AWS SysOps Administrator Salary in 2025

SOA-C02 Certification

$125K
Average Salary
95,000+
Open Positions
+20% year-over-year
Job Growth
Very High
Market Demand

Salary Ranges by Experience Level

Entry Level

$100K - $120K

0-2 years experience

Mid-Level

$120K - $140K

2-5 years experience

Senior Level

$140K - $170K

5+ years experience

💰 Median Salary: $123K/year

DevOps skills in massive demand

Salary by Location - Top 5 Cities

1
San Francisco, CA
$160,000 - $190,000
2
Seattle, WA
$145,000 - $175,000
3
New York, NY
$140,000 - $170,000
4
Austin, TX
$130,000 - $160,000
5
Boston, MA
$135,000 - $165,000

Key Factors Affecting Salary

Automation Skills

+25-35%

Python, Terraform, Ansible automation expertise

CI/CD Experience

+20-30%

Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline mastery

Container Orchestration

+18-28%

Kubernetes, ECS, Docker expertise

Monitoring & Observability

+15-20%

CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog

Skills That Increase Your Salary

Infrastructure as Code

+$18,000 - $25,000

Terraform, CloudFormation expertise

Kubernetes

+$15,000 - $22,000

EKS, container orchestration

Python / Scripting

+$12,000 - $20,000

Automation, Lambda functions

Monitoring / Observability

+$10,000 - $16,000

CloudWatch, DataDog, alerting

Career Progression & Salary Growth

Entry Level

Junior SysOps Engineer

0-2 years

$100,000 - $120,000
Mid Level

SysOps / DevOps Engineer

2-5 years

$120,000 - $140,000
Senior Level

Senior DevOps Engineer

5-8 years

$140,000 - $160,000
Lead Level

Lead DevOps / Platform Engineer

8+ years

$160,000 - $200,000+

Salary Comparison with Similar Roles

RoleAverage SalaryDifference
DevOps Engineer$130,000+4%
Site Reliability Engineer$145,000+16%
Cloud Engineer$120,000-4%
Systems Administrator$85,000-32%

Top Paying Industries

Technology / SaaS

Demand: Very High

$140,000

FinTech

Demand: Very High

$145,000

E-commerce

Demand: High

$130,000

Media / Streaming

Demand: High

$135,000

Healthcare Tech

Demand: High

$128,000

Salary by Company Size

Startup (1-50 employees)$115,000
Small (51-200 employees)$122,000
Medium (201-1000 employees)$130,000
Large (1001-5000 employees)$138,000
Enterprise (5000+ employees)$145,000

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