AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 December 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 591 599 492
Rank change year-on-year +8 -107 +265
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 51 140 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.093% 0.22% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.23% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 33 115 204
10th Percentile £50,750 £60,000 £54,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £73,750 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £107,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +30.30% +6.45%
75th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,750 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.80% -16.67% +7.14%

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 49,330 59,759 47,838
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 94.19% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31,185 33,142 37,246
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 3 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 12 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 3 December 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 +30 46 £82,500 -24.14% 22
London -26 28 £110,000 -2.22% 12
UK excluding London +70 21 £55,750 -10.80% 17
Work from Home +30 17 £82,500 -25.00% 9
Midlands +64 11 £51,500 -31.33%
West Midlands - 7 £51,500 -
North West +44 5 £100,000 +90.48% 1
North of England +31 5 £100,000 +70.21% 4
East Midlands +20 4 £50,000 -33.33%
Scotland +19 4 - - 1
South East +48 3 £63,750 +6.25% 11
East of England +40 1 £57,500 -54.00%

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

For the 6 months to 3 December 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 51 (100.00%) AWS
1 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (74.51%) CI/CD
3 31 (60.78%) Python
4 28 (54.90%) Terraform
5 26 (50.98%) Kubernetes
6 17 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (33.33%) Docker
7 16 (31.37%) Jenkins
8 15 (29.41%) Bash
9 14 (27.45%) GitHub
9 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (25.49%) Linux
11 12 (23.53%) Agile
11 12 (23.53%) Ansible
11 12 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (23.53%) Azure
11 12 (23.53%) Java
12 11 (21.57%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (21.57%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (21.57%) Grafana
12 11 (21.57%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (19.61%) Kafka
14 9 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (17.65%) Groovy
14 9 (17.65%) Observability
14 9 (17.65%) PowerShell
14 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
14 9 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 8 (15.69%) Configuration Management

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 3 (5.88%) Apache
1 3 (5.88%) Confluence
1 3 (5.88%) JBoss
1 3 (5.88%) nginx
1 3 (5.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 51 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (27.45%) GitHub
4 12 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (23.53%) Azure
5 11 (21.57%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (21.57%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (15.69%) OpenShift
8 7 (13.73%) Amazon S3
9 6 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (11.76%) PaaS
9 6 (11.76%) Serverless
10 5 (9.80%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (7.84%) Datadog
12 3 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) DNS
1 4 (7.84%) Firewall
1 4 (7.84%) HTTP
2 3 (5.88%) FTP
2 3 (5.88%) IMAP
2 3 (5.88%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (5.88%) SMTP
2 3 (5.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (11.76%) Flink
2 4 (7.84%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.92%) KDB
5 1 (1.96%) MySQL
5 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (31.37%) Jenkins
2 8 (15.69%) Git
2 8 (15.69%) GitLab
3 7 (13.73%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (11.76%) JIRA
5 3 (5.88%) Ant
5 3 (5.88%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.88%) Maven
5 3 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.88%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (33.33%) Finance
2 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 8 (15.69%) Banking
4 6 (11.76%) Front Office
5 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
6 4 (7.84%) Law
7 3 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.92%) Advertising
8 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) Kafka
2 6 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (9.80%) Node.js
4 3 (5.88%) .NET
4 3 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 3 (5.88%) AWS CDK
4 3 (5.88%) LDAP
4 3 (5.88%) Middleware
5 2 (3.92%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.92%) AWS SAM
5 2 (3.92%) JWT
5 2 (3.92%) OAuth
6 1 (1.96%) React
6 1 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Fixed Income
2 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) Clustering
2 3 (5.88%) e-Learning
2 3 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.88%) Replication
3 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 13 (25.49%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) Windows
3 5 (9.80%) Unix
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (74.51%) CI/CD
3 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (23.53%) Agile
5 11 (21.57%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (17.65%) Observability
6 9 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 8 (15.69%) Configuration Management
7 8 (15.69%) Containerisation
8 7 (13.73%) SDLC
9 6 (11.76%) Front End Development
9 6 (11.76%) Investment Management
9 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (9.80%) AI
10 5 (9.80%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
10 5 (9.80%) Software Delivery
11 4 (7.84%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (7.84%) Load Balancing
11 4 (7.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (60.78%) Python
2 15 (29.41%) Bash
3 12 (23.53%) Java
4 9 (17.65%) Groovy
4 9 (17.65%) PowerShell
5 8 (15.69%) JavaScript
6 6 (11.76%) Go
7 4 (7.84%) SQL
8 3 (5.88%) Bicep
8 3 (5.88%) C#
8 3 (5.88%) C++
8 3 (5.88%) Ruby
8 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.96%) PHP
9 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.88%) Degree
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) QA
System Software
1 17 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (5.88%) DFS Replication
2 3 (5.88%) Dovecot
2 3 (5.88%) Postfix
2 3 (5.88%) Squid
Systems Management
1 28 (54.90%) Terraform
2 26 (50.98%) Kubernetes
3 12 (23.53%) Ansible
4 11 (21.57%) Grafana
5 7 (13.73%) Argo
5 7 (13.73%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.88%) Nessus
6 3 (5.88%) Podman
6 3 (5.88%) Proxmox
6 3 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (5.88%) Cribl.io
1 3 (5.88%) IBM
1 3 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
1 3 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
1 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
1 3 (5.88%) Sonatype
2 2 (3.92%) AppDynamics
2 2 (3.92%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle