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 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 442 643
Rank change year-on-year -158 +201 -67
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 95 200 227
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.49% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.54% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 79 159 206
10th Percentile £45,000 £77,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £90,625 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +33.33% +5.77%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 - £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +3.70%

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 73,166 36,757 84,704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 89.95% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 46,994 23,163 63,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
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 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 1 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Top 15 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 April 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 -150 88 £77,500 -29.55% 16
UK excluding London -45 47 £62,500 -3.85% 12
London -130 42 £90,000 -18.18% 6
Work from Home -113 35 £95,250 -13.41% 9
North of England -34 23 £60,000 -25.00% 6
North West -8 16 £65,000 -27.78% 4
South East -30 9 £70,000 +47.37% 3
South West -35 9 £100,000 +81.82%
Yorkshire - 5 £60,000 -
Midlands -25 4 £68,750 -14.06% 1
East Midlands -40 3 £75,000 -6.25%
Scotland -19 2 - -
North East -25 2 £60,000 -14.29% 2
East of England -29 1 £57,500 -11.54% 2
West Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 April 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 95 (100.00%) AWS
1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (50.53%) Terraform
3 47 (49.47%) CI/CD
4 42 (44.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (41.05%) Python
6 36 (37.89%) Kubernetes
7 29 (30.53%) Azure
7 29 (30.53%) Docker
8 26 (27.37%) Containerisation
9 24 (25.26%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (25.26%) Security Cleared
10 21 (22.11%) GitHub
10 21 (22.11%) Kafka
11 20 (21.05%) Ansible
12 19 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (20.00%) Serverless
13 17 (17.89%) Jenkins
13 17 (17.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 16 (16.84%) GCP
14 16 (16.84%) Go
14 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (15.79%) SC Cleared
16 14 (14.74%) Grafana
16 14 (14.74%) Microservices
17 13 (13.68%) GitLab
18 12 (12.63%) Agile
18 12 (12.63%) Linux
18 12 (12.63%) Prometheus

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 (1.05%) Apache
1 1 (1.05%) Confluence
1 1 (1.05%) Drupal
1 1 (1.05%) IIS
1 1 (1.05%) nginx
1 1 (1.05%) SAS
1 1 (1.05%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (30.53%) Azure
3 24 (25.26%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (22.11%) GitHub
5 19 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (20.00%) Serverless
6 16 (16.84%) GCP
7 15 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (11.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (11.58%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (10.53%) Amazon S3
9 10 (10.53%) Datadog
9 10 (10.53%) OpenShift
10 9 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (8.42%) Amazon MSK
12 7 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (6.32%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
15 4 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.42%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.32%) Flink
4 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.05%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.05%) Metadata
6 1 (1.05%) MySQL
6 1 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (17.89%) Jenkins
2 13 (13.68%) GitLab
3 9 (9.47%) Git
4 7 (7.37%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.16%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.11%) JIRA
7 2 (2.11%) Maven
8 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.05%) Gatling
8 1 (1.05%) git-flow
8 1 (1.05%) Gradle
8 1 (1.05%) JMeter
8 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.05%) Vagrant
General
1 28 (29.47%) Finance
2 23 (24.21%) Banking
3 18 (18.95%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.32%) Front Office
5 4 (4.21%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Advertising
7 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Games
7 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Law
8 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.05%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.11%) Kafka
2 11 (11.58%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.32%) AWS CDK
4 5 (5.26%) .NET
5 4 (4.21%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET
6 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (3.16%) Blazor
6 3 (3.16%) React
6 3 (3.16%) RESTful
7 2 (2.11%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.11%) JSON
7 2 (2.11%) JWT
7 2 (2.11%) Node.js
7 2 (2.11%) OAuth
7 2 (2.11%) YAML
8 1 (1.05%) AWS SAM
8 1 (1.05%) Memcached
8 1 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.32%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.11%) Clustering
5 1 (1.05%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.63%) Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Unix
2 1 (1.05%) Windows
2 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (49.47%) CI/CD
3 42 (44.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (27.37%) Containerisation
5 17 (17.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (14.74%) Microservices
8 12 (12.63%) Agile
9 11 (11.58%) Mentoring
10 10 (10.53%) Fintech
10 10 (10.53%) High Availability
10 10 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (10.53%) Software Engineering
11 9 (9.47%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (9.47%) Open Source
12 8 (8.42%) Observability
13 7 (7.37%) Continuous Delivery
13 7 (7.37%) Incident Management
13 7 (7.37%) Infrastructure Management
14 6 (6.32%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.05%) Python
2 16 (16.84%) Go
3 11 (11.58%) Bash
4 10 (10.53%) SQL
5 9 (9.47%) Java
6 3 (3.16%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.11%) Bicep
7 2 (2.11%) Groovy
7 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.11%) PHP
8 1 (1.05%) Perl
8 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.42%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) GDPR
1 7 (7.37%) PCI DSS
1 7 (7.37%) SOC 2
2 3 (3.16%) SLA
3 2 (2.11%) QA
4 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.05%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (30.53%) Docker
2 8 (8.42%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (50.53%) Terraform
2 36 (37.89%) Kubernetes
3 20 (21.05%) Ansible
4 14 (14.74%) Grafana
5 12 (12.63%) Prometheus
6 8 (8.42%) Istio
7 7 (7.37%) Argo
8 2 (2.11%) Packer
8 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.11%) Sysdig
9 1 (1.05%) Consul
9 1 (1.05%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (8.42%) Confluent
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.11%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.05%) Google
4 1 (1.05%) IBM
4 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.05%) TOWER Software