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 £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 563 480
Rank change year-on-year -15 -83 +215
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 40 136 189
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.077% 0.27% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.29% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 31 114 172
10th Percentile £50,750 £65,750 £52,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £85,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +29.41% +9.68%
75th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +29.41% +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 47,144 47,062 41,402
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.62% 93.34% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 29,573 25,282 32,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 -49 21 £110,000 - 11
Midlands +32 10 £51,500 -35.63%
West Midlands - 6 £51,500 -
North West +33 5 £100,000 +53.85%
North of England +22 5 £100,000 +48.15%
South East +35 4 £65,000 +4.00% 4
East Midlands -2 4 £50,000 -37.50%
East of England +23 1 £57,500 -39.47% 1
South West +9 1 £60,000 -14.29% 4
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, 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 40 (100.00%) AWS
1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 23 (57.50%) Python
4 22 (55.00%) Terraform
5 19 (47.50%) Kubernetes
6 15 (37.50%) GitHub
7 14 (35.00%) Jenkins
8 13 (32.50%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (30.00%) Docker
10 11 (27.50%) Azure
10 11 (27.50%) Bash
10 11 (27.50%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (27.50%) Java
11 10 (25.00%) Agile
11 10 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (25.00%) Kafka
11 10 (25.00%) Linux
12 9 (22.50%) Ansible
12 9 (22.50%) Platform Engineering
13 8 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 7 (17.50%) Argo
14 7 (17.50%) Git
14 7 (17.50%) Groovy
14 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
15 6 (15.00%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (15.00%) Amazon S3

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 (7.50%) Apache
1 3 (7.50%) JBoss
1 3 (7.50%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (37.50%) GitHub
3 13 (32.50%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (27.50%) Azure
5 11 (27.50%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (15.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (15.00%) Amazon S3
9 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (12.50%) OpenShift
10 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (10.00%) Datadog
10 4 (10.00%) Serverless
11 3 (7.50%) Azure AKS
11 3 (7.50%) PaaS
12 2 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (5.00%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) DNS
1 3 (7.50%) HTTP
2 2 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) FTP
2 2 (5.00%) IMAP
2 2 (5.00%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (5.00%) SMTP
2 2 (5.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Flink
2 5 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (10.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.50%) MySQL
5 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (17.50%) Git
3 6 (15.00%) GitLab
4 5 (12.50%) JIRA
4 5 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket
6 3 (7.50%) Ant
6 3 (7.50%) Artifactory
6 3 (7.50%) Maven
7 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
7 2 (5.00%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Banking
2 6 (15.00%) Front Office
3 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Advertising
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Law
5 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Kafka
2 4 (10.00%) Node.js
3 3 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (7.50%) Middleware
4 2 (5.00%) .NET
4 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.00%) JWT
4 2 (5.00%) LDAP
4 2 (5.00%) OAuth
5 1 (2.50%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Fixed Income
2 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Windows
3 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (25.00%) Agile
5 9 (22.50%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (15.00%) Configuration Management
7 6 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (15.00%) Front End Development
7 6 (15.00%) Investment Management
8 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (12.50%) Observability
9 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (10.00%) Load Balancing
9 4 (10.00%) SDLC
9 4 (10.00%) Software Delivery
10 3 (7.50%) Fintech
10 3 (7.50%) Microservices
10 3 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (7.50%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) Python
2 11 (27.50%) Bash
2 11 (27.50%) Java
3 7 (17.50%) Groovy
3 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.50%) Bicep
5 3 (7.50%) Go
5 3 (7.50%) SQL
6 2 (5.00%) C#
6 2 (5.00%) C++
6 2 (5.00%) Ruby
7 1 (2.50%) PHP
7 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.00%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) DFS Replication
2 2 (5.00%) Dovecot
2 2 (5.00%) Postfix
2 2 (5.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (55.00%) Terraform
2 19 (47.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (22.50%) Ansible
4 7 (17.50%) Argo
5 6 (15.00%) Grafana
6 5 (12.50%) Prometheus
7 3 (7.50%) Podman
7 3 (7.50%) Puppet
8 2 (5.00%) Nessus
8 2 (5.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (5.00%) Cribl.io
2 2 (5.00%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (5.00%) Sonatype
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle