AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 588 587 474
Rank change year-on-year -1 -113 +206
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 66 155 244
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.25% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.27% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 36 119 224
10th Percentile £50,375 £60,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £72,500 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £107,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.09% +30.30% +3.13%
75th Percentile £116,250 £122,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.07% -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 50,704 58,391 48,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 94.00% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31,404 32,367 37,457
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 +13 61 £78,750 -26.74% 14
UK excluding London +93 32 £58,750 -16.07% 11
London -16 32 £110,000 -2.22% 5
Work from Home +24 27 £82,500 -25.00% 2
North of England +39 13 £60,000 +2.13% 4
Midlands +46 11 £51,500 -
North West +49 10 £100,000 +90.48%
West Midlands - 7 £51,500 -
South East +41 6 £63,750 -8.93% 3
East Midlands +17 4 £50,000 -
Scotland +7 4 - -
Yorkshire - 3 £60,000 - 2
East of England +25 1 £57,500 -54.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 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 66 (100.00%) AWS
1 66 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (75.76%) CI/CD
3 38 (57.58%) Python
4 35 (53.03%) Terraform
5 33 (50.00%) Kubernetes
6 23 (34.85%) Docker
7 21 (31.82%) Jenkins
8 20 (30.30%) Azure
8 20 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (28.79%) GitHub
10 18 (27.27%) Agile
10 18 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (25.76%) Java
12 16 (24.24%) Ansible
13 15 (22.73%) Linux
14 14 (21.21%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (21.21%) Bash
14 14 (21.21%) Containerisation
14 14 (21.21%) Git
15 13 (19.70%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (19.70%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (19.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
16 12 (18.18%) Grafana
16 12 (18.18%) Observability
16 12 (18.18%) Security Cleared
17 11 (16.67%) SQL
18 10 (15.15%) AWS Certification
18 10 (15.15%) Kafka

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 (4.55%) Apache
1 3 (4.55%) Confluence
1 3 (4.55%) JBoss
1 3 (4.55%) nginx
1 3 (4.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (30.30%) Azure
3 19 (28.79%) GitHub
4 18 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (21.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (19.70%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (19.70%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (13.64%) Amazon S3
7 9 (13.64%) OpenShift
7 9 (13.64%) Serverless
8 8 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (9.09%) PaaS
11 5 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (7.58%) Datadog
11 5 (7.58%) GCP
12 4 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
13 3 (4.55%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) DNS
1 4 (6.06%) HTTP
2 3 (4.55%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) FTP
2 3 (4.55%) IMAP
2 3 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (4.55%) SMTP
2 3 (4.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 6 (9.09%) Flink
2 6 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.52%) KDB
5 1 (1.52%) MySQL
5 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 14 (21.21%) Git
3 9 (13.64%) GitLab
4 6 (9.09%) JIRA
4 6 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (7.58%) Artifactory
6 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.55%) Ant
7 3 (4.55%) Maven
7 3 (4.55%) Vagrant
8 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (30.30%) Finance
2 11 (16.67%) Banking
3 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.09%) Front Office
6 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.55%) Law
7 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.03%) Advertising
8 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.52%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.15%) Kafka
2 7 (10.61%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (9.09%) .NET
4 5 (7.58%) AWS CDK
4 5 (7.58%) Node.js
5 3 (4.55%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.55%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.55%) LDAP
5 3 (4.55%) Middleware
5 3 (4.55%) React
6 2 (3.03%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.03%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.03%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (3.03%) AWS SAM
6 2 (3.03%) Blazor
6 2 (3.03%) JWT
6 2 (3.03%) OAuth
6 2 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 10 (15.15%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.09%) Fixed Income
4 4 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.55%) Clustering
5 3 (4.55%) e-Learning
5 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.55%) Replication
6 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.52%) Equities
7 1 (1.52%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.73%) Linux
2 6 (9.09%) Windows
3 3 (4.55%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.55%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.55%) Unix
3 3 (4.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (75.76%) CI/CD
3 20 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (27.27%) Agile
5 14 (21.21%) Containerisation
6 13 (19.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (18.18%) Observability
8 10 (15.15%) Microservices
8 10 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (10.61%) Configuration Management
9 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (9.09%) Front End Development
10 6 (9.09%) Investment Management
10 6 (9.09%) SDLC
11 5 (7.58%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (7.58%) Data Privacy
11 5 (7.58%) Enterprise Architecture
11 5 (7.58%) Mentoring
11 5 (7.58%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (57.58%) Python
2 17 (25.76%) Java
3 14 (21.21%) Bash
4 11 (16.67%) SQL
5 9 (13.64%) Groovy
5 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 8 (12.12%) C#
7 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.58%) Go
9 3 (4.55%) Bicep
9 3 (4.55%) C++
9 3 (4.55%) Ruby
9 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.52%) PHP
10 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.15%) AWS Certification
2 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.12%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.55%) Degree
5 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) GDPR
1 5 (7.58%) HIPAA
1 5 (7.58%) NIST
2 4 (6.06%) SLA
3 2 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 23 (34.85%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) DFS Replication
2 3 (4.55%) Dovecot
2 3 (4.55%) Postfix
2 3 (4.55%) Squid
Systems Management
1 35 (53.03%) Terraform
2 33 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (24.24%) Ansible
4 12 (18.18%) Grafana
5 9 (13.64%) Prometheus
6 7 (10.61%) Argo
7 3 (4.55%) Nessus
7 3 (4.55%) Podman
7 3 (4.55%) Proxmox
7 3 (4.55%) Puppet
8 2 (3.03%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 5 (7.58%) Google
2 3 (4.55%) Cribl.io
2 3 (4.55%) IBM
2 3 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (4.55%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.55%) Red Hat
2 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
2 3 (4.55%) Sonatype
3 2 (3.03%) AppDynamics
3 2 (3.03%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle
4 1 (1.52%) Splunk