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 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 464 575
Rank change year-on-year -127 +111 +35
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 60 174 212
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.092% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.49% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 56 156 194
10th Percentile £45,000 £80,000 £55,375
25th Percentile £60,938 £97,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% +6.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £138,750 - £138,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £110,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% +6.45%

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 59,723 35,545 69,696
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.81% 90.61% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 38,881 20,941 55,105
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -99 27 £100,000 -9.09% 5
North West +2 15 £63,750 -29.17% 4
North of England -24 15 £63,750 -20.31% 5
South West -21 8 £100,000 +81.82% 1
Midlands -13 5 £63,250 -20.94% 1
South East -17 4 £65,000 - 3
East Midlands -32 4 £75,000 -6.25%
East of England -5 1 £57,500 -11.54%
West Midlands - 1 £51,500 - 1
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 March 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 60 (100.00%) AWS
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (45.00%) Terraform
3 26 (43.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 23 (38.33%) Python
6 21 (35.00%) Kubernetes
7 16 (26.67%) Azure
8 15 (25.00%) Kafka
9 14 (23.33%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (23.33%) Docker
9 14 (23.33%) Security Cleared
10 13 (21.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
11 12 (20.00%) Ansible
11 12 (20.00%) GitHub
12 11 (18.33%) Jenkins
13 10 (16.67%) Microservices
13 10 (16.67%) Serverless
14 9 (15.00%) Bash
14 9 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (15.00%) Datadog
14 9 (15.00%) Fintech
14 9 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (15.00%) Go
14 9 (15.00%) Java
14 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
15 8 (13.33%) Agile
15 8 (13.33%) GCP

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 (1.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (26.67%) Azure
3 14 (23.33%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (21.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (20.00%) GitHub
6 10 (16.67%) Serverless
7 9 (15.00%) Datadog
7 9 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (13.33%) GCP
9 6 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (5.00%) Azure AKS
12 3 (5.00%) OpenShift
13 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
13 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
13 2 (3.33%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) Flink
1 6 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.67%) Metadata
3 1 (1.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.67%) GitLab
3 6 (10.00%) CircleCI
4 4 (6.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.67%) Git
5 1 (1.67%) Gradle
5 1 (1.67%) Maven
5 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (26.67%) Finance
2 12 (20.00%) Banking
3 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Front Office
5 2 (3.33%) Advertising
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Law
5 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.00%) Kafka
2 6 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.33%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.33%) JWT
3 2 (3.33%) Node.js
3 2 (3.33%) OAuth
4 1 (1.67%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.67%) JSON
4 1 (1.67%) React
4 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 26 (43.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
5 10 (16.67%) Microservices
6 9 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (15.00%) Fintech
6 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (13.33%) Agile
7 8 (13.33%) High Availability
7 8 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 8 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (10.00%) Front End Development
8 6 (10.00%) Incident Management
8 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (10.00%) Investment Management
8 6 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.33%) Python
2 9 (15.00%) Bash
2 9 (15.00%) Go
2 9 (15.00%) Java
3 6 (10.00%) SQL
4 3 (5.00%) Bicep
4 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) GDPR
1 6 (10.00%) PCI DSS
1 6 (10.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 14 (23.33%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (45.00%) Terraform
2 21 (35.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (20.00%) Ansible
4 8 (13.33%) Grafana
5 7 (11.67%) Argo
5 7 (11.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.33%) Confluent
2 2 (3.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics