33%) Kubernetes
5 147 (76.56%) Python
6 143 (74.48%) Docker
7 136 (70.83%) Finance
8 135 (70.31%) Serverless
9 131 (68.23%) AWS Lambda
9 131 (68.23%) Agile
10 123 (64.06%) Software Engineering
11 120 (62.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 111 (57.81%) Amazon ECS
12 111 (57.81%) Java
13 109 (56.77%) Asset Management
13 109 (56.77%) Front Office
14 94 (48.96%) Go
15 87 (45.31%) OpenShift
15 87 (45.31%) Open Source
16 84 (43.75%) Artifactory
17 83 (43.23%) Kafka
18 81 (42.19%) J2EE
19 74 (38.54%) Apache
20 73 (38.02%) Data Engineering
20 73 (38.02%) Dremio
20 73 (38.02%) Amazon Athena
20 73 (38.02%) Apache Airflow
20 73 (38.02%) dbt
20 73 (38.02%) Apache Iceberg

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (38.54%) Apache
2 73 (38.02%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (36.98%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.04%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 192 (100.00%) AWS
2 135 (70.31%) Serverless
3 131 (68.23%) AWS Lambda
4 111 (57.81%) Amazon ECS
5 87 (45.31%) OpenShift
6 73 (38.02%) dbt
7 59 (30.73%) Amazon S3
8 57 (29.69%) Amazon EC2
9 47 (24.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 37 (19.27%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (18.75%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (10.42%) Azure
13 17 (8.85%) GCP
14 14 (7.29%) Datadog
15 6 (3.13%) Amazon MSK
16 5 (2.60%) Route 53
17 4 (2.08%) Amazon ECR
17 4 (2.08%) IBM Cloud
17 4 (2.08%) OCI
17 4 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.56%) Firewall
2 2 (1.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (38.02%) Amazon Athena
1 73 (38.02%) Apache Iceberg
1 73 (38.02%) Dremio
2 71 (36.98%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (36.98%) Apache Ignite
3 41 (21.35%) Amazon RDS
4 36 (18.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.56%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.52%) MySQL
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 84 (43.75%) Artifactory
2 40 (20.83%) Jenkins
3 27 (14.06%) GitLab
4 18 (9.38%) Git
5 17 (8.85%) Cucumber
6 14 (7.29%) IntelliJ
6 14 (7.29%) JUnit
6 14 (7.29%) Maven
6 14 (7.29%) Mockito
7 9 (4.69%) SonarQube
8 6 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.08%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.56%) JIRA
11 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.52%) IBM UrbanCode
12 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.52%) Travis CI
General
1 136 (70.83%) Finance
2 109 (56.77%) Front Office
3 39 (20.31%) Banking
4 9 (4.69%) Social Skills
5 5 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.60%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.52%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.52%) Electronics
6 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.52%) Marketing
6 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (43.23%) Kafka
2 81 (42.19%) J2EE
3 71 (36.98%) PySpark
4 15 (7.81%) Spring
4 15 (7.81%) Spring Boot
5 14 (7.29%) ActiveMQ
5 14 (7.29%) JMS
6 9 (4.69%) REST
7 6 (3.13%) AWS CDK
8 5 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.56%) AWS SAM
9 3 (1.56%) JSON
9 3 (1.56%) Node.js
9 3 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.56%) React
10 2 (1.04%) Ruby on Rails
11 1 (0.52%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (0.52%) Java EE
11 1 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.42%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.29%) Credit Derivative
2 14 (7.29%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.73%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.21%) Tandem
5 6 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.08%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.08%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.04%) IoT
8 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.02%) Linux
2 3 (1.56%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) VMS
3 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (100.00%) DevOps
2 169 (88.02%) CI/CD
3 131 (68.23%) Agile
4 123 (64.06%) Software Engineering
5 120 (62.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 109 (56.77%) Asset Management
7 87 (45.31%) Open Source
8 73 (38.02%) Data Engineering
9 44 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (16.67%) Containerisation
11 29 (15.10%) Fintech
12 28 (14.58%) Deployment Automation
13 19 (9.90%) Analytics
14 16 (8.33%) SDLC
15 14 (7.29%) Disaster Recovery
16 13 (6.77%) Mentoring
16 13 (6.77%) Microservices
17 12 (6.25%) Migration
18 11 (5.73%) Architectural Design
18 11 (5.73%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 147 (76.56%) Python
2 111 (57.81%) Java
3 94 (48.96%) Go
4 32 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.29%) C++
6 12 (6.25%) Bash
7 8 (4.17%) C#
8 6 (3.13%) SQL
9 4 (2.08%) Perl
9 4 (2.08%) PHP
9 4 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.56%) Groovy
10 3 (1.56%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.04%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.04%) Ruby
12 1 (0.52%) C
12 1 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.77%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.60%) Degree
6 3 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.69%) QA
2 8 (4.17%) GDPR
3 6 (3.13%) HIPAA
3 6 (3.13%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 143 (74.48%) Docker
2 6 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 165 (85.94%) Terraform
2 160 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 35 (18.23%) Ansible
4 6 (3.13%) Istio
4 6 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.08%) Grafana
5 4 (2.08%) Packer
6 2 (1.04%) Argo
6 2 (1.04%) Consul
7 1 (0.52%) Automic
7 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.52%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (12.50%) IBM
2 6 (3.13%) Confluent
2 6 (3.13%) Google
3 5 (2.60%) VMware
4 4 (2.08%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.08%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.56%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.56%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.04%) Cribl.io
7 1 (0.52%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.52%) SAP