AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 564 494
Rank change year-on-year -7 -70 +183
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 63 160 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.28% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.29% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37 126 210
10th Percentile £50,450 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £74,063 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £107,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.26% +30.30% +3.13%
75th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £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 52,478 54,256 46,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 93.86% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 32,237 29,445 36,332
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,878 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.62% - -

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 15 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 15 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 -21 58 £75,000 -30.23% 13
UK excluding London +73 33 £60,000 -14.29% 11
London -46 28 £110,000 - 5
Work from Home +20 26 £82,500 -25.00% 2
North of England +41 13 £60,000 +2.13% 4
Midlands +40 11 £51,500 -35.63% 1
North West +33 9 £100,000 +90.48% 1
West Midlands - 7 £51,500 -
South East +28 6 £63,750 -8.93% 3
Scotland +11 4 - -
East Midlands +3 4 £50,000 -37.50% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England +24 1 £57,500 -54.00% 1
South West +9 1 £60,000 -14.29% 2

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 63 (100.00%) AWS
1 63 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 36 (57.14%) Python
4 35 (55.56%) Terraform
5 32 (50.79%) Kubernetes
6 23 (36.51%) Docker
7 21 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (33.33%) Jenkins
8 20 (31.75%) Azure
8 20 (31.75%) GitHub
9 19 (30.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (26.98%) Agile
11 16 (25.40%) Ansible
11 16 (25.40%) Java
12 15 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (23.81%) Git
12 15 (23.81%) Linux
13 14 (22.22%) Bash
13 14 (22.22%) Containerisation
13 14 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (20.63%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (20.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 12 (19.05%) Grafana
15 12 (19.05%) Observability
15 12 (19.05%) Security Cleared
16 11 (17.46%) Disaster Recovery
16 11 (17.46%) SQL
17 10 (15.87%) Amazon S3
17 10 (15.87%) AWS Certification

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 (4.76%) Apache
1 3 (4.76%) Confluence
1 3 (4.76%) JBoss
1 3 (4.76%) nginx
1 3 (4.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 63 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (31.75%) Azure
2 20 (31.75%) GitHub
3 19 (30.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (20.63%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (15.87%) Amazon S3
7 10 (15.87%) Serverless
8 9 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (14.29%) OpenShift
9 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (9.52%) PaaS
11 5 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (7.94%) Datadog
12 4 (6.35%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (6.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) DNS
1 4 (6.35%) HTTP
2 3 (4.76%) Firewall
2 3 (4.76%) FTP
2 3 (4.76%) IMAP
2 3 (4.76%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (4.76%) SMTP
2 3 (4.76%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 7 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 7 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (9.52%) Flink
3 4 (6.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.59%) MySQL
4 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 15 (23.81%) Git
3 9 (14.29%) GitLab
4 6 (9.52%) JIRA
4 6 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (7.94%) Artifactory
6 4 (6.35%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.76%) Ant
7 3 (4.76%) Maven
7 3 (4.76%) Vagrant
8 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (30.16%) Finance
2 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Banking
4 6 (9.52%) Front Office
4 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Advertising
6 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) Kafka
2 7 (11.11%) .NET
2 7 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (9.52%) AWS CDK
4 5 (7.94%) Node.js
5 4 (6.35%) .NET Core
5 4 (6.35%) React
6 3 (4.76%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (4.76%) Blazor
6 3 (4.76%) LDAP
6 3 (4.76%) Middleware
6 3 (4.76%) RESTful
7 2 (3.17%) ARM Templates
7 2 (3.17%) AWS SAM
7 2 (3.17%) JWT
7 2 (3.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Management Information System
2 9 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.52%) Fixed Income
4 4 (6.35%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.76%) Clustering
5 3 (4.76%) Replication
6 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.81%) Linux
2 6 (9.52%) Windows
3 3 (4.76%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.76%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.76%) VMS
4 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 21 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (26.98%) Agile
5 14 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 13 (20.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (19.05%) Observability
8 11 (17.46%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (15.87%) Microservices
9 10 (15.87%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (11.11%) Configuration Management
10 7 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (9.52%) Front End Development
11 6 (9.52%) Investment Management
12 5 (7.94%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (7.94%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (7.94%) SDLC
12 5 (7.94%) Software Delivery
13 4 (6.35%) Performance Tuning
13 4 (6.35%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 36 (57.14%) Python
2 16 (25.40%) Java
3 14 (22.22%) Bash
4 11 (17.46%) SQL
5 9 (14.29%) Groovy
5 9 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 7 (11.11%) C#
6 7 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.94%) Go
8 3 (4.76%) Bicep
8 3 (4.76%) C++
8 3 (4.76%) Ruby
8 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.59%) PHP
9 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.87%) AWS Certification
2 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (4.76%) Degree
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) GDPR
1 4 (6.35%) HIPAA
1 4 (6.35%) NIST
1 4 (6.35%) SLA
2 2 (3.17%) QA
System Software
1 23 (36.51%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) DFS Replication
2 3 (4.76%) Dovecot
2 3 (4.76%) Postfix
2 3 (4.76%) Squid
Systems Management
1 35 (55.56%) Terraform
2 32 (50.79%) Kubernetes
3 16 (25.40%) Ansible
4 12 (19.05%) Grafana
5 9 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 7 (11.11%) Argo
7 3 (4.76%) Nessus
7 3 (4.76%) Podman
7 3 (4.76%) Proxmox
7 3 (4.76%) Puppet
8 2 (3.17%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 4 (6.35%) Google
2 3 (4.76%) Cribl.io
2 3 (4.76%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (4.76%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 3 (4.76%) Sonatype
3 2 (3.17%) AppDynamics
3 2 (3.17%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle
4 1 (1.59%) Splunk