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 24 October 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 630 453
Rank change year-on-year +68 -177 +278
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 60 94 270
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.15% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.16% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 27 71 249
10th Percentile £47,200 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% - +3.13%
75th Percentile £83,750 £108,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -3.03% - +3.13%

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 38,977 58,748 47,548
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 95.16% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 23,601 33,540 36,753
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% -5.83% -

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 October 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 October 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 +51 40 £81,250 -18.75% 2
Midlands +54 15 £51,500 -35.63% 2
West Midlands - 11 £51,500 -
East Midlands +15 4 £50,000 -37.50% 2
North West +12 4 - - 5
North of England +7 4 - - 7
South East +17 1 £37,500 -40.00% 4
East of England +16 1 £57,500 -25.81%
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 October 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 60 (100.00%) AWS
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (68.33%) CI/CD
3 38 (63.33%) Python
4 33 (55.00%) Terraform
5 24 (40.00%) Docker
5 24 (40.00%) Kubernetes
6 23 (38.33%) Jenkins
7 20 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (33.33%) Linux
8 19 (31.67%) AI
9 18 (30.00%) Bash
10 17 (28.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (26.67%) Grafana
12 15 (25.00%) Azure
12 15 (25.00%) Coaching
12 15 (25.00%) Configuration Management
12 15 (25.00%) Groovy
12 15 (25.00%) IBM
12 15 (25.00%) Mentoring
12 15 (25.00%) Red Hat
13 14 (23.33%) Ansible
13 14 (23.33%) Git
13 14 (23.33%) PowerShell
14 13 (21.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
14 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
14 13 (21.67%) Windows
15 12 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (20.00%) Platform Engineering

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 7 (11.67%) Confluence
2 6 (10.00%) nginx
3 5 (8.33%) Apache
4 4 (6.67%) JBoss
4 4 (6.67%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.67%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 15 (25.00%) Azure
4 13 (21.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (18.33%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (18.33%) Amazon S3
7 9 (15.00%) GitHub
8 8 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (11.67%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (11.67%) Amazon ELB
9 7 (11.67%) AWS KMS
9 7 (11.67%) Route 53
10 6 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (10.00%) OpenShift
11 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (6.67%) Datadog
11 4 (6.67%) Serverless
12 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.67%) Firewall
2 8 (13.33%) DNS
2 8 (13.33%) HTTP
3 7 (11.67%) FTP
3 7 (11.67%) SMTP
3 7 (11.67%) SSH
4 6 (10.00%) IMAP
4 6 (10.00%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (6.67%) KDB
5 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.67%) DB2
6 1 (1.67%) Flink
6 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.67%) MySQL
6 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (38.33%) Jenkins
2 14 (23.33%) Git
3 12 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (18.33%) GitLab
4 11 (18.33%) JIRA
5 7 (11.67%) Vagrant
6 6 (10.00%) SonarQube
7 5 (8.33%) Artifactory
8 4 (6.67%) Ant
8 4 (6.67%) Maven
9 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 20 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 19 (31.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (20.00%) Finance
4 7 (11.67%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
5 6 (10.00%) Banking
5 6 (10.00%) Law
6 1 (1.67%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (10.00%) Kafka
2 6 (10.00%) LDAP
3 4 (6.67%) .NET
3 4 (6.67%) Middleware
3 4 (6.67%) REST
4 3 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (5.00%) Node.js
5 2 (3.33%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.33%) React
6 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.67%) Backbone.js
6 1 (1.67%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.67%) boto
6 1 (1.67%) Ember.js
6 1 (1.67%) jQuery
6 1 (1.67%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (23.33%) e-Learning
3 7 (11.67%) Replication
4 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.67%) Equities
4 4 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 20 (33.33%) Linux
2 13 (21.67%) Windows
3 8 (13.33%) VMS
4 7 (11.67%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (11.67%) Unix
5 6 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.67%) Android
7 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (68.33%) CI/CD
3 19 (31.67%) AI
4 17 (28.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (25.00%) Coaching
5 15 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 15 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
7 12 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (16.67%) Agile
8 10 (16.67%) Observability
9 9 (15.00%) Cloud Security
9 9 (15.00%) Machine Learning
9 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (15.00%) SDLC
10 8 (13.33%) Software Engineering
11 7 (11.67%) Change Management
11 7 (11.67%) Patch Management
11 7 (11.67%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 38 (63.33%) Python
2 18 (30.00%) Bash
3 15 (25.00%) Groovy
4 14 (23.33%) PowerShell
5 9 (15.00%) SQL
6 8 (13.33%) Java
6 8 (13.33%) JavaScript
7 6 (10.00%) Go
8 3 (5.00%) Bicep
8 3 (5.00%) C#
8 3 (5.00%) C++
8 3 (5.00%) PHP
8 3 (5.00%) Ruby
9 2 (3.33%) Perl
10 1 (1.67%) C
10 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 7 (11.67%) Azure Certification
4 7 (11.67%) Degree
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (40.00%) Docker
2 7 (11.67%) DFS Replication
3 6 (10.00%) Dovecot
3 6 (10.00%) Postfix
3 6 (10.00%) Squid
4 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (55.00%) Terraform
2 24 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (26.67%) Grafana
4 14 (23.33%) Ansible
5 12 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 6 (10.00%) Nessus
6 6 (10.00%) Proxmox
7 4 (6.67%) Podman
7 4 (6.67%) Puppet
8 2 (3.33%) Argo
9 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) IBM
1 15 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (11.67%) ServiceNow
3 6 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (5.00%) Cribl.io
4 3 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.00%) Sonatype
5 2 (3.33%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.33%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle