DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £84,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 701 605 726
Rank change year-on-year -96 +121 -355
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 196 407 556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.39% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.42% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 168 379 449
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £46,850
25th Percentile £60,938 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.39% +6.90% +20.83%
75th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £138,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +19.05%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -55 187 £84,000 +8.39% 21
London +20 118 £100,000 +11.11% 8
UK excluding London -56 76 £65,000 -3.70% 15
Work from Home -61 75 £67,500 -10.00% 14
Midlands +15 17 £57,500 -14.81% 3
South West -22 17 £67,500 -6.90% 2
North of England -15 16 £62,500 -7.41% 4
East Midlands -1 15 £55,000 -15.38% 1
South East +16 13 £65,000 - 4
North West -24 9 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Scotland -56 8 £65,000 -3.70% 1
East of England +15 5 £70,000 -20.00%
North East -1 5 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Yorkshire +62 2 £58,750 -12.96% 1
West Midlands +20 2 £80,000 +14.29% 2

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, AWS DevOps Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 196 (100.00%) AWS
1 196 (100.00%) DevOps
2 157 (80.10%) Terraform
3 150 (76.53%) Kubernetes
4 145 (73.98%) CI/CD
5 118 (60.20%) Python
6 103 (52.55%) Docker
7 88 (44.90%) Agile
8 78 (39.80%) Serverless
9 73 (37.24%) Finance
10 72 (36.73%) Jenkins
10 72 (36.73%) AWS Lambda
11 70 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 70 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 67 (34.18%) Amazon RDS
13 61 (31.12%) Amazon S3
14 60 (30.61%) Linux
15 57 (29.08%) Containerisation
16 54 (27.55%) Amazon ECS
17 53 (27.04%) Amazon EC2
17 53 (27.04%) Ansible
18 52 (26.53%) Amazon EKS
19 48 (24.49%) Java
20 47 (23.98%) Bash
20 47 (23.98%) Software Engineering
20 47 (23.98%) Go
21 43 (21.94%) Artifactory
21 43 (21.94%) Deployment Automation
21 43 (21.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
22 41 (20.92%) Amazon SQS

AWS DevOps Engineer 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 (2.55%) Confluence
2 4 (2.04%) Drupal
3 2 (1.02%) nginx
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 196 (100.00%) AWS
2 78 (39.80%) Serverless
3 72 (36.73%) AWS Lambda
4 70 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 61 (31.12%) Amazon S3
6 54 (27.55%) Amazon ECS
7 53 (27.04%) Amazon EC2
8 52 (26.53%) Amazon EKS
9 41 (20.92%) Amazon SQS
10 38 (19.39%) OpenShift
11 37 (18.88%) GitHub
12 35 (17.86%) Azure
13 22 (11.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (9.69%) GCP
15 15 (7.65%) Azure AKS
16 14 (7.14%) SaaS
17 13 (6.63%) AWS CloudTrail
17 13 (6.63%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
18 12 (6.12%) Route 53
19 11 (5.61%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.16%) Firewall
2 9 (4.59%) Network Security
3 7 (3.57%) DNS
4 4 (2.04%) VPN
5 2 (1.02%) HTTP
6 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (34.18%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (19.39%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (6.63%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.06%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.51%) Redis
7 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 72 (36.73%) Jenkins
2 43 (21.94%) Artifactory
3 27 (13.78%) GitLab
4 25 (12.76%) Git
5 12 (6.12%) Bitbucket
5 12 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (5.10%) JIRA
7 8 (4.08%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.53%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.51%) ClearCase
11 1 (0.51%) ClearQuest
11 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.51%) NUnit
11 1 (0.51%) Redmine
11 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.51%) Selenium
11 1 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 73 (37.24%) Finance
2 36 (18.37%) Front Office
3 28 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 16 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.12%) Law
7 7 (3.57%) Games
8 4 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.04%) Legal
8 4 (2.04%) Retail
9 2 (1.02%) Automotive
9 2 (1.02%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.37%) J2EE
2 16 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (6.63%) Middleware
4 11 (5.61%) AWS CDK
5 8 (4.08%) .NET
6 7 (3.57%) AWS SAM
7 5 (2.55%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.04%) React
9 3 (1.53%) REST
10 2 (1.02%) Django
10 2 (1.02%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.02%) JSON
10 2 (1.02%) Node.js
10 2 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.02%) React Native
10 2 (1.02%) RESTful
11 1 (0.51%) HTML5
11 1 (0.51%) OAuth
11 1 (0.51%) OpenID
11 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.37%) Tandem
2 11 (5.61%) Client/Server
3 9 (4.59%) Blockchain
4 8 (4.08%) e-Learning
4 8 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.57%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.06%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.06%) PKI
7 5 (2.55%) Online Games
8 4 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.04%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) Genomics
9 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (30.61%) Linux
2 16 (8.16%) Windows
3 3 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.51%) Unix
4 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (100.00%) DevOps
2 145 (73.98%) CI/CD
3 88 (44.90%) Agile
4 70 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (29.08%) Containerisation
6 47 (23.98%) Software Engineering
7 43 (21.94%) Deployment Automation
7 43 (21.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 41 (20.92%) Open Source
9 37 (18.88%) Decision-Making
10 36 (18.37%) Asset Management
10 36 (18.37%) Financial Modelling
11 27 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (9.69%) Configuration Management
13 17 (8.67%) Mentoring
14 16 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (8.16%) Secrets Management
15 15 (7.65%) Observability
15 15 (7.65%) Test Automation
16 13 (6.63%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 118 (60.20%) Python
2 48 (24.49%) Java
3 47 (23.98%) Bash
3 47 (23.98%) Go
4 19 (9.69%) PowerShell
5 15 (7.65%) SQL
6 12 (6.12%) C#
7 11 (5.61%) PHP
8 9 (4.59%) Groovy
9 8 (4.08%) JavaScript
9 8 (4.08%) Ruby
10 4 (2.04%) Rust
11 1 (0.51%) Perl
11 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.22%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (3.06%) Degree
6 4 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.02%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.08%) QA
2 5 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.53%) NIST
3 3 (1.53%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 103 (52.55%) Docker
2 4 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) iptables
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 157 (80.10%) Terraform
2 150 (76.53%) Kubernetes
3 53 (27.04%) Ansible
4 23 (11.73%) Grafana
4 23 (11.73%) Prometheus
5 16 (8.16%) Progress Chef
6 7 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (3.57%) Puppet
7 4 (2.04%) Istio
7 4 (2.04%) Packer
7 4 (2.04%) Rancher
8 3 (1.53%) Argo
8 3 (1.53%) Consul
9 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.51%) Kibana
9 1 (0.51%) Nagios
9 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (7.14%) Oracle
2 11 (5.61%) Dynatrace
3 10 (5.10%) IBM
4 9 (4.59%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.55%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.04%) VMware
7 3 (1.53%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.02%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.02%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.02%) Veracode
9 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco
9 1 (0.51%) New Relic
9 1 (0.51%) Splunk