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 6 April 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 439 617
Rank change year-on-year -144 +178 -4
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 81 171 194
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.47% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.52% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 75 152 178
10th Percentile £45,800 £78,875 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £98,438 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +33.33% +6.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 - £123,875
UK median annual salary £77,500 £110,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -29.55% +33.33% +6.45%

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 66,961 32,899 74,672
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 89.80% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44,022 21,259 58,070
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.72%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 6 April 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 April 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 -100 38 £90,000 -18.18% 6
North of England -44 21 £60,000 -25.00% 6
North West -12 17 £65,000 -27.78% 4
South West -43 9 £100,000 +81.82%
South East -33 7 £75,000 +57.89% 3
Midlands -29 4 £68,750 -14.06% 1
North East -25 3 £60,000 -14.29% 2
East Midlands -44 3 £75,000 -6.25%
East of England -35 1 £57,500 -11.54% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 1
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 April 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 81 (100.00%) AWS
1 81 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (45.68%) Terraform
3 35 (43.21%) CI/CD
4 34 (41.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (40.74%) Python
6 29 (35.80%) Kubernetes
7 24 (29.63%) Azure
8 23 (28.40%) Containerisation
8 23 (28.40%) Docker
8 23 (28.40%) Security Cleared
9 22 (27.16%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (25.93%) Kafka
11 16 (19.75%) Ansible
11 16 (19.75%) GCP
12 15 (18.52%) Go
13 14 (17.28%) GitHub
13 14 (17.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (16.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (16.05%) SC Cleared
15 12 (14.81%) Jenkins
15 12 (14.81%) Serverless
16 11 (13.58%) Microservices
16 11 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
17 10 (12.35%) Bash
17 10 (12.35%) Datadog
17 10 (12.35%) Fintech
17 10 (12.35%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (12.35%) Mentoring
18 9 (11.11%) Agile

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 1 (1.23%) Apache
1 1 (1.23%) Confluence
1 1 (1.23%) Drupal
1 1 (1.23%) IIS
1 1 (1.23%) nginx
1 1 (1.23%) SAS
1 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (29.63%) Azure
3 22 (27.16%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (19.75%) GCP
5 14 (17.28%) GitHub
6 13 (16.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (14.81%) Serverless
8 10 (12.35%) Datadog
8 10 (12.35%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (9.88%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (9.88%) OpenShift
10 7 (8.64%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (6.17%) Amazon S3
12 5 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
13 3 (3.70%) Apigee
13 3 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.64%) NoSQL
2 6 (7.41%) Flink
3 5 (6.17%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.23%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.23%) Metadata
5 1 (1.23%) MySQL
5 1 (1.23%) Redis
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.11%) GitLab
3 7 (8.64%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.70%) Git
6 2 (2.47%) JIRA
6 2 (2.47%) Maven
7 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.23%) Gatling
7 1 (1.23%) git-flow
7 1 (1.23%) Gradle
7 1 (1.23%) JMeter
7 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.23%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (30.86%) Finance
2 20 (24.69%) Banking
3 13 (16.05%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.41%) Front Office
5 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.70%) Advertising
7 2 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Games
7 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Law
8 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.23%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.93%) Kafka
2 8 (9.88%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.47%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.47%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.47%) JSON
3 2 (2.47%) JWT
3 2 (2.47%) Node.js
3 2 (2.47%) OAuth
3 2 (2.47%) YAML
4 1 (1.23%) .NET
4 1 (1.23%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.23%) Memcached
4 1 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.41%) Fixed Income
2 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.23%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (43.21%) CI/CD
3 34 (41.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (28.40%) Containerisation
5 14 (17.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (13.58%) Microservices
6 11 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (12.35%) Fintech
7 10 (12.35%) Mentoring
8 9 (11.11%) Agile
8 9 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (11.11%) High Availability
8 9 (11.11%) Open Source
9 8 (9.88%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (9.88%) Software Engineering
10 7 (8.64%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (8.64%) Incident Management
10 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure Management
11 6 (7.41%) Front End Development
11 6 (7.41%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (40.74%) Python
2 15 (18.52%) Go
3 10 (12.35%) Bash
4 9 (11.11%) Java
5 7 (8.64%) SQL
6 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.47%) Bicep
7 2 (2.47%) Groovy
7 2 (2.47%) PHP
8 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (28.40%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) GDPR
1 7 (8.64%) PCI DSS
1 7 (8.64%) SOC 2
2 2 (2.47%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (28.40%) Docker
2 8 (9.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (45.68%) Terraform
2 29 (35.80%) Kubernetes
3 16 (19.75%) Ansible
4 9 (11.11%) Grafana
5 8 (9.88%) Istio
5 8 (9.88%) Prometheus
6 7 (8.64%) Argo
7 2 (2.47%) Packer
7 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.23%) Consul
8 1 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (9.88%) Confluent
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.47%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.23%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.23%) Google
4 1 (1.23%) IBM
4 1 (1.23%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.23%) TOWER Software