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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 642 507 704
Rank change year-on-year -135 +197 -210
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 94 162 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.36% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.41% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 84 97 162
10th Percentile £50,750 £64,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +37.50% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £118,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

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 87,667 39,868 102,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.44% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 60,134 22,590 73,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,501 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -145 90 £73,750 -32.95% 16
UK excluding London -34 50 £70,000 +7.69% 10
London -112 38 £85,000 -22.73% 5
Work from Home -75 35 £85,000 -22.73% 8
North of England -10 31 £60,000 -22.58% 6
North West +14 21 £70,000 -9.68% 3
South West -47 11 £75,000 +57.89% 1
North East - 9 £60,000 - 3
South East -18 6 £80,000 +113.33% 3
Midlands -13 3 £75,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
West Midlands -24 1 £62,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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 94 (100.00%) AWS
1 94 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (53.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 47 (50.00%) Terraform
4 43 (45.74%) CI/CD
5 38 (40.43%) Security Cleared
6 35 (37.23%) Containerisation
6 35 (37.23%) Docker
6 35 (37.23%) Python
7 32 (34.04%) Kubernetes
8 26 (27.66%) Azure
8 26 (27.66%) GitLab
8 26 (27.66%) SC Cleared
9 22 (23.40%) Jenkins
10 21 (22.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (19.15%) Grafana
13 17 (18.09%) Agile
13 17 (18.09%) Bash
13 17 (18.09%) GCP
13 17 (18.09%) Prometheus
14 16 (17.02%) Observability
15 15 (15.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (15.96%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (15.96%) Go
15 15 (15.96%) Kafka
16 14 (14.89%) Serverless
17 13 (13.83%) Mentoring
18 12 (12.77%) GitHub
18 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure 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 4 (4.26%) Apache
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.19%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.06%) Drupal
3 1 (1.06%) IIS
3 1 (1.06%) nginx
3 1 (1.06%) SAS
3 1 (1.06%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (27.66%) Azure
3 21 (22.34%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (18.09%) GCP
5 15 (15.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 15 (15.96%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (14.89%) Serverless
7 12 (12.77%) GitHub
8 11 (11.70%) Datadog
8 11 (11.70%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (8.51%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (8.51%) Amazon S3
9 8 (8.51%) OpenShift
10 7 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.38%) Pulumi
12 4 (4.26%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) DNS
1 1 (1.06%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.45%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.26%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.13%) Big Data
4 2 (2.13%) Redis
5 1 (1.06%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.06%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.06%) Metadata
5 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.06%) MySQL
5 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (27.66%) GitLab
2 22 (23.40%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.45%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.26%) Git
5 2 (2.13%) git-flow
5 2 (2.13%) JIRA
5 2 (2.13%) Maven
6 1 (1.06%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.06%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.06%) Gatling
6 1 (1.06%) Gradle
6 1 (1.06%) JMeter
6 1 (1.06%) Postman
6 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.06%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (19.15%) Finance
2 16 (17.02%) Banking
3 10 (10.64%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.13%) Games
5 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.06%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.96%) Kafka
2 10 (10.64%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.19%) PySpark
4 2 (2.13%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.13%) JSON
4 2 (2.13%) YAML
5 1 (1.06%) .NET
5 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.06%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.06%) Memcached
5 1 (1.06%) Next.js
5 1 (1.06%) Node.js
5 1 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.06%) React
5 1 (1.06%) React Native
5 1 (1.06%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.19%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.19%) Life Science
2 3 (3.19%) PropTech
3 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.06%) Genomics
4 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.51%) Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Windows
2 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (53.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (45.74%) CI/CD
4 35 (37.23%) Containerisation
5 20 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (18.09%) Agile
7 16 (17.02%) Observability
8 13 (13.83%) Mentoring
9 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (11.70%) Software Engineering
11 10 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (10.64%) Fintech
11 10 (10.64%) High Availability
11 10 (10.64%) Incident Management
12 9 (9.57%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (9.57%) Microservices
13 8 (8.51%) Cloud Security
13 8 (8.51%) Open Source
13 8 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 7 (7.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (37.23%) Python
2 17 (18.09%) Bash
3 15 (15.96%) Go
4 10 (10.64%) SQL
5 9 (9.57%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.19%) Java
7 2 (2.13%) Bicep
7 2 (2.13%) C#
7 2 (2.13%) Groovy
8 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.06%) Perl
8 1 (1.06%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) GDPR
1 7 (7.45%) PCI DSS
1 7 (7.45%) SOC 2
2 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.06%) NCSC
3 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 35 (37.23%) Docker
2 8 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (50.00%) Terraform
2 32 (34.04%) Kubernetes
3 18 (19.15%) Grafana
4 17 (18.09%) Prometheus
5 11 (11.70%) Ansible
6 8 (8.51%) Istio
7 6 (6.38%) Argo
8 2 (2.13%) Packer
8 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.06%) Consul
9 1 (1.06%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (8.51%) Confluent
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.13%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.06%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.06%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.06%) Google
4 1 (1.06%) IBM
4 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.06%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.06%) TOWER Software