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 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 437 656
Rank change year-on-year -181 +219 -104
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 95 202 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.49% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.55% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 78 159 200
10th Percentile £49,100 £78,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £90,625 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +33.33% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 - £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +1.82%

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 77,009 36,647 87,118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 89.57% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 49,567 23,302 65,285
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 10 April 2026.

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 10 April 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 -168 89 £80,000 -27.27% 16
UK excluding London -70 45 £65,000 - 12
London -128 43 £90,000 -18.18% 6
Work from Home -100 36 £95,250 -13.41% 9
North of England -48 25 £60,000 -25.00% 6
North West -18 17 £65,000 -27.78% 4
South West -45 9 £100,000 +81.82%
South East -26 8 £75,000 +57.89% 3
Yorkshire - 5 £60,000 -
North East -28 3 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Midlands -48 3 £75,000 -6.25% 1
East Midlands -52 2 £75,000 -6.25%
Scotland -14 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 10 April 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 95 (100.00%) AWS
1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (48.42%) Terraform
3 45 (47.37%) CI/CD
4 43 (45.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (40.00%) Python
6 34 (35.79%) Kubernetes
7 29 (30.53%) Azure
7 29 (30.53%) Docker
8 26 (27.37%) Containerisation
9 25 (26.32%) Security Cleared
10 24 (25.26%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (22.11%) Kafka
12 20 (21.05%) GitHub
13 19 (20.00%) Ansible
13 19 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (20.00%) Serverless
14 18 (18.95%) Jenkins
15 17 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (17.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 16 (16.84%) GCP
16 16 (16.84%) Go
17 15 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (15.79%) SC Cleared
18 14 (14.74%) Microservices
19 13 (13.68%) Agile
19 13 (13.68%) GitLab
19 13 (13.68%) Grafana
20 11 (11.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 11 (11.58%) AWS Lambda

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 1 (1.05%) Apache
1 1 (1.05%) Confluence
1 1 (1.05%) Drupal
1 1 (1.05%) IIS
1 1 (1.05%) nginx
1 1 (1.05%) SAS
1 1 (1.05%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (30.53%) Azure
3 24 (25.26%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (21.05%) GitHub
5 19 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (20.00%) Serverless
6 16 (16.84%) GCP
7 15 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (11.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (11.58%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (10.53%) Amazon S3
9 10 (10.53%) Datadog
10 9 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (9.47%) OpenShift
11 8 (8.42%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (6.32%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (4.21%) Amazon ECR
14 4 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.42%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.32%) Flink
4 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.05%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.05%) Metadata
6 1 (1.05%) MySQL
6 1 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (18.95%) Jenkins
2 13 (13.68%) GitLab
3 9 (9.47%) Git
4 7 (7.37%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.11%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.11%) JIRA
6 2 (2.11%) Maven
7 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.05%) Gatling
7 1 (1.05%) git-flow
7 1 (1.05%) Gradle
7 1 (1.05%) JMeter
7 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.05%) Vagrant
General
1 28 (29.47%) Finance
2 23 (24.21%) Banking
3 17 (17.89%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.32%) Front Office
5 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Advertising
7 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Games
7 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.05%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.11%) Kafka
2 10 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.32%) AWS CDK
4 5 (5.26%) .NET
5 4 (4.21%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET
6 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (3.16%) Blazor
6 3 (3.16%) React
6 3 (3.16%) RESTful
7 2 (2.11%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.11%) JSON
7 2 (2.11%) JWT
7 2 (2.11%) Node.js
7 2 (2.11%) OAuth
7 2 (2.11%) YAML
8 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.05%) Memcached
8 1 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.32%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.05%) Clustering
4 1 (1.05%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Unix
2 1 (1.05%) Windows
2 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 43 (45.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (27.37%) Containerisation
5 17 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (17.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 14 (14.74%) Microservices
7 13 (13.68%) Agile
8 11 (11.58%) Mentoring
9 10 (10.53%) Fintech
9 10 (10.53%) High Availability
9 10 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (10.53%) Software Engineering
10 9 (9.47%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (9.47%) Observability
10 9 (9.47%) Open Source
11 7 (7.37%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (7.37%) Incident Management
11 7 (7.37%) Infrastructure Management
12 6 (6.32%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.00%) Python
2 16 (16.84%) Go
3 11 (11.58%) Bash
4 10 (10.53%) SQL
5 9 (9.47%) Java
6 3 (3.16%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.11%) Bicep
7 2 (2.11%) Groovy
8 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.05%) Perl
8 1 (1.05%) PHP
8 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.42%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) GDPR
1 7 (7.37%) PCI DSS
1 7 (7.37%) SOC 2
2 3 (3.16%) SLA
3 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.05%) NCSC
3 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 29 (30.53%) Docker
2 8 (8.42%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (48.42%) Terraform
2 34 (35.79%) Kubernetes
3 19 (20.00%) Ansible
4 13 (13.68%) Grafana
5 11 (11.58%) Prometheus
6 8 (8.42%) Istio
7 6 (6.32%) Argo
8 2 (2.11%) Packer
8 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.05%) Consul
9 1 (1.05%) Puppet
9 1 (1.05%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 8 (8.42%) Confluent
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.11%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.05%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.05%) Google
4 1 (1.05%) IBM
4 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.05%) TOWER Software