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 £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 663 447
Rank change year-on-year +82 -216 +300
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 69 86 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.13% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.13% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 33 54 279
10th Percentile £50,150 £53,100 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,250 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% -7.58% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,438 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £100,875 £142,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -

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 39,014 65,405 51,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 95.19% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,405 39,738 39,633
10th Percentile £28,300 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +78 48 £80,000 -8.57% 9
Midlands +52 13 £52,750 -34.06% 1
West Midlands - 10 £51,500 - 1
North of England +37 5 £65,000 - 12
North West +15 5 £65,000 +10.64% 9
East Midlands +22 3 £54,000 -32.50%
South West +65 2 - - 3
South East +38 2 £37,500 -40.00% 9
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, AWS DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 69 (100.00%) AWS
1 69 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (63.77%) Python
3 43 (62.32%) CI/CD
4 39 (56.52%) Terraform
5 32 (46.38%) Kubernetes
5 32 (46.38%) Docker
6 24 (34.78%) Jenkins
7 21 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (30.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (28.99%) Public Sector
8 20 (28.99%) Containerisation
8 20 (28.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (28.99%) Linux
9 19 (27.54%) Artificial Intelligence
9 19 (27.54%) Bash
10 18 (26.09%) Azure
11 17 (24.64%) IBM
11 17 (24.64%) Grafana
12 16 (23.19%) Ansible
12 16 (23.19%) Mentoring
12 16 (23.19%) Coaching
12 16 (23.19%) GitLab
13 15 (21.74%) Sonatype Nexus
13 15 (21.74%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (21.74%) Red Hat
13 15 (21.74%) Configuration Management
13 15 (21.74%) Finance
13 15 (21.74%) Groovy
14 14 (20.29%) Git

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.14%) Confluence
2 6 (8.70%) Apache
2 6 (8.70%) nginx
3 4 (5.80%) JBoss
3 4 (5.80%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.45%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 69 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (30.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (26.09%) Azure
4 13 (18.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (15.94%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (15.94%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (15.94%) Amazon S3
6 10 (14.49%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (14.49%) OpenShift
7 8 (11.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (10.14%) Amazon ELB
8 7 (10.14%) AWS KMS
8 7 (10.14%) GitHub
8 7 (10.14%) Route 53
9 6 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (5.80%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.80%) GCP
10 4 (5.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.49%) Firewall
2 8 (11.59%) HTTP
3 7 (10.14%) DNS
3 7 (10.14%) FTP
3 7 (10.14%) SMTP
3 7 (10.14%) SSH
4 6 (8.70%) IMAP
4 6 (8.70%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.49%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.80%) KDB
5 2 (2.90%) MySQL
5 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.45%) DB2
6 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 16 (23.19%) GitLab
3 15 (21.74%) Sonatype Nexus
4 14 (20.29%) Git
5 11 (15.94%) JIRA
6 9 (13.04%) SonarQube
7 7 (10.14%) Vagrant
8 5 (7.25%) Artifactory
9 4 (5.80%) Ant
9 4 (5.80%) Maven
10 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
General
1 20 (28.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 20 (28.99%) Public Sector
2 15 (21.74%) Finance
3 10 (14.49%) Banking
4 9 (13.04%) Social Skills
5 7 (10.14%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Law
7 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.04%) Kafka
2 7 (10.14%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (10.14%) REST
3 6 (8.70%) LDAP
4 4 (5.80%) .NET
4 4 (5.80%) Middleware
5 3 (4.35%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.35%) Node.js
6 2 (2.90%) LAMP
6 2 (2.90%) React
7 1 (1.45%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.45%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.45%) Backbone.js
7 1 (1.45%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.45%) boto
7 1 (1.45%) Ember.js
7 1 (1.45%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (20.29%) e-Learning
3 7 (10.14%) Replication
4 4 (5.80%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.80%) Equities
4 4 (5.80%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (28.99%) Linux
2 13 (18.84%) Windows
3 8 (11.59%) VMS
4 7 (10.14%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (10.14%) Unix
5 6 (8.70%) Ubuntu
6 4 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.45%) Android
7 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (100.00%) DevOps
2 43 (62.32%) CI/CD
3 21 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (28.99%) Containerisation
5 19 (27.54%) Artificial Intelligence
6 16 (23.19%) Coaching
6 16 (23.19%) Mentoring
7 15 (21.74%) Configuration Management
8 14 (20.29%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (17.39%) Machine Learning
10 11 (15.94%) Agile
10 11 (15.94%) Observability
10 11 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (14.49%) Cloud Security
11 10 (14.49%) SDLC
12 8 (11.59%) Software Engineering
13 7 (10.14%) Change Management
13 7 (10.14%) Patch Management
13 7 (10.14%) Performance Tuning
13 7 (10.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (63.77%) Python
2 19 (27.54%) Bash
3 15 (21.74%) Groovy
4 13 (18.84%) PowerShell
5 10 (14.49%) Go
6 9 (13.04%) SQL
7 7 (10.14%) Java
7 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.35%) C#
8 3 (4.35%) C++
8 3 (4.35%) Perl
8 3 (4.35%) PHP
8 3 (4.35%) Ruby
9 2 (2.90%) Bicep
9 2 (2.90%) C
10 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.04%) AWS Certification
4 8 (11.59%) Degree
5 7 (10.14%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (46.38%) Docker
2 7 (10.14%) DFS Replication
3 6 (8.70%) Dovecot
3 6 (8.70%) Postfix
3 6 (8.70%) Squid
4 4 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (56.52%) Terraform
2 32 (46.38%) Kubernetes
3 17 (24.64%) Grafana
4 16 (23.19%) Ansible
5 13 (18.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.70%) Nessus
6 6 (8.70%) Proxmox
7 4 (5.80%) Istio
7 4 (5.80%) Podman
7 4 (5.80%) Puppet
8 1 (1.45%) Argo
8 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (24.64%) IBM
2 15 (21.74%) Red Hat
3 7 (10.14%) ServiceNow
4 6 (8.70%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (5.80%) Confluent
6 3 (4.35%) Cribl.io
6 3 (4.35%) Sonatype
7 2 (2.90%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.90%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.45%) Oracle
8 1 (1.45%) SolarWinds