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 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 701 580 666
Rank change year-on-year -121 +86 -207
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 92 94 132
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.21% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 80 41 95
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £88,125 £100,000 £88,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £106,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £52,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.11% -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 102,744 44,989 77,310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 89.84% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 70,528 26,760 49,758
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 £75,000 £74,888 £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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -88 90 £70,000 -12.50% 53
UK excluding London -81 53 £61,250 +16.11% 20
London -70 36 £82,500 - 41
Work from Home -56 32 £80,000 - 18
North of England -35 31 £60,000 -7.69% 5
North West -10 17 £75,000 +15.38% 4
South West -53 15 £60,000 - 4
North East - 13 £55,000 -
South East -34 7 £80,000 +113.33% 1
West Midlands -30 1 £62,500 +21.36% 2
Midlands -45 1 £62,500 +18.48% 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 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 92 (100.00%) AWS
1 92 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (52.17%) Terraform
3 45 (48.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (46.74%) CI/CD
5 40 (43.48%) Security Cleared
6 39 (42.39%) Docker
7 37 (40.22%) Containerisation
8 33 (35.87%) Python
9 32 (34.78%) SC Cleared
10 30 (32.61%) Kubernetes
11 27 (29.35%) GitLab
12 23 (25.00%) Agile
13 20 (21.74%) Azure
14 18 (19.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (18.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (18.48%) Jenkins
15 17 (18.48%) Observability
16 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
16 16 (17.39%) Test Automation
17 15 (16.30%) Bash
18 14 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (15.22%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (15.22%) GCP
18 14 (15.22%) Grafana
18 14 (15.22%) Mentoring
19 13 (14.13%) Kafka
20 12 (13.04%) Amazon S3
20 12 (13.04%) Go

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 (8.70%) Apache
2 7 (7.61%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.61%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.61%) Jupyter
3 3 (3.26%) Confluence
3 3 (3.26%) nginx
4 1 (1.09%) Drupal
4 1 (1.09%) IIS
4 1 (1.09%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (21.74%) Azure
3 18 (19.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (18.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (15.22%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (15.22%) GCP
6 12 (13.04%) Amazon S3
7 11 (11.96%) Serverless
8 10 (10.87%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (10.87%) GitHub
9 8 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (8.70%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (8.70%) Datadog
9 8 (8.70%) OpenShift
10 7 (7.61%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (7.61%) Textract
11 6 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) DNS
1 1 (1.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.70%) DynamoDB
2 7 (7.61%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (7.61%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.26%) Redis
5 2 (2.17%) Big Data
6 1 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.09%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.09%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.09%) MySQL
6 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (29.35%) GitLab
2 17 (18.48%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.70%) Git
4 4 (4.35%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.35%) git-flow
4 4 (4.35%) JIRA
5 2 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.17%) Snyk
6 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.09%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.09%) Gatling
6 1 (1.09%) JMeter
6 1 (1.09%) Maven
6 1 (1.09%) Postman
6 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.09%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (16.30%) Banking
1 15 (16.30%) Finance
2 10 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (5.43%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.17%) Games
5 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.09%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (52.17%) Terraform
2 13 (14.13%) Kafka
3 10 (10.87%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (7.61%) PySpark
5 6 (6.52%) Pulumi
6 5 (5.43%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.17%) OpenTofu
8 1 (1.09%) .NET
8 1 (1.09%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.09%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.09%) JSON
8 1 (1.09%) Keycloak
8 1 (1.09%) Memcached
8 1 (1.09%) Next.js
8 1 (1.09%) Node.js
8 1 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.09%) React
8 1 (1.09%) React Native
8 1 (1.09%) REST
8 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.65%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.61%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.35%) Life Science
3 4 (4.35%) PropTech
4 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.17%) Genomics
4 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.70%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Windows
3 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (48.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (46.74%) CI/CD
4 37 (40.22%) Containerisation
5 23 (25.00%) Agile
6 18 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (18.48%) Observability
8 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
8 16 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 14 (15.22%) Mentoring
10 11 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (10.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (9.78%) Data Engineering
12 9 (9.78%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (9.78%) Fintech
12 9 (9.78%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (9.78%) Workflow
13 8 (8.70%) DevSecOps
13 8 (8.70%) Open Source
13 8 (8.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 33 (35.87%) Python
2 15 (16.30%) Bash
3 12 (13.04%) Go
4 11 (11.96%) SQL
5 9 (9.78%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.26%) Groovy
6 3 (3.26%) Java
7 2 (2.17%) C#
8 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.09%) Perl
8 1 (1.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 32 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.35%) GDPR
2 4 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.35%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.09%) NCSC
3 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 39 (42.39%) Docker
2 8 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (32.61%) Kubernetes
2 14 (15.22%) Grafana
3 12 (13.04%) Prometheus
4 9 (9.78%) Ansible
5 8 (8.70%) Argo
5 8 (8.70%) Istio
6 3 (3.26%) Puppet
7 2 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.17%) Packer
7 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.09%) Consul
8 1 (1.09%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (8.70%) Confluent
2 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.09%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.09%) Google
4 1 (1.09%) IBM
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.09%) TOWER Software