AWS DevOps Engineer Jobs

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 January 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 608 575 682
Rank change year-on-year -33 +107 -95
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 149 199 349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.33% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 130 175 333
10th Percentile £72,250 £55,500 £52,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £63,125 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +13.33% +13.21%
75th Percentile £138,750 £116,250 £92,500
90th Percentile - £142,250 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +12.50%

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 60,228 60,453 102,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 95.37% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 27,707 44,716 67,011
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,988 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £52,656
% change year-on-year +7.00% -5.04% +5.31%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer.

Salary trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 20 January 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 20 January 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 -47 145 £110,000 +25.71% 25
London +11 128 £110,000 +4.76% 13
Work from Home +65 95 £110,000 +46.67% 22
UK excluding London -59 20 £70,000 - 14
South West +10 7 £70,000 +16.67%
East of England -33 5 £65,000 -21.21%
North of England -29 4 £80,000 +8.47% 11
Scotland +23 3 £80,000 +23.08%
North West -31 3 £90,000 +38.46% 9
East Midlands -5 1 £80,000 +3.23%
North East -11 1 £70,000 -6.67%
Midlands -27 1 £80,000 +14.29% 1

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 January 2025, AWS DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 149 (100.00%) AWS
1 149 (100.00%) DevOps
2 136 (91.28%) CI/CD
3 134 (89.93%) Kubernetes
4 131 (87.92%) Terraform
5 122 (81.88%) Python
6 120 (80.54%) Docker
7 114 (76.51%) Agile
8 109 (73.15%) Serverless
9 108 (72.48%) AWS Lambda
9 108 (72.48%) Finance
10 106 (71.14%) Software Engineering
11 105 (70.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 103 (69.13%) Amazon ECS
13 102 (68.46%) Asset Management
13 102 (68.46%) Front Office
14 68 (45.64%) Artifactory
14 68 (45.64%) Amazon RDS
15 67 (44.97%) Amazon S3
16 64 (42.95%) Java
17 61 (40.94%) Open Source
17 61 (40.94%) Go
17 61 (40.94%) Amazon EC2
17 61 (40.94%) OpenShift
18 60 (40.27%) J2EE
19 57 (38.26%) AWS CloudFormation
20 56 (37.58%) Amazon Redshift
20 56 (37.58%) Amazon SQS
21 51 (34.23%) Kafka
22 49 (32.89%) Fintech

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 47 (31.54%) Apache
2 46 (30.87%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (29.53%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) CMS
5 1 (0.67%) JBoss
5 1 (0.67%) nginx
5 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 149 (100.00%) AWS
2 109 (73.15%) Serverless
3 108 (72.48%) AWS Lambda
4 103 (69.13%) Amazon ECS
5 67 (44.97%) Amazon S3
6 61 (40.94%) Amazon EC2
6 61 (40.94%) OpenShift
7 57 (38.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 56 (37.58%) Amazon SQS
9 46 (30.87%) dbt
10 10 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (5.37%) GitHub
11 8 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.70%) Route 53
13 6 (4.03%) Azure
14 5 (3.36%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (3.36%) OCI
15 4 (2.68%) IBM Cloud
16 3 (2.01%) GCP
17 2 (1.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) DNS
2 1 (0.67%) Network Security
2 1 (0.67%) SSL
2 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (45.64%) Amazon RDS
2 56 (37.58%) Amazon Redshift
3 46 (30.87%) Amazon Athena
3 46 (30.87%) Apache Iceberg
3 46 (30.87%) Dremio
4 44 (29.53%) Apache Arrow
4 44 (29.53%) Apache Ignite
5 9 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.68%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 68 (45.64%) Artifactory
2 25 (16.78%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.05%) GitLab
4 7 (4.70%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.68%) Git
6 3 (2.01%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.67%) Ant
8 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.67%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.67%) JIRA
8 1 (0.67%) Maven
8 1 (0.67%) NUnit
8 1 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.67%) Travis CI
General
1 108 (72.48%) Finance
2 102 (68.46%) Front Office
3 46 (30.87%) Banking
4 8 (5.37%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.70%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.34%) Marketing
8 1 (0.67%) Electronics
8 1 (0.67%) Games
8 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.67%) Law
8 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (40.27%) J2EE
2 51 (34.23%) Kafka
3 44 (29.53%) PySpark
4 3 (2.01%) RESTful
5 2 (1.34%) .NET
5 2 (1.34%) Django
5 2 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.34%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.34%) Node.js
6 1 (0.67%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.67%) Middleware
6 1 (0.67%) React
6 1 (0.67%) REST
6 1 (0.67%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.67%) SOAP
6 1 (0.67%) Spring
6 1 (0.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.74%) Tandem
2 6 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (4.03%) Public Cloud
2 6 (4.03%) Virtual Team
3 4 (2.68%) Blockchain
3 4 (2.68%) e-Learning
4 2 (1.34%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.67%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.36%) Linux
2 2 (1.34%) Windows
3 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (100.00%) DevOps
2 136 (91.28%) CI/CD
3 114 (76.51%) Agile
4 106 (71.14%) Software Engineering
5 105 (70.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 102 (68.46%) Asset Management
7 61 (40.94%) Open Source
8 49 (32.89%) Fintech
9 46 (30.87%) Data Engineering
10 20 (13.42%) Containerisation
11 17 (11.41%) Deployment Automation
12 16 (10.74%) Decision-Making
12 16 (10.74%) Financial Modelling
13 13 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (7.38%) Mentoring
15 10 (6.71%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (5.37%) Test Automation
17 7 (4.70%) High Availability
18 6 (4.03%) Migration
18 6 (4.03%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 122 (81.88%) Python
2 64 (42.95%) Java
3 61 (40.94%) Go
4 43 (28.86%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.70%) Bash
6 2 (1.34%) C#
6 2 (1.34%) PHP
7 1 (0.67%) Groovy
7 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.67%) Ruby
7 1 (0.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.05%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.01%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.34%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.67%) Degree
5 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.68%) QA
2 1 (0.67%) GDPR
2 1 (0.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 120 (80.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 134 (89.93%) Kubernetes
2 131 (87.92%) Terraform
3 12 (8.05%) Ansible
4 6 (4.03%) Grafana
4 6 (4.03%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.34%) Consul
6 1 (0.67%) Automic
6 1 (0.67%) Kibana
6 1 (0.67%) logstash
6 1 (0.67%) Packer
6 1 (0.67%) Podman
6 1 (0.67%) Puppet
6 1 (0.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (7.38%) Red Hat
2 6 (4.03%) Atlassian
3 5 (3.36%) Dynatrace
3 5 (3.36%) IBM
4 4 (2.68%) VMware
5 1 (0.67%) Hitachi
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle
5 1 (0.67%) SAP