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 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 548 674
Rank change year-on-year -119 +126 -205
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 107 126 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.26% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.28% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 95 61 128
10th Percentile £51,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £76,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +16.13% -3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £54,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +28.44% -22.14% -

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 95,972 44,419 82,565
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 90.03% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 65,619 26,374 56,860
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -102 103 £73,750 -20.27% 24
UK excluding London -53 61 £70,000 +28.44% 10
London -75 40 £82,500 -25.00% 15
North of England -12 37 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Work from Home -78 35 £82,500 - 5
North West -4 24 £70,000 +7.69% 2
South West -45 16 £70,000 - 4
North East - 12 £56,250 - 2
South East -33 7 £80,000 +113.33% 1
Midlands -42 2 £68,750 -4.51%
East Midlands -27 1 £75,000 +38.89%
West Midlands -35 1 £62,500 -30.56%
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 107 (100.00%) AWS
1 107 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (49.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (46.73%) Terraform
4 46 (42.99%) Security Cleared
5 44 (41.12%) CI/CD
6 39 (36.45%) Docker
7 38 (35.51%) Containerisation
8 36 (33.64%) Python
9 34 (31.78%) SC Cleared
10 33 (30.84%) Kubernetes
11 29 (27.10%) GitLab
12 25 (23.36%) Azure
13 21 (19.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (18.69%) Agile
14 20 (18.69%) Jenkins
14 20 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (16.82%) Mentoring
16 17 (15.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (15.89%) Bash
16 17 (15.89%) GCP
16 17 (15.89%) Grafana
17 16 (14.95%) Observability
17 16 (14.95%) Prometheus
18 15 (14.02%) Go
18 15 (14.02%) Infrastructure Automation
18 15 (14.02%) Kafka
19 14 (13.08%) Amazon EKS
20 13 (12.15%) Serverless
20 13 (12.15%) SQL

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 (6.54%) Apache
2 6 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.61%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.61%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.87%) Confluence
3 2 (1.87%) nginx
4 1 (0.93%) Drupal
4 1 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.93%) SAS
4 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (23.36%) Azure
3 21 (19.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (15.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (15.89%) GCP
5 14 (13.08%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (12.15%) Serverless
7 12 (11.21%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (10.28%) Amazon S3
8 11 (10.28%) Datadog
8 11 (10.28%) GitHub
9 9 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (7.48%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (7.48%) Amazon MSK
10 8 (7.48%) OpenShift
11 6 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (5.61%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (5.61%) Pulumi
11 6 (5.61%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) DNS
1 1 (0.93%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.54%) DynamoDB
1 7 (6.54%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.61%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.87%) Big Data
4 2 (1.87%) Redis
5 1 (0.93%) DocumentDB
5 1 (0.93%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.93%) Metadata
5 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.93%) MySQL
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (27.10%) GitLab
2 20 (18.69%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.54%) CircleCI
4 5 (4.67%) Git
5 3 (2.80%) git-flow
5 3 (2.80%) JIRA
6 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.93%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.93%) Gatling
6 1 (0.93%) JMeter
6 1 (0.93%) Maven
6 1 (0.93%) Postman
6 1 (0.93%) Snyk
6 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.93%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (16.82%) Finance
2 16 (14.95%) Banking
3 9 (8.41%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.87%) Games
6 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.02%) Kafka
2 11 (10.28%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.61%) PySpark
4 3 (2.80%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.87%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.93%) .NET
6 1 (0.93%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.93%) JSON
6 1 (0.93%) Memcached
6 1 (0.93%) Next.js
6 1 (0.93%) Node.js
6 1 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.93%) React
6 1 (0.93%) React Native
6 1 (0.93%) REST
6 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.82%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.61%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.74%) Life Science
3 4 (3.74%) PropTech
4 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.87%) Genomics
4 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Linux
2 2 (1.87%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (49.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (41.12%) CI/CD
4 38 (35.51%) Containerisation
5 20 (18.69%) Agile
5 20 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (16.82%) Mentoring
7 16 (14.95%) Observability
8 15 (14.02%) Infrastructure Automation
9 12 (11.21%) Fintech
9 12 (11.21%) Test Automation
10 10 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (9.35%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (9.35%) Incident Management
10 10 (9.35%) Software Engineering
10 10 (9.35%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (8.41%) High Availability
11 9 (8.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (7.48%) Continuous Delivery
12 8 (7.48%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 36 (33.64%) Python
2 17 (15.89%) Bash
3 15 (14.02%) Go
4 13 (12.15%) SQL
5 9 (8.41%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.74%) Java
7 2 (1.87%) C#
7 2 (1.87%) Groovy
8 1 (0.93%) Bicep
8 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.93%) Perl
8 1 (0.93%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (42.99%) Security Cleared
2 34 (31.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) Data Quality
1 7 (6.54%) GDPR
1 7 (6.54%) PCI DSS
1 7 (6.54%) SOC 2
2 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.93%) NCSC
2 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 39 (36.45%) Docker
2 8 (7.48%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (46.73%) Terraform
2 33 (30.84%) Kubernetes
3 17 (15.89%) Grafana
4 16 (14.95%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.28%) Ansible
6 8 (7.48%) Istio
7 7 (6.54%) Argo
8 2 (1.87%) Packer
8 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.87%) Puppet
9 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.93%) Consul
9 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (7.48%) Confluent
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.93%) Cognizant
3 1 (0.93%) Google
3 1 (0.93%) IBM
3 1 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
3 1 (0.93%) TOWER Software