AWS DevOps Jobs

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 696 527
Rank change year-on-year +148 -169 +178
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 184 206 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.21% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.22% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 129 176 474
10th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £127,500 £107,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £117,500 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

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 50,706 94,386 91,123
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 94.69% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,254 67,482 57,423
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps.

Salary trend for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 17 May 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 May 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 +118 175 £110,000 +30.95% 34
London +139 148 £110,000 +10.00% 15
Work from Home +178 139 £110,000 +46.67% 14
UK excluding London +125 31 £65,000 -7.14% 26
North of England +34 9 £77,500 +19.23% 6
North West -1 9 £77,500 +29.17% 3
South East +73 7 £37,500 -54.95% 8
East of England +47 5 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Scotland +114 3 £85,000 +17.24% 2
South West +95 3 £47,500 -38.71% 3
Midlands +45 3 £80,000 +33.33% 4
West Midlands +56 2 - - 2
East Midlands +4 1 £80,000 +45.45% 2
Wales - 1 £55,000 -

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, AWS DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 184 (100.00%) AWS
1 184 (100.00%) DevOps
2 156 (84.78%) CI/CD
3 146 (79.35%) Terraform
4 140 (76.09%) Kubernetes
5 136 (73.91%) Python
6 129 (70.11%) Docker
7 115 (62.50%) Serverless
8 114 (61.96%) Finance
9 111 (60.33%) AWS Lambda
10 105 (57.07%) Agile
11 104 (56.52%) Java
12 103 (55.98%) Software Engineering
13 96 (52.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 91 (49.46%) Amazon ECS
15 85 (46.20%) Asset Management
15 85 (46.20%) Front Office
15 85 (46.20%) Go
16 79 (42.93%) Kafka
17 78 (42.39%) OpenShift
18 77 (41.85%) Open Source
19 76 (41.30%) Artifactory
20 72 (39.13%) Apache
21 71 (38.59%) J2EE
22 70 (38.04%) Data Engineering
23 69 (37.50%) Amazon Athena
23 69 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
23 69 (37.50%) dbt
23 69 (37.50%) Dremio
23 69 (37.50%) Apache Iceberg

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 72 (39.13%) Apache
2 69 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (36.41%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.17%) Confluence
5 1 (0.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.54%) IIS
5 1 (0.54%) JBoss
5 1 (0.54%) nginx
5 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 184 (100.00%) AWS
2 115 (62.50%) Serverless
3 111 (60.33%) AWS Lambda
4 91 (49.46%) Amazon ECS
5 78 (42.39%) OpenShift
6 69 (37.50%) dbt
7 43 (23.37%) Amazon EC2
8 41 (22.28%) Amazon S3
9 37 (20.11%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (16.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (14.13%) Azure
12 19 (10.33%) GCP
13 16 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (8.15%) Datadog
15 8 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 6 (3.26%) Amazon MSK
17 6 (3.26%) GitHub
18 5 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
19 4 (2.17%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.26%) Firewall
2 2 (1.09%) DNS
2 2 (1.09%) FTP
2 2 (1.09%) HTTP
2 2 (1.09%) Internet
2 2 (1.09%) SMTP
2 2 (1.09%) SSH
3 1 (0.54%) IMAP
3 1 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (37.50%) Amazon Athena
1 69 (37.50%) Apache Iceberg
1 69 (37.50%) Dremio
2 67 (36.41%) Apache Arrow
2 67 (36.41%) Apache Ignite
3 21 (11.41%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.09%) MySQL
8 2 (1.09%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.54%) DB2
9 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 76 (41.30%) Artifactory
2 40 (21.74%) Jenkins
3 30 (16.30%) GitLab
4 23 (12.50%) Git
5 18 (9.78%) Cucumber
6 16 (8.70%) Maven
7 15 (8.15%) IntelliJ
7 15 (8.15%) JUnit
7 15 (8.15%) Mockito
8 11 (5.98%) SonarQube
9 10 (5.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (3.26%) JIRA
11 3 (1.63%) Liquibase
12 2 (1.09%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.09%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
13 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.54%) Travis CI
General
1 114 (61.96%) Finance
2 85 (46.20%) Front Office
3 26 (14.13%) Banking
4 10 (5.43%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.43%) Social Skills
5 9 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Electronics
7 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.54%) Marketing
7 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (42.93%) Kafka
2 71 (38.59%) J2EE
3 67 (36.41%) PySpark
4 16 (8.70%) Spring
4 16 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 15 (8.15%) ActiveMQ
5 15 (8.15%) JMS
6 11 (5.98%) REST
7 7 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (3.26%) AWS CDK
9 4 (2.17%) React
10 3 (1.63%) AWS SAM
10 3 (1.63%) JSON
10 3 (1.63%) Node.js
10 3 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.09%) .NET
11 2 (1.09%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.09%) LAMP
11 2 (1.09%) Ruby on Rails
12 1 (0.54%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 15 (8.15%) Credit Derivative
2 15 (8.15%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (7.07%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.80%) e-Learning
6 5 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.17%) Tandem
8 2 (1.09%) IoT
8 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) Replication
9 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.48%) Linux
2 6 (3.26%) Windows
3 4 (2.17%) Unix
3 4 (2.17%) VMS
4 2 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Android
5 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (100.00%) DevOps
2 156 (84.78%) CI/CD
3 105 (57.07%) Agile
4 103 (55.98%) Software Engineering
5 96 (52.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 85 (46.20%) Asset Management
7 77 (41.85%) Open Source
8 70 (38.04%) Data Engineering
9 53 (28.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 35 (19.02%) Containerisation
11 23 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
12 20 (10.87%) Analytics
13 19 (10.33%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (9.24%) Mentoring
14 17 (9.24%) SDLC
15 16 (8.70%) Fintech
16 15 (8.15%) Microservices
17 14 (7.61%) Platform Engineering
18 13 (7.07%) Architectural Design
18 13 (7.07%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 136 (73.91%) Python
2 104 (56.52%) Java
3 85 (46.20%) Go
4 19 (10.33%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.24%) Bash
6 15 (8.15%) C++
7 11 (5.98%) SQL
8 10 (5.43%) C#
9 7 (3.80%) Groovy
10 6 (3.26%) Perl
10 6 (3.26%) PHP
11 5 (2.72%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.17%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.63%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.09%) C
14 2 (1.09%) Ruby
15 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (9.78%) AWS Certification
2 15 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 10 (5.43%) Azure Certification
3 10 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.80%) Degree
5 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.98%) QA
2 10 (5.43%) GDPR
3 8 (4.35%) HIPAA
3 8 (4.35%) NIST
4 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 129 (70.11%) Docker
2 6 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.54%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.54%) Postfix
4 1 (0.54%) Squid
Systems Management
1 146 (79.35%) Terraform
2 140 (76.09%) Kubernetes
3 40 (21.74%) Ansible
4 9 (4.89%) Grafana
5 6 (3.26%) Istio
5 6 (3.26%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.17%) Packer
7 2 (1.09%) Argo
7 2 (1.09%) Consul
7 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.54%) Automic
8 1 (0.54%) Nessus
8 1 (0.54%) Podman
8 1 (0.54%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.54%) Puppet
8 1 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 29 (15.76%) IBM
2 8 (4.35%) Google
2 8 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.26%) Confluent
4 5 (2.72%) VMware
5 3 (1.63%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.63%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.09%) Cribl.io
6 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.54%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.54%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.54%) SAP