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 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 519 503
Rank change year-on-year -48 -16 +157
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 35 143 181
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.066% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.32% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 27 124 164
10th Percentile £50,450 £70,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £85,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £123,750 £138,750 £117,500
90th Percentile £150,000 - £143,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -22.73% +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 48,271 44,715 46,672
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 92.72% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30,563 23,396 36,518
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,419
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 15 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 15 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 -43 18 £115,000 +4.55% 9
Midlands +28 8 £50,750 -36.56% 1
North West +25 5 £100,000 +29.03% 1
North of England +14 5 £100,000 +42.86% 1
West Midlands - 5 £51,500 -
South East - 4 £65,000 - 6
East Midlands -10 3 £46,000 -42.50%
East of England +22 1 £57,500 -11.54%
South West -5 1 £60,000 -17.24% 1
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 35 (100.00%) AWS
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (68.57%) CI/CD
3 19 (54.29%) Terraform
4 18 (51.43%) Python
5 17 (48.57%) Kubernetes
6 13 (37.14%) GitHub
7 11 (31.43%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (31.43%) Docker
8 10 (28.57%) Agile
8 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (28.57%) Java
8 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
9 9 (25.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (25.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (25.71%) Azure
9 9 (25.71%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (25.71%) Kafka
9 9 (25.71%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (22.86%) Ansible
10 8 (22.86%) Linux
11 7 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (20.00%) Argo
11 7 (20.00%) Bash
11 7 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (17.14%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (17.14%) Flink
12 6 (17.14%) Front End Development
12 6 (17.14%) Git
12 6 (17.14%) Investment Management

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 2 (5.71%) Apache
1 2 (5.71%) Confluence
1 2 (5.71%) JBoss
1 2 (5.71%) nginx
1 2 (5.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (37.14%) GitHub
3 11 (31.43%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (25.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (25.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (25.71%) Azure
4 9 (25.71%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (17.14%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (14.29%) Amazon S3
8 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (11.43%) OpenShift
9 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (8.57%) Datadog
9 3 (8.57%) PaaS
9 3 (8.57%) Serverless
10 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (5.71%) Route 53
10 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) DNS
1 3 (8.57%) HTTP
2 2 (5.71%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) FTP
2 2 (5.71%) IMAP
2 2 (5.71%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (5.71%) SMTP
2 2 (5.71%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Flink
2 4 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (11.43%) DynamoDB
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.86%) MySQL
4 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.14%) Git
3 5 (14.29%) GitLab
4 4 (11.43%) Bitbucket
4 4 (11.43%) JIRA
5 3 (8.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (5.71%) Ant
6 2 (5.71%) Artifactory
6 2 (5.71%) Maven
6 2 (5.71%) SonarQube
6 2 (5.71%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Banking
2 6 (17.14%) Front Office
3 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Advertising
5 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Law
5 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) Kafka
2 3 (8.57%) Node.js
3 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.71%) JWT
3 2 (5.71%) LDAP
3 2 (5.71%) Middleware
3 2 (5.71%) OAuth
4 1 (2.86%) .NET
4 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.86%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Fixed Income
2 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.71%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Linux
2 4 (11.43%) Windows
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (68.57%) CI/CD
3 10 (28.57%) Agile
3 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (25.71%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (17.14%) Front End Development
6 6 (17.14%) Investment Management
7 5 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (8.57%) Containerisation
8 3 (8.57%) Fintech
8 3 (8.57%) Load Balancing
8 3 (8.57%) Microservices
8 3 (8.57%) Observability
8 3 (8.57%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (8.57%) SDLC
8 3 (8.57%) Software Delivery
9 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security
9 2 (5.71%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) Python
2 10 (28.57%) Java
3 7 (20.00%) Bash
4 5 (14.29%) Groovy
4 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.57%) SQL
6 2 (5.71%) Bicep
6 2 (5.71%) Go
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.86%) C#
7 1 (2.86%) C++
7 1 (2.86%) PHP
7 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.86%) Ruby
7 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 11 (31.43%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) DFS Replication
2 2 (5.71%) Dovecot
2 2 (5.71%) Postfix
2 2 (5.71%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (54.29%) Terraform
2 17 (48.57%) Kubernetes
3 8 (22.86%) Ansible
4 7 (20.00%) Argo
5 3 (8.57%) Grafana
5 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.71%) Nessus
6 2 (5.71%) Podman
6 2 (5.71%) Proxmox
6 2 (5.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) AppDynamics
1 2 (5.71%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (5.71%) LogicMonitor
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
1 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
2 1 (2.86%) Cribl.io
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Sonatype