AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £81,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 609 633 483
Rank change year-on-year +24 -150 +275
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 61 118 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.18% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 36 94 231
10th Percentile £50,750 £56,150 £55,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £68,125 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +9.09% +6.45%
75th Percentile £103,750 £118,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £138,750 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% -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 47,393 64,241 50,771
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.95% 94.75% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 29,512 36,137 39,329
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,468 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.93% -3.81% -

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 16 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 16 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 +40 55 £80,000 -11.11% 28
London +12 35 £91,250 -17.05% 17
UK excluding London +80 23 £57,500 -11.54% 19
Work from Home +53 20 £80,000 -11.11% 14
Midlands +71 13 £51,500 -31.33% 1
West Midlands - 9 £51,500 -
North West +47 5 £100,000 +90.48% 4
North of England +44 5 £100,000 +70.21% 7
East Midlands +28 4 £50,000 -33.33% 1
Scotland +3 4 - - 1
South East +23 2 £63,750 +4.08% 9
East of England +21 1 £57,500 -43.21%
Wales +11 1 £60,000 +41.18%

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 61 (100.00%) AWS
1 61 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (73.77%) CI/CD
3 38 (62.30%) Python
4 36 (59.02%) Terraform
5 27 (44.26%) Kubernetes
6 23 (37.70%) Docker
7 21 (34.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (31.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (31.15%) Jenkins
9 17 (27.87%) Bash
9 17 (27.87%) Linux
10 15 (24.59%) Ansible
10 15 (24.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (24.59%) Grafana
11 14 (22.95%) Azure
12 13 (21.31%) GitHub
12 13 (21.31%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (19.67%) Agile
13 12 (19.67%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (19.67%) Containerisation
13 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
14 11 (18.03%) AI
14 11 (18.03%) Configuration Management
14 11 (18.03%) Groovy
14 11 (18.03%) PowerShell
15 10 (16.39%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (16.39%) Amazon S3
15 10 (16.39%) Git
15 10 (16.39%) GitHub Actions

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 5 (8.20%) Confluence
1 5 (8.20%) nginx
2 3 (4.92%) Apache
2 3 (4.92%) JBoss
2 3 (4.92%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 61 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (34.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 15 (24.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (22.95%) Azure
5 13 (21.31%) GitHub
6 12 (19.67%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (16.39%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (16.39%) Amazon S3
7 10 (16.39%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (13.11%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (13.11%) OpenShift
9 7 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (11.48%) Serverless
10 6 (9.84%) PaaS
11 5 (8.20%) Amazon ELB
11 5 (8.20%) AWS KMS
11 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (8.20%) Route 53
11 5 (8.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.48%) Firewall
2 6 (9.84%) DNS
2 6 (9.84%) HTTP
3 5 (8.20%) FTP
3 5 (8.20%) IMAP
3 5 (8.20%) OpenLDAP
3 5 (8.20%) SMTP
3 5 (8.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (9.84%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.56%) Flink
3 4 (6.56%) KDB
4 3 (4.92%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.64%) MySQL
5 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (31.15%) Jenkins
2 10 (16.39%) Git
2 10 (16.39%) GitLab
3 9 (14.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (13.11%) JIRA
5 5 (8.20%) SonarQube
5 5 (8.20%) Vagrant
6 4 (6.56%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.92%) Ant
7 3 (4.92%) Artifactory
7 3 (4.92%) Maven
General
1 17 (27.87%) Finance
2 14 (22.95%) Public Sector
3 11 (18.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (13.11%) Banking
5 7 (11.48%) Social Skills
6 6 (9.84%) Law
7 5 (8.20%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (6.56%) Front Office
9 2 (3.28%) Advertising
9 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.64%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.11%) Kafka
2 7 (11.48%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.20%) LDAP
3 5 (8.20%) Node.js
4 3 (4.92%) .NET
4 3 (4.92%) .NET Framework
4 3 (4.92%) AWS CDK
4 3 (4.92%) Middleware
4 3 (4.92%) REST
5 2 (3.28%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.28%) AWS SAM
5 2 (3.28%) JWT
5 2 (3.28%) OAuth
6 1 (1.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) e-Learning
1 7 (11.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.20%) Replication
3 4 (6.56%) Equities
3 4 (6.56%) Fixed Income
4 3 (4.92%) Clustering
4 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (27.87%) Linux
2 8 (13.11%) Unix
2 8 (13.11%) Windows
3 5 (8.20%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (8.20%) Ubuntu
3 5 (8.20%) VMS
4 3 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (73.77%) CI/CD
3 19 (31.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (21.31%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (19.67%) Agile
5 12 (19.67%) Containerisation
6 11 (18.03%) AI
6 11 (18.03%) Configuration Management
7 10 (16.39%) Observability
7 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (14.75%) Mentoring
8 9 (14.75%) SDLC
9 8 (13.11%) Machine Learning
10 7 (11.48%) Coaching
10 7 (11.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (11.48%) Software Engineering
11 6 (9.84%) Analytics
11 6 (9.84%) Cloud Security
11 6 (9.84%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (9.84%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 38 (62.30%) Python
2 17 (27.87%) Bash
3 11 (18.03%) Groovy
3 11 (18.03%) PowerShell
4 10 (16.39%) Java
5 9 (14.75%) JavaScript
6 7 (11.48%) Go
7 6 (9.84%) SQL
8 3 (4.92%) Bicep
8 3 (4.92%) C#
8 3 (4.92%) C++
8 3 (4.92%) Ruby
8 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.64%) PHP
9 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) AWS Certification
3 5 (8.20%) Azure Certification
3 5 (8.20%) Degree
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) QA
System Software
1 23 (37.70%) Docker
2 5 (8.20%) DFS Replication
2 5 (8.20%) Dovecot
2 5 (8.20%) Postfix
2 5 (8.20%) Squid
Systems Management
1 36 (59.02%) Terraform
2 27 (44.26%) Kubernetes
3 15 (24.59%) Ansible
3 15 (24.59%) Grafana
4 10 (16.39%) Prometheus
5 5 (8.20%) Argo
5 5 (8.20%) Nessus
5 5 (8.20%) Proxmox
6 3 (4.92%) Podman
6 3 (4.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) IBM
1 7 (11.48%) Red Hat
2 5 (8.20%) Jaspersoft
2 5 (8.20%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.92%) Cribl.io
3 3 (4.92%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.92%) Sonatype
4 2 (3.28%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.28%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle