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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 September 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 675 573 661
Rank change year-on-year -102 +88 -197
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 79 69 99
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.080% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 69 36 68
10th Percentile £57,250 £46,875 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -12.12%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £86,000
90th Percentile - £127,500 £98,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -12.12%

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 92,577 39,128 66,410
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 90.33% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 65,494 23,581 42,217
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -80 36 £80,000 -3.03% 32
North of England -45 22 £70,000 +7.69% 6
North West -8 15 £75,000 +15.38% 5
South West -62 13 £60,000 - 4
South East -35 7 £80,000 +113.33% 3
North East - 6 £60,000 -
West Midlands -41 1 £62,500 +21.36% 2
Midlands -42 1 £62,500 +18.48% 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 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 79 (100.00%) AWS
1 79 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (49.37%) Terraform
3 36 (45.57%) CI/CD
3 36 (45.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (44.30%) Security Cleared
5 30 (37.97%) Docker
6 28 (35.44%) Kubernetes
7 26 (32.91%) Containerisation
7 26 (32.91%) SC Cleared
8 25 (31.65%) Python
9 18 (22.78%) Agile
9 18 (22.78%) GitLab
9 18 (22.78%) Observability
10 17 (21.52%) Jenkins
10 17 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (20.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (20.25%) Bash
12 15 (18.99%) Azure
12 15 (18.99%) Grafana
13 14 (17.72%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (16.46%) Prometheus
15 12 (15.19%) Kafka
16 11 (13.92%) Elastic Stack
16 11 (13.92%) Serverless
16 11 (13.92%) Test Automation
17 10 (12.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
17 10 (12.66%) GCP
17 10 (12.66%) Git

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 (3.80%) Confluence
1 3 (3.80%) nginx
2 1 (1.27%) Apache
2 1 (1.27%) Drupal
2 1 (1.27%) IIS
2 1 (1.27%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (20.25%) AWS CloudFormation
3 15 (18.99%) Azure
4 14 (17.72%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (13.92%) Serverless
6 10 (12.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (12.66%) GCP
7 9 (11.39%) GitHub
8 8 (10.13%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (8.86%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (8.86%) Datadog
10 6 (7.59%) Amazon MSK
10 6 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (7.59%) OpenShift
10 6 (7.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
11 5 (6.33%) Route 53
12 4 (5.06%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) DNS
1 1 (1.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.39%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.33%) Redis
3 3 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.53%) Big Data
5 1 (1.27%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.27%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.27%) MySQL
5 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (22.78%) GitLab
2 17 (21.52%) Jenkins
3 10 (12.66%) Git
4 4 (5.06%) git-flow
4 4 (5.06%) JIRA
5 3 (3.80%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.53%) Snyk
7 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.27%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.27%) Gatling
7 1 (1.27%) JMeter
7 1 (1.27%) Maven
7 1 (1.27%) Postman
7 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.27%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (13.92%) Banking
1 11 (13.92%) Finance
2 5 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.06%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.53%) Games
4 2 (2.53%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.27%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (49.37%) Terraform
2 12 (15.19%) Kafka
3 11 (13.92%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (7.59%) Pulumi
5 5 (6.33%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.80%) Keycloak
7 2 (2.53%) OpenTofu
8 1 (1.27%) .NET
8 1 (1.27%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.27%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.27%) JSON
8 1 (1.27%) Memcached
8 1 (1.27%) Next.js
8 1 (1.27%) Node.js
8 1 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.27%) React
8 1 (1.27%) React Native
8 1 (1.27%) REST
8 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.06%) Life Science
2 4 (5.06%) PropTech
3 3 (3.80%) Replication
4 2 (2.53%) Genomics
4 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.13%) Linux
2 3 (3.80%) Windows
3 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (45.57%) CI/CD
2 36 (45.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (32.91%) Containerisation
4 18 (22.78%) Agile
4 18 (22.78%) Observability
5 17 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (13.92%) Test Automation
7 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (10.13%) Cloud Security
9 8 (10.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (8.86%) DevSecOps
10 7 (8.86%) Fintech
10 7 (8.86%) Secrets Management
11 6 (7.59%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (7.59%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (7.59%) High Availability
11 6 (7.59%) Open Source
11 6 (7.59%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.65%) Python
2 16 (20.25%) Bash
3 9 (11.39%) Go
3 9 (11.39%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.33%) Groovy
5 3 (3.80%) Java
5 3 (3.80%) SQL
6 2 (2.53%) C#
7 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.27%) Perl
7 1 (1.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (44.30%) Security Cleared
2 26 (32.91%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) GDPR
1 3 (3.80%) PCI DSS
1 3 (3.80%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.27%) NCSC
2 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 30 (37.97%) Docker
2 6 (7.59%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (35.44%) Kubernetes
2 15 (18.99%) Grafana
3 13 (16.46%) Prometheus
4 8 (10.13%) Ansible
4 8 (10.13%) Argo
5 6 (7.59%) Istio
6 3 (3.80%) Puppet
6 3 (3.80%) Rancher
7 2 (2.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.53%) Packer
7 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.27%) Consul
Vendors
1 6 (7.59%) Confluent
2 3 (3.80%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.80%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.27%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.27%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.27%) Google
4 1 (1.27%) IBM
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.27%) TOWER Software