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 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 605 460
Rank change year-on-year +30 -145 +269
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 48 125 236
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.20% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.22% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 31 100 215
10th Percentile £50,750 £60,000 £54,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £100,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +21.21% +6.45%
75th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £100,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -17.50% +21.21% +6.45%

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 41,993 57,862 44,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.39% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 27,075 32,736 34,532
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -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 22 November 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 22 November 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 0 29 £100,000 -9.09% 15
Midlands +77 13 £51,500 -31.33% 1
West Midlands - 9 £51,500 -
North West +48 5 £100,000 +90.48% 5
North of England +44 5 £100,000 +70.21% 8
East Midlands +31 4 £50,000 -33.33% 1
South East +35 2 £63,750 +4.08% 8
East of England +21 1 £57,500 -43.21% 1
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 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 48 (100.00%) AWS
1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 32 (66.67%) Python
4 29 (60.42%) Terraform
5 21 (43.75%) Kubernetes
6 18 (37.50%) Jenkins
7 17 (35.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (35.42%) Docker
8 14 (29.17%) Azure
9 13 (27.08%) Bash
9 13 (27.08%) GitHub
9 13 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (27.08%) Linux
9 13 (27.08%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (25.00%) Agile
11 11 (22.92%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (22.92%) Ansible
11 11 (22.92%) Grafana
11 11 (22.92%) Groovy
11 11 (22.92%) Java
11 11 (22.92%) PowerShell
12 10 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (20.83%) Configuration Management
12 10 (20.83%) Git
12 10 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (18.75%) Amazon S3
13 9 (18.75%) Containerisation
13 9 (18.75%) GitLab

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 5 (10.42%) Confluence
1 5 (10.42%) nginx
2 3 (6.25%) Apache
2 3 (6.25%) JBoss
2 3 (6.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 48 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (35.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (29.17%) Azure
4 13 (27.08%) GitHub
5 11 (22.92%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (18.75%) Amazon S3
8 7 (14.58%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (10.42%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (10.42%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (10.42%) AWS KMS
9 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (10.42%) OpenShift
9 5 (10.42%) Route 53
9 5 (10.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) DNS
1 6 (12.50%) Firewall
1 6 (12.50%) HTTP
2 5 (10.42%) FTP
2 5 (10.42%) IMAP
2 5 (10.42%) OpenLDAP
2 5 (10.42%) SMTP
2 5 (10.42%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.42%) Flink
4 3 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.25%) KDB
5 1 (2.08%) MySQL
5 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.83%) Git
3 9 (18.75%) GitLab
4 8 (16.67%) JIRA
4 8 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (10.42%) Vagrant
6 4 (8.33%) SonarQube
7 3 (6.25%) Ant
7 3 (6.25%) Artifactory
7 3 (6.25%) Bitbucket
7 3 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 17 (35.42%) Finance
2 8 (16.67%) Banking
2 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (10.42%) Front Office
5 5 (10.42%) Law
5 5 (10.42%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Advertising
6 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) Kafka
2 5 (10.42%) LDAP
2 5 (10.42%) Node.js
3 4 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.25%) .NET
4 3 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 3 (6.25%) Middleware
5 2 (4.17%) ARM Templates
5 2 (4.17%) JWT
5 2 (4.17%) OAuth
5 2 (4.17%) REST
6 1 (2.08%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Fixed Income
1 5 (10.42%) Replication
2 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.25%) e-Learning
3 3 (6.25%) Equities
3 3 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.08%) Linux
2 8 (16.67%) Windows
3 5 (10.42%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (10.42%) Ubuntu
3 5 (10.42%) VMS
4 4 (8.33%) Unix
5 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (27.08%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (25.00%) Agile
5 10 (20.83%) Configuration Management
6 9 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 8 (16.67%) SDLC
7 8 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (14.58%) Observability
8 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (12.50%) AI
9 6 (12.50%) Cloud Security
9 6 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (10.42%) Analytics
10 5 (10.42%) Change Management
10 5 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (10.42%) Investment Management
10 5 (10.42%) Machine Learning
10 5 (10.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (66.67%) Python
2 13 (27.08%) Bash
3 11 (22.92%) Groovy
3 11 (22.92%) Java
3 11 (22.92%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.50%) SQL
5 4 (8.33%) Go
6 3 (6.25%) Bicep
6 3 (6.25%) C#
6 3 (6.25%) C++
6 3 (6.25%) Ruby
7 1 (2.08%) PHP
7 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Certification
3 5 (10.42%) Azure Certification
3 5 (10.42%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 17 (35.42%) Docker
2 5 (10.42%) DFS Replication
2 5 (10.42%) Dovecot
2 5 (10.42%) Postfix
2 5 (10.42%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (60.42%) Terraform
2 21 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 11 (22.92%) Ansible
3 11 (22.92%) Grafana
4 9 (18.75%) Prometheus
5 6 (12.50%) Argo
6 5 (10.42%) Nessus
6 5 (10.42%) Proxmox
7 3 (6.25%) Podman
7 3 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Jaspersoft
1 5 (10.42%) ServiceNow
2 3 (6.25%) Cribl.io
2 3 (6.25%) IBM
2 3 (6.25%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.25%) Sonatype
3 2 (4.17%) AppDynamics
3 2 (4.17%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle