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 5 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 504 700
Rank change year-on-year -140 +196 -200
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 87 167 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.094% 0.38% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.43% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 76 106 166
10th Percentile £48,500 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +33.33% +3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £117,813 £107,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% -7.14% -

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 86,877 39,175 97,799
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 89.43% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 58,375 22,028 71,043
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +1.78% -6.54%

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 5 June 2026.

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 5 June 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 -117 83 £72,500 -34.09% 9
UK excluding London -53 44 £63,750 -1.92% 5
London -106 37 £85,000 -22.73% 5
Work from Home -74 34 £85,000 -22.73% 8
North of England -36 28 £60,000 -22.58% 3
North West +1 18 £67,500 -12.90% 2
South West -44 9 £100,000 +110.53%
North East - 8 £60,000 - 1
South East -38 5 £75,000 +100.00%
Midlands -35 3 £75,000 -6.25% 1
East Midlands -25 2 £75,000 -6.25%
Yorkshire - 2 - -
West Midlands -38 1 £62,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 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 87 (100.00%) AWS
1 87 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (52.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (49.43%) Terraform
4 39 (44.83%) CI/CD
5 33 (37.93%) Security Cleared
6 32 (36.78%) Containerisation
6 32 (36.78%) Python
7 31 (35.63%) Docker
8 29 (33.33%) Kubernetes
9 27 (31.03%) Azure
10 21 (24.14%) GitLab
10 21 (24.14%) SC Cleared
11 20 (22.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (22.99%) Jenkins
12 17 (19.54%) GCP
12 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (17.24%) Go
13 15 (17.24%) Grafana
13 15 (17.24%) Kafka
13 15 (17.24%) Serverless
14 14 (16.09%) Bash
14 14 (16.09%) Prometheus
15 13 (14.94%) Agile
16 12 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (13.79%) Mentoring
16 12 (13.79%) Observability
17 11 (12.64%) Ansible
17 11 (12.64%) GitHub

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 3 (3.45%) Apache
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.30%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.15%) Confluence
3 1 (1.15%) Drupal
3 1 (1.15%) IIS
3 1 (1.15%) nginx
3 1 (1.15%) SAS
3 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (31.03%) Azure
3 20 (22.99%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (19.54%) GCP
5 15 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (17.24%) Serverless
6 12 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (12.64%) GitHub
8 10 (11.49%) Datadog
8 10 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (9.20%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (9.20%) Amazon S3
9 8 (9.20%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (9.20%) OpenShift
10 7 (8.05%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (4.60%) Pulumi
12 4 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
13 3 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.20%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.60%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.30%) Big Data
3 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.15%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.15%) Metadata
4 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (24.14%) GitLab
2 20 (22.99%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.05%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.60%) Git
5 2 (2.30%) JIRA
5 2 (2.30%) Maven
6 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.15%) Gatling
6 1 (1.15%) git-flow
6 1 (1.15%) Gradle
6 1 (1.15%) JMeter
6 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.15%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (20.69%) Finance
2 16 (18.39%) Banking
3 11 (12.64%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.30%) Games
6 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.24%) Kafka
2 8 (9.20%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.30%) .NET
3 2 (2.30%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.30%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.30%) JSON
3 2 (2.30%) PySpark
3 2 (2.30%) YAML
4 1 (1.15%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.15%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.15%) Blazor
4 1 (1.15%) Memcached
4 1 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.15%) React
4 1 (1.15%) REST
4 1 (1.15%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.30%) Life Science
3 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Windows
2 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (52.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (44.83%) CI/CD
4 32 (36.78%) Containerisation
5 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (14.94%) Agile
7 12 (13.79%) Mentoring
7 12 (13.79%) Observability
8 10 (11.49%) Fintech
8 10 (11.49%) Incident Management
8 10 (11.49%) Microservices
8 10 (11.49%) Software Engineering
9 9 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (10.34%) High Availability
9 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (9.20%) Open Source
10 8 (9.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (8.05%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (36.78%) Python
2 15 (17.24%) Go
3 14 (16.09%) Bash
4 10 (11.49%) SQL
5 7 (8.05%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.45%) Java
7 2 (2.30%) Bicep
7 2 (2.30%) C#
7 2 (2.30%) Groovy
8 1 (1.15%) Perl
8 1 (1.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) GDPR
1 7 (8.05%) PCI DSS
1 7 (8.05%) SOC 2
2 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.15%) NCSC
3 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 31 (35.63%) Docker
2 8 (9.20%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (49.43%) Terraform
2 29 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 15 (17.24%) Grafana
4 14 (16.09%) Prometheus
5 11 (12.64%) Ansible
6 8 (9.20%) Istio
7 4 (4.60%) Argo
8 2 (2.30%) Packer
8 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.15%) Consul
9 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (9.20%) Confluent
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.30%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.15%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.15%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.15%) Google
4 1 (1.15%) IBM
4 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.15%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.15%) TOWER Software