AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 604 475
Rank change year-on-year +23 -129 +219
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 68 157 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.24% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.25% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 36 122 234
10th Percentile £50,375 £60,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £70,625 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £100,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +21.21% +3.13%
75th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +7.14%

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 48,849 62,485 48,786
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.31% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 30,833 34,885 37,936
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -

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 29 November 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 29 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 +14 63 £81,250 -22.62% 19
UK excluding London +78 33 £57,500 -17.86% 16
London -13 33 £110,000 -2.22% 10
Work from Home +36 29 £82,500 -25.00% 9
North of England +62 14 £60,000 +2.13% 5
Midlands +66 12 £51,500 -31.33%
North West +64 11 £100,000 +90.48% 2
West Midlands - 8 £51,500 -
South East +40 5 £62,500 -10.71% 9
East Midlands +27 4 £50,000 -33.33%
Scotland +7 4 - - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £60,000 - 1
East of England +34 1 £57,500 -54.00%

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 68 (100.00%) AWS
1 68 (100.00%) DevOps
2 54 (79.41%) CI/CD
3 43 (63.24%) Python
4 38 (55.88%) Terraform
5 35 (51.47%) Kubernetes
6 27 (39.71%) Docker
7 22 (32.35%) Azure
7 22 (32.35%) Jenkins
8 21 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (29.41%) Agile
9 20 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (26.47%) GitHub
10 18 (26.47%) Java
11 17 (25.00%) Ansible
12 16 (23.53%) Containerisation
12 16 (23.53%) Linux
13 15 (22.06%) Bash
13 15 (22.06%) Git
14 14 (20.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (20.59%) Disaster Recovery
14 14 (20.59%) Grafana
15 13 (19.12%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (19.12%) Observability
15 13 (19.12%) Security Cleared
15 13 (19.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 13 (19.12%) SQL
16 12 (17.65%) AWS Certification
16 12 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
17 11 (16.18%) Amazon EKS

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 4 (5.88%) Confluence
1 4 (5.88%) nginx
2 3 (4.41%) Apache
2 3 (4.41%) JBoss
2 3 (4.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (32.35%) Azure
3 20 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (26.47%) GitHub
5 14 (20.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (19.12%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (16.18%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (14.71%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (14.71%) Amazon S3
9 9 (13.24%) OpenShift
9 9 (13.24%) Serverless
10 8 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (8.82%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (8.82%) GCP
12 6 (8.82%) PaaS
13 5 (7.35%) Datadog
14 4 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
14 4 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) DNS
1 5 (7.35%) Firewall
1 5 (7.35%) HTTP
2 4 (5.88%) FTP
2 4 (5.88%) IMAP
2 4 (5.88%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (5.88%) SMTP
2 4 (5.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.29%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.82%) Flink
4 5 (7.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (7.35%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.94%) KDB
7 1 (1.47%) MySQL
7 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (32.35%) Jenkins
2 15 (22.06%) Git
3 10 (14.71%) GitLab
4 7 (10.29%) JIRA
4 7 (10.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (7.35%) Artifactory
6 4 (5.88%) Vagrant
7 3 (4.41%) Ant
7 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.41%) Maven
7 3 (4.41%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (30.88%) Finance
2 12 (17.65%) Banking
3 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.24%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.82%) Front Office
6 5 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.88%) Law
7 4 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.94%) Advertising
8 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) Kafka
2 8 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (8.82%) .NET
4 5 (7.35%) AWS CDK
4 5 (7.35%) Node.js
5 4 (5.88%) LDAP
6 3 (4.41%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.41%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.41%) Middleware
6 3 (4.41%) React
7 2 (2.94%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (2.94%) AWS SAM
7 2 (2.94%) Blazor
7 2 (2.94%) JWT
7 2 (2.94%) OAuth
7 2 (2.94%) RESTful
8 1 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.12%) Management Information System
2 12 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.82%) Fixed Income
4 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.88%) Replication
5 3 (4.41%) Clustering
5 3 (4.41%) e-Learning
5 3 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.53%) Linux
2 7 (10.29%) Windows
3 5 (7.35%) Unix
4 4 (5.88%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.88%) VMS
5 3 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) DevOps
2 54 (79.41%) CI/CD
3 21 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (29.41%) Agile
5 16 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 14 (20.59%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (19.12%) Observability
7 13 (19.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 12 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (16.18%) Microservices
10 9 (13.24%) Configuration Management
10 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (10.29%) SDLC
12 6 (8.82%) Data Management
12 6 (8.82%) Data Privacy
12 6 (8.82%) Enterprise Architecture
12 6 (8.82%) Front End Development
12 6 (8.82%) Investment Management
12 6 (8.82%) Roadmaps
12 6 (8.82%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 43 (63.24%) Python
2 18 (26.47%) Java
3 15 (22.06%) Bash
4 13 (19.12%) SQL
5 10 (14.71%) Groovy
5 10 (14.71%) PowerShell
6 9 (13.24%) C#
7 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
8 6 (8.82%) Go
9 3 (4.41%) Bicep
9 3 (4.41%) C++
9 3 (4.41%) Ruby
9 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.47%) PHP
10 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.65%) AWS Certification
3 11 (16.18%) SC Cleared
4 10 (14.71%) Azure Certification
5 6 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.88%) Degree
7 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) GDPR
1 6 (8.82%) HIPAA
1 6 (8.82%) NIST
2 4 (5.88%) SLA
3 2 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 27 (39.71%) Docker
2 4 (5.88%) DFS Replication
2 4 (5.88%) Dovecot
2 4 (5.88%) Postfix
2 4 (5.88%) Squid
Systems Management
1 38 (55.88%) Terraform
2 35 (51.47%) Kubernetes
3 17 (25.00%) Ansible
4 14 (20.59%) Grafana
5 10 (14.71%) Prometheus
6 7 (10.29%) Argo
7 4 (5.88%) Nessus
7 4 (5.88%) Proxmox
8 3 (4.41%) Podman
8 3 (4.41%) Puppet
9 2 (2.94%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 6 (8.82%) Google
2 4 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.41%) Cribl.io
3 3 (4.41%) IBM
3 3 (4.41%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.41%) Sonatype
4 2 (2.94%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.94%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle
5 1 (1.47%) Splunk