AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends in England

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 561 644
Rank change year-on-year -78 +83 -180
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 95 83 127
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 85 47 96
10th Percentile £48,200 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £77,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £87,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,000 £100,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 87,680 39,495 68,920
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 90.66% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 61,622 23,904 47,397
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,754 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in England

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. 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
London -57 39 £82,500 -25.00% 28
North of England -22 29 £70,000 +7.69% 3
North West +11 22 £70,000 +7.69% 2
South West -48 17 £65,000 - 3
South East -22 7 £80,000 +113.33%
North East - 6 £60,000 - 1
Midlands -41 2 £68,750 -4.51%
East Midlands -27 1 £75,000 +38.89%
West Midlands -39 1 £62,500 -30.56%
Yorkshire - 1 - -
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 7 August 2026, AWS DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 95 (100.00%) AWS
1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (45.26%) Terraform
4 39 (41.05%) Security Cleared
5 37 (38.95%) CI/CD
6 32 (33.68%) Containerisation
6 32 (33.68%) Docker
7 31 (32.63%) Kubernetes
8 29 (30.53%) Python
9 28 (29.47%) SC Cleared
10 23 (24.21%) Azure
11 21 (22.11%) GitLab
12 20 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (18.95%) Jenkins
14 17 (17.89%) Bash
15 16 (16.84%) Grafana
15 16 (16.84%) Observability
16 15 (15.79%) Agile
16 15 (15.79%) GCP
17 14 (14.74%) Amazon EKS
17 14 (14.74%) Go
17 14 (14.74%) Kafka
17 14 (14.74%) Prometheus
18 12 (12.63%) Serverless
19 11 (11.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 11 (11.58%) Ansible
19 11 (11.58%) Datadog
19 11 (11.58%) Elastic Stack

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.16%) Confluence
1 3 (3.16%) nginx
2 1 (1.05%) Apache
2 1 (1.05%) Drupal
2 1 (1.05%) IIS
2 1 (1.05%) SAS
2 1 (1.05%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (24.21%) Azure
3 20 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (15.79%) GCP
5 14 (14.74%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (12.63%) Serverless
7 11 (11.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (11.58%) Datadog
8 10 (10.53%) GitHub
9 8 (8.42%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (8.42%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (8.42%) OpenShift
10 7 (7.37%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.32%) Pulumi
11 6 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (5.26%) Amazon S3
12 5 (5.26%) Route 53
13 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) DNS
1 1 (1.05%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (6.32%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.11%) Big Data
2 2 (2.11%) Redis
3 1 (1.05%) DocumentDB
3 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.05%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.05%) Metadata
3 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.05%) MySQL
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (22.11%) GitLab
2 18 (18.95%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.37%) Git
4 6 (6.32%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.21%) git-flow
5 4 (4.21%) JIRA
6 2 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.11%) Snyk
7 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.05%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.05%) Gatling
7 1 (1.05%) JMeter
7 1 (1.05%) Maven
7 1 (1.05%) Postman
7 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.05%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (17.89%) Finance
2 15 (15.79%) Banking
3 8 (8.42%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.11%) Games
5 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.05%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.74%) Kafka
2 11 (11.58%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (5.26%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.11%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.05%) .NET
5 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.05%) JSON
5 1 (1.05%) Memcached
5 1 (1.05%) Next.js
5 1 (1.05%) Node.js
5 1 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.05%) React
5 1 (1.05%) React Native
5 1 (1.05%) REST
5 1 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.95%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.21%) Life Science
2 4 (4.21%) PropTech
3 2 (2.11%) Genomics
3 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.42%) Linux
2 3 (3.16%) Windows
3 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (38.95%) CI/CD
4 32 (33.68%) Containerisation
5 20 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (16.84%) Observability
7 15 (15.79%) Agile
8 10 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (10.53%) Fintech
8 10 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (9.47%) Cloud Security
9 9 (9.47%) Mentoring
10 8 (8.42%) Continuous Delivery
10 8 (8.42%) High Availability
10 8 (8.42%) Incident Management
10 8 (8.42%) Open Source
10 8 (8.42%) Software Engineering
10 8 (8.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (30.53%) Python
2 17 (17.89%) Bash
3 14 (14.74%) Go
4 10 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.32%) SQL
6 4 (4.21%) Java
7 2 (2.11%) C#
7 2 (2.11%) Groovy
8 1 (1.05%) Bicep
8 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.05%) Perl
8 1 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (41.05%) Security Cleared
2 28 (29.47%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) GDPR
1 6 (6.32%) PCI DSS
1 6 (6.32%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.05%) NCSC
2 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 32 (33.68%) Docker
2 8 (8.42%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (45.26%) Terraform
2 31 (32.63%) Kubernetes
3 16 (16.84%) Grafana
4 14 (14.74%) Prometheus
5 11 (11.58%) Ansible
6 8 (8.42%) Argo
6 8 (8.42%) Istio
7 3 (3.16%) Puppet
8 2 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.11%) Packer
8 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.05%) Consul
Vendors
1 8 (8.42%) Confluent
2 3 (3.16%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.11%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.05%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.05%) Google
4 1 (1.05%) IBM
4 1 (1.05%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.05%) TOWER Software