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 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 647 468
Rank change year-on-year +66 -179 +328
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 67 100 292
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 31 77 268
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £55,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £105,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £128,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,750 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -24.64% - -

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 43,882 66,228 53,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.80% 95.36% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 25,880 37,894 41,616
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,210
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +62 60 £80,000 -4.76% 17
London +58 40 £80,000 -20.00% 3
UK excluding London +61 24 £52,750 -24.64% 14
Work from Home +36 22 £78,750 -5.97% 16
Midlands +46 15 £51,500 -35.63% 2
West Midlands - 11 £51,500 -
North of England +16 4 - - 5
East Midlands +14 4 £50,000 -37.50% 2
North West +12 4 - - 5
Scotland +8 4 - -
Wales +16 2 £57,500 +35.29%
South East +18 1 £37,500 -40.00% 3
East of England +4 1 £57,500 -25.81%

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

For the 6 months to 19 October 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 67 (100.00%) AWS
1 67 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (71.64%) CI/CD
3 42 (62.69%) Python
4 38 (56.72%) Terraform
5 29 (43.28%) Docker
5 29 (43.28%) Kubernetes
6 25 (37.31%) Jenkins
7 24 (35.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 24 (35.82%) Linux
8 22 (32.84%) Bash
8 22 (32.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (29.85%) Grafana
10 19 (28.36%) AI
11 17 (25.37%) Ansible
11 17 (25.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (25.37%) Mentoring
12 16 (23.88%) Containerisation
13 15 (22.39%) Azure
13 15 (22.39%) Coaching
13 15 (22.39%) Configuration Management
13 15 (22.39%) Groovy
13 15 (22.39%) IBM
13 15 (22.39%) Red Hat
13 15 (22.39%) Security Cleared
14 14 (20.90%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (20.90%) Git
14 14 (20.90%) PowerShell
14 14 (20.90%) Prometheus
15 13 (19.40%) Amazon EC2

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 7 (10.45%) Confluence
2 6 (8.96%) nginx
3 5 (7.46%) Apache
4 4 (5.97%) JBoss
4 4 (5.97%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.49%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 67 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (35.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 17 (25.37%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (22.39%) Azure
5 14 (20.90%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (19.40%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (19.40%) Amazon S3
7 10 (14.93%) GitHub
8 9 (13.43%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (13.43%) OpenShift
9 8 (11.94%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (11.94%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (11.94%) Serverless
9 8 (11.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (10.45%) Amazon ELB
10 7 (10.45%) AWS KMS
10 7 (10.45%) Route 53
11 6 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (8.96%) PaaS
12 5 (7.46%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.93%) Firewall
2 8 (11.94%) DNS
2 8 (11.94%) HTTP
3 7 (10.45%) FTP
3 7 (10.45%) SMTP
3 7 (10.45%) SSH
4 6 (8.96%) IMAP
4 6 (8.96%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.96%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.97%) KDB
5 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.49%) DB2
6 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.49%) MySQL
6 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (37.31%) Jenkins
2 14 (20.90%) Git
3 13 (19.40%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (17.91%) GitLab
5 11 (16.42%) JIRA
6 7 (10.45%) SonarQube
6 7 (10.45%) Vagrant
7 5 (7.46%) Artifactory
8 4 (5.97%) Ant
8 4 (5.97%) Maven
9 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
General
1 22 (32.84%) Public Sector
2 19 (28.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (16.42%) Finance
4 7 (10.45%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (10.45%) Social Skills
5 6 (8.96%) Law
6 5 (7.46%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.43%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (8.96%) LDAP
3 5 (7.46%) Kafka
3 5 (7.46%) REST
4 4 (5.97%) .NET
4 4 (5.97%) Middleware
5 3 (4.48%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.48%) Node.js
6 2 (2.99%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.99%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.99%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.99%) React
7 1 (1.49%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.49%) Backbone.js
7 1 (1.49%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.49%) boto
7 1 (1.49%) Ember.js
7 1 (1.49%) jQuery
7 1 (1.49%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (20.90%) e-Learning
3 7 (10.45%) Replication
4 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.97%) Equities
4 4 (5.97%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.48%) Clustering
6 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 24 (35.82%) Linux
2 13 (19.40%) Windows
3 9 (13.43%) Unix
4 8 (11.94%) VMS
5 7 (10.45%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (8.96%) Ubuntu
7 4 (5.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.49%) Android
8 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (71.64%) CI/CD
3 22 (32.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (28.36%) AI
5 17 (25.37%) Mentoring
6 16 (23.88%) Containerisation
7 15 (22.39%) Coaching
7 15 (22.39%) Configuration Management
8 12 (17.91%) Observability
8 12 (17.91%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (14.93%) Machine Learning
9 10 (14.93%) Software Engineering
10 9 (13.43%) Agile
10 9 (13.43%) Cloud Security
10 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.43%) SDLC
11 8 (11.94%) Disaster Recovery
12 7 (10.45%) Change Management
12 7 (10.45%) Patch Management
12 7 (10.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 42 (62.69%) Python
2 22 (32.84%) Bash
3 15 (22.39%) Groovy
4 14 (20.90%) PowerShell
5 10 (14.93%) JavaScript
6 9 (13.43%) SQL
7 8 (11.94%) Go
8 7 (10.45%) Java
9 3 (4.48%) Bicep
9 3 (4.48%) C#
9 3 (4.48%) C++
9 3 (4.48%) PHP
9 3 (4.48%) Ruby
9 3 (4.48%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.99%) Perl
11 1 (1.49%) C
11 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.94%) AWS Certification
4 7 (10.45%) Azure Certification
4 7 (10.45%) Degree
5 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (43.28%) Docker
2 7 (10.45%) DFS Replication
3 6 (8.96%) Dovecot
3 6 (8.96%) Postfix
3 6 (8.96%) Squid
4 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (56.72%) Terraform
2 29 (43.28%) Kubernetes
3 20 (29.85%) Grafana
4 17 (25.37%) Ansible
5 14 (20.90%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.96%) Nessus
6 6 (8.96%) Proxmox
7 4 (5.97%) Podman
7 4 (5.97%) Puppet
8 1 (1.49%) Argo
8 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) IBM
1 15 (22.39%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.45%) ServiceNow
3 6 (8.96%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (4.48%) Cribl.io
4 3 (4.48%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.48%) Sonatype
5 2 (2.99%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.99%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle