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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 684 537 701
Rank change year-on-year -147 +164 -331
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 204 513 634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.52% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.56% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 174 479 506
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £64,063 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £138,750 £107,500
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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -141 195 £83,250 +4.06% 47
London -28 115 £100,000 +5.26% 27
Work from Home -108 85 £75,000 - 36
UK excluding London -122 85 £71,250 +1.79% 25
Midlands 0 19 £60,000 -12.73% 4
South West -62 19 £77,500 +6.90% 2
South East -18 18 £83,250 +11.00% 9
North of England -33 18 £65,000 -3.70% 9
East Midlands -4 17 £55,000 -21.43% 3
North West -42 10 £60,000 -14.29% 6
Scotland -62 6 £80,000 +18.52%
East of England +6 5 £70,000 -17.65% 1
North East 0 5 £75,000 +7.14%
Yorkshire +53 3 £65,000 -3.70% 3
West Midlands +6 2 £80,000 +18.52% 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 204 (100.00%) AWS
1 204 (100.00%) DevOps
2 160 (78.43%) Kubernetes
3 157 (76.96%) Terraform
4 141 (69.12%) CI/CD
5 109 (53.43%) Python
6 107 (52.45%) Docker
7 89 (43.63%) Agile
8 78 (38.24%) Serverless
9 76 (37.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 72 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
11 69 (33.82%) Jenkins
12 68 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 67 (32.84%) Containerisation
14 65 (31.86%) Amazon S3
15 63 (30.88%) Linux
16 62 (30.39%) Amazon RDS
17 60 (29.41%) Finance
18 59 (28.92%) Amazon EKS
19 56 (27.45%) Amazon ECS
20 52 (25.49%) Ansible
21 50 (24.51%) Amazon EC2
21 50 (24.51%) Java
22 43 (21.08%) Amazon SQS
23 42 (20.59%) Bash
24 41 (20.10%) Azure
24 41 (20.10%) Software Engineering
25 40 (19.61%) Go
25 40 (19.61%) GitHub
26 38 (18.63%) Site Reliability Engineering

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 (2.45%) Confluence
2 4 (1.96%) Drupal
3 2 (0.98%) nginx
4 1 (0.49%) Apache
4 1 (0.49%) JBoss
4 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 204 (100.00%) AWS
2 78 (38.24%) Serverless
3 76 (37.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 72 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
5 65 (31.86%) Amazon S3
6 59 (28.92%) Amazon EKS
7 56 (27.45%) Amazon ECS
8 50 (24.51%) Amazon EC2
9 43 (21.08%) Amazon SQS
10 41 (20.10%) Azure
11 40 (19.61%) GitHub
12 32 (15.69%) OpenShift
13 24 (11.76%) SaaS
14 20 (9.80%) Azure AKS
15 19 (9.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (9.31%) GCP
16 15 (7.35%) AWS Fargate
17 13 (6.37%) Route 53
18 12 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
19 11 (5.39%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.84%) Firewall
2 9 (4.41%) Network Security
3 7 (3.43%) DNS
4 4 (1.96%) VPN
5 2 (0.98%) HTTP
6 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (30.39%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (15.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 15 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (4.90%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.43%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.49%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.49%) Redis
7 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 69 (33.82%) Jenkins
2 35 (17.16%) Artifactory
3 32 (15.69%) Git
4 27 (13.24%) GitLab
5 11 (5.39%) Bitbucket
5 11 (5.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (3.92%) JIRA
7 6 (2.94%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.47%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.98%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.49%) ClearCase
11 1 (0.49%) ClearQuest
11 1 (0.49%) NUnit
11 1 (0.49%) Redmine
11 1 (0.49%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.49%) Selenium
11 1 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 60 (29.41%) Finance
2 32 (15.69%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.71%) Front Office
4 17 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.37%) Law
7 10 (4.90%) Automotive
8 7 (3.43%) Games
9 5 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.96%) Legal
10 4 (1.96%) Retail
11 3 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.98%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Marketing
13 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.71%) J2EE
2 16 (7.84%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (7.35%) .NET
4 11 (5.39%) AWS CDK
5 10 (4.90%) Middleware
6 7 (3.43%) AWS SAM
7 4 (1.96%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.47%) Django
8 3 (1.47%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.47%) RESTful
9 2 (0.98%) Node.js
9 2 (0.98%) React
9 2 (0.98%) REST
10 1 (0.49%) CSS3
10 1 (0.49%) Kafka
10 1 (0.49%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.49%) OAuth
10 1 (0.49%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.49%) OpenID
10 1 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.71%) Tandem
2 11 (5.39%) Client/Server
3 10 (4.90%) Blockchain
3 10 (4.90%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.41%) e-Learning
4 9 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.43%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.43%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.43%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.94%) PKI
7 5 (2.45%) Online Games
8 4 (1.96%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.98%) Genomics
10 1 (0.49%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (30.88%) Linux
2 12 (5.88%) Windows
3 3 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.98%) Unix
5 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (100.00%) DevOps
2 141 (69.12%) CI/CD
3 89 (43.63%) Agile
4 68 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (32.84%) Containerisation
6 41 (20.10%) Software Engineering
7 38 (18.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 37 (18.14%) Deployment Automation
9 36 (17.65%) Open Source
10 31 (15.20%) Decision-Making
11 30 (14.71%) Asset Management
11 30 (14.71%) Financial Modelling
12 27 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (11.27%) Microservices
14 20 (9.80%) Mentoring
15 19 (9.31%) Configuration Management
16 18 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
16 18 (8.82%) DevSecOps
17 17 (8.33%) Secrets Management
18 15 (7.35%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 109 (53.43%) Python
2 50 (24.51%) Java
3 42 (20.59%) Bash
4 40 (19.61%) Go
5 18 (8.82%) PowerShell
6 13 (6.37%) SQL
7 11 (5.39%) C#
7 11 (5.39%) Groovy
7 11 (5.39%) PHP
8 7 (3.43%) Ruby
9 6 (2.94%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.47%) Rust
11 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (14.22%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.73%) AWS Certification
3 26 (12.75%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.96%) Degree
7 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.47%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.43%) QA
2 5 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.47%) NIST
3 3 (1.47%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 107 (52.45%) Docker
2 11 (5.39%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.49%) iptables
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 160 (78.43%) Kubernetes
2 157 (76.96%) Terraform
3 52 (25.49%) Ansible
4 26 (12.75%) Prometheus
5 22 (10.78%) Grafana
6 16 (7.84%) Progress Chef
7 10 (4.90%) Puppet
8 7 (3.43%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.96%) Istio
9 4 (1.96%) Karpenter
9 4 (1.96%) Rancher
10 3 (1.47%) Argo
10 3 (1.47%) Consul
10 3 (1.47%) Packer
11 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.49%) Kibana
11 1 (0.49%) Nagios
11 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (5.88%) Dynatrace
2 11 (5.39%) Oracle
3 10 (4.90%) ForgeRock
3 10 (4.90%) IBM
3 10 (4.90%) Red Hat
3 10 (4.90%) Sitecore
4 5 (2.45%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.45%) VMware
5 2 (0.98%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.98%) Splunk
5 2 (0.98%) Veracode
6 1 (0.49%) Cisco
6 1 (0.49%) New Relic