AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £76,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 October 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 586 647 441
Rank change year-on-year +61 -206 +291
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 82 119 309
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.17% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.17% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 32 80 289
10th Percentile £43,700 £54,175 £56,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £113,500 £119,125 £142,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,750 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -24.64% - -

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 44,035 68,087 54,004
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.76% 95.37% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 25,680 38,799 41,765
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

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 13 October 2025.

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 13 October 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 +60 77 £77,500 -6.06% 24
London +44 45 £80,000 -20.00% 8
UK excluding London +78 35 £52,750 -24.64% 19
Work from Home +43 35 £77,500 -6.06% 24
Midlands +54 15 £51,500 -35.63% 2
North of England +23 15 £65,000 - 3
North West +13 15 £65,000 +10.64% 2
West Midlands - 11 £51,500 -
East Midlands +8 4 £50,000 -37.50% 2
Scotland +10 3 - -
South East +23 2 £39,250 -45.86% 9
Wales +15 2 £57,500 +35.29%
East of England +8 1 £57,500 -25.81%

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 2025, 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 82 (100.00%) AWS
1 82 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (76.83%) CI/CD
3 53 (64.63%) Python
4 43 (52.44%) Terraform
5 39 (47.56%) Kubernetes
5 39 (47.56%) Docker
6 31 (37.80%) Jenkins
7 27 (32.93%) Linux
8 26 (31.71%) Azure
8 26 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (31.71%) Containerisation
9 23 (28.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (25.61%) Ansible
10 21 (25.61%) Bash
10 21 (25.61%) Public Sector
11 20 (24.39%) Java
11 20 (24.39%) Agile
11 20 (24.39%) Grafana
12 19 (23.17%) AWS Certification
12 19 (23.17%) SQL
12 19 (23.17%) AI
12 19 (23.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (21.95%) Git
13 18 (21.95%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (21.95%) IBM
13 18 (21.95%) Management Information System
14 17 (20.73%) Azure Certification
15 16 (19.51%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (19.51%) Amazon S3

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 7 (8.54%) Confluence
2 6 (7.32%) nginx
3 5 (6.10%) Apache
4 4 (4.88%) JBoss
4 4 (4.88%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.22%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 82 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (31.71%) Azure
3 23 (28.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 16 (19.51%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (19.51%) Amazon S3
4 16 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (17.07%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (13.41%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (13.41%) GitHub
7 10 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (12.20%) GCP
7 10 (12.20%) Serverless
8 9 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (10.98%) OpenShift
9 8 (9.76%) Datadog
9 8 (9.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (8.54%) Amazon ELB
10 7 (8.54%) AWS KMS
10 7 (8.54%) Route 53
11 6 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.20%) Firewall
2 8 (9.76%) DNS
2 8 (9.76%) HTTP
3 7 (8.54%) FTP
3 7 (8.54%) SMTP
3 7 (8.54%) SSH
4 6 (7.32%) IMAP
4 6 (7.32%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.63%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (12.20%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.88%) KDB
6 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.22%) DB2
7 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.22%) MySQL
7 1 (1.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (37.80%) Jenkins
2 18 (21.95%) Git
3 16 (19.51%) GitLab
4 13 (15.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (13.41%) JIRA
6 7 (8.54%) Maven
6 7 (8.54%) SonarQube
6 7 (8.54%) Vagrant
7 6 (7.32%) Artifactory
8 4 (4.88%) Ant
9 3 (3.66%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.66%) IntelliJ
9 3 (3.66%) JUnit
9 3 (3.66%) Mockito
10 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.22%) CircleCI
General
1 21 (25.61%) Public Sector
2 19 (23.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (18.29%) Finance
4 9 (10.98%) Social Skills
5 7 (8.54%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (7.32%) Banking
6 6 (7.32%) Law
7 1 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.98%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (7.32%) LDAP
3 5 (6.10%) Kafka
3 5 (6.10%) REST
4 4 (4.88%) .NET
4 4 (4.88%) Middleware
5 3 (3.66%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.66%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (3.66%) JMS
5 3 (3.66%) Node.js
5 3 (3.66%) Spring
5 3 (3.66%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.44%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.44%) React
7 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.22%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.22%) AWS SAM
7 1 (1.22%) Backbone.js
7 1 (1.22%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.22%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.95%) Management Information System
2 15 (18.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (17.07%) Cloud Native
3 14 (17.07%) e-Learning
4 7 (8.54%) Replication
5 4 (4.88%) Equities
6 3 (3.66%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.44%) Clustering
8 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (32.93%) Linux
2 13 (15.85%) Windows
3 8 (9.76%) Unix
3 8 (9.76%) VMS
4 7 (8.54%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (7.32%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.22%) Android
7 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (76.83%) CI/CD
3 26 (31.71%) Containerisation
3 26 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (24.39%) Agile
5 19 (23.17%) AI
6 18 (21.95%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (19.51%) Mentoring
8 15 (18.29%) Coaching
8 15 (18.29%) Configuration Management
9 13 (15.85%) SDLC
9 13 (15.85%) Software Engineering
10 12 (14.63%) Observability
10 12 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (13.41%) Microservices
11 11 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (13.41%) Roadmaps
12 10 (12.20%) Data Management
12 10 (12.20%) Data Privacy
12 10 (12.20%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 53 (64.63%) Python
2 21 (25.61%) Bash
3 20 (24.39%) Java
4 19 (23.17%) SQL
5 15 (18.29%) Groovy
6 14 (17.07%) PowerShell
7 13 (15.85%) C#
8 9 (10.98%) JavaScript
9 7 (8.54%) Go
10 6 (7.32%) C++
11 3 (3.66%) Bicep
11 3 (3.66%) PHP
11 3 (3.66%) Ruby
12 2 (2.44%) Perl
12 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
13 1 (1.22%) C
13 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (23.17%) AWS Certification
2 17 (20.73%) Azure Certification
3 16 (19.51%) Security Cleared
4 14 (17.07%) SC Cleared
5 11 (13.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (9.76%) Degree
7 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) GDPR
1 10 (12.20%) HIPAA
1 10 (12.20%) NIST
2 6 (7.32%) QA
3 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (47.56%) Docker
2 7 (8.54%) DFS Replication
3 6 (7.32%) Dovecot
3 6 (7.32%) Postfix
3 6 (7.32%) Squid
4 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (52.44%) Terraform
2 39 (47.56%) Kubernetes
3 21 (25.61%) Ansible
4 20 (24.39%) Grafana
5 15 (18.29%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.32%) Nessus
6 6 (7.32%) Proxmox
7 4 (4.88%) Podman
7 4 (4.88%) Puppet
8 1 (1.22%) Argo
8 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.22%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 18 (21.95%) IBM
2 15 (18.29%) Red Hat
3 10 (12.20%) Google
4 7 (8.54%) ServiceNow
5 6 (7.32%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (3.66%) Cribl.io
6 3 (3.66%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (3.66%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.66%) Sonatype
7 2 (2.44%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.44%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.22%) Oracle
8 1 (1.22%) Splunk