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 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 526 577
Rank change year-on-year -75 +51 +27
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 56 180 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.38% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 37 147 199
10th Percentile £50,750 £73,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £85,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +29.41% +9.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 - £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +1.82%

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 58,000 47,786 67,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 92.14% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 36,092 24,542 52,929
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.15% +8.88% -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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -70 48 £72,500 -34.09% 18
UK excluding London +17 28 £60,000 -14.29% 13
Work from Home -45 24 £85,000 -22.73% 10
London -77 23 £115,000 +4.55% 9
North of England +5 11 £60,000 -25.00% 7
North West +30 7 £70,000 -22.22% 6
Midlands +21 7 £51,500 -35.63%
South East +32 6 £63,750 -17.74% 4
Scotland 0 4 - -
East Midlands -4 4 £60,500 -24.38%
Yorkshire - 4 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £51,500 -
South West -1 2 £80,000 +23.08% 2
East of England +16 1 £57,500 -11.54%

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

For the 6 months to 1 February 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 56 (100.00%) AWS
1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (69.64%) CI/CD
3 33 (58.93%) Terraform
4 25 (44.64%) Kubernetes
5 24 (42.86%) Python
6 23 (41.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (35.71%) GitHub
8 16 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (28.57%) Docker
9 15 (26.79%) Ansible
10 14 (25.00%) Agile
10 14 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (25.00%) Jenkins
11 13 (23.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (21.43%) Azure
12 12 (21.43%) Serverless
13 11 (19.64%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (19.64%) Git
13 11 (19.64%) Linux
13 11 (19.64%) Observability
13 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
14 10 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 9 (16.07%) Java
15 9 (16.07%) Platform Engineering
15 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
16 8 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (14.29%) Kafka

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 1 (1.79%) Apache
1 1 (1.79%) JBoss
1 1 (1.79%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (35.71%) GitHub
3 16 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (23.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (21.43%) Azure
6 12 (21.43%) Serverless
7 11 (19.64%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (12.50%) Amazon S3
9 7 (12.50%) OpenShift
10 6 (10.71%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (10.71%) PaaS
11 5 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (7.14%) Datadog
13 3 (5.36%) Amazon EventBridge
13 3 (5.36%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) DNS
1 1 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 6 (10.71%) Flink
3 4 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.79%) MySQL
6 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (19.64%) Git
3 7 (12.50%) GitLab
4 4 (7.14%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.36%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.57%) Maven
6 2 (3.57%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.79%) Ant
7 1 (1.79%) Gradle
7 1 (1.79%) JIRA
7 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (25.00%) Finance
2 10 (17.86%) Banking
3 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Front Office
5 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.57%) Advertising
6 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) Kafka
2 6 (10.71%) AWS CDK
3 5 (8.93%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (7.14%) .NET
4 4 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 4 (7.14%) React
5 3 (5.36%) ASP.NET
5 3 (5.36%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (5.36%) Blazor
5 3 (5.36%) RESTful
6 2 (3.57%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.57%) AWS SAM
6 2 (3.57%) JWT
6 2 (3.57%) Node.js
6 2 (3.57%) OAuth
7 1 (1.79%) JSON
7 1 (1.79%) Middleware
7 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.71%) Fixed Income
3 5 (8.93%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.14%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.36%) Clustering
6 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.79%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (19.64%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) Unix
3 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (69.64%) CI/CD
3 23 (41.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (25.00%) Agile
5 11 (19.64%) Observability
6 10 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (16.07%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 7 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (12.50%) Microservices
9 6 (10.71%) Front End Development
9 6 (10.71%) Investment Management
10 5 (8.93%) Asset Management
10 5 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (8.93%) High Availability
10 5 (8.93%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (7.14%) Process Management
11 4 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.86%) Python
2 9 (16.07%) Java
3 7 (12.50%) Bash
4 4 (7.14%) Go
4 4 (7.14%) SQL
5 3 (5.36%) Bicep
5 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.79%) Groovy
6 1 (1.79%) PHP
6 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.36%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 16 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (58.93%) Terraform
2 25 (44.64%) Kubernetes
3 15 (26.79%) Ansible
4 7 (12.50%) Argo
4 7 (12.50%) Grafana
5 4 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.57%) Sysdig
7 1 (1.79%) Podman
7 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (5.36%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.57%) AppDynamics
2 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle
3 1 (1.79%) Splunk