AWS DevOps Job Trends

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 616 459
Rank change year-on-year +53 -157 +253
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 86 119 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.18% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.18% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 36 85 254
10th Percentile £46,500 £52,550 £55,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% - +3.13%
75th Percentile £90,625 £112,500 £114,375
90th Percentile £121,250 £125,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.86% - -

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 45,153 64,335 50,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 95.04% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 28,095 36,400 39,152
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,200 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,410 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% -4.32% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 6 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 6 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 +57 79 £77,500 -8.82% 43
London +23 46 £82,500 -21.43% 22
UK excluding London +72 37 £54,000 -22.86% 40
Work from Home +32 36 £80,000 -3.03% 33
Midlands +61 15 £51,500 -31.33% 1
North of England +25 15 £80,000 +36.17% 13
North West +41 13 £100,000 +90.48% 9
West Midlands - 11 £51,500 - 1
East Midlands +22 4 £50,000 -33.33%
Scotland +5 4 - - 2
South East +17 3 £39,250 -43.93% 15
Wales +7 2 £57,500 +35.29%
Yorkshire - 2 £60,000 - 4
East of England +29 1 £57,500 -43.21%

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 86 (100.00%) AWS
1 86 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (76.74%) CI/CD
3 57 (66.28%) Python
4 46 (53.49%) Terraform
5 39 (45.35%) Kubernetes
6 38 (44.19%) Docker
7 29 (33.72%) Jenkins
8 28 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (31.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (30.23%) Azure
11 25 (29.07%) Linux
12 23 (26.74%) Containerisation
13 22 (25.58%) Ansible
13 22 (25.58%) Grafana
14 21 (24.42%) Agile
14 21 (24.42%) Bash
15 19 (22.09%) Disaster Recovery
15 19 (22.09%) Git
15 19 (22.09%) Java
16 18 (20.93%) AI
16 18 (20.93%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (20.93%) Security Cleared
17 17 (19.77%) GitHub
17 17 (19.77%) SQL
18 16 (18.60%) Amazon S3
18 16 (18.60%) AWS Certification
18 16 (18.60%) Mentoring
18 16 (18.60%) Observability
18 16 (18.60%) Prometheus

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 7 (8.14%) Confluence
2 6 (6.98%) nginx
3 4 (4.65%) Apache
4 3 (3.49%) JBoss
4 3 (3.49%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.16%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (31.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 26 (30.23%) Azure
4 18 (20.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (19.77%) GitHub
6 16 (18.60%) Amazon S3
7 15 (17.44%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (15.12%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (13.95%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (13.95%) Serverless
10 11 (12.79%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (10.47%) OpenShift
12 8 (9.30%) GCP
13 7 (8.14%) Amazon ELB
13 7 (8.14%) AWS KMS
13 7 (8.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (6.98%) Datadog
14 6 (6.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.63%) Firewall
2 8 (9.30%) DNS
2 8 (9.30%) HTTP
3 7 (8.14%) FTP
3 7 (8.14%) SMTP
3 7 (8.14%) SSH
4 6 (6.98%) IMAP
4 6 (6.98%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.95%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (10.47%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.98%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.65%) KDB
6 3 (3.49%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.49%) Flink
6 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.16%) MySQL
7 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (33.72%) Jenkins
2 19 (22.09%) Git
3 13 (15.12%) GitLab
4 10 (11.63%) JIRA
4 10 (11.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (8.14%) Vagrant
6 5 (5.81%) Artifactory
6 5 (5.81%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.65%) Maven
8 3 (3.49%) Ant
9 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.16%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.16%) JUnit
9 1 (1.16%) Mockito
General
1 21 (24.42%) Public Sector
2 19 (22.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (20.93%) Finance
4 11 (12.79%) Banking
4 11 (12.79%) Social Skills
5 7 (8.14%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (6.98%) Law
7 3 (3.49%) Front Office
8 2 (2.33%) Advertising
8 2 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.63%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (8.14%) Kafka
3 6 (6.98%) .NET
3 6 (6.98%) LDAP
4 5 (5.81%) Node.js
5 4 (4.65%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.49%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.49%) Middleware
6 3 (3.49%) REST
7 2 (2.33%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.33%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.33%) AWS SAM
7 2 (2.33%) JWT
7 2 (2.33%) OAuth
7 2 (2.33%) React
8 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.16%) Blazor
8 1 (1.16%) LAMP
8 1 (1.16%) RESTful
8 1 (1.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.60%) Management Information System
2 15 (17.44%) Cloud Native
3 14 (16.28%) e-Learning
3 14 (16.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (8.14%) Replication
5 4 (4.65%) Equities
5 4 (4.65%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.49%) Clustering
6 3 (3.49%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.16%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 25 (29.07%) Linux
2 11 (12.79%) Windows
3 9 (10.47%) Unix
4 8 (9.30%) VMS
5 7 (8.14%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (6.98%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (76.74%) CI/CD
3 28 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (26.74%) Containerisation
5 21 (24.42%) Agile
6 19 (22.09%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (20.93%) AI
8 16 (18.60%) Mentoring
8 16 (18.60%) Observability
9 15 (17.44%) Configuration Management
10 14 (16.28%) Coaching
10 14 (16.28%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (13.95%) Microservices
13 11 (12.79%) Software Engineering
14 10 (11.63%) SDLC
14 10 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 9 (10.47%) Cloud Security
15 9 (10.47%) Roadmaps
16 8 (9.30%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 57 (66.28%) Python
2 21 (24.42%) Bash
3 19 (22.09%) Java
4 17 (19.77%) SQL
5 14 (16.28%) PowerShell
6 13 (15.12%) Groovy
7 11 (12.79%) C#
8 10 (11.63%) JavaScript
9 8 (9.30%) Go
10 4 (4.65%) C++
11 3 (3.49%) Bicep
11 3 (3.49%) PHP
11 3 (3.49%) Ruby
11 3 (3.49%) TypeScript
12 2 (2.33%) Perl
13 1 (1.16%) C
13 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.60%) AWS Certification
2 16 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.44%) Azure Certification
4 8 (9.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.14%) Degree
6 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) GDPR
1 8 (9.30%) HIPAA
1 8 (9.30%) NIST
2 5 (5.81%) QA
3 4 (4.65%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (44.19%) Docker
2 7 (8.14%) DFS Replication
3 6 (6.98%) Dovecot
3 6 (6.98%) Postfix
3 6 (6.98%) Squid
4 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (53.49%) Terraform
2 39 (45.35%) Kubernetes
3 22 (25.58%) Ansible
3 22 (25.58%) Grafana
4 16 (18.60%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.98%) Nessus
5 6 (6.98%) Proxmox
6 4 (4.65%) Argo
7 3 (3.49%) Podman
7 3 (3.49%) Puppet
8 2 (2.33%) Sysdig
9 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) IBM
2 14 (16.28%) Red Hat
3 8 (9.30%) Google
4 7 (8.14%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.98%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (3.49%) Cribl.io
6 3 (3.49%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.49%) Sonatype
7 2 (2.33%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle
8 1 (1.16%) Splunk