Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 505 708
Rank change year-on-year -138 +203 -222
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 90 162 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.36% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.41% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 80 98 163
10th Percentile £49,700 £64,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £110,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% +37.50% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £117,813 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -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 87,136 39,736 101,635
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 89.46% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 59,740 22,466 73,347
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,849 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £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 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 13 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 13 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 -131 86 £71,250 -35.23% 10
UK excluding London -54 46 £70,000 +7.69% 7
London -93 38 £85,000 -22.73% 3
Work from Home -75 34 £85,000 -22.73% 5
North of England -21 30 £60,000 -22.58% 4
North West +15 20 £70,000 -9.68% 3
South West -49 9 £100,000 +110.53% 1
North East - 9 £60,000 - 1
South East -15 5 £75,000 +100.00% 2
Midlands -19 3 £75,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
West Midlands -25 1 £62,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 90 (100.00%) AWS
1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (54.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 46 (51.11%) Terraform
4 42 (46.67%) CI/CD
5 37 (41.11%) Security Cleared
6 35 (38.89%) Python
7 34 (37.78%) Containerisation
7 34 (37.78%) Docker
8 32 (35.56%) Kubernetes
9 26 (28.89%) Azure
10 25 (27.78%) GitLab
10 25 (27.78%) SC Cleared
11 22 (24.44%) Jenkins
12 21 (23.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (18.89%) Bash
14 17 (18.89%) GCP
14 17 (18.89%) Grafana
15 16 (17.78%) Agile
15 16 (17.78%) Prometheus
16 15 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (16.67%) Go
16 15 (16.67%) Kafka
16 15 (16.67%) Observability
17 14 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 14 (15.56%) Serverless
18 13 (14.44%) Mentoring
19 12 (13.33%) GitHub
19 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation

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 4 (4.44%) Apache
2 3 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.11%) Confluence
3 1 (1.11%) Drupal
3 1 (1.11%) IIS
3 1 (1.11%) nginx
3 1 (1.11%) SAS
3 1 (1.11%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (28.89%) Azure
3 21 (23.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (18.89%) GCP
5 15 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (15.56%) Serverless
7 12 (13.33%) GitHub
8 11 (12.22%) Datadog
8 11 (12.22%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (8.89%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (8.89%) Amazon S3
9 8 (8.89%) OpenShift
10 7 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.67%) Pulumi
12 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) DNS
1 1 (1.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.44%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.22%) Big Data
4 2 (2.22%) Redis
5 1 (1.11%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.11%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.11%) Metadata
5 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.11%) MySQL
5 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (27.78%) GitLab
2 22 (24.44%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.78%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.44%) Git
5 2 (2.22%) git-flow
5 2 (2.22%) JIRA
5 2 (2.22%) Maven
6 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.11%) Gatling
6 1 (1.11%) Gradle
6 1 (1.11%) JMeter
6 1 (1.11%) Postman
6 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.11%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (20.00%) Finance
2 16 (17.78%) Banking
3 10 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.22%) Games
5 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.11%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) Kafka
2 10 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.33%) PySpark
4 2 (2.22%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.22%) JSON
4 2 (2.22%) YAML
5 1 (1.11%) .NET
5 1 (1.11%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.11%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.11%) Memcached
5 1 (1.11%) Next.js
5 1 (1.11%) Node.js
5 1 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.11%) React
5 1 (1.11%) React Native
5 1 (1.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.22%) Life Science
4 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.11%) PropTech
4 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.89%) Linux
2 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.11%) Windows
2 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (54.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 34 (37.78%) Containerisation
5 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (17.78%) Agile
7 15 (16.67%) Observability
8 13 (14.44%) Mentoring
9 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (11.11%) Fintech
10 10 (11.11%) Incident Management
10 10 (11.11%) Software Engineering
11 9 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (10.00%) High Availability
11 9 (10.00%) Microservices
12 8 (8.89%) Cloud Security
12 8 (8.89%) Open Source
12 8 (8.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (7.78%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (38.89%) Python
2 17 (18.89%) Bash
3 15 (16.67%) Go
4 10 (11.11%) SQL
5 9 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.33%) Java
7 2 (2.22%) Bicep
7 2 (2.22%) C#
7 2 (2.22%) Groovy
8 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.11%) Perl
8 1 (1.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (41.11%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) GDPR
1 7 (7.78%) PCI DSS
1 7 (7.78%) SOC 2
2 4 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.11%) NCSC
3 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 34 (37.78%) Docker
2 8 (8.89%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (51.11%) Terraform
2 32 (35.56%) Kubernetes
3 17 (18.89%) Grafana
4 16 (17.78%) Prometheus
5 11 (12.22%) Ansible
6 8 (8.89%) Istio
7 6 (6.67%) Argo
8 2 (2.22%) Packer
8 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.11%) Consul
9 1 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (8.89%) Confluent
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.22%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.11%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.11%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.11%) Google
4 1 (1.11%) IBM
4 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.11%) TOWER Software