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 27 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 481 580
Rank change year-on-year -119 +99 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 70 205 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.43% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.47% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 51 163 199
10th Percentile £50,750 £77,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,625 £87,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +33.33% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £150,000 - £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +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 63,755 43,253 71,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 91.31% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 40,200 23,124 55,563
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,674 £45,000 £39,302
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 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 27 February 2026.

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 27 February 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 -123 61 £75,000 -31.82% 22
UK excluding London +6 36 £65,000 -3.70% 18
London -110 27 £100,000 -9.09% 6
Work from Home -85 23 £90,000 -18.18% 13
North of England 0 17 £60,000 -25.00% 11
North West +8 13 £70,000 -22.22% 10
Midlands +4 6 £63,250 -20.94%
South East -1 6 £63,750 - 3
South West -5 5 £100,000 +53.85% 4
East Midlands -21 5 £75,000 -6.25%
Scotland -11 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England +2 1 £57,500 -11.54%
West Midlands - 1 £51,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 February 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 70 (100.00%) AWS
1 70 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 37 (52.86%) Terraform
4 33 (47.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (40.00%) Kubernetes
5 28 (40.00%) Python
6 19 (27.14%) GitHub
7 18 (25.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (25.71%) Docker
8 17 (24.29%) Ansible
8 17 (24.29%) Jenkins
8 17 (24.29%) Security Cleared
9 16 (22.86%) Azure
10 15 (21.43%) Serverless
11 14 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (18.57%) SC Cleared
13 12 (17.14%) Agile
13 12 (17.14%) Observability
13 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (15.71%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (15.71%) Containerisation
14 11 (15.71%) Grafana
14 11 (15.71%) Kafka
15 10 (14.29%) Java
15 10 (14.29%) Linux
15 10 (14.29%) Microservices
15 10 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering

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 (1.43%) Apache
1 1 (1.43%) JBoss
1 1 (1.43%) SAS
1 1 (1.43%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (27.14%) GitHub
3 18 (25.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (22.86%) Azure
5 15 (21.43%) Serverless
6 14 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (15.71%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (10.00%) Amazon S3
9 7 (10.00%) Datadog
9 7 (10.00%) OpenShift
10 6 (8.57%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (7.14%) PaaS
12 4 (5.71%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (4.29%) Amazon EventBridge
13 3 (4.29%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 6 (8.57%) Flink
2 6 (8.57%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.43%) Metadata
4 1 (1.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (24.29%) Jenkins
2 9 (12.86%) Git
2 9 (12.86%) GitLab
3 4 (5.71%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.29%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.29%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.86%) Maven
5 2 (2.86%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.43%) Ant
6 1 (1.43%) Gradle
6 1 (1.43%) JIRA
6 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (24.29%) Finance
2 13 (18.57%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.71%) Banking
4 6 (8.57%) Front Office
5 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.86%) Advertising
6 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Law
7 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.43%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.71%) Kafka
2 8 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (8.57%) AWS CDK
4 4 (5.71%) .NET
4 4 (5.71%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.71%) React
5 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET
5 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (4.29%) Blazor
5 3 (4.29%) RESTful
6 2 (2.86%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.86%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.86%) JWT
6 2 (2.86%) Node.js
6 2 (2.86%) OAuth
7 1 (1.43%) JSON
7 1 (1.43%) Middleware
7 1 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.57%) Fixed Income
3 5 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.71%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.29%) Clustering
6 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.43%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Unix
3 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 33 (47.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (17.14%) Agile
4 12 (17.14%) Observability
4 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (15.71%) Containerisation
6 10 (14.29%) Microservices
6 10 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (12.86%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (11.43%) High Availability
9 7 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (10.00%) Mentoring
10 6 (8.57%) Fintech
10 6 (8.57%) Front End Development
10 6 (8.57%) Investment Management
10 6 (8.57%) Software Engineering
11 5 (7.14%) Asset Management
11 5 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (40.00%) Python
2 10 (14.29%) Java
3 9 (12.86%) Bash
4 7 (10.00%) Go
5 6 (8.57%) SQL
6 3 (4.29%) Bicep
6 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.43%) Groovy
8 1 (1.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.57%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.29%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) SLA
2 3 (4.29%) GDPR
2 3 (4.29%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.29%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 18 (25.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (52.86%) Terraform
2 28 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 17 (24.29%) Ansible
4 11 (15.71%) Grafana
5 8 (11.43%) Prometheus
6 7 (10.00%) Argo
7 2 (2.86%) Sysdig
8 1 (1.43%) Podman
8 1 (1.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (4.29%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.86%) AppDynamics
2 2 (2.86%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.43%) Splunk