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 £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 February 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 507 550
Rank change year-on-year -81 +43 +91
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 37 161 204
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.065% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.38% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32 143 186
10th Percentile £51,300 £78,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £88,750 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +29.41% +13.33%
75th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 - £138,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +29.41% +13.33%

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 51,818 42,197 61,693
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.10% 91.73% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 33,087 22,090 49,388
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,000
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% -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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -78 18 £107,500 -2.27% 7
North West +17 7 £70,000 -22.22% 7
Midlands +16 7 £51,500 -35.63% 2
North of England -1 7 £70,000 -12.50% 8
South East +23 4 £65,000 - 3
East Midlands +1 4 £60,500 -24.38% 1
West Midlands - 3 £51,500 - 1
South West -1 2 £80,000 +23.08% 2
East of England +14 1 £57,500 -11.54%
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 February 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 37 (100.00%) AWS
1 37 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (62.16%) CI/CD
3 20 (54.05%) Terraform
4 16 (43.24%) Kubernetes
4 16 (43.24%) Python
5 13 (35.14%) GitHub
6 12 (32.43%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (29.73%) Agile
8 10 (27.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (27.03%) Java
9 9 (24.32%) Ansible
9 9 (24.32%) Docker
9 9 (24.32%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (24.32%) Kafka
10 8 (21.62%) Azure
10 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
11 7 (18.92%) Argo
11 7 (18.92%) Linux
11 7 (18.92%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (16.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (16.22%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (16.22%) Bash
12 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (16.22%) Flink
12 6 (16.22%) Front End Development
12 6 (16.22%) Investment Management
12 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
12 6 (16.22%) Site Reliability 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 1 (2.70%) Apache
1 1 (2.70%) JBoss
1 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (35.14%) GitHub
3 12 (32.43%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (27.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (24.32%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (21.62%) Azure
7 6 (16.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (16.22%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (13.51%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (13.51%) Serverless
9 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (10.81%) Datadog
10 3 (8.11%) Azure AKS
10 3 (8.11%) OpenShift
10 3 (8.11%) PaaS
11 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
11 2 (5.41%) Apigee
11 2 (5.41%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Flink
2 4 (10.81%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.70%) MySQL
4 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
2 4 (10.81%) Git
2 4 (10.81%) GitLab
3 2 (5.41%) Maven
3 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.70%) Ant
4 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.70%) Gradle
4 1 (2.70%) JIRA
4 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (27.03%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Banking
2 6 (16.22%) Front Office
3 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Advertising
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Law
5 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) Kafka
2 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.41%) JWT
2 2 (5.41%) Node.js
2 2 (5.41%) OAuth
3 1 (2.70%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.70%) JSON
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) React
3 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Fixed Income
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (62.16%) CI/CD
3 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (29.73%) Agile
5 7 (18.92%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (16.22%) Front End Development
6 6 (16.22%) Investment Management
6 6 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
7 5 (13.51%) Microservices
8 4 (10.81%) Fintech
8 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.11%) High Availability
9 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (8.11%) Observability
9 3 (8.11%) RBAC
10 2 (5.41%) Design Patterns
10 2 (5.41%) Runbook
10 2 (5.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) Python
2 10 (27.03%) Java
3 6 (16.22%) Bash
4 3 (8.11%) Bicep
4 3 (8.11%) Go
4 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.41%) SQL
6 1 (2.70%) Groovy
6 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.70%) PHP
6 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) GDPR
1 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.70%) QA
1 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (54.05%) Terraform
2 16 (43.24%) Kubernetes
3 9 (24.32%) Ansible
4 7 (18.92%) Argo
5 2 (5.41%) Grafana
6 1 (2.70%) Podman
6 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) AppDynamics
2 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle