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 £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 570 462
Rank change year-on-year +5 -108 +258
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 45 132 217
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.093% 0.23% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.25% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 31 107 200
10th Percentile £50,750 £61,250 £54,875
25th Percentile £56,250 £85,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +33.33% +6.45%
75th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £107,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -20.93% +30.30% +8.20%

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 43,942 52,815 42,727
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 93.87% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 28,046 29,361 33,392
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,710 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -

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 December 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 6 December 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 -21 26 £110,000 -2.22% 5
Midlands - 11 £51,500 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £51,500 - 1
North West +44 5 £100,000 +90.48%
North of England +38 5 £100,000 +70.21% 3
South East +32 4 £65,000 +6.12% 3
East Midlands - 4 £50,000 -
East of England +27 1 £57,500 -54.00% 1
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 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 45 (100.00%) AWS
1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (68.89%) CI/CD
3 26 (57.78%) Python
4 24 (53.33%) Terraform
5 20 (44.44%) Kubernetes
6 16 (35.56%) Jenkins
7 15 (33.33%) GitHub
8 14 (31.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (28.89%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (28.89%) Docker
10 12 (26.67%) Azure
10 12 (26.67%) Bash
10 12 (26.67%) Java
11 11 (24.44%) Agile
11 11 (24.44%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (24.44%) Linux
12 10 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (22.22%) Kafka
12 10 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (20.00%) Ansible
13 9 (20.00%) Groovy
13 9 (20.00%) PowerShell
13 9 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 8 (17.78%) Git
14 8 (17.78%) Grafana
15 7 (15.56%) Amazon S3
15 7 (15.56%) Argo

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 (6.67%) Apache
1 3 (6.67%) Confluence
1 3 (6.67%) JBoss
1 3 (6.67%) nginx
1 3 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (33.33%) GitHub
3 14 (31.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (28.89%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (26.67%) Azure
6 11 (24.44%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (15.56%) Amazon S3
10 6 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (11.11%) OpenShift
12 4 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (8.89%) Datadog
12 4 (8.89%) Serverless
13 3 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 3 (6.67%) AWS KMS
13 3 (6.67%) Azure AKS
13 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) DNS
1 4 (8.89%) HTTP
2 3 (6.67%) Firewall
2 3 (6.67%) FTP
2 3 (6.67%) IMAP
2 3 (6.67%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (6.67%) SMTP
2 3 (6.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (13.33%) Flink
2 4 (8.89%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (8.89%) DynamoDB
2 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) KDB
3 1 (2.22%) MySQL
3 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (35.56%) Jenkins
2 8 (17.78%) Git
3 7 (15.56%) GitLab
4 6 (13.33%) JIRA
4 6 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (8.89%) Bitbucket
6 3 (6.67%) Ant
6 3 (6.67%) Artifactory
6 3 (6.67%) Maven
6 3 (6.67%) Vagrant
7 2 (4.44%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (35.56%) Finance
2 7 (15.56%) Banking
2 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.33%) Front Office
3 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.67%) Law
5 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Advertising
6 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) Kafka
2 5 (11.11%) Node.js
3 3 (6.67%) .NET
3 3 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (6.67%) LDAP
3 3 (6.67%) Middleware
4 2 (4.44%) ARM Templates
4 2 (4.44%) JWT
4 2 (4.44%) OAuth
5 1 (2.22%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 3 (6.67%) e-Learning
2 3 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.67%) Replication
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Equities
4 1 (2.22%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Windows
3 3 (6.67%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 3 (6.67%) VMS
4 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (68.89%) CI/CD
3 11 (24.44%) Agile
3 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (15.56%) Configuration Management
6 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.33%) Front End Development
7 6 (13.33%) Investment Management
7 6 (13.33%) Observability
7 6 (13.33%) SDLC
8 5 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (11.11%) Software Delivery
9 4 (8.89%) AI
9 4 (8.89%) Cloud Security
9 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (8.89%) Load Balancing
9 4 (8.89%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) Python
2 12 (26.67%) Bash
2 12 (26.67%) Java
3 9 (20.00%) Groovy
3 9 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.89%) SQL
6 3 (6.67%) Bicep
6 3 (6.67%) C#
6 3 (6.67%) C++
6 3 (6.67%) Go
6 3 (6.67%) Ruby
7 1 (2.22%) PHP
7 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.67%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) QA
System Software
1 13 (28.89%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) DFS Replication
2 3 (6.67%) Dovecot
2 3 (6.67%) Postfix
2 3 (6.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 24 (53.33%) Terraform
2 20 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 9 (20.00%) Ansible
4 8 (17.78%) Grafana
5 7 (15.56%) Argo
5 7 (15.56%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.67%) Nessus
6 3 (6.67%) Podman
6 3 (6.67%) Proxmox
6 3 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (6.67%) Cribl.io
1 3 (6.67%) IBM
1 3 (6.67%) Jaspersoft
1 3 (6.67%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
1 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
1 3 (6.67%) Sonatype
2 2 (4.44%) AppDynamics
2 2 (4.44%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle