Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 486 694 506
Rank change year-on-year +208 -188 -232
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 249 429 778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.34% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.36% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 228 396 716
10th Percentile £55,875 £55,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £63,438 £62,500 £53,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +18.52% +3.85%
75th Percentile £116,250 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 51,419 120,484 123,121
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.48% 95.34% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 37,696 75,234 84,392
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

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 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Top 17 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 30 November 2023. 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 +177 239 £82,500 +3.13% 35
London +178 133 £105,000 +23.17% 14
Work from Home +168 114 £75,000 - 32
UK excluding London +196 108 £75,000 +7.14% 26
North of England +148 36 £77,500 +19.23% 14
South West +87 30 £62,500 +11.11% 6
North West +112 24 £77,500 +19.23% 4
South East +140 19 £70,000 -3.45% 3
Midlands +94 12 £76,250 +8.93%
East of England +127 9 £82,500 -2.94%
Yorkshire +89 9 £80,000 +33.33% 6
East Midlands +35 7 £75,000 +7.14%
West Midlands +118 5 £77,500 +3.33%
Scotland +54 3 £65,000 -13.33%
North East +32 3 £75,000 - 4
Wales +16 1 £85,000 +13.33% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 November 2023, 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.

1 249 (100.00%) AWS
1 249 (100.00%) DevOps
2 217 (87.15%) Terraform
3 193 (77.51%) Kubernetes
4 166 (66.67%) CI/CD
5 162 (65.06%) Python
6 145 (58.23%) Docker
7 116 (46.59%) Agile
8 111 (44.58%) Jenkins
9 96 (38.55%) Ansible
10 89 (35.74%) Linux
11 87 (34.94%) Infrastructure as Code
12 78 (31.33%) Java
13 77 (30.92%) GitLab
14 74 (29.72%) Finance
15 71 (28.51%) Azure
16 70 (28.11%) Go
17 64 (25.70%) Deployment Automation
18 62 (24.90%) AWS CloudFormation
19 60 (24.10%) Serverless
19 60 (24.10%) Platform Engineering
20 59 (23.69%) GitHub
21 57 (22.89%) Security Cleared
22 55 (22.09%) GCP
23 54 (21.69%) Bash
24 53 (21.29%) OpenShift
24 53 (21.29%) SC Cleared
25 51 (20.48%) Containerisation
26 48 (19.28%) Software Engineering
26 48 (19.28%) Front Office

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 8 (3.21%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.20%) nginx
3 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.40%) Camunda
4 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 249 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (28.51%) Azure
3 62 (24.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 60 (24.10%) Serverless
5 59 (23.69%) GitHub
6 55 (22.09%) GCP
7 53 (21.29%) OpenShift
8 43 (17.27%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (14.46%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (14.06%) Amazon EKS
11 31 (12.45%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (11.24%) Amazon S3
13 24 (9.64%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (9.64%) PaaS
14 19 (7.63%) IaaS
14 19 (7.63%) Route 53
15 17 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
16 12 (4.82%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
16 12 (4.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.20%) DNS
1 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.80%) Network Security
3 1 (0.40%) Firewall
3 1 (0.40%) HTTP
3 1 (0.40%) Internet
3 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.87%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
2 15 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.42%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.42%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (2.01%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.01%) MySQL
6 4 (1.61%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.20%) Big Data
7 3 (1.20%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 111 (44.58%) Jenkins
2 77 (30.92%) GitLab
3 42 (16.87%) Git
4 35 (14.06%) Artifactory
5 25 (10.04%) JIRA
6 21 (8.43%) SonarQube
7 14 (5.62%) Bitbucket
8 12 (4.82%) Maven
9 7 (2.81%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (2.01%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.20%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.80%) MSBuild
12 2 (0.80%) Subversion
12 2 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 74 (29.72%) Finance
2 48 (19.28%) Front Office
3 47 (18.88%) Social Skills
4 41 (16.47%) Banking
5 39 (15.66%) Investment Banking
6 9 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.61%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.21%) Retail
8 6 (2.41%) Law
9 3 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.20%) Games
9 3 (1.20%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.80%) Marketing
10 2 (0.80%) Russian Language
10 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.44%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (6.43%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (5.22%) LDAP
4 10 (4.02%) J2EE
4 10 (4.02%) Kafka
5 7 (2.81%) Middleware
6 5 (2.01%) .NET
6 5 (2.01%) Node.js
7 4 (1.61%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.61%) OAuth
7 4 (1.61%) OpenID
7 4 (1.61%) React
8 3 (1.20%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.20%) AWS SAM
8 3 (1.20%) Keycloak
8 3 (1.20%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.20%) SAML
8 3 (1.20%) Spring
9 2 (0.80%) JSON
9 2 (0.80%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.44%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.02%) Tandem
3 8 (3.21%) Private Cloud
4 7 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.41%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.01%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.61%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.20%) Media Streaming
9 2 (0.80%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.80%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.40%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.40%) Derivative
10 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.40%) PKI
10 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 89 (35.74%) Linux
2 17 (6.83%) Windows
3 9 (3.61%) Unix
4 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
6 1 (0.40%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (100.00%) DevOps
2 166 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 116 (46.59%) Agile
4 87 (34.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (25.70%) Deployment Automation
6 60 (24.10%) Platform Engineering
7 51 (20.48%) Containerisation
8 48 (19.28%) Software Engineering
9 40 (16.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 38 (15.26%) Release Automation
11 34 (13.65%) Test Automation
12 29 (11.65%) Microservices
13 28 (11.24%) Open Source
14 27 (10.84%) Migration
15 26 (10.44%) High Availability
16 20 (8.03%) Configuration Management
17 16 (6.43%) Problem-Solving
17 16 (6.43%) Scrum
18 14 (5.62%) Continuous Integration
19 10 (4.02%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 162 (65.06%) Python
2 78 (31.33%) Java
3 70 (28.11%) Go
4 54 (21.69%) Bash
5 24 (9.64%) Ruby
6 16 (6.43%) Perl
6 16 (6.43%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.43%) SQL
7 11 (4.42%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.21%) Groovy
9 5 (2.01%) C#
9 5 (2.01%) PHP
10 4 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.20%) Rust
11 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.20%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.80%) Korn
12 2 (0.80%) VB
13 1 (0.40%) AWK
Qualifications
1 57 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 53 (21.29%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.24%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.62%) Degree
5 12 (4.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.21%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.63%) QA
2 5 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.80%) GDPR
4 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 145 (58.23%) Docker
2 15 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 217 (87.15%) Terraform
2 193 (77.51%) Kubernetes
3 96 (38.55%) Ansible
4 40 (16.06%) Rancher
5 34 (13.65%) Argo
6 24 (9.64%) Grafana
7 16 (6.43%) Prometheus
8 14 (5.62%) Progress Chef
9 12 (4.82%) Kustomize
10 11 (4.42%) Puppet
11 9 (3.61%) Packer
12 3 (1.20%) Kibana
12 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.80%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.80%) Nagios
14 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.40%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (6.02%) AppDynamics
2 12 (4.82%) Oracle
3 8 (3.21%) Confluent
4 6 (2.41%) New Relic
5 5 (2.01%) Splunk
6 4 (1.61%) Google
6 4 (1.61%) IBM
6 4 (1.61%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.20%) VMware
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.80%) Veracode
9 1 (0.40%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.40%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.40%) TOWER Software