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 25 February 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 482 551
Rank change year-on-year -101 +69 +61
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 52 178 204
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.085% 0.42% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.46% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 47 157 186
10th Percentile £50,450 £80,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,625 £97,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +31.34% +6.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £114,375
90th Percentile £150,000 - £138,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +33.33% +3.13%

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 56,094 38,898 63,092
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 91.19% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 36,213 21,024 50,302
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,750 £28,865
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -106 22 £100,000 -9.09% 6
North West +10 13 £70,000 -22.22% 10
North of England -15 13 £70,000 -12.50% 10
Midlands +1 8 £51,500 -35.63%
South West -16 5 £100,000 +53.85% 4
East Midlands -27 5 £75,000 -6.25%
South East -8 4 £65,000 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £51,500 -
East of England +3 1 £57,500 -11.54%
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 February 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 52 (100.00%) AWS
1 52 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (48.08%) CI/CD
3 24 (46.15%) Terraform
4 21 (40.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (38.46%) Python
6 19 (36.54%) Kubernetes
7 14 (26.92%) GitHub
8 13 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (25.00%) Security Cleared
9 11 (21.15%) Ansible
9 11 (21.15%) Azure
9 11 (21.15%) Docker
9 11 (21.15%) Jenkins
9 11 (21.15%) Kafka
10 10 (19.23%) Agile
10 10 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (19.23%) Java
11 9 (17.31%) Bash
11 9 (17.31%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (15.38%) Containerisation
12 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
13 7 (13.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (13.46%) Argo
13 7 (13.46%) Datadog
13 7 (13.46%) Linux
13 7 (13.46%) Microservices
13 7 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
13 7 (13.46%) Serverless

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 (1.92%) Apache
1 1 (1.92%) JBoss
1 1 (1.92%) SAS
1 1 (1.92%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (26.92%) GitHub
3 13 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 13 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (21.15%) Azure
5 10 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (13.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (13.46%) Datadog
6 7 (13.46%) Serverless
7 6 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (9.62%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.69%) Azure AKS
10 3 (5.77%) GCP
10 3 (5.77%) OpenShift
11 2 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.85%) Apigee
11 2 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) DNS
1 1 (1.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Flink
2 4 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.92%) Metadata
4 1 (1.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (21.15%) Jenkins
2 6 (11.54%) GitLab
3 4 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.77%) CircleCI
4 3 (5.77%) Git
5 2 (3.85%) Maven
5 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.92%) Ant
6 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.92%) Gradle
6 1 (1.92%) JIRA
6 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (25.00%) Finance
2 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Front Office
5 2 (3.85%) Advertising
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Law
5 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) Kafka
2 4 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.77%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.85%) JWT
4 2 (3.85%) Node.js
4 2 (3.85%) OAuth
5 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.92%) JSON
5 1 (1.92%) Middleware
5 1 (1.92%) React
5 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.92%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (48.08%) CI/CD
3 21 (40.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (19.23%) Agile
5 9 (17.31%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 7 (13.46%) Microservices
7 7 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (11.54%) Fintech
8 6 (11.54%) Front End Development
8 6 (11.54%) Investment Management
8 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (9.62%) High Availability
9 5 (9.62%) Mentoring
10 4 (7.69%) Observability
10 4 (7.69%) RBAC
10 4 (7.69%) Software Engineering
11 3 (5.77%) Runbook
11 3 (5.77%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) Python
2 10 (19.23%) Java
3 9 (17.31%) Bash
4 5 (9.62%) Go
5 4 (7.69%) Bicep
5 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.77%) SQL
7 1 (1.92%) Groovy
7 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) GDPR
1 3 (5.77%) PCI DSS
1 3 (5.77%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (46.15%) Terraform
2 19 (36.54%) Kubernetes
3 11 (21.15%) Ansible
4 7 (13.46%) Argo
5 5 (9.62%) Grafana
6 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.92%) Podman
7 1 (1.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (7.69%) LogicMonitor
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.77%) SolarWinds
3 2 (3.85%) AppDynamics