AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 633 473
Rank change year-on-year +52 -160 +300
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 68 102 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.15% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.16% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 34 77 237
10th Percentile £50,225 £51,250 £54,500
25th Percentile £52,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £96,875 £116,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £128,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.57% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 45,153 64,335 50,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 95.04% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 28,095 36,400 39,152
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,200 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,410 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% -4.32% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +56 61 £80,000 -11.11% 53
London +25 40 £82,500 -19.51% 26
UK excluding London +69 25 £54,000 -20.00% 42
Work from Home +32 22 £80,000 -8.57% 36
Midlands +63 15 £51,500 -31.33%
West Midlands - 11 £51,500 -
North West +33 5 £100,000 +90.48% 13
North of England +15 5 £100,000 +70.21% 17
East Midlands +24 4 £50,000 -33.33%
Scotland +5 4 - - 2
Wales +7 2 £57,500 +35.29%
East of England +29 1 £57,500 -43.21%
South East +22 1 £37,500 -40.00% 17

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) AWS
1 68 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (72.06%) CI/CD
3 44 (64.71%) Python
4 37 (54.41%) Terraform
5 28 (41.18%) Docker
5 28 (41.18%) Kubernetes
6 26 (38.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (33.82%) Jenkins
8 22 (32.35%) Linux
9 21 (30.88%) Bash
9 21 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (29.41%) Grafana
11 18 (26.47%) AI
12 17 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (23.53%) Ansible
13 16 (23.53%) Azure
13 16 (23.53%) Mentoring
14 15 (22.06%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (22.06%) Configuration Management
14 15 (22.06%) Security Cleared
15 14 (20.59%) Amazon S3
15 14 (20.59%) Coaching
15 14 (20.59%) Containerisation
15 14 (20.59%) GitHub
15 14 (20.59%) IBM
15 14 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (20.59%) PowerShell
15 14 (20.59%) Prometheus
15 14 (20.59%) Red Hat

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (10.29%) Confluence
2 6 (8.82%) nginx
3 4 (5.88%) Apache
4 3 (4.41%) JBoss
4 3 (4.41%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.47%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (38.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 17 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (23.53%) Azure
5 15 (22.06%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (20.59%) Amazon S3
6 14 (20.59%) GitHub
7 12 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (16.18%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (16.18%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (13.24%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (13.24%) Serverless
10 8 (11.76%) OpenShift
11 7 (10.29%) Amazon ELB
11 7 (10.29%) AWS KMS
11 7 (10.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (8.82%) PaaS
12 6 (8.82%) Route 53
13 5 (7.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.71%) Firewall
2 8 (11.76%) DNS
2 8 (11.76%) HTTP
3 7 (10.29%) FTP
3 7 (10.29%) SMTP
3 7 (10.29%) SSH
4 6 (8.82%) IMAP
4 6 (8.82%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.88%) KDB
5 3 (4.41%) Flink
6 2 (2.94%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.47%) MySQL
7 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (33.82%) Jenkins
2 13 (19.12%) Git
3 10 (14.71%) GitLab
3 10 (14.71%) JIRA
3 10 (14.71%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (10.29%) Vagrant
5 5 (7.35%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.41%) Ant
6 3 (4.41%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.41%) Maven
7 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
General
1 21 (30.88%) Public Sector
2 19 (27.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (19.12%) Finance
4 8 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 7 (10.29%) Banking
5 7 (10.29%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (8.82%) Law
7 3 (4.41%) Front Office
8 2 (2.94%) Advertising
8 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (10.29%) Kafka
3 6 (8.82%) LDAP
4 5 (7.35%) Node.js
5 4 (5.88%) .NET
6 3 (4.41%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.41%) AWS CDK
6 3 (4.41%) Middleware
6 3 (4.41%) REST
7 2 (2.94%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.94%) AWS SAM
7 2 (2.94%) JWT
7 2 (2.94%) OAuth
8 1 (1.47%) LAMP
8 1 (1.47%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) e-Learning
1 14 (20.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (10.29%) Replication
3 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.88%) Equities
5 3 (4.41%) Clustering
5 3 (4.41%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.35%) Linux
2 11 (16.18%) Windows
3 9 (13.24%) Unix
4 8 (11.76%) VMS
5 7 (10.29%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (8.82%) Ubuntu
7 3 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (72.06%) CI/CD
3 21 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (26.47%) AI
5 16 (23.53%) Mentoring
6 15 (22.06%) Configuration Management
7 14 (20.59%) Coaching
7 14 (20.59%) Containerisation
7 14 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (17.65%) Agile
8 12 (17.65%) Observability
9 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (14.71%) Software Engineering
11 9 (13.24%) Cloud Security
11 9 (13.24%) SDLC
12 8 (11.76%) Machine Learning
13 7 (10.29%) Change Management
13 7 (10.29%) Disaster Recovery
13 7 (10.29%) Patch Management
13 7 (10.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 44 (64.71%) Python
2 21 (30.88%) Bash
3 14 (20.59%) PowerShell
4 13 (19.12%) Groovy
5 10 (14.71%) Java
5 10 (14.71%) JavaScript
6 8 (11.76%) Go
6 8 (11.76%) SQL
7 3 (4.41%) Bicep
7 3 (4.41%) C#
7 3 (4.41%) C++
7 3 (4.41%) PHP
7 3 (4.41%) Ruby
7 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.94%) Perl
9 1 (1.47%) C
9 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.12%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.29%) AWS Certification
3 7 (10.29%) Azure Certification
3 7 (10.29%) Degree
4 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) QA
System Software
1 28 (41.18%) Docker
2 7 (10.29%) DFS Replication
3 6 (8.82%) Dovecot
3 6 (8.82%) Postfix
3 6 (8.82%) Squid
4 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (54.41%) Terraform
2 28 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 20 (29.41%) Grafana
4 16 (23.53%) Ansible
5 14 (20.59%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.82%) Nessus
6 6 (8.82%) Proxmox
7 4 (5.88%) Argo
8 3 (4.41%) Podman
8 3 (4.41%) Puppet
9 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) IBM
1 14 (20.59%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.29%) ServiceNow
3 6 (8.82%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (4.41%) Cribl.io
4 3 (4.41%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.41%) Sonatype
5 2 (2.94%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.94%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle