AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 597 703 476
Rank change year-on-year +106 -227 +324
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 76 89 315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.12% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 38 57 294
10th Percentile £50,525 £51,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £89,375 £86,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £100,500 £139,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.86% - -

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 44,155 74,074 57,839
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 95.25% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 25,862 44,536 44,785
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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

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 September 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 September 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 +94 69 £80,000 +6.67% 25
London +68 48 £80,000 -6.71% 8
Work from Home +64 30 £80,000 -3.03% 14
UK excluding London +76 24 £54,000 -22.86% 21
Midlands +65 13 £52,750 -34.06% 1
West Midlands - 10 £51,500 - 1
North of England +54 5 £65,000 - 9
North West +4 5 £65,000 +10.64% 6
East Midlands +11 3 £54,000 -32.50%
Scotland - 3 - -
South West +61 2 - - 3
South East +33 2 £37,500 -40.00% 8
Wales +21 2 £57,500 +35.29%

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 76 (100.00%) AWS
1 76 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (64.47%) CI/CD
2 49 (64.47%) Python
3 45 (59.21%) Terraform
4 37 (48.68%) Kubernetes
4 37 (48.68%) Docker
5 26 (34.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 26 (34.21%) Jenkins
5 26 (34.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (32.89%) Linux
6 25 (32.89%) Bash
7 22 (28.95%) Containerisation
7 22 (28.95%) Grafana
8 21 (27.63%) Public Sector
9 20 (26.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (26.32%) Azure
10 19 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 19 (25.00%) Ansible
11 18 (23.68%) Mentoring
11 18 (23.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (22.37%) GitLab
12 17 (22.37%) Coaching
12 17 (22.37%) Configuration Management
12 17 (22.37%) IBM
13 15 (19.74%) Red Hat
13 15 (19.74%) Finance
13 15 (19.74%) Groovy
13 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
13 15 (19.74%) Hybrid Cloud

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 7 (9.21%) Confluence
2 6 (7.89%) Apache
2 6 (7.89%) nginx
3 4 (5.26%) JBoss
3 4 (5.26%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.32%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 76 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (34.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 20 (26.32%) Azure
4 18 (23.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (18.42%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (17.11%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (17.11%) Amazon S3
7 12 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (14.47%) OpenShift
9 9 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (11.84%) GitHub
9 9 (11.84%) Serverless
10 8 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (9.21%) Amazon ELB
11 7 (9.21%) AWS KMS
11 7 (9.21%) Route 53
12 6 (7.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 6 (7.89%) AWS Control Tower
12 6 (7.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.79%) Firewall
2 8 (10.53%) HTTP
3 7 (9.21%) DNS
3 7 (9.21%) FTP
3 7 (9.21%) SMTP
3 7 (9.21%) SSH
4 6 (7.89%) IMAP
4 6 (7.89%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.26%) KDB
5 2 (2.63%) MySQL
5 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.32%) DB2
6 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (34.21%) Jenkins
2 17 (22.37%) GitLab
3 15 (19.74%) Sonatype Nexus
4 14 (18.42%) Git
5 11 (14.47%) JIRA
6 9 (11.84%) SonarQube
7 7 (9.21%) Vagrant
8 5 (6.58%) Artifactory
9 4 (5.26%) Ant
9 4 (5.26%) Maven
10 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.32%) CircleCI
General
1 21 (27.63%) Public Sector
2 20 (26.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (19.74%) Finance
4 11 (14.47%) Banking
5 9 (11.84%) Social Skills
6 7 (9.21%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.26%) Law
8 1 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.16%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (11.84%) Kafka
3 7 (9.21%) REST
4 6 (7.89%) LDAP
5 4 (5.26%) .NET
5 4 (5.26%) Middleware
6 3 (3.95%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.95%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.95%) AWS SAM
6 3 (3.95%) Node.js
7 2 (2.63%) LAMP
7 2 (2.63%) React
8 1 (1.32%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.32%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.32%) Backbone.js
8 1 (1.32%) Bootstrap
8 1 (1.32%) boto
8 1 (1.32%) Ember.js
8 1 (1.32%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (18.42%) e-Learning
3 7 (9.21%) Replication
4 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.26%) Equities
4 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.32%) Clustering
6 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 25 (32.89%) Linux
2 13 (17.11%) Windows
3 10 (13.16%) Unix
4 8 (10.53%) VMS
5 7 (9.21%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (7.89%) Ubuntu
7 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.32%) Android
8 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (64.47%) CI/CD
3 26 (34.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (28.95%) Containerisation
5 19 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 18 (23.68%) Mentoring
7 17 (22.37%) Coaching
7 17 (22.37%) Configuration Management
8 14 (18.42%) Observability
8 14 (18.42%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (15.79%) Agile
9 12 (15.79%) Machine Learning
10 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (13.16%) Cloud Security
11 10 (13.16%) SDLC
11 10 (13.16%) Software Engineering
12 9 (11.84%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (11.84%) High Availability
12 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure Automation
13 7 (9.21%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 49 (64.47%) Python
2 25 (32.89%) Bash
3 15 (19.74%) Groovy
4 13 (17.11%) Go
4 13 (17.11%) PowerShell
5 10 (13.16%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.84%) SQL
7 7 (9.21%) Java
8 4 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.95%) C#
9 3 (3.95%) C++
9 3 (3.95%) Perl
9 3 (3.95%) PHP
9 3 (3.95%) Ruby
10 2 (2.63%) Bicep
10 2 (2.63%) C
11 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.47%) AWS Certification
2 11 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.53%) Degree
4 7 (9.21%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (48.68%) Docker
2 7 (9.21%) DFS Replication
3 6 (7.89%) Dovecot
3 6 (7.89%) Postfix
3 6 (7.89%) Squid
4 4 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (59.21%) Terraform
2 37 (48.68%) Kubernetes
3 22 (28.95%) Grafana
4 19 (25.00%) Ansible
5 15 (19.74%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.89%) Nessus
6 6 (7.89%) Proxmox
7 4 (5.26%) Istio
7 4 (5.26%) Podman
7 4 (5.26%) Puppet
8 2 (2.63%) Argo
9 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (22.37%) IBM
2 15 (19.74%) Red Hat
3 7 (9.21%) ServiceNow
4 6 (7.89%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (5.26%) Confluent
6 3 (3.95%) Cribl.io
6 3 (3.95%) Sonatype
7 2 (2.63%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.63%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.63%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.32%) Oracle
8 1 (1.32%) SolarWinds