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 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 450 661
Rank change year-on-year -162 +211 -125
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 91 195 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.47% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.52% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 78 150 190
10th Percentile £49,100 £75,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £87,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £83,250
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +32.13% +4.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 - £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% -7.14% +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 81,353 37,364 89,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 89.32% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 51,978 23,468 66,062
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,261
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 21 April 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 21 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 -161 87 £77,500 -29.55% 15
UK excluding London -55 44 £63,750 -1.92% 14
London -125 41 £90,000 -18.18% 7
Work from Home -112 33 £95,500 -13.18% 6
North of England -42 26 £60,000 -14.29% 7
North West -20 17 £65,000 -16.13% 1
South West -53 9 £100,000 +56.86% 1
South East -42 7 £75,000 +76.47% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £60,000 -
North East -35 4 £60,000 -14.29% 6
Midlands -30 3 £75,000 -6.25%
East Midlands -55 2 £75,000 -6.25%
West Midlands - 1 £62,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 91 (100.00%) AWS
1 91 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (46.15%) Terraform
3 40 (43.96%) CI/CD
3 40 (43.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (38.46%) Python
5 31 (34.07%) Kubernetes
6 29 (31.87%) Azure
7 28 (30.77%) Docker
8 26 (28.57%) Containerisation
9 24 (26.37%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (26.37%) Security Cleared
10 21 (23.08%) Kafka
11 19 (20.88%) GitHub
12 18 (19.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (19.78%) Serverless
13 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (17.58%) Ansible
14 16 (17.58%) GCP
14 16 (17.58%) Jenkins
15 15 (16.48%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (16.48%) Go
15 15 (16.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 14 (15.38%) Microservices
17 13 (14.29%) Agile
17 13 (14.29%) SC Cleared
18 12 (13.19%) GitLab
19 11 (12.09%) Grafana
20 10 (10.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 10 (10.99%) 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 1 (1.10%) Apache
1 1 (1.10%) Confluence
1 1 (1.10%) Drupal
1 1 (1.10%) IIS
1 1 (1.10%) nginx
1 1 (1.10%) SAS
1 1 (1.10%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 91 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (31.87%) Azure
3 24 (26.37%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (20.88%) GitHub
5 18 (19.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (19.78%) Serverless
6 16 (17.58%) GCP
7 15 (16.48%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (10.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (10.99%) Amazon S3
8 10 (10.99%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (10.99%) Datadog
9 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (8.79%) Amazon MSK
10 8 (8.79%) OpenShift
11 6 (6.59%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.79%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.59%) Flink
4 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.10%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.10%) Metadata
6 1 (1.10%) MySQL
6 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (17.58%) Jenkins
2 12 (13.19%) GitLab
3 7 (7.69%) CircleCI
3 7 (7.69%) Git
4 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.20%) JIRA
5 2 (2.20%) Maven
6 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.10%) Gatling
6 1 (1.10%) git-flow
6 1 (1.10%) Gradle
6 1 (1.10%) JMeter
6 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.10%) Vagrant
General
1 26 (28.57%) Finance
2 21 (23.08%) Banking
3 16 (17.58%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Front Office
5 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.30%) Advertising
7 2 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Games
7 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.10%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.08%) Kafka
2 8 (8.79%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (5.49%) .NET
3 5 (5.49%) AWS CDK
4 4 (4.40%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (3.30%) Blazor
5 3 (3.30%) React
5 3 (3.30%) RESTful
6 2 (2.20%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.20%) JSON
6 2 (2.20%) JWT
6 2 (2.20%) Node.js
6 2 (2.20%) OAuth
6 2 (2.20%) YAML
7 1 (1.10%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.10%) Memcached
7 1 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.10%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.59%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.79%) Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Windows
2 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (43.96%) CI/CD
2 40 (43.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (16.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 14 (15.38%) Microservices
7 13 (14.29%) Agile
8 10 (10.99%) Fintech
8 10 (10.99%) Mentoring
8 10 (10.99%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (10.99%) Software Engineering
9 9 (9.89%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (9.89%) High Availability
9 9 (9.89%) Open Source
10 7 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (7.69%) Incident Management
10 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
11 6 (6.59%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (6.59%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (38.46%) Python
2 15 (16.48%) Go
3 10 (10.99%) Bash
3 10 (10.99%) SQL
4 9 (9.89%) Java
5 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.20%) Bicep
6 2 (2.20%) Groovy
7 1 (1.10%) Perl
7 1 (1.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.79%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) GDPR
1 7 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 7 (7.69%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.10%) NCSC
2 1 (1.10%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (30.77%) Docker
2 8 (8.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (46.15%) Terraform
2 31 (34.07%) Kubernetes
3 16 (17.58%) Ansible
4 11 (12.09%) Grafana
5 10 (10.99%) Prometheus
6 8 (8.79%) Istio
7 6 (6.59%) Argo
8 2 (2.20%) Packer
8 2 (2.20%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.10%) Consul
9 1 (1.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (8.79%) Confluent
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.20%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.10%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.10%) Google
4 1 (1.10%) IBM
4 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.10%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.10%) TOWER Software