AWS DevOps Jobs

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 711 497 720
Rank change year-on-year -214 +223 -331
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 194 499 627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.54% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.59% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 163 463 499
10th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,250
25th Percentile £61,875 £62,500 £60,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% +24.00%
75th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +17.39%

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 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
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 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

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 12 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 12 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 -188 188 £80,000 - 28
London -66 99 £100,000 +2.56% 9
Work from Home -154 90 £77,500 - 18
UK excluding London -154 89 £70,000 - 19
South East -49 25 £82,500 +17.86% 7
Midlands -26 22 £70,000 - 3
East Midlands -13 20 £60,000 -14.29% 3
North of England -58 17 £65,000 -7.14% 7
South West -71 17 £71,250 -1.72% 2
North West -71 9 £60,000 -14.29% 6
East of England -8 6 £72,500 -6.45%
North East -15 5 £75,000 +9.09%
Yorkshire +43 3 £65,000 +1.96% 1
West Midlands -15 2 £80,000 +18.52%
Scotland -69 2 £80,000 +18.52%

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 194 (100.00%) AWS
1 194 (100.00%) DevOps
2 153 (78.87%) Kubernetes
3 142 (73.20%) Terraform
4 126 (64.95%) CI/CD
5 101 (52.06%) Docker
6 89 (45.88%) Python
7 80 (41.24%) Agile
8 71 (36.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (35.57%) Containerisation
10 67 (34.54%) Serverless
11 63 (32.47%) Infrastructure as Code
12 62 (31.96%) Jenkins
13 61 (31.44%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (30.93%) Linux
15 59 (30.41%) Amazon S3
16 55 (28.35%) Amazon EKS
17 53 (27.32%) Amazon RDS
18 48 (24.74%) Amazon ECS
19 47 (24.23%) Ansible
20 42 (21.65%) Amazon EC2
21 40 (20.62%) Finance
22 39 (20.10%) Bash
23 37 (19.07%) Java
24 35 (18.04%) Azure
24 35 (18.04%) Amazon SQS
25 34 (17.53%) GitHub
26 33 (17.01%) Social Skills
27 31 (15.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
28 29 (14.95%) 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 (2.58%) Confluence
2 4 (2.06%) Drupal
3 2 (1.03%) nginx
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 194 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (36.60%) AWS CloudFormation
3 67 (34.54%) Serverless
4 61 (31.44%) AWS Lambda
5 59 (30.41%) Amazon S3
6 55 (28.35%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (24.74%) Amazon ECS
8 42 (21.65%) Amazon EC2
9 35 (18.04%) Amazon SQS
9 35 (18.04%) Azure
10 34 (17.53%) GitHub
11 25 (12.89%) SaaS
12 24 (12.37%) OpenShift
13 20 (10.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (8.76%) Azure AKS
15 15 (7.73%) Amazon ECR
15 15 (7.73%) AWS Fargate
15 15 (7.73%) Route 53
16 14 (7.22%) GCP
17 11 (5.67%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.25%) Firewall
2 9 (4.64%) Network Security
3 7 (3.61%) DNS
4 4 (2.06%) VPN
5 2 (1.03%) HTTP
6 1 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (27.32%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (12.37%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (3.61%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.58%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.03%) MySQL
7 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.52%) Big Data
8 1 (0.52%) Flink
8 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.52%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 62 (31.96%) Jenkins
2 28 (14.43%) Git
3 26 (13.40%) GitLab
4 25 (12.89%) Artifactory
5 11 (5.67%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.64%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (3.09%) JIRA
8 4 (2.06%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (2.06%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.55%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.55%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.52%) ClearCase
10 1 (0.52%) ClearQuest
10 1 (0.52%) NUnit
10 1 (0.52%) Redmine
10 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.52%) Selenium
10 1 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 40 (20.62%) Finance
2 33 (17.01%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.34%) Front Office
4 18 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.15%) Automotive
7 7 (3.61%) Law
8 6 (3.09%) Games
9 5 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.06%) Marketing
10 4 (2.06%) Retail
11 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.03%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.52%) Advertising
13 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.34%) J2EE
2 16 (8.25%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (6.70%) .NET
4 11 (5.67%) AWS CDK
5 7 (3.61%) AWS SAM
5 7 (3.61%) Middleware
6 5 (2.58%) RESTful
7 3 (1.55%) Django
7 3 (1.55%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.55%) Node.js
7 3 (1.55%) React
8 2 (1.03%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.03%) Kafka
8 2 (1.03%) REST
9 1 (0.52%) CSS3
9 1 (0.52%) HTML5
9 1 (0.52%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.52%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.52%) OpenID
9 1 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.34%) Tandem
2 11 (5.67%) Blockchain
2 11 (5.67%) Client/Server
2 11 (5.67%) e-Learning
2 11 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.15%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.64%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.61%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.09%) PKI
7 5 (2.58%) Online Games
7 5 (2.58%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.03%) FMCG
10 2 (1.03%) Genomics
10 2 (1.03%) Replication
11 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.52%) NHS
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (30.93%) Linux
2 10 (5.15%) Windows
3 3 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.03%) Unix
5 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (100.00%) DevOps
2 126 (64.95%) CI/CD
3 80 (41.24%) Agile
4 69 (35.57%) Containerisation
5 63 (32.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (15.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 29 (14.95%) Deployment Automation
7 29 (14.95%) Open Source
7 29 (14.95%) Software Engineering
8 28 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (11.86%) Decision-Making
9 23 (11.86%) Microservices
10 22 (11.34%) Asset Management
10 22 (11.34%) Financial Modelling
10 22 (11.34%) Mentoring
11 19 (9.79%) DevSecOps
11 19 (9.79%) Migration
12 17 (8.76%) Artificial Intelligence
12 17 (8.76%) Configuration Management
12 17 (8.76%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (45.88%) Python
2 39 (20.10%) Bash
3 37 (19.07%) Java
4 27 (13.92%) Go
5 18 (9.28%) PowerShell
6 13 (6.70%) Groovy
7 12 (6.19%) PHP
8 10 (5.15%) SQL
9 9 (4.64%) C#
10 6 (3.09%) JavaScript
11 5 (2.58%) Ruby
12 1 (0.52%) Rust
12 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (14.95%) AWS Certification
2 28 (14.43%) SC Cleared
2 28 (14.43%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (3.09%) Degree
5 5 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.55%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.09%) QA
2 5 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.55%) NIST
3 3 (1.55%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 101 (52.06%) Docker
2 11 (5.67%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) iptables
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 153 (78.87%) Kubernetes
2 142 (73.20%) Terraform
3 47 (24.23%) Ansible
4 28 (14.43%) Prometheus
5 19 (9.79%) Grafana
6 14 (7.22%) Progress Chef
7 8 (4.12%) Puppet
8 7 (3.61%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (2.06%) Istio
9 4 (2.06%) Rancher
10 3 (1.55%) Argo
10 3 (1.55%) Consul
10 3 (1.55%) Karpenter
10 3 (1.55%) Packer
11 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.52%) Kibana
11 1 (0.52%) Nagios
11 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (7.22%) Dynatrace
2 12 (6.19%) IBM
2 12 (6.19%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.15%) ForgeRock
3 10 (5.15%) Sitecore
4 9 (4.64%) Oracle
5 6 (3.09%) VMware
6 5 (2.58%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.55%) New Relic
7 3 (1.55%) Splunk
8 2 (1.03%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.03%) Veracode
9 1 (0.52%) Cisco