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 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 586 452
Rank change year-on-year +15 -134 +260
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 47 135 229
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.23% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.24% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 31 110 210
10th Percentile £50,750 £60,000 £54,875
25th Percentile £56,250 £81,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £107,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.26% +30.30% +6.45%
75th Percentile £117,500 £122,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +27.27% +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 42,623 55,882 43,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.69% 94.16% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 27,509 31,264 33,899
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,471 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 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 29 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 -9 28 £110,000 -2.22% 9
Midlands +67 12 £51,500 -31.33%
West Midlands - 8 £51,500 -
North West +58 5 £100,000 +90.48% 2
North of England +53 5 £100,000 +70.21% 5
East Midlands +28 4 £50,000 -33.33%
South East +45 3 £63,750 +6.25% 8
East of England +34 1 £57,500 -54.00%
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 47 (100.00%) AWS
1 47 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (72.34%) CI/CD
3 30 (63.83%) Python
4 27 (57.45%) Terraform
5 21 (44.68%) Kubernetes
6 17 (36.17%) Jenkins
7 16 (34.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (34.04%) Docker
8 14 (29.79%) GitHub
9 13 (27.66%) Azure
9 13 (27.66%) Bash
10 12 (25.53%) Agile
10 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (25.53%) Java
10 12 (25.53%) Linux
10 12 (25.53%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (23.40%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (23.40%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (21.28%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (21.28%) Ansible
12 10 (21.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (21.28%) Grafana
12 10 (21.28%) Groovy
12 10 (21.28%) Kafka
12 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
13 9 (19.15%) Configuration Management
13 9 (19.15%) Git
13 9 (19.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 8 (17.02%) Amazon S3

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 4 (8.51%) Confluence
1 4 (8.51%) nginx
2 3 (6.38%) Apache
2 3 (6.38%) JBoss
2 3 (6.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (34.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (29.79%) GitHub
4 13 (27.66%) Azure
5 11 (23.40%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (23.40%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (21.28%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (21.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (17.02%) Amazon S3
8 6 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (12.77%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (10.64%) OpenShift
10 4 (8.51%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (8.51%) Datadog
10 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (8.51%) Route 53
10 4 (8.51%) Serverless
10 4 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) DNS
1 5 (10.64%) Firewall
1 5 (10.64%) HTTP
2 4 (8.51%) FTP
2 4 (8.51%) IMAP
2 4 (8.51%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (8.51%) SMTP
2 4 (8.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (12.77%) Flink
3 5 (10.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.38%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.26%) KDB
6 1 (2.13%) MySQL
6 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (36.17%) Jenkins
2 9 (19.15%) Git
3 8 (17.02%) GitLab
4 7 (14.89%) JIRA
4 7 (14.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (8.51%) Vagrant
6 3 (6.38%) Ant
6 3 (6.38%) Artifactory
6 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket
6 3 (6.38%) Maven
6 3 (6.38%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (36.17%) Finance
2 8 (17.02%) Banking
3 7 (14.89%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.77%) Front Office
4 6 (12.77%) Social Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (8.51%) Law
6 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.26%) Advertising
7 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) Kafka
2 5 (10.64%) Node.js
3 4 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (8.51%) LDAP
4 3 (6.38%) .NET
4 3 (6.38%) .NET Framework
4 3 (6.38%) Middleware
5 2 (4.26%) ARM Templates
5 2 (4.26%) JWT
5 2 (4.26%) OAuth
6 1 (2.13%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.13%) React
6 1 (2.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Fixed Income
2 4 (8.51%) Replication
3 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) e-Learning
3 3 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Linux
2 7 (14.89%) Windows
3 4 (8.51%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (8.51%) Ubuntu
3 4 (8.51%) VMS
4 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (72.34%) CI/CD
3 12 (25.53%) Agile
3 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (25.53%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (19.15%) Configuration Management
4 9 (19.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 8 (17.02%) Containerisation
6 7 (14.89%) Observability
6 7 (14.89%) SDLC
7 6 (12.77%) Front End Development
7 6 (12.77%) Investment Management
7 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.64%) AI
8 5 (10.64%) Cloud Security
8 5 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (10.64%) Software Delivery
9 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (8.51%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (63.83%) Python
2 13 (27.66%) Bash
3 12 (25.53%) Java
4 10 (21.28%) Groovy
4 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
5 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
6 5 (10.64%) SQL
7 4 (8.51%) Go
8 3 (6.38%) Bicep
8 3 (6.38%) C#
8 3 (6.38%) C++
8 3 (6.38%) Ruby
9 1 (2.13%) PHP
9 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.51%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) QA
System Software
1 16 (34.04%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) DFS Replication
2 4 (8.51%) Dovecot
2 4 (8.51%) Postfix
2 4 (8.51%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (57.45%) Terraform
2 21 (44.68%) Kubernetes
3 10 (21.28%) Ansible
3 10 (21.28%) Grafana
4 8 (17.02%) Prometheus
5 7 (14.89%) Argo
6 4 (8.51%) Nessus
6 4 (8.51%) Proxmox
7 3 (6.38%) Podman
7 3 (6.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Jaspersoft
1 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
2 3 (6.38%) Cribl.io
2 3 (6.38%) IBM
2 3 (6.38%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.38%) Sonatype
3 2 (4.26%) AppDynamics
3 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle