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 £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 November 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 603 457
Rank change year-on-year +42 -146 +268
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 56 115 250
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.19% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.20% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 33 90 228
10th Percentile £50,750 £60,000 £54,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% +6.45%
75th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £145,500 £138,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £81,250 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -9.72% +9.09% +6.45%

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 41,644 57,671 45,173
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 94.73% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 26,465 32,493 34,957
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,724 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,168 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +11 35 £91,250 -17.05% 17
Midlands +65 14 £51,500 -31.33% 1
West Midlands - 10 £51,500 -
North West +45 5 £100,000 +90.48% 4
North of England +44 5 £100,000 +70.21% 7
East Midlands +26 4 £50,000 -33.33% 1
South East +23 2 £63,750 +2.00% 10
East of England +26 1 £57,500 -43.21%
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 November 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 56 (100.00%) AWS
1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 36 (64.29%) Python
4 34 (60.71%) Terraform
5 22 (39.29%) Kubernetes
6 21 (37.50%) Docker
7 19 (33.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (33.93%) Jenkins
8 16 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (26.79%) Azure
9 15 (26.79%) Linux
10 14 (25.00%) Bash
10 14 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (23.21%) Ansible
11 13 (23.21%) Grafana
12 12 (21.43%) Agile
12 12 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (21.43%) Configuration Management
12 12 (21.43%) GitHub
12 12 (21.43%) Groovy
12 12 (21.43%) PowerShell
13 11 (19.64%) AI
13 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
13 11 (19.64%) Git
13 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
14 10 (17.86%) Amazon S3
14 10 (17.86%) GitLab
14 10 (17.86%) Java

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 6 (10.71%) Confluence
1 6 (10.71%) nginx
2 3 (5.36%) Apache
2 3 (5.36%) JBoss
2 3 (5.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (33.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 15 (26.79%) Azure
4 12 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (21.43%) GitHub
5 10 (17.86%) Amazon S3
6 9 (16.07%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (16.07%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (10.71%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (10.71%) AWS KMS
8 6 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (10.71%) Route 53
8 6 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (8.93%) OpenShift
10 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (7.14%) Datadog
10 4 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) Firewall
2 7 (12.50%) DNS
2 7 (12.50%) HTTP
3 6 (10.71%) FTP
3 6 (10.71%) IMAP
3 6 (10.71%) OpenLDAP
3 6 (10.71%) SMTP
3 6 (10.71%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.07%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.14%) Flink
3 4 (7.14%) KDB
4 3 (5.36%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.79%) MySQL
5 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (33.93%) Jenkins
2 11 (19.64%) Git
3 10 (17.86%) GitLab
4 9 (16.07%) JIRA
4 9 (16.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (10.71%) Vagrant
6 5 (8.93%) SonarQube
7 4 (7.14%) Bitbucket
8 3 (5.36%) Ant
8 3 (5.36%) Artifactory
8 3 (5.36%) Maven
General
1 17 (30.36%) Finance
2 13 (23.21%) Public Sector
3 11 (19.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (14.29%) Banking
4 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 6 (10.71%) Law
5 6 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (7.14%) Front Office
7 2 (3.57%) Advertising
7 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) Kafka
2 6 (10.71%) LDAP
3 5 (8.93%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.93%) Node.js
4 3 (5.36%) .NET
4 3 (5.36%) .NET Framework
4 3 (5.36%) Middleware
4 3 (5.36%) REST
5 2 (3.57%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.57%) JWT
5 2 (3.57%) OAuth
6 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.79%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) e-Learning
1 7 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (10.71%) Replication
3 5 (8.93%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.14%) Equities
4 4 (7.14%) Fixed Income
5 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.79%) Linux
2 9 (16.07%) Windows
3 6 (10.71%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (10.71%) Ubuntu
3 6 (10.71%) Unix
3 6 (10.71%) VMS
4 3 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 16 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (21.43%) Agile
5 12 (21.43%) Configuration Management
6 11 (19.64%) AI
6 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
7 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.07%) SDLC
9 8 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 8 (14.29%) Observability
10 7 (12.50%) Cloud Security
10 7 (12.50%) Coaching
10 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 7 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (10.71%) Analytics
11 6 (10.71%) Patch Management
11 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (64.29%) Python
2 14 (25.00%) Bash
3 12 (21.43%) Groovy
3 12 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 10 (17.86%) Java
5 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.50%) SQL
6 5 (8.93%) Go
7 3 (5.36%) Bicep
7 3 (5.36%) C#
7 3 (5.36%) C++
7 3 (5.36%) Ruby
8 1 (1.79%) PHP
8 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.71%) AWS Certification
3 6 (10.71%) Azure Certification
3 6 (10.71%) Degree
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 21 (37.50%) Docker
2 6 (10.71%) DFS Replication
2 6 (10.71%) Dovecot
2 6 (10.71%) Postfix
2 6 (10.71%) Squid
Systems Management
1 34 (60.71%) Terraform
2 22 (39.29%) Kubernetes
3 13 (23.21%) Ansible
3 13 (23.21%) Grafana
4 10 (17.86%) Prometheus
5 6 (10.71%) Nessus
5 6 (10.71%) Proxmox
6 5 (8.93%) Argo
7 3 (5.36%) Podman
7 3 (5.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (12.50%) IBM
1 7 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 6 (10.71%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (10.71%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.36%) Cribl.io
3 3 (5.36%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.36%) Sonatype
4 2 (3.57%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle