AWS DevOps Jobs

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 708 515 711
Rank change year-on-year -193 +196 -338
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 201 502 624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.53% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.58% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 169 464 498
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £50,875
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +6.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £138,750 £109,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in the UK

AWS DevOps
Top 15 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 1 June 2024. 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 -183 192 £82,500 +3.13% 32
London -30 108 £100,000 - 15
Work from Home -139 90 £78,750 +1.61% 23
UK excluding London -136 88 £71,250 +1.79% 17
South East -32 23 £82,500 +10.00% 7
Midlands -2 20 £60,000 -11.11% 3
East Midlands -3 18 £55,000 -21.43% 3
North of England -34 17 £65,000 -7.14% 4
South West -65 16 £71,250 -1.72% 2
North West -47 9 £60,000 -14.29% 4
East of England +1 6 £72,500 -6.45% 1
Scotland -63 6 £80,000 +18.52%
North East -8 5 £75,000 +9.09%
Yorkshire +37 3 £65,000 -3.70%
West Midlands -18 2 £80,000 +18.52%

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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.

1 201 (100.00%) AWS
1 201 (100.00%) DevOps
2 155 (77.11%) Kubernetes
3 150 (74.63%) Terraform
4 136 (67.66%) CI/CD
5 105 (52.24%) Docker
6 100 (49.75%) Python
7 86 (42.79%) Agile
8 72 (35.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (35.82%) Serverless
9 68 (33.83%) Containerisation
10 66 (32.84%) AWS Lambda
11 65 (32.34%) Jenkins
11 65 (32.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 61 (30.35%) Amazon S3
12 61 (30.35%) Linux
13 57 (28.36%) Amazon EKS
14 56 (27.86%) Amazon RDS
15 53 (26.37%) Amazon ECS
16 52 (25.87%) Finance
17 50 (24.88%) Ansible
18 47 (23.38%) Amazon EC2
19 45 (22.39%) Java
20 41 (20.40%) Bash
21 39 (19.40%) Azure
21 39 (19.40%) Amazon SQS
22 37 (18.41%) Software Engineering
23 36 (17.91%) GitHub
24 35 (17.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
25 33 (16.42%) Deployment Automation

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 5 (2.49%) Confluence
2 4 (1.99%) Drupal
3 2 (1.00%) nginx
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) JBoss
4 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 201 (100.00%) AWS
2 72 (35.82%) AWS CloudFormation
2 72 (35.82%) Serverless
3 66 (32.84%) AWS Lambda
4 61 (30.35%) Amazon S3
5 57 (28.36%) Amazon EKS
6 53 (26.37%) Amazon ECS
7 47 (23.38%) Amazon EC2
8 39 (19.40%) Amazon SQS
8 39 (19.40%) Azure
9 36 (17.91%) GitHub
10 28 (13.93%) OpenShift
11 25 (12.44%) SaaS
12 18 (8.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (8.96%) Azure AKS
12 18 (8.96%) GCP
13 15 (7.46%) AWS Fargate
14 13 (6.47%) Amazon ECR
14 13 (6.47%) Route 53
15 10 (4.98%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.96%) Firewall
2 9 (4.48%) Network Security
3 7 (3.48%) DNS
4 4 (1.99%) VPN
5 2 (1.00%) HTTP
6 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (27.86%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (13.93%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (3.98%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.99%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.50%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.50%) MySQL
7 1 (0.50%) Redis
7 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (32.34%) Jenkins
2 30 (14.93%) Artifactory
2 30 (14.93%) Git
3 26 (12.94%) GitLab
4 12 (5.97%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.98%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.48%) JIRA
7 5 (2.49%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.99%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.49%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.50%) ClearCase
11 1 (0.50%) ClearQuest
11 1 (0.50%) NUnit
11 1 (0.50%) Redmine
11 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.50%) Selenium
11 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 52 (25.87%) Finance
2 32 (15.92%) Social Skills
3 26 (12.94%) Front Office
4 16 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.97%) Law
6 10 (4.98%) Automotive
7 7 (3.48%) Games
8 5 (2.49%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.99%) Legal
9 4 (1.99%) Retail
10 3 (1.49%) Marketing
10 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.94%) J2EE
2 17 (8.46%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (6.97%) .NET
4 11 (5.47%) AWS CDK
5 8 (3.98%) Middleware
6 7 (3.48%) AWS SAM
7 4 (1.99%) RESTful
8 3 (1.49%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.49%) Django
8 3 (1.49%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.49%) Node.js
8 3 (1.49%) React
9 2 (1.00%) REST
10 1 (0.50%) CSS3
10 1 (0.50%) HTML5
10 1 (0.50%) JSON
10 1 (0.50%) Kafka
10 1 (0.50%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.50%) OpenID
10 1 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.94%) Tandem
2 11 (5.47%) Client/Server
3 10 (4.98%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.48%) Blockchain
4 9 (4.48%) e-Learning
4 9 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.48%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.99%) PKI
7 5 (2.49%) Online Games
7 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.99%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.99%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.00%) FMCG
9 2 (1.00%) Genomics
10 1 (0.50%) Life Science
10 1 (0.50%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 61 (30.35%) Linux
2 10 (4.98%) Windows
3 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.00%) Unix
5 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (100.00%) DevOps
2 136 (67.66%) CI/CD
3 86 (42.79%) Agile
4 68 (33.83%) Containerisation
5 65 (32.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (18.41%) Software Engineering
7 35 (17.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 33 (16.42%) Deployment Automation
8 33 (16.42%) Open Source
9 27 (13.43%) Decision-Making
9 27 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (12.94%) Asset Management
10 26 (12.94%) Financial Modelling
11 24 (11.94%) Microservices
12 21 (10.45%) Mentoring
13 19 (9.45%) Artificial Intelligence
14 18 (8.96%) Configuration Management
14 18 (8.96%) DevSecOps
14 18 (8.96%) Migration
15 16 (7.96%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (49.75%) Python
2 45 (22.39%) Java
3 41 (20.40%) Bash
4 33 (16.42%) Go
5 18 (8.96%) PowerShell
6 13 (6.47%) Groovy
7 12 (5.97%) PHP
8 11 (5.47%) SQL
9 10 (4.98%) C#
10 6 (2.99%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.99%) Ruby
11 2 (1.00%) Rust
12 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (15.42%) AWS Certification
2 28 (13.93%) SC Cleared
2 28 (13.93%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.99%) Degree
6 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.48%) QA
2 5 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.49%) NIST
3 3 (1.49%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 105 (52.24%) Docker
2 11 (5.47%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) iptables
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 155 (77.11%) Kubernetes
2 150 (74.63%) Terraform
3 50 (24.88%) Ansible
4 27 (13.43%) Prometheus
5 21 (10.45%) Grafana
6 15 (7.46%) Progress Chef
7 8 (3.98%) Puppet
8 7 (3.48%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.99%) Istio
9 4 (1.99%) Karpenter
9 4 (1.99%) Rancher
10 3 (1.49%) Argo
10 3 (1.49%) Consul
10 3 (1.49%) Packer
11 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.50%) Kibana
11 1 (0.50%) Nagios
11 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (5.97%) Dynatrace
2 10 (4.98%) ForgeRock
2 10 (4.98%) IBM
2 10 (4.98%) Red Hat
2 10 (4.98%) Sitecore
3 9 (4.48%) Oracle
4 6 (2.99%) VMware
5 5 (2.49%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.49%) Splunk
7 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.00%) New Relic
7 2 (1.00%) Veracode
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco