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 25 January 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 525 535
Rank change year-on-year -58 +10 +130
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 34 152 201
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.062% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.35% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 28 133 181
10th Percentile £50,750 £78,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £87,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £121,875 £138,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 - £138,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -31.82% +25.71% +16.67%

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 50,189 43,775 56,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.07% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 31,901 22,794 44,874
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.30%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -75 16 £117,500 +6.82% 11
Midlands +20 8 £51,500 -35.63%
North West +18 6 £78,750 -12.50% 4
North of England +8 6 £78,750 -1.56% 5
East Midlands 0 4 £60,500 -24.38%
West Midlands - 4 £51,500 -
South East - 4 £65,000 - 5
East of England +15 1 £57,500 -11.54%
South West -7 1 £60,000 -7.69% 4
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 January 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 34 (100.00%) AWS
1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (67.65%) CI/CD
3 20 (58.82%) Terraform
4 16 (47.06%) Python
5 15 (44.12%) Kubernetes
6 13 (38.24%) GitHub
7 12 (35.29%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (32.35%) Agile
9 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (26.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (26.47%) Docker
10 9 (26.47%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (26.47%) Java
11 8 (23.53%) Ansible
11 8 (23.53%) Azure
11 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
11 8 (23.53%) Kafka
11 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (20.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (20.59%) Argo
12 7 (20.59%) Linux
13 6 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (17.65%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (17.65%) Flink
13 6 (17.65%) Front End Development
13 6 (17.65%) Investment Management
13 6 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (14.71%) Bash

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 1 (2.94%) Apache
1 1 (2.94%) Confluence
1 1 (2.94%) JBoss
1 1 (2.94%) nginx
1 1 (2.94%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (38.24%) GitHub
3 12 (35.29%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (26.47%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (26.47%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (23.53%) Azure
6 7 (20.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (17.65%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (11.76%) Serverless
10 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
10 3 (8.82%) Azure AKS
10 3 (8.82%) Datadog
10 3 (8.82%) OpenShift
10 3 (8.82%) PaaS
11 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (5.88%) Apigee
11 2 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) DNS
1 2 (5.88%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) FTP
2 1 (2.94%) IMAP
2 1 (2.94%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.94%) SMTP
2 1 (2.94%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Flink
2 4 (11.76%) DynamoDB
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.71%) Git
3 4 (11.76%) Bitbucket
4 3 (8.82%) GitLab
5 2 (5.88%) JIRA
5 2 (5.88%) Maven
5 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.94%) Ant
6 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.94%) Gradle
6 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.94%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (29.41%) Finance
2 6 (17.65%) Banking
2 6 (17.65%) Front Office
3 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Advertising
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Law
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Kafka
2 2 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.88%) JWT
2 2 (5.88%) Node.js
2 2 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.94%) JSON
3 1 (2.94%) LDAP
3 1 (2.94%) Middleware
3 1 (2.94%) React
3 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Fixed Income
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Replication
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (67.65%) CI/CD
3 11 (32.35%) Agile
4 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (17.65%) Front End Development
6 6 (17.65%) Investment Management
6 6 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
8 4 (11.76%) Microservices
9 3 (8.82%) Configuration Management
9 3 (8.82%) Fintech
9 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (8.82%) Observability
9 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.82%) RBAC
10 2 (5.88%) Load Balancing
10 2 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
10 2 (5.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) Bash
4 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.82%) Bicep
6 2 (5.88%) Go
6 2 (5.88%) Groovy
6 2 (5.88%) SQL
7 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.94%) PHP
7 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) DFS Replication
2 1 (2.94%) Dovecot
2 1 (2.94%) Postfix
2 1 (2.94%) Squid
Systems Management
1 20 (58.82%) Terraform
2 15 (44.12%) Kubernetes
3 8 (23.53%) Ansible
4 7 (20.59%) Argo
5 2 (5.88%) Grafana
6 1 (2.94%) Nessus
6 1 (2.94%) Podman
6 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.94%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) AppDynamics
2 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.94%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow