AWS DevOps Jobs

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 709 493
Rank change year-on-year +133 -216 +244
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 152 196 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.18% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.19% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 87 164 457
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £55,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £60,938 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £116,875 £100,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £112,500 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - -

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 53,224 101,891 81,094
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 94.82% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,964 71,748 54,252
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,118
% change year-on-year - -5.87% +5.18%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps.

Salary trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 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 +100 144 £110,000 +37.50% 85
London +127 112 £110,000 +12.82% 37
Work from Home +140 104 £110,000 +37.50% 57
UK excluding London +128 34 £62,500 -10.71% 60
North of England +41 12 £77,500 +29.17% 14
North West +15 12 £77,500 +29.17% 11
South East +51 7 £37,500 -46.43% 22
Midlands +73 6 £90,000 +28.57% 2
West Midlands +64 6 £90,000 +12.50% 2
South West +83 3 £47,500 -32.14% 6
East of England +32 3 £65,000 -13.33% 5
Wales - 2 £57,500 -
Scotland +91 1 - - 11

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, AWS DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 152 (100.00%) AWS
1 152 (100.00%) DevOps
2 120 (78.95%) CI/CD
3 110 (72.37%) Python
4 107 (70.39%) Terraform
5 101 (66.45%) Kubernetes
6 97 (63.82%) Docker
7 74 (48.68%) Java
8 69 (45.39%) Agile
9 68 (44.74%) Finance
9 68 (44.74%) Serverless
10 64 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
11 60 (39.47%) Software Engineering
12 58 (38.16%) Go
13 53 (34.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 52 (34.21%) Amazon ECS
14 52 (34.21%) Kafka
15 50 (32.89%) OpenShift
16 48 (31.58%) Artifactory
16 48 (31.58%) Open Source
16 48 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
17 46 (30.26%) Apache
18 43 (28.29%) Data Engineering
18 43 (28.29%) Containerisation
19 42 (27.63%) Apache Arrow
19 42 (27.63%) Dremio
19 42 (27.63%) dbt
19 42 (27.63%) Apache Ignite
19 42 (27.63%) Apache Iceberg
19 42 (27.63%) Apache Airflow

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 46 (30.26%) Apache
2 42 (27.63%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (27.63%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.29%) Confluence
4 4 (2.63%) nginx
5 2 (1.32%) JBoss
5 2 (1.32%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.66%) CMS
6 1 (0.66%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 152 (100.00%) AWS
2 68 (44.74%) Serverless
3 64 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
4 52 (34.21%) Amazon ECS
5 50 (32.89%) OpenShift
6 42 (27.63%) dbt
7 33 (21.71%) Azure
8 30 (19.74%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (16.45%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (14.47%) Amazon S3
10 22 (14.47%) GCP
11 16 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (9.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (6.58%) Datadog
14 9 (5.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (3.95%) Amazon MSK
15 6 (3.95%) GitHub
16 5 (3.29%) AWS Control Tower
16 5 (3.29%) AWS KMS
16 5 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.58%) Firewall
2 5 (3.29%) DNS
2 5 (3.29%) FTP
2 5 (3.29%) HTTP
2 5 (3.29%) SMTP
2 5 (3.29%) SSH
3 4 (2.63%) IMAP
3 4 (2.63%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.32%) Internet
5 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (27.63%) Amazon Athena
1 42 (27.63%) Apache Arrow
1 42 (27.63%) Apache Iceberg
1 42 (27.63%) Apache Ignite
1 42 (27.63%) Dremio
2 13 (8.55%) NoSQL
3 11 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.63%) KDB
5 4 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.32%) MySQL
6 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.66%) DB2
Development Applications
1 48 (31.58%) Artifactory
2 32 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 25 (16.45%) GitLab
4 21 (13.82%) Git
5 14 (9.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (8.55%) Cucumber
6 13 (8.55%) SonarQube
7 12 (7.89%) Maven
8 10 (6.58%) IntelliJ
8 10 (6.58%) JIRA
8 10 (6.58%) JUnit
8 10 (6.58%) Mockito
9 5 (3.29%) Vagrant
10 2 (1.32%) Ant
10 2 (1.32%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
General
1 68 (44.74%) Finance
2 42 (27.63%) Front Office
3 20 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.87%) Banking
6 11 (7.24%) Social Skills
7 5 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.63%) Law
9 1 (0.66%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (34.21%) Kafka
2 42 (27.63%) J2EE
2 42 (27.63%) PySpark
3 13 (8.55%) REST
4 10 (6.58%) ActiveMQ
4 10 (6.58%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (6.58%) JMS
4 10 (6.58%) Spring
4 10 (6.58%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.29%) AWS CDK
6 4 (2.63%) LDAP
6 4 (2.63%) Node.js
6 4 (2.63%) React
7 3 (1.97%) JSON
7 3 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.32%) .NET
8 2 (1.32%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.32%) LAMP
8 2 (1.32%) Middleware
8 2 (1.32%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.45%) Management Information System
2 19 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 15 (9.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (9.21%) e-Learning
5 10 (6.58%) Credit Derivative
5 10 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.29%) Replication
7 4 (2.63%) Equities
8 2 (1.32%) IoT
8 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 34 (22.37%) Linux
2 9 (5.92%) Unix
2 9 (5.92%) Windows
3 6 (3.95%) VMS
4 5 (3.29%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (2.63%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.66%) Android
7 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (100.00%) DevOps
2 120 (78.95%) CI/CD
3 69 (45.39%) Agile
4 60 (39.47%) Software Engineering
5 53 (34.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 48 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (31.58%) Open Source
7 43 (28.29%) Containerisation
7 43 (28.29%) Data Engineering
8 42 (27.63%) Asset Management
9 24 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
10 21 (13.82%) Mentoring
11 19 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
11 19 (12.50%) Microservices
12 17 (11.18%) Coaching
12 17 (11.18%) SDLC
13 16 (10.53%) Analytics
13 16 (10.53%) Architectural Design
13 16 (10.53%) Configuration Management
13 16 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 110 (72.37%) Python
2 74 (48.68%) Java
3 58 (38.16%) Go
4 19 (12.50%) Bash
4 19 (12.50%) SQL
5 15 (9.87%) C#
6 12 (7.89%) Groovy
7 11 (7.24%) C++
8 8 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.95%) Perl
9 6 (3.95%) PHP
10 4 (2.63%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.97%) Ruby
11 3 (1.97%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.32%) C
13 1 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (15.79%) AWS Certification
2 18 (11.84%) Azure Certification
2 18 (11.84%) Security Cleared
3 14 (9.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.92%) Degree
6 3 (1.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.87%) GDPR
2 13 (8.55%) HIPAA
2 13 (8.55%) NIST
3 10 (6.58%) QA
4 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 97 (63.82%) Docker
2 6 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.29%) DFS Replication
4 4 (2.63%) Dovecot
4 4 (2.63%) Postfix
4 4 (2.63%) Squid
5 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 107 (70.39%) Terraform
2 101 (66.45%) Kubernetes
3 36 (23.68%) Ansible
4 16 (10.53%) Grafana
5 11 (7.24%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.95%) Istio
7 4 (2.63%) Nessus
7 4 (2.63%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.97%) Packer
9 2 (1.32%) Argo
9 2 (1.32%) Podman
9 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (19.74%) IBM
2 15 (9.87%) Red Hat
3 13 (8.55%) Google
4 6 (3.95%) Confluent
5 5 (3.29%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.63%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.97%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.97%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.97%) VMware
8 1 (0.66%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.66%) Sonatype