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 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 699 579 671
Rank change year-on-year -120 +92 -209
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 93 92 132
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.085% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.21% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 81 40 94
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £103,750 £88,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £106,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £52,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +18.48% -24.64% -

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 103,220 44,750 77,447
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 89.79% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 70,976 26,578 49,466
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
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 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Top 12 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 2 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 -98 90 £70,000 -12.50% 55
UK excluding London -82 50 £62,500 +18.48% 26
London -73 39 £81,250 -1.52% 38
Work from Home -50 32 £80,000 - 18
North of England -35 29 £60,000 -7.69% 8
North West -12 15 £75,000 +15.38% 4
South West -59 14 £60,000 - 4
North East - 13 £55,000 - 1
South East -33 7 £80,000 +113.33% 1
West Midlands -36 1 £62,500 +21.36% 3
Midlands -51 1 £62,500 +18.48% 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 93 (100.00%) AWS
1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (53.76%) Terraform
3 47 (50.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (48.39%) CI/CD
5 42 (45.16%) Security Cleared
6 41 (44.09%) Docker
7 37 (39.78%) Containerisation
8 34 (36.56%) Python
9 33 (35.48%) SC Cleared
10 32 (34.41%) Kubernetes
11 26 (27.96%) GitLab
12 25 (26.88%) Agile
13 20 (21.51%) Observability
14 19 (20.43%) Test Automation
15 18 (19.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (19.35%) Azure
15 18 (19.35%) Jenkins
16 17 (18.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (18.28%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
17 16 (17.20%) Bash
17 16 (17.20%) Infrastructure Automation
18 15 (16.13%) Grafana
19 14 (15.05%) Amazon EC2
19 14 (15.05%) Kafka
19 14 (15.05%) Mentoring
20 13 (13.98%) GCP
20 13 (13.98%) Prometheus
21 12 (12.90%) 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 8 (8.60%) Apache
2 7 (7.53%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.53%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.53%) Jupyter
3 3 (3.23%) Confluence
3 3 (3.23%) nginx
4 1 (1.08%) Drupal
4 1 (1.08%) IIS
4 1 (1.08%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (19.35%) AWS CloudFormation
2 18 (19.35%) Azure
3 17 (18.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 17 (18.28%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (15.05%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (13.98%) GCP
6 12 (12.90%) Amazon S3
7 11 (11.83%) Serverless
8 10 (10.75%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (10.75%) GitHub
9 8 (8.60%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (8.60%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (8.60%) OpenShift
10 7 (7.53%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (7.53%) Datadog
10 7 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (7.53%) Textract
11 6 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) DNS
1 1 (1.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.60%) DynamoDB
3 7 (7.53%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (5.38%) Redis
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.15%) Big Data
7 1 (1.08%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.08%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.08%) MySQL
7 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (27.96%) GitLab
2 18 (19.35%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.75%) Git
4 4 (4.30%) git-flow
4 4 (4.30%) JIRA
5 3 (3.23%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.15%) Snyk
7 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.08%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.08%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.08%) Gatling
7 1 (1.08%) JMeter
7 1 (1.08%) Maven
7 1 (1.08%) Postman
7 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.08%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (16.13%) Finance
2 14 (15.05%) Banking
3 12 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.30%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.30%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.15%) Games
5 2 (2.15%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.08%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (53.76%) Terraform
2 14 (15.05%) Kafka
3 11 (11.83%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (7.53%) PySpark
5 6 (6.45%) Pulumi
6 5 (5.38%) AWS CDK
7 3 (3.23%) Keycloak
8 2 (2.15%) OpenTofu
9 1 (1.08%) .NET
9 1 (1.08%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.08%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.08%) JSON
9 1 (1.08%) Memcached
9 1 (1.08%) Next.js
9 1 (1.08%) Node.js
9 1 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.08%) React
9 1 (1.08%) React Native
9 1 (1.08%) REST
9 1 (1.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.51%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.53%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.30%) Life Science
3 4 (4.30%) PropTech
4 3 (3.23%) Replication
5 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Genomics
5 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.60%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Windows
3 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (50.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 45 (48.39%) CI/CD
4 37 (39.78%) Containerisation
5 25 (26.88%) Agile
6 20 (21.51%) Observability
7 19 (20.43%) Test Automation
8 17 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (17.20%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (15.05%) Mentoring
11 11 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (10.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 10 (10.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 9 (9.68%) Data Engineering
13 9 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (9.68%) Workflow
14 8 (8.60%) Cloud Security
14 8 (8.60%) DevSecOps
14 8 (8.60%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 34 (36.56%) Python
2 16 (17.20%) Bash
3 11 (11.83%) Go
4 10 (10.75%) SQL
5 9 (9.68%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.38%) Groovy
7 3 (3.23%) Java
8 2 (2.15%) C#
9 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.08%) Perl
9 1 (1.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (45.16%) Security Cleared
2 33 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.30%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.23%) GDPR
2 3 (3.23%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.23%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.08%) NCSC
3 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 41 (44.09%) Docker
2 8 (8.60%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (34.41%) Kubernetes
2 15 (16.13%) Grafana
3 13 (13.98%) Prometheus
4 8 (8.60%) Ansible
4 8 (8.60%) Argo
4 8 (8.60%) Istio
5 3 (3.23%) Puppet
5 3 (3.23%) Rancher
6 2 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.15%) Packer
6 2 (2.15%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.08%) Consul
Vendors
1 8 (8.60%) Confluent
2 3 (3.23%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.23%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.15%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.08%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.08%) Google
4 1 (1.08%) IBM
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.08%) TOWER Software