AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 November 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 624 456
Rank change year-on-year +47 -168 +265
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 82 128 270
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.19% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.20% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 39 95 246
10th Percentile £50,600 £56,700 £55,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £68,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £115,938
90th Percentile £132,000 £130,000 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

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 47,329 64,125 50,012
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 94.87% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 29,261 36,011 38,681
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £50,055 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.10% -4.66% -

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 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 +51 75 £80,000 -11.11% 37
London +21 43 £82,500 -23.26% 20
UK excluding London +64 36 £55,000 -21.43% 25
Work from Home +57 35 £80,000 -11.11% 24
North of England +49 15 £80,000 +36.17% 9
Midlands +73 14 £51,500 -31.33% 1
North West +58 13 £100,000 +90.48% 6
West Midlands - 10 £51,500 -
East Midlands +23 4 £50,000 -33.33% 1
Scotland +2 4 - - 1
South East +18 3 £53,000 -24.29% 11
Wales +11 2 £57,500 +35.29%
Yorkshire - 2 £60,000 - 3
East of England +11 1 £57,500 -43.21%

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

For the 6 months to 13 November 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 65 (79.27%) CI/CD
3 54 (65.85%) Python
4 47 (57.32%) Terraform
5 39 (47.56%) Kubernetes
6 34 (41.46%) Docker
7 28 (34.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (32.93%) Jenkins
9 26 (31.71%) Azure
10 24 (29.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (26.83%) Agile
11 22 (26.83%) Ansible
11 22 (26.83%) Containerisation
11 22 (26.83%) Linux
12 19 (23.17%) Bash
12 19 (23.17%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (23.17%) Grafana
12 19 (23.17%) Java
13 18 (21.95%) Git
14 17 (20.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (20.73%) GitHub
14 17 (20.73%) SQL
15 16 (19.51%) Security Cleared
16 15 (18.29%) AWS Certification
16 15 (18.29%) Platform Engineering
17 14 (17.07%) Amazon ECS
17 14 (17.07%) Amazon S3
17 14 (17.07%) Azure Certification
17 14 (17.07%) Observability

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 6 (7.32%) Confluence
1 6 (7.32%) nginx
2 3 (3.66%) Apache
2 3 (3.66%) JBoss
2 3 (3.66%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.22%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 82 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (31.71%) Azure
3 24 (29.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (20.73%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (20.73%) GitHub
5 14 (17.07%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (17.07%) Amazon S3
6 13 (15.85%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (13.41%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (13.41%) Serverless
9 10 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (10.98%) OpenShift
11 8 (9.76%) GCP
12 6 (7.32%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (7.32%) Datadog
12 6 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (7.32%) PaaS
12 6 (7.32%) Route 53
12 6 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.76%) Firewall
2 7 (8.54%) DNS
2 7 (8.54%) HTTP
3 6 (7.32%) FTP
3 6 (7.32%) IMAP
3 6 (7.32%) OpenLDAP
3 6 (7.32%) SMTP
3 6 (7.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.41%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (10.98%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (8.54%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.88%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.88%) Flink
5 4 (4.88%) KDB
6 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.22%) MySQL
7 1 (1.22%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (32.93%) Jenkins
2 18 (21.95%) Git
3 13 (15.85%) GitLab
4 9 (10.98%) JIRA
4 9 (10.98%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (7.32%) Vagrant
6 5 (6.10%) Artifactory
6 5 (6.10%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.88%) Maven
8 3 (3.66%) Ant
9 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.22%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.22%) JUnit
9 1 (1.22%) Mockito
General
1 22 (26.83%) Finance
2 16 (19.51%) Public Sector
3 12 (14.63%) Banking
3 12 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (13.41%) Social Skills
5 6 (7.32%) Law
5 6 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.88%) Front Office
7 2 (2.44%) Advertising
7 2 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.98%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (9.76%) Kafka
3 6 (7.32%) .NET
3 6 (7.32%) LDAP
4 5 (6.10%) Node.js
5 4 (4.88%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.66%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.66%) Middleware
6 3 (3.66%) REST
7 2 (2.44%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.44%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.44%) AWS SAM
7 2 (2.44%) JWT
7 2 (2.44%) OAuth
7 2 (2.44%) React
8 1 (1.22%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (1.22%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.22%) Blazor
8 1 (1.22%) RESTful
8 1 (1.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Management Information System
2 15 (18.29%) Cloud Native
3 8 (9.76%) e-Learning
3 8 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (7.32%) Replication
5 4 (4.88%) Equities
5 4 (4.88%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.88%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.66%) Clustering
7 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.22%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.83%) Linux
2 10 (12.20%) Windows
3 8 (9.76%) Unix
4 7 (8.54%) VMS
5 6 (7.32%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (7.32%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (79.27%) CI/CD
3 28 (34.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (26.83%) Agile
4 22 (26.83%) Containerisation
5 19 (23.17%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (18.29%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (17.07%) Observability
8 13 (15.85%) Configuration Management
9 12 (14.63%) AI
9 12 (14.63%) Microservices
9 12 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (13.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (12.20%) Mentoring
11 10 (12.20%) SDLC
11 10 (12.20%) Software Engineering
12 9 (10.98%) Roadmaps
13 8 (9.76%) Architectural Design
13 8 (9.76%) Coaching
13 8 (9.76%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 54 (65.85%) Python
2 19 (23.17%) Bash
2 19 (23.17%) Java
3 17 (20.73%) SQL
4 13 (15.85%) PowerShell
5 12 (14.63%) Groovy
6 11 (13.41%) C#
7 9 (10.98%) JavaScript
8 7 (8.54%) Go
9 4 (4.88%) C++
10 3 (3.66%) Bicep
10 3 (3.66%) Ruby
10 3 (3.66%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.44%) PHP
12 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.29%) AWS Certification
3 14 (17.07%) Azure Certification
3 14 (17.07%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.32%) Degree
6 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) GDPR
1 8 (9.76%) HIPAA
1 8 (9.76%) NIST
2 4 (4.88%) QA
2 4 (4.88%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (41.46%) Docker
2 6 (7.32%) DFS Replication
2 6 (7.32%) Dovecot
2 6 (7.32%) Postfix
2 6 (7.32%) Squid
3 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (57.32%) Terraform
2 39 (47.56%) Kubernetes
3 22 (26.83%) Ansible
4 19 (23.17%) Grafana
5 14 (17.07%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.32%) Nessus
6 6 (7.32%) Proxmox
7 5 (6.10%) Argo
8 3 (3.66%) Podman
8 3 (3.66%) Puppet
9 2 (2.44%) Sysdig
10 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (10.98%) IBM
2 8 (9.76%) Google
2 8 (9.76%) Red Hat
3 6 (7.32%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (7.32%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.66%) Cribl.io
4 3 (3.66%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (3.66%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.66%) Sonatype
5 2 (2.44%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.44%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle
6 1 (1.22%) Splunk