AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 November 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 622 469
Rank change year-on-year +38 -153 +239
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 76 134 268
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.21% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 37 101 244
10th Percentile £50,450 £60,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £136,500 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% -3.45% +3.57%

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 47,105 63,636 50,400
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.93% 94.54% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 29,438 35,640 39,065
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £31,291
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.86% -

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 +38 70 £80,000 -11.11% 33
London +31 39 £100,000 -9.09% 19
UK excluding London +84 34 £57,500 -17.86% 22
Work from Home +52 31 £80,000 -11.11% 16
North of England +47 14 £80,000 +36.17% 7
Midlands +75 13 £51,500 -31.33% 1
North West +57 12 £100,000 +90.48% 4
West Midlands - 9 £51,500 -
South East +21 4 £62,500 -10.71% 12
East Midlands +19 4 £50,000 -33.33% 1
Scotland +5 4 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £60,000 - 3
East of England +21 1 £57,500 -43.21%
Wales +10 1 £60,000 +41.18%

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

For the 6 months to 17 November 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 76 (100.00%) AWS
1 76 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (77.63%) CI/CD
3 49 (64.47%) Python
4 43 (56.58%) Terraform
5 36 (47.37%) Kubernetes
6 31 (40.79%) Docker
7 24 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (31.58%) Jenkins
8 23 (30.26%) Azure
9 22 (28.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (26.32%) Agile
11 19 (25.00%) Ansible
11 19 (25.00%) Containerisation
11 19 (25.00%) Linux
12 17 (22.37%) Bash
12 17 (22.37%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (22.37%) Grafana
12 17 (22.37%) Java
13 16 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (21.05%) GitHub
14 15 (19.74%) Git
14 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
15 14 (18.42%) Observability
15 14 (18.42%) SQL
16 13 (17.11%) AWS Certification
16 13 (17.11%) SC Cleared
17 12 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
17 12 (15.79%) Azure Certification
17 12 (15.79%) Platform Engineering

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 5 (6.58%) Confluence
1 5 (6.58%) nginx
2 3 (3.95%) Apache
2 3 (3.95%) JBoss
2 3 (3.95%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 76 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (30.26%) Azure
3 22 (28.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 16 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (21.05%) GitHub
5 12 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (14.47%) Amazon S3
6 11 (14.47%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (13.16%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (11.84%) OpenShift
8 9 (11.84%) Serverless
9 8 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (9.21%) GCP
11 6 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (7.89%) PaaS
12 5 (6.58%) Amazon ELB
12 5 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (6.58%) Route 53
12 5 (6.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.21%) Firewall
2 6 (7.89%) DNS
2 6 (7.89%) HTTP
3 5 (6.58%) FTP
3 5 (6.58%) IMAP
3 5 (6.58%) OpenLDAP
3 5 (6.58%) SMTP
3 5 (6.58%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (5.26%) DynamoDB
5 4 (5.26%) Flink
5 4 (5.26%) KDB
6 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.32%) MySQL
7 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 15 (19.74%) Git
3 11 (14.47%) GitLab
4 8 (10.53%) JIRA
4 8 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (6.58%) Artifactory
5 5 (6.58%) Vagrant
6 4 (5.26%) Bitbucket
6 4 (5.26%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.95%) Ant
7 3 (3.95%) Maven
General
1 21 (27.63%) Finance
2 14 (18.42%) Public Sector
3 12 (15.79%) Banking
4 11 (14.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (13.16%) Social Skills
6 6 (7.89%) Law
7 5 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (5.26%) Front Office
9 2 (2.63%) Advertising
9 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.84%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (10.53%) Kafka
3 5 (6.58%) .NET
3 5 (6.58%) LDAP
3 5 (6.58%) Node.js
4 4 (5.26%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.95%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.95%) Middleware
6 2 (2.63%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.63%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.63%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.63%) JWT
6 2 (2.63%) OAuth
6 2 (2.63%) React
6 2 (2.63%) REST
7 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.32%) Blazor
7 1 (1.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) Cloud Native
1 14 (18.42%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.21%) e-Learning
2 7 (9.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.58%) Replication
4 4 (5.26%) Equities
4 4 (5.26%) Fixed Income
4 4 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.95%) Clustering
6 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (10.53%) Unix
2 8 (10.53%) Windows
3 5 (6.58%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (6.58%) Ubuntu
3 5 (6.58%) VMS
4 3 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (77.63%) CI/CD
3 24 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (26.32%) Agile
5 19 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 17 (22.37%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (18.42%) Observability
8 12 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (14.47%) AI
9 11 (14.47%) Configuration Management
9 11 (14.47%) Microservices
9 11 (14.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (11.84%) Mentoring
10 9 (11.84%) SDLC
11 7 (9.21%) Coaching
11 7 (9.21%) Data Privacy
11 7 (9.21%) Enterprise Architecture
11 7 (9.21%) Machine Learning
11 7 (9.21%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (64.47%) Python
2 17 (22.37%) Bash
2 17 (22.37%) Java
3 14 (18.42%) SQL
4 11 (14.47%) Groovy
4 11 (14.47%) PowerShell
5 10 (13.16%) C#
6 9 (11.84%) JavaScript
7 7 (9.21%) Go
8 3 (3.95%) Bicep
8 3 (3.95%) C++
8 3 (3.95%) Ruby
8 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.32%) PHP
9 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.11%) AWS Certification
2 13 (17.11%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.79%) Azure Certification
4 7 (9.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.58%) Degree
6 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) GDPR
1 7 (9.21%) HIPAA
1 7 (9.21%) NIST
2 4 (5.26%) SLA
3 3 (3.95%) QA
System Software
1 31 (40.79%) Docker
2 5 (6.58%) DFS Replication
2 5 (6.58%) Dovecot
2 5 (6.58%) Postfix
2 5 (6.58%) Squid
Systems Management
1 43 (56.58%) Terraform
2 36 (47.37%) Kubernetes
3 19 (25.00%) Ansible
4 17 (22.37%) Grafana
5 12 (15.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.58%) Argo
6 5 (6.58%) Nessus
6 5 (6.58%) Proxmox
7 3 (3.95%) Podman
7 3 (3.95%) Puppet
8 2 (2.63%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 7 (9.21%) Google
1 7 (9.21%) IBM
1 7 (9.21%) Red Hat
2 5 (6.58%) Jaspersoft
2 5 (6.58%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.95%) Cribl.io
3 3 (3.95%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.95%) Sonatype
4 2 (2.63%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.63%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle
5 1 (1.32%) Splunk