DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 698 612 737
Rank change year-on-year -86 +125 -354
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 192 407 545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.40% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.44% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 165 379 439
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £47,400
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £138,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +20.93%

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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 8 May 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 8 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 -90 183 £82,500 +4.10% 31
London +8 111 £100,000 +8.11% 18
UK excluding London -75 79 £65,000 -3.70% 12
Work from Home -85 76 £70,000 -6.67% 22
North of England -21 18 £65,000 -3.70% 4
Midlands +10 17 £57,500 -14.81% 3
South West -46 17 £67,500 -6.90% 1
East Midlands -1 15 £55,000 -15.38% 2
South East +2 14 £73,750 +13.46% 4
North West -27 10 £60,000 -11.11% 3
Scotland -51 8 £65,000 -3.70%
East of England +15 5 £70,000 -8.20%
North East -1 5 £75,000 +7.14%
Yorkshire +50 3 £65,000 -3.70% 1
West Midlands +6 2 £80,000 +14.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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.

1 192 (100.00%) AWS
1 192 (100.00%) DevOps
2 153 (79.69%) Terraform
3 146 (76.04%) Kubernetes
4 140 (72.92%) CI/CD
5 110 (57.29%) Python
6 101 (52.60%) Docker
7 85 (44.27%) Agile
8 72 (37.50%) Serverless
9 69 (35.94%) Jenkins
10 68 (35.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 67 (34.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 66 (34.38%) Finance
13 65 (33.85%) AWS Lambda
14 62 (32.29%) Amazon RDS
15 58 (30.21%) Linux
16 57 (29.69%) Amazon S3
16 57 (29.69%) Containerisation
17 51 (26.56%) Amazon ECS
17 51 (26.56%) Ansible
18 50 (26.04%) Amazon EC2
19 49 (25.52%) Amazon EKS
20 45 (23.44%) Bash
21 42 (21.88%) Software Engineering
21 42 (21.88%) Java
21 42 (21.88%) Go
22 40 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
23 39 (20.31%) Deployment Automation
24 37 (19.27%) Amazon SQS
24 37 (19.27%) Artifactory

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 (2.60%) Confluence
2 4 (2.08%) Drupal
3 2 (1.04%) nginx
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 192 (100.00%) AWS
2 72 (37.50%) Serverless
3 67 (34.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 65 (33.85%) AWS Lambda
5 57 (29.69%) Amazon S3
6 51 (26.56%) Amazon ECS
7 50 (26.04%) Amazon EC2
8 49 (25.52%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (19.27%) Amazon SQS
10 34 (17.71%) Azure
10 34 (17.71%) OpenShift
11 33 (17.19%) GitHub
12 20 (10.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (9.90%) GCP
14 14 (7.29%) SaaS
15 13 (6.77%) Azure AKS
16 12 (6.25%) Route 53
17 11 (5.73%) Amazon ECR
17 11 (5.73%) AWS CloudTrail
17 11 (5.73%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.33%) Firewall
2 9 (4.69%) Network Security
3 7 (3.65%) DNS
4 4 (2.08%) VPN
5 2 (1.04%) HTTP
6 1 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (32.29%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (17.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 15 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.73%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (5.73%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.52%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (35.94%) Jenkins
2 37 (19.27%) Artifactory
3 26 (13.54%) GitLab
4 24 (12.50%) Git
5 12 (6.25%) Bitbucket
6 11 (5.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (4.17%) JIRA
8 6 (3.13%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.56%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.52%) ClearCase
12 1 (0.52%) ClearQuest
12 1 (0.52%) NUnit
12 1 (0.52%) Redmine
12 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.52%) Selenium
12 1 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 66 (34.38%) Finance
2 32 (16.67%) Front Office
3 28 (14.58%) Social Skills
4 16 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.25%) Law
7 7 (3.65%) Games
8 4 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.08%) Legal
8 4 (2.08%) Retail
9 2 (1.04%) Automotive
9 2 (1.04%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.67%) J2EE
2 16 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (5.73%) AWS CDK
3 11 (5.73%) Middleware
4 7 (3.65%) .NET
4 7 (3.65%) AWS SAM
5 4 (2.08%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.08%) React
6 2 (1.04%) Django
6 2 (1.04%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.04%) Node.js
6 2 (1.04%) React Native
6 2 (1.04%) REST
6 2 (1.04%) RESTful
7 1 (0.52%) CSS
7 1 (0.52%) HTML
7 1 (0.52%) HTML5
7 1 (0.52%) JSON
7 1 (0.52%) OpenID
7 1 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.67%) Tandem
2 11 (5.73%) Client/Server
3 9 (4.69%) Blockchain
4 8 (4.17%) e-Learning
4 8 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.65%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.13%) PKI
6 6 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.60%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.60%) Online Games
8 4 (2.08%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Genomics
9 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.52%) FMCG
10 1 (0.52%) NHS
10 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (30.21%) Linux
2 14 (7.29%) Windows
3 3 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
4 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (100.00%) DevOps
2 140 (72.92%) CI/CD
3 85 (44.27%) Agile
4 68 (35.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (29.69%) Containerisation
6 42 (21.88%) Software Engineering
7 40 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 39 (20.31%) Deployment Automation
9 37 (19.27%) Open Source
10 33 (17.19%) Decision-Making
11 32 (16.67%) Asset Management
11 32 (16.67%) Financial Modelling
12 27 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (9.90%) Configuration Management
14 18 (9.38%) Mentoring
15 17 (8.85%) Artificial Intelligence
16 16 (8.33%) Secrets Management
17 15 (7.81%) Observability
18 14 (7.29%) Test Automation
19 13 (6.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 110 (57.29%) Python
2 45 (23.44%) Bash
3 42 (21.88%) Go
3 42 (21.88%) Java
4 19 (9.90%) PowerShell
5 13 (6.77%) SQL
6 11 (5.73%) C#
6 11 (5.73%) PHP
7 10 (5.21%) Groovy
8 8 (4.17%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.65%) Ruby
10 3 (1.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.02%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.60%) Degree
6 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.65%) QA
2 5 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.56%) NIST
3 3 (1.56%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 101 (52.60%) Docker
2 5 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) iptables
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 153 (79.69%) Terraform
2 146 (76.04%) Kubernetes
3 51 (26.56%) Ansible
4 23 (11.98%) Prometheus
5 21 (10.94%) Grafana
6 15 (7.81%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.65%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (3.65%) Puppet
8 4 (2.08%) Istio
8 4 (2.08%) Rancher
9 3 (1.56%) Argo
9 3 (1.56%) Consul
9 3 (1.56%) Packer
10 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.52%) Kibana
10 1 (0.52%) Nagios
10 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (6.25%) Oracle
2 11 (5.73%) Dynatrace
3 9 (4.69%) IBM
3 9 (4.69%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.60%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.60%) VMware
5 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.04%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.04%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.04%) Veracode
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco
6 1 (0.52%) New Relic
6 1 (0.52%) Splunk