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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 684 573 639
Rank change year-on-year -111 +66 -194
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 78 62 93
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.075% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 65 28 61
10th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £54,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -3.03% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

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 96,649 39,098 62,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 90.50% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,643 23,014 36,042
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% -0.91% -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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -76 36 £70,000 -12.50% 49
North of England -46 24 £75,000 +15.38% 27
North West -17 18 £78,750 +21.15% 20
South West - 14 £60,000 - 11
South East -40 4 £80,000 +113.33% 10
Yorkshire - 3 £70,000 - 5
North East - 3 £60,000 - 2
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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 78 (100.00%) AWS
1 78 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (53.85%) Security Cleared
3 38 (48.72%) Terraform
4 37 (47.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (46.15%) CI/CD
6 35 (44.87%) SC Cleared
7 28 (35.90%) Observability
8 27 (34.62%) Agile
8 27 (34.62%) Kubernetes
9 26 (33.33%) Docker
10 23 (29.49%) Python
11 21 (26.92%) Bash
12 20 (25.64%) Grafana
12 20 (25.64%) Jenkins
13 18 (23.08%) Prometheus
13 18 (23.08%) Test Automation
14 17 (21.79%) GitLab
15 16 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (19.23%) Containerisation
17 14 (17.95%) Git
18 13 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
18 13 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
18 13 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
19 12 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
19 12 (15.38%) Secrets Management
20 11 (14.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 11 (14.10%) Change Management
20 11 (14.10%) Identity Management
20 11 (14.10%) ITIL

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 (2.56%) Confluence
1 2 (2.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 78 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 12 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (14.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (12.82%) Serverless
6 9 (11.54%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 9 (11.54%) GitHub
7 6 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (7.69%) Azure
7 6 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.13%) Datadog
8 4 (5.13%) Route 53
8 4 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.56%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) DNS
1 1 (1.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (12.82%) Redis
3 9 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (1.28%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 20 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 17 (21.79%) GitLab
3 14 (17.95%) Git
4 3 (3.85%) git-flow
5 2 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.56%) JIRA
5 2 (2.56%) Snyk
6 1 (1.28%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.28%) Postman
General
1 11 (14.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.56%) Finance
4 1 (1.28%) Banking
4 1 (1.28%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (48.72%) Terraform
2 13 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (11.54%) Kafka
3 9 (11.54%) Keycloak
4 8 (10.26%) Pulumi
5 4 (5.13%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.56%) .NET
6 2 (2.56%) OpenTofu
6 2 (2.56%) RESTful
7 1 (1.28%) Next.js
7 1 (1.28%) Node.js
7 1 (1.28%) React
7 1 (1.28%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 25 (32.05%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.54%) Replication
3 4 (5.13%) Life Science
3 4 (5.13%) PropTech
4 2 (2.56%) Genomics
4 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.28%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.13%) Linux
2 2 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (47.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 28 (35.90%) Observability
5 27 (34.62%) Agile
6 18 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 16 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (19.23%) Containerisation
9 12 (15.38%) Secrets Management
10 11 (14.10%) Change Management
10 11 (14.10%) Identity Management
10 11 (14.10%) ITIL
10 11 (14.10%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (12.82%) Cloud Security
11 10 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (12.82%) Roadmaps
12 9 (11.54%) Build Automation
12 9 (11.54%) Product Roadmap
12 9 (11.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.49%) Python
2 21 (26.92%) Bash
3 11 (14.10%) PowerShell
4 9 (11.54%) Groovy
5 3 (3.85%) Java
5 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.56%) C#
7 1 (1.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 42 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 35 (44.87%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 20 (25.64%) Grafana
3 18 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 10 (12.82%) Argo
5 9 (11.54%) Rancher
6 3 (3.85%) Ansible
7 2 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.56%) Puppet
7 2 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (11.54%) Dynatrace
1 9 (11.54%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.56%) Atlassian
2 2 (2.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.28%) Cognizant
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle