DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services (AWS DevOps Engineer)
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services (AWS DevOps Engineer) salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 502 762 531
Rank change year-on-year +260 -231 -224
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 229 341 715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.27% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.28% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 208 315 661
10th Percentile £54,625 £53,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £64,688 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +14.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £116,250 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £118,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 51,419 120,484 123,121
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.48% 95.34% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 37,696 75,234 84,392
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

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 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 16 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 30 November 2023. 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 +226 221 £82,500 +6.45% 32
London +222 126 £105,000 +23.53% 14
Work from Home +206 107 £75,000 +3.45% 30
UK excluding London +204 96 £75,000 +7.14% 23
North of England +150 36 £77,500 +14.81% 12
North West +112 24 £77,500 +19.23% 4
South West +81 22 £62,500 +25.00% 5
South East +147 18 £75,000 +7.14% 3
Midlands +97 10 £76,250 +8.93%
East of England +129 9 £82,500 -1.49%
Yorkshire +91 9 £80,000 +33.33% 4
East Midlands +36 6 £72,500 +3.57%
West Midlands +120 4 £77,500 +3.33%
Scotland +55 3 £65,000 -13.33%
North East +32 3 £75,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 November 2023, 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.

1 229 (100.00%) AWS
1 229 (100.00%) DevOps
2 202 (88.21%) Terraform
3 179 (78.17%) Kubernetes
4 156 (68.12%) Python
5 153 (66.81%) CI/CD
6 139 (60.70%) Docker
7 110 (48.03%) Agile
8 104 (45.41%) Jenkins
9 89 (38.86%) Ansible
10 81 (35.37%) Linux
11 75 (32.75%) Java
12 74 (32.31%) Infrastructure as Code
13 73 (31.88%) Finance
14 72 (31.44%) GitLab
15 70 (30.57%) Go
16 66 (28.82%) Azure
17 64 (27.95%) Deployment Automation
18 60 (26.20%) Platform Engineering
19 59 (25.76%) GitHub
20 58 (25.33%) AWS CloudFormation
21 56 (24.45%) Serverless
22 54 (23.58%) Bash
23 53 (23.14%) GCP
24 52 (22.71%) OpenShift
25 50 (21.83%) Security Cleared
25 50 (21.83%) SC Cleared
26 48 (20.96%) Software Engineering
26 48 (20.96%) Front Office
27 44 (19.21%) Containerisation

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 8 (3.49%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.31%) nginx
3 2 (0.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.44%) Camunda
4 1 (0.44%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 229 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (28.82%) Azure
3 59 (25.76%) GitHub
4 58 (25.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 56 (24.45%) Serverless
6 53 (23.14%) GCP
7 52 (22.71%) OpenShift
8 43 (18.78%) GitHub Actions
9 35 (15.28%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (13.97%) Amazon EKS
11 30 (13.10%) Amazon EC2
12 27 (11.79%) Amazon S3
13 23 (10.04%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (8.73%) PaaS
15 19 (8.30%) Route 53
16 16 (6.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (6.55%) IaaS
18 12 (5.24%) Amazon SQS
18 12 (5.24%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
19 11 (4.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.31%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.87%) Network Security
3 1 (0.44%) Firewall
3 1 (0.44%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) Internet
3 1 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (17.90%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (6.55%) Amazon Redshift
2 15 (6.55%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.80%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.37%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (2.18%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.18%) MySQL
7 4 (1.75%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.31%) Big Data
8 3 (1.31%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 104 (45.41%) Jenkins
2 72 (31.44%) GitLab
3 40 (17.47%) Git
4 32 (13.97%) Artifactory
5 25 (10.92%) JIRA
6 21 (9.17%) SonarQube
7 14 (6.11%) Bitbucket
8 12 (5.24%) Maven
9 5 (2.18%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.31%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.87%) MSBuild
12 2 (0.87%) Subversion
12 2 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 73 (31.88%) Finance
2 48 (20.96%) Front Office
3 40 (17.47%) Banking
3 40 (17.47%) Social Skills
4 38 (16.59%) Investment Banking
5 9 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.93%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.49%) Retail
7 6 (2.62%) Law
8 3 (1.31%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.31%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.31%) Games
8 3 (1.31%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.87%) Marketing
9 2 (0.87%) Russian Language
9 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.04%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (6.99%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (5.68%) LDAP
4 10 (4.37%) J2EE
4 10 (4.37%) Kafka
5 7 (3.06%) Middleware
6 4 (1.75%) .NET
6 4 (1.75%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.75%) Node.js
6 4 (1.75%) React
7 3 (1.31%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.31%) AWS SAM
7 3 (1.31%) OAuth
7 3 (1.31%) OpenID
8 2 (0.87%) JSON
8 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.87%) React Native
8 2 (0.87%) REST
8 2 (0.87%) SAML
8 2 (0.87%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.37%) Tandem
3 5 (2.18%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.18%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.75%) Hedge funds
4 4 (1.75%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.31%) Media Streaming
6 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.87%) e-Learning
6 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.44%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.44%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.44%) PKI
7 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 81 (35.37%) Linux
2 17 (7.42%) Windows
3 7 (3.06%) Unix
4 3 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) CentOS
6 1 (0.44%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (100.00%) DevOps
2 153 (66.81%) CI/CD
3 110 (48.03%) Agile
4 74 (32.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (27.95%) Deployment Automation
6 60 (26.20%) Platform Engineering
7 48 (20.96%) Software Engineering
8 44 (19.21%) Containerisation
9 39 (17.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 38 (16.59%) Release Automation
11 33 (14.41%) Test Automation
12 28 (12.23%) Microservices
13 26 (11.35%) Migration
14 25 (10.92%) Open Source
15 24 (10.48%) High Availability
16 17 (7.42%) Configuration Management
17 15 (6.55%) Problem-Solving
18 13 (5.68%) Continuous Integration
18 13 (5.68%) Scrum
19 10 (4.37%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 156 (68.12%) Python
2 75 (32.75%) Java
3 70 (30.57%) Go
4 54 (23.58%) Bash
5 24 (10.48%) Ruby
6 16 (6.99%) Perl
6 16 (6.99%) SQL
7 13 (5.68%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.80%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.49%) Groovy
10 5 (2.18%) PHP
11 4 (1.75%) C#
11 4 (1.75%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.31%) Rust
12 3 (1.31%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.31%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.87%) Korn
13 2 (0.87%) VB
14 1 (0.44%) AWK
Qualifications
1 50 (21.83%) SC Cleared
1 50 (21.83%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.61%) AWS Certification
3 13 (5.68%) Degree
4 11 (4.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 8 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.30%) QA
2 5 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 139 (60.70%) Docker
2 12 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 202 (88.21%) Terraform
2 179 (78.17%) Kubernetes
3 89 (38.86%) Ansible
4 40 (17.47%) Rancher
5 34 (14.85%) Argo
6 20 (8.73%) Grafana
7 14 (6.11%) Progress Chef
8 12 (5.24%) Kustomize
8 12 (5.24%) Prometheus
9 7 (3.06%) Puppet
10 6 (2.62%) Packer
11 3 (1.31%) Kibana
12 2 (0.87%) Fluentd
12 2 (0.87%) Nagios
12 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.44%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (6.55%) AppDynamics
2 11 (4.80%) Oracle
3 8 (3.49%) Confluent
4 6 (2.62%) New Relic
5 4 (1.75%) Google
5 4 (1.75%) IBM
5 4 (1.75%) Splunk
6 3 (1.31%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.31%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.31%) VMware
7 2 (0.87%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.87%) Veracode
8 1 (0.44%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.44%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.44%) TOWER Software