AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £78,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 564 471
Rank change year-on-year -19 -93 +171
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 61 161 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.29% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.31% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 36 125 202
10th Percentile £50,375 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £85,000 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £107,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.74% +30.30% +3.13%
75th Percentile £116,250 £127,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -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 53,377 52,658 46,149
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 93.53% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 32,887 28,141 35,810
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,911 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 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 -14 56 £70,000 -36.36% 8
UK excluding London +63 32 £60,000 -14.29% 6
London -38 27 £110,000 - 5
Work from Home -11 26 £82,500 -25.00% 2
North of England +27 13 £60,000 -11.11%
Midlands +23 10 £51,500 -35.63%
North West +42 9 £100,000 +53.85%
South East +36 6 £63,750 -12.07% 4
West Midlands - 6 £51,500 -
Scotland +6 4 - -
East Midlands -8 4 £50,000 -37.50%
Yorkshire - 4 £60,000 -
East of England +17 1 £57,500 -39.47% 1
South West +6 1 £60,000 -14.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 61 (100.00%) AWS
1 61 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (77.05%) CI/CD
3 34 (55.74%) Python
3 34 (55.74%) Terraform
4 31 (50.82%) Kubernetes
5 22 (36.07%) Docker
6 21 (34.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (32.79%) GitHub
8 19 (31.15%) Azure
8 19 (31.15%) Jenkins
9 17 (27.87%) Agile
9 17 (27.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (26.23%) Ansible
11 15 (24.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (24.59%) Java
12 14 (22.95%) Git
12 14 (22.95%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (22.95%) Linux
13 13 (21.31%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (21.31%) Bash
13 13 (21.31%) Containerisation
14 12 (19.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (18.03%) Disaster Recovery
15 11 (18.03%) Observability
15 11 (18.03%) Security Cleared
16 10 (16.39%) Grafana
16 10 (16.39%) Kafka
16 10 (16.39%) Microservices
16 10 (16.39%) Serverless

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 (4.92%) Apache
1 3 (4.92%) JBoss
1 3 (4.92%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 61 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (32.79%) GitHub
3 19 (31.15%) Azure
4 17 (27.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 15 (24.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (22.95%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (21.31%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (16.39%) Serverless
9 9 (14.75%) Amazon S3
9 9 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (14.75%) OpenShift
10 8 (13.11%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (9.84%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (9.84%) PaaS
12 5 (8.20%) Datadog
13 4 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (6.56%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (6.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) DNS
1 3 (4.92%) HTTP
2 2 (3.28%) Firewall
2 2 (3.28%) FTP
2 2 (3.28%) IMAP
2 2 (3.28%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (3.28%) SMTP
2 2 (3.28%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) DynamoDB
1 7 (11.48%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.84%) Flink
2 6 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.20%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.64%) MySQL
6 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (31.15%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.95%) Git
3 8 (13.11%) GitLab
4 5 (8.20%) Artifactory
4 5 (8.20%) JIRA
4 5 (8.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (6.56%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.92%) Ant
6 3 (4.92%) Maven
7 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.28%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (29.51%) Finance
2 10 (16.39%) Banking
2 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Front Office
4 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.28%) Advertising
5 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Law
5 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.64%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) Kafka
2 7 (11.48%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (9.84%) .NET
3 6 (9.84%) AWS CDK
4 4 (6.56%) .NET Core
4 4 (6.56%) Node.js
4 4 (6.56%) React
5 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET
5 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (4.92%) Blazor
5 3 (4.92%) Middleware
5 3 (4.92%) RESTful
6 2 (3.28%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.28%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.28%) AWS SAM
6 2 (3.28%) JWT
6 2 (3.28%) LDAP
6 2 (3.28%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Management Information System
2 9 (14.75%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.84%) Fixed Income
4 4 (6.56%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.92%) Clustering
6 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.28%) Replication
7 1 (1.64%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.95%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Windows
3 3 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (3.28%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.28%) Unix
4 2 (3.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (77.05%) CI/CD
3 21 (34.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (27.87%) Agile
5 13 (21.31%) Containerisation
6 12 (19.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (18.03%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (18.03%) Observability
8 10 (16.39%) Microservices
9 9 (14.75%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (9.84%) Configuration Management
11 6 (9.84%) Front End Development
11 6 (9.84%) Investment Management
12 5 (8.20%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (8.20%) Root Cause Analysis
13 4 (6.56%) Data Privacy
13 4 (6.56%) Enterprise Architecture
13 4 (6.56%) High Availability
13 4 (6.56%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 34 (55.74%) Python
2 15 (24.59%) Java
3 13 (21.31%) Bash
4 10 (16.39%) SQL
5 7 (11.48%) Groovy
5 7 (11.48%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.84%) C#
6 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.20%) Go
8 3 (4.92%) Bicep
8 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.28%) C++
9 2 (3.28%) Ruby
10 1 (1.64%) PHP
10 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.75%) AWS Certification
2 9 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.28%) Degree
6 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) GDPR
1 4 (6.56%) HIPAA
1 4 (6.56%) NIST
1 4 (6.56%) SLA
2 2 (3.28%) QA
System Software
1 22 (36.07%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) DFS Replication
2 2 (3.28%) Dovecot
2 2 (3.28%) Postfix
2 2 (3.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 34 (55.74%) Terraform
2 31 (50.82%) Kubernetes
3 16 (26.23%) Ansible
4 10 (16.39%) Grafana
5 7 (11.48%) Argo
5 7 (11.48%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.92%) Podman
6 3 (4.92%) Puppet
7 2 (3.28%) Nessus
7 2 (3.28%) Proxmox
7 2 (3.28%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 4 (6.56%) Google
2 3 (4.92%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.28%) AppDynamics
3 2 (3.28%) Cribl.io
3 2 (3.28%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.28%) SolarWinds
3 2 (3.28%) Sonatype
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle
4 1 (1.64%) Splunk