Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 712 575 675
Rank change year-on-year -137 +100 -224
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 95 94 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 83 38 76
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,525 £53,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £88,750 £89,375 £92,188
90th Percentile £92,000 £127,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,750 £54,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +23.61% -22.86% -

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 106,427 44,033 73,876
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.62% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,226 25,764 44,965
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,131 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.85% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Top 11 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 15 September 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 -114 90 £70,000 -12.50% 135
UK excluding London -89 50 £66,750 +23.61% 63
London -61 41 £75,000 -6.25% 76
North of England -44 29 £60,000 -7.69% 26
Work from Home -60 27 £77,500 -3.13% 44
North West -23 14 £77,500 +19.23% 18
South West -69 13 £60,000 - 6
North East - 13 £55,000 - 4
South East -36 7 £80,000 +113.33% 4
Scotland +3 2 £100,000 - 11
Yorkshire - 2 £68,500 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 53 (55.79%) Terraform
3 49 (51.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (50.53%) CI/CD
4 48 (50.53%) Security Cleared
5 42 (44.21%) Docker
6 38 (40.00%) SC Cleared
7 37 (38.95%) Python
8 34 (35.79%) Kubernetes
9 33 (34.74%) Containerisation
10 31 (32.63%) Agile
11 27 (28.42%) GitLab
12 26 (27.37%) Observability
13 22 (23.16%) Test Automation
14 21 (22.11%) Jenkins
15 19 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (20.00%) Bash
16 18 (18.95%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (18.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (18.95%) Grafana
16 18 (18.95%) Infrastructure Automation
17 17 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
18 16 (16.84%) Prometheus
19 14 (14.74%) Amazon EC2
19 14 (14.74%) Mentoring
20 13 (13.68%) Azure
20 13 (13.68%) Git
20 13 (13.68%) Kafka
20 13 (13.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)

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 8 (8.42%) Apache
2 7 (7.37%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.37%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.37%) Jupyter
3 3 (3.16%) Confluence
3 3 (3.16%) nginx
4 1 (1.05%) Drupal
4 1 (1.05%) IIS
4 1 (1.05%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (18.95%) Amazon EKS
3 18 (18.95%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (14.74%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (13.68%) Azure
6 12 (12.63%) Amazon S3
6 12 (12.63%) GitHub
7 11 (11.58%) Serverless
8 10 (10.53%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (9.47%) GCP
9 9 (9.47%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (8.42%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (7.37%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 7 (7.37%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (7.37%) Textract
12 6 (6.32%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (6.32%) OpenShift
12 6 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) DNS
1 1 (1.05%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.63%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.42%) DynamoDB
2 8 (8.42%) Redis
3 7 (7.37%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (6.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.11%) Big Data
6 1 (1.05%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.05%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.05%) MySQL
6 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (28.42%) GitLab
2 21 (22.11%) Jenkins
3 13 (13.68%) Git
4 4 (4.21%) git-flow
4 4 (4.21%) JIRA
5 2 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.11%) Snyk
6 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.05%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.05%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.05%) Gatling
6 1 (1.05%) JMeter
6 1 (1.05%) Maven
6 1 (1.05%) Postman
6 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.05%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (12.63%) Finance
3 10 (10.53%) Banking
4 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.16%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Games
7 1 (1.05%) Advertising
7 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (55.79%) Terraform
2 13 (13.68%) Kafka
3 12 (12.63%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (8.42%) Pulumi
5 7 (7.37%) PySpark
6 6 (6.32%) Keycloak
7 5 (5.26%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.11%) OpenTofu
9 1 (1.05%) .NET
9 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.05%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.05%) JSON
9 1 (1.05%) Memcached
9 1 (1.05%) Next.js
9 1 (1.05%) Node.js
9 1 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.05%) React
9 1 (1.05%) React Native
9 1 (1.05%) REST
9 1 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (24.21%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.37%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.32%) Replication
4 4 (4.21%) Life Science
4 4 (4.21%) PropTech
5 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.11%) Genomics
5 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.42%) Linux
2 3 (3.16%) Windows
3 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (51.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (50.53%) CI/CD
4 33 (34.74%) Containerisation
5 31 (32.63%) Agile
6 26 (27.37%) Observability
7 22 (23.16%) Test Automation
8 18 (18.95%) Infrastructure Automation
9 17 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (14.74%) Mentoring
11 13 (13.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 11 (11.58%) Cloud Security
12 11 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (10.53%) Secrets Management
13 10 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 9 (9.47%) Data Engineering
14 9 (9.47%) Data Pipeline
14 9 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (9.47%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 37 (38.95%) Python
2 19 (20.00%) Bash
3 11 (11.58%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.42%) Groovy
4 8 (8.42%) SQL
5 7 (7.37%) Go
6 4 (4.21%) Java
7 2 (2.11%) C#
8 1 (1.05%) C++
8 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.05%) Perl
8 1 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (50.53%) Security Cleared
2 38 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.05%) GDPR
2 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.05%) NCSC
2 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.05%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (44.21%) Docker
2 6 (6.32%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (35.79%) Kubernetes
2 18 (18.95%) Grafana
3 16 (16.84%) Prometheus
4 10 (10.53%) Argo
5 7 (7.37%) Ansible
6 6 (6.32%) Istio
6 6 (6.32%) Rancher
7 3 (3.16%) Puppet
8 2 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.11%) Packer
8 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.05%) Consul
Vendors
1 6 (6.32%) Confluent
1 6 (6.32%) Dynatrace
1 6 (6.32%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.16%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.11%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.11%) Intel
4 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.05%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.05%) Google
4 1 (1.05%) IBM
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle
4 1 (1.05%) TOWER Software