Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Jobs

Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 874 913 1144
Rank change year-on-year +39 +231 -321
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 25 56 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.056% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.061% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 23 46 83
10th Percentile £61,500 £68,750 £68,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £94,688 £93,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -9.38% +23.08%

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 94,378 91,115 153,780
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.48% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,475 57,415 84,334
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior AWS DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior AWS DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +68 24 £77,500 -1.27% 4
UK excluding London -12 12 £77,500 +6.90% 1
London +97 11 £102,500 +28.13% 3
Work from Home +51 9 £75,000 -9.09% 7
South West -31 4 £77,500 +6.90%
North of England +36 3 £57,500 -20.69%
North West -4 3 £57,500 -20.69%
East of England - 3 £75,000 -
West Midlands +12 1 £90,000 +14.65% 1
South East +1 1 - -
Midlands -3 1 £90,000 +14.65% 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) AWS
1 25 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (76.00%) Terraform
3 17 (68.00%) Kubernetes
4 15 (60.00%) Ansible
5 13 (52.00%) Python
6 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
7 10 (40.00%) Linux
7 10 (40.00%) GitHub
8 8 (32.00%) Agile
9 7 (28.00%) Finance
9 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
9 7 (28.00%) Progress Chef
10 6 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
10 6 (24.00%) GitLab
10 6 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (20.00%) Docker
11 5 (20.00%) Bitbucket
11 5 (20.00%) Configuration Management
11 5 (20.00%) GCP
11 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 5 (20.00%) AWS CDK
12 4 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (16.00%) Istio
12 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
12 4 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
12 4 (16.00%) Firewall

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (40.00%) GitHub
3 6 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (20.00%) GCP
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (16.00%) Azure
5 4 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.00%) SaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Serverless
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) DNS
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) GitLab
3 5 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (12.00%) CircleCI
5 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Law
3 2 (8.00%) Health Technology
4 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.00%) Genomics
3 1 (4.00%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (32.00%) Agile
4 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (16.00%) Load Balancing
6 4 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (12.00%) OOP
8 2 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (8.00%) Coaching
8 2 (8.00%) Migration
8 2 (8.00%) Open Source
8 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.00%) Secrets Management
8 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Bash
3 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) PHP
4 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.00%) Go
5 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (76.00%) Terraform
2 17 (68.00%) Kubernetes
3 15 (60.00%) Ansible
4 7 (28.00%) Progress Chef
5 4 (16.00%) Istio
5 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (16.00%) Puppet
6 2 (8.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) VMware