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 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 604 606 503
Rank change year-on-year +2 -103 +251
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 51 140 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.22% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.24% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 34 115 201
10th Percentile £50,750 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £73,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £107,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +30.30% +8.20%
75th Percentile £118,750 £125,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 50,060 59,515 47,695
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.07% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 31,394 32,976 37,139
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,836 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% -3.61% -
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 5 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 5 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 +15 46 £86,250 -20.69% 13
London -13 27 £110,000 -2.22% 5
UK excluding London +76 22 £57,500 -8.00% 10
Work from Home +28 16 £83,750 -23.86% 3
Midlands +55 11 £51,500 -31.33%
West Midlands - 7 £51,500 -
North West +45 5 £100,000 +90.48%
North of England +43 5 £100,000 +70.21% 3
South East +41 4 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Scotland +20 4 - -
East Midlands +10 4 £50,000 -33.33%
East of England +29 1 £57,500 -54.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 37 (72.55%) CI/CD
3 29 (56.86%) Python
4 27 (52.94%) Terraform
5 26 (50.98%) Kubernetes
6 16 (31.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (31.37%) Docker
6 16 (31.37%) Jenkins
7 15 (29.41%) GitHub
8 14 (27.45%) Bash
8 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (25.49%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (25.49%) Linux
10 12 (23.53%) Ansible
10 12 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (23.53%) Azure
10 12 (23.53%) Java
11 11 (21.57%) Agile
11 11 (21.57%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (21.57%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (19.61%) Grafana
12 10 (19.61%) Kafka
13 9 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (17.65%) Groovy
13 9 (17.65%) PowerShell
13 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
13 9 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 8 (15.69%) Containerisation
14 8 (15.69%) Git

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 16 (31.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 15 (29.41%) GitHub
4 13 (25.49%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (23.53%) Azure
6 11 (21.57%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (15.69%) OpenShift
9 7 (13.73%) Amazon S3
10 6 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (11.76%) PaaS
10 6 (11.76%) Serverless
11 5 (9.80%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (7.84%) Datadog
13 3 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
13 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (5.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) DNS
1 4 (7.84%) HTTP
2 3 (5.88%) Firewall
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%) DynamoDB
2 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.96%) KDB
3 1 (1.96%) MySQL
3 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
3 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 4 (7.84%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.88%) Ant
6 3 (5.88%) Artifactory
6 3 (5.88%) Maven
6 3 (5.88%) SonarQube
6 3 (5.88%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (31.37%) Finance
2 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.73%) Banking
4 6 (11.76%) Front Office
4 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.88%) Law
6 3 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Advertising
7 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.96%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) Kafka
2 5 (9.80%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (9.80%) Node.js
3 3 (5.88%) .NET
3 3 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 3 (5.88%) AWS CDK
3 3 (5.88%) LDAP
3 3 (5.88%) Middleware
4 2 (3.92%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.92%) AWS SAM
4 2 (3.92%) JWT
4 2 (3.92%) OAuth
5 1 (1.96%) React
5 1 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Fixed Income
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%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Equities
4 1 (1.96%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 13 (25.49%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) Windows
3 3 (5.88%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.88%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.88%) Unix
3 3 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (72.55%) CI/CD
3 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (21.57%) Agile
4 11 (21.57%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (15.69%) Containerisation
6 8 (15.69%) Observability
7 7 (13.73%) Configuration Management
8 6 (11.76%) Front End Development
8 6 (11.76%) Investment Management
8 6 (11.76%) SDLC
9 5 (9.80%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
9 5 (9.80%) Software Delivery
10 4 (7.84%) AI
10 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (7.84%) Load Balancing
10 4 (7.84%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (7.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) Python
2 14 (27.45%) Bash
3 12 (23.53%) Java
4 9 (17.65%) Groovy
4 9 (17.65%) PowerShell
5 7 (13.73%) JavaScript
6 5 (9.80%) 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 16 (31.37%) 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 27 (52.94%) Terraform
2 26 (50.98%) Kubernetes
3 12 (23.53%) Ansible
4 10 (19.61%) 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