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 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 700 617
Rank change year-on-year +173 -83 +97
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 166 196 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.20% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.21% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 143 168 374
10th Percentile £75,500 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £86,250 £62,188 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £84,000 £79,250
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% +5.99% +9.31%
75th Percentile £138,750 £112,500 £105,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +8.00%

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +144 158 £110,000 +30.95% 22
London +127 136 £110,000 +10.00% 11
Work from Home +243 127 £110,000 +62.96% 10
UK excluding London +157 25 £65,000 - 15
South East +102 6 £42,500 -34.62% 7
South West +96 6 £63,750 -5.56%
East of England +57 5 £65,000 -7.14%
North of England +72 4 £77,500 +19.23% 5
North West +27 4 £77,500 +29.17% 4
Scotland +127 3 £85,000 +30.77% 1
Midlands +66 1 £80,000 +39.13% 2
East Midlands +36 1 £80,000 +45.45% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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.

1 166 (100.00%) AWS
1 166 (100.00%) DevOps
2 150 (90.36%) Kubernetes
3 147 (88.55%) Terraform
4 145 (87.35%) CI/CD
5 136 (81.93%) Docker
5 136 (81.93%) Python
6 124 (74.70%) Agile
7 121 (72.89%) Serverless
8 120 (72.29%) Finance
9 119 (71.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 117 (70.48%) AWS Lambda
11 109 (65.66%) Front Office
11 109 (65.66%) Software Engineering
11 109 (65.66%) Asset Management
12 108 (65.06%) Amazon ECS
13 94 (56.63%) Go
14 91 (54.82%) Java
15 87 (52.41%) OpenShift
15 87 (52.41%) Open Source
16 84 (50.60%) Artifactory
17 83 (50.00%) Kafka
18 81 (48.80%) J2EE
19 74 (44.58%) Apache
20 73 (43.98%) Amazon Athena
20 73 (43.98%) Apache Airflow
20 73 (43.98%) Data Engineering
20 73 (43.98%) Dremio
20 73 (43.98%) dbt
20 73 (43.98%) Apache Iceberg

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 74 (44.58%) Apache
2 73 (43.98%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (42.77%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 166 (100.00%) AWS
2 121 (72.89%) Serverless
3 117 (70.48%) AWS Lambda
4 108 (65.06%) Amazon ECS
5 87 (52.41%) OpenShift
6 73 (43.98%) dbt
7 45 (27.11%) Amazon S3
8 44 (26.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 43 (25.90%) Amazon EC2
10 36 (21.69%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (12.05%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (6.63%) Azure
12 11 (6.63%) GCP
13 6 (3.61%) Amazon MSK
14 5 (3.01%) Route 53
15 4 (2.41%) Amazon ECR
15 4 (2.41%) IBM Cloud
15 4 (2.41%) OCI
15 4 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 3 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.81%) Firewall
2 2 (1.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (43.98%) Amazon Athena
1 73 (43.98%) Apache Iceberg
1 73 (43.98%) Dremio
2 71 (42.77%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (42.77%) Apache Ignite
3 41 (24.70%) Amazon RDS
4 36 (21.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.81%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.81%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.60%) MySQL
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 84 (50.60%) Artifactory
2 26 (15.66%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.23%) GitLab
4 9 (5.42%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.61%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.41%) Git
6 4 (2.41%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.81%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.81%) JIRA
8 2 (1.20%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.60%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.60%) Travis CI
General
1 120 (72.29%) Finance
2 109 (65.66%) Front Office
3 39 (23.49%) Banking
4 8 (4.82%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.01%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.60%) Electronics
6 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.60%) Marketing
6 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (50.00%) Kafka
2 81 (48.80%) J2EE
3 71 (42.77%) PySpark
4 9 (5.42%) REST
5 5 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.81%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.81%) AWS SAM
6 3 (1.81%) JSON
6 3 (1.81%) Node.js
6 3 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.81%) React
7 2 (1.20%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.60%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.60%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.60%) Java EE
8 1 (0.60%) LAMP
8 1 (0.60%) RESTful
8 1 (0.60%) Spring
8 1 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.02%) Tandem
2 6 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.41%) Blockchain
4 4 (2.41%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.20%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.20%) IoT
5 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.63%) Linux
2 3 (1.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) VMS
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (100.00%) DevOps
2 145 (87.35%) CI/CD
3 124 (74.70%) Agile
4 119 (71.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 109 (65.66%) Asset Management
5 109 (65.66%) Software Engineering
6 87 (52.41%) Open Source
7 73 (43.98%) Data Engineering
8 29 (17.47%) Fintech
9 24 (14.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (13.25%) Containerisation
11 13 (7.83%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (7.23%) Mentoring
12 12 (7.23%) Migration
13 11 (6.63%) High Availability
14 10 (6.02%) Decision-Making
14 10 (6.02%) Financial Modelling
14 10 (6.02%) Platform Engineering
15 9 (5.42%) Test Automation
16 8 (4.82%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 136 (81.93%) Python
2 94 (56.63%) Go
3 91 (54.82%) Java
4 32 (19.28%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.22%) Bash
6 4 (2.41%) Perl
6 4 (2.41%) PHP
6 4 (2.41%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.81%) Groovy
7 3 (1.81%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.20%) C#
8 2 (1.20%) Ruby
9 1 (0.60%) C
9 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (9.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.41%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (1.81%) Degree
5 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.42%) QA
2 2 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 136 (81.93%) Docker
2 6 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 150 (90.36%) Kubernetes
2 147 (88.55%) Terraform
3 17 (10.24%) Ansible
4 6 (3.61%) Istio
5 5 (3.01%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.41%) Packer
7 3 (1.81%) Grafana
8 2 (1.20%) Argo
8 2 (1.20%) Consul
9 1 (0.60%) Automic
9 1 (0.60%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (6.02%) IBM
2 6 (3.61%) Confluent
3 5 (3.01%) VMware
4 4 (2.41%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.41%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.81%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.81%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.20%) Cribl.io
7 1 (0.60%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.60%) SAP