Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 485 702
Rank change year-on-year -166 +217 -187
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 86 167 199
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.39% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.44% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 74 108 167
10th Percentile £47,900 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +33.33% +3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £127,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £101,750 £138,750 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -10.34% +3.57%

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 87,064 38,294 94,653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.31% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 57,954 21,519 69,253
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £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 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -145 82 £75,000 -31.82% 5
UK excluding London -57 44 £67,500 +3.85% 3
London -110 36 £85,000 -22.73% 3
Work from Home -67 32 £85,000 -22.73% 7
North of England -31 27 £60,000 -22.58% 1
North West +4 18 £67,500 -12.90% 1
South West -50 9 £100,000 +110.53%
North East - 7 £60,000 -
South East -31 6 £75,000 +100.00%
Midlands -31 3 £75,000 -6.25% 1
East Midlands -33 2 £75,000 -6.25%
Yorkshire - 2 - -
West Midlands -36 1 £62,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 86 (100.00%) AWS
1 86 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (53.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (50.00%) Terraform
4 39 (45.35%) CI/CD
5 33 (38.37%) Security Cleared
6 31 (36.05%) Containerisation
6 31 (36.05%) Python
7 30 (34.88%) Docker
7 30 (34.88%) Kubernetes
8 25 (29.07%) Azure
9 21 (24.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (24.42%) SC Cleared
10 20 (23.26%) GitLab
10 20 (23.26%) Jenkins
11 17 (19.77%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (19.77%) GCP
11 17 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (17.44%) Go
12 15 (17.44%) Grafana
12 15 (17.44%) Kafka
12 15 (17.44%) Serverless
13 14 (16.28%) Bash
13 14 (16.28%) Prometheus
14 12 (13.95%) Agile
14 12 (13.95%) Ansible
14 12 (13.95%) GitHub
14 12 (13.95%) Observability
15 11 (12.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (12.79%) Mentoring

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 2 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.16%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) Drupal
2 1 (1.16%) IIS
2 1 (1.16%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.16%) nginx
2 1 (1.16%) SAS
2 1 (1.16%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (29.07%) Azure
3 21 (24.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (19.77%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (19.77%) GCP
5 15 (17.44%) Serverless
6 12 (13.95%) GitHub
7 11 (12.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (11.63%) Datadog
8 10 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (9.30%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (9.30%) OpenShift
10 7 (8.14%) Amazon S3
11 6 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (4.65%) Pulumi
13 4 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (3.49%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.30%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.65%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.33%) Big Data
3 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.16%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.16%) Metadata
4 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (23.26%) GitLab
1 20 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.14%) CircleCI
3 4 (4.65%) Git
4 2 (2.33%) JIRA
4 2 (2.33%) Maven
5 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.16%) Gatling
5 1 (1.16%) git-flow
5 1 (1.16%) Gradle
5 1 (1.16%) JMeter
5 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.16%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (20.93%) Finance
2 16 (18.60%) Banking
3 12 (13.95%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.33%) Games
6 2 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Advertising
7 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.44%) Kafka
2 8 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.33%) .NET
3 2 (2.33%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.33%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.33%) JSON
3 2 (2.33%) YAML
4 1 (1.16%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.16%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.16%) Blazor
4 1 (1.16%) Memcached
4 1 (1.16%) PySpark
4 1 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.16%) React
4 1 (1.16%) REST
4 1 (1.16%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.33%) Life Science
3 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.16%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.47%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (53.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (45.35%) CI/CD
4 31 (36.05%) Containerisation
5 17 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (13.95%) Agile
6 12 (13.95%) Observability
7 11 (12.79%) Mentoring
8 10 (11.63%) Incident Management
8 10 (11.63%) Microservices
8 10 (11.63%) Software Engineering
9 9 (10.47%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (10.47%) High Availability
10 8 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (9.30%) Fintech
10 8 (9.30%) Open Source
10 8 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (8.14%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (8.14%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (8.14%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.05%) Python
2 15 (17.44%) Go
3 14 (16.28%) Bash
4 9 (10.47%) SQL
5 7 (8.14%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.49%) Java
7 2 (2.33%) Bicep
7 2 (2.33%) Groovy
8 1 (1.16%) Perl
8 1 (1.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (38.37%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.42%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) GDPR
1 7 (8.14%) PCI DSS
1 7 (8.14%) SOC 2
2 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.16%) NCSC
3 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 30 (34.88%) Docker
2 8 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (50.00%) Terraform
2 30 (34.88%) Kubernetes
3 15 (17.44%) Grafana
4 14 (16.28%) Prometheus
5 12 (13.95%) Ansible
6 8 (9.30%) Istio
7 4 (4.65%) Argo
8 2 (2.33%) Packer
8 2 (2.33%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.16%) Consul
9 1 (1.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (9.30%) Confluent
2 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.33%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.16%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.16%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.16%) Google
4 1 (1.16%) IBM
4 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.16%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.16%) TOWER Software