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 6 July 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 612 728 537
Rank change year-on-year +116 -191 +249
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 121 178 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.17% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.18% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 82 147 386
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £54,375
25th Percentile £80,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £111,875
90th Percentile £138,750 £115,000 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -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 53,646 100,958 81,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.91% 94.82% 91.25%
Number of salaries quoted 29,258 71,135 54,610
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,573 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.74%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +92 113 £110,000 +41.94% 19
London +114 91 £110,000 +12.82% 6
Work from Home +134 78 £110,000 +46.67% 15
UK excluding London +115 24 £62,500 -3.85% 16
South East +53 7 £37,500 -40.00% 1
West Midlands +72 6 £90,000 +12.50% 2
Midlands +66 6 £90,000 +38.46% 2
South West +91 3 £47,500 -32.14% 1
East of England +34 3 £65,000 -13.33% 1
North of England +30 2 £77,500 +29.17% 8
North West +2 2 £77,500 +29.17% 7
Wales - 2 £57,500 -
Scotland +91 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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.

1 121 (100.00%) AWS
1 121 (100.00%) DevOps
2 91 (75.21%) Python
3 90 (74.38%) Terraform
3 90 (74.38%) CI/CD
4 81 (66.94%) Kubernetes
5 79 (65.29%) Docker
6 55 (45.45%) Serverless
6 55 (45.45%) Go
7 54 (44.63%) Finance
8 51 (42.15%) Agile
8 51 (42.15%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (40.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 48 (39.67%) Kafka
11 47 (38.84%) Software Engineering
11 47 (38.84%) Java
11 47 (38.84%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (38.84%) OpenShift
12 45 (37.19%) Artifactory
12 45 (37.19%) Open Source
13 43 (35.54%) Apache
14 40 (33.06%) Data Engineering
15 39 (32.23%) Apache Spark
15 39 (32.23%) Apache Ignite
15 39 (32.23%) Dremio
15 39 (32.23%) dbt
15 39 (32.23%) PySpark
15 39 (32.23%) Amazon Athena
15 39 (32.23%) Apache Airflow
15 39 (32.23%) J2EE

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 43 (35.54%) Apache
2 39 (32.23%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (32.23%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.13%) Confluence
4 4 (3.31%) nginx
5 2 (1.65%) JBoss
5 2 (1.65%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.83%) CMS
6 1 (0.83%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (45.45%) Serverless
3 51 (42.15%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (38.84%) Amazon ECS
4 47 (38.84%) OpenShift
5 39 (32.23%) dbt
6 18 (14.88%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (14.88%) Azure
7 15 (12.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (12.40%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (11.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (9.92%) Amazon S3
10 9 (7.44%) GCP
10 9 (7.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (4.96%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (4.13%) Amazon ELB
12 5 (4.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (4.13%) AWS Control Tower
12 5 (4.13%) AWS KMS
12 5 (4.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.26%) Firewall
2 5 (4.13%) DNS
2 5 (4.13%) FTP
2 5 (4.13%) HTTP
2 5 (4.13%) SMTP
2 5 (4.13%) SSH
3 4 (3.31%) IMAP
3 4 (3.31%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.65%) Internet
5 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (32.23%) Amazon Athena
1 39 (32.23%) Apache Arrow
1 39 (32.23%) Apache Iceberg
1 39 (32.23%) Apache Ignite
1 39 (32.23%) Dremio
2 10 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (3.31%) KDB
4 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.65%) MySQL
5 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.83%) DB2
Development Applications
1 45 (37.19%) Artifactory
2 21 (17.36%) Jenkins
3 14 (11.57%) GitLab
3 14 (11.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (10.74%) SonarQube
5 11 (9.09%) Git
6 10 (8.26%) JIRA
7 5 (4.13%) Vagrant
8 3 (2.48%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.65%) Ant
9 2 (1.65%) Maven
10 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.83%) Liquibase
General
1 54 (44.63%) Finance
2 39 (32.23%) Front Office
3 20 (16.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (14.88%) Public Sector
5 15 (12.40%) Banking
6 9 (7.44%) Social Skills
7 5 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.31%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (39.67%) Kafka
2 39 (32.23%) J2EE
2 39 (32.23%) PySpark
3 13 (10.74%) REST
4 10 (8.26%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.31%) LDAP
5 4 (3.31%) Node.js
5 4 (3.31%) React
6 3 (2.48%) AWS CDK
6 3 (2.48%) JSON
6 3 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.65%) .NET
7 2 (1.65%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.65%) AWS SAM
7 2 (1.65%) LAMP
7 2 (1.65%) Middleware
7 2 (1.65%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (0.83%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.83%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.83%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.40%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (11.57%) e-Learning
3 5 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.13%) Replication
4 4 (3.31%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.31%) Equities
5 2 (1.65%) IoT
5 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.83%) Linux
2 9 (7.44%) Unix
2 9 (7.44%) Windows
3 6 (4.96%) VMS
4 5 (4.13%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (3.31%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.83%) Android
7 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (100.00%) DevOps
2 90 (74.38%) CI/CD
3 51 (42.15%) Agile
4 49 (40.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 47 (38.84%) Software Engineering
6 45 (37.19%) Open Source
7 40 (33.06%) Data Engineering
8 39 (32.23%) Asset Management
9 34 (28.10%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (22.31%) Containerisation
11 20 (16.53%) Mentoring
12 19 (15.70%) Artificial Intelligence
13 17 (14.05%) Coaching
14 16 (13.22%) Platform Engineering
15 15 (12.40%) Machine Learning
16 14 (11.57%) Configuration Management
17 11 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
17 11 (9.09%) High Availability
17 11 (9.09%) Migration
17 11 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 91 (75.21%) Python
2 55 (45.45%) Go
3 47 (38.84%) Java
4 16 (13.22%) Bash
5 12 (9.92%) Groovy
6 8 (6.61%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.79%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.96%) Perl
8 6 (4.96%) PHP
8 6 (4.96%) SQL
9 4 (3.31%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.48%) Ruby
10 3 (2.48%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.65%) C
11 2 (1.65%) C#
12 1 (0.83%) C++
12 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (14.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.44%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.79%) Degree
5 5 (4.13%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.26%) QA
2 2 (1.65%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 79 (65.29%) Docker
2 6 (4.96%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.13%) DFS Replication
4 4 (3.31%) Dovecot
4 4 (3.31%) Postfix
4 4 (3.31%) Squid
5 2 (1.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 90 (74.38%) Terraform
2 81 (66.94%) Kubernetes
3 23 (19.01%) Ansible
4 15 (12.40%) Grafana
5 10 (8.26%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.96%) Istio
7 4 (3.31%) Nessus
7 4 (3.31%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.48%) Packer
9 2 (1.65%) Argo
9 2 (1.65%) Podman
9 2 (1.65%) Puppet
10 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (16.53%) IBM
2 15 (12.40%) Red Hat
3 6 (4.96%) Confluent
4 5 (4.13%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.31%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (2.48%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.48%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.48%) VMware
7 1 (0.83%) Cribl.io
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.83%) Sonatype