AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 607 582 526
Rank change year-on-year -25 -56 +175
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 43 137 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.26% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 32 116 171
10th Percentile £50,750 £65,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £85,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% +29.41% +9.68%
75th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 53,660 51,710 49,133
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 93.38% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 33,065 27,370 37,929
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,549 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,458 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 29 December 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 29 December 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 -27 38 £78,750 -28.41% 54
UK excluding London +64 21 £57,500 -17.86% 50
London -54 20 £110,000 -1.12% 11
Work from Home +12 15 £85,000 -22.73% 3
Midlands +30 9 £51,500 -35.63% 9
North West +25 5 £100,000 +53.85% 4
North of England +6 5 £100,000 +48.15% 9
West Midlands - 5 £51,500 - 4
Scotland +10 4 - - 3
East Midlands -5 4 £50,000 -37.50% 4
South East - 4 £65,000 - 14
East of England +30 1 £57,500 -39.47% 9
South West +10 1 £60,000 -14.29% 5

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

For the 6 months to 29 December 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 43 (100.00%) AWS
1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (74.42%) CI/CD
3 23 (53.49%) Kubernetes
3 23 (53.49%) Python
3 23 (53.49%) Terraform
4 15 (34.88%) GitHub
5 14 (32.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (32.56%) Docker
6 13 (30.23%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (30.23%) Jenkins
7 12 (27.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (27.91%) Bash
8 11 (25.58%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (25.58%) Java
8 11 (25.58%) Linux
9 10 (23.26%) Agile
9 10 (23.26%) Ansible
9 10 (23.26%) Azure
10 9 (20.93%) Kafka
10 9 (20.93%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (18.60%) Grafana
11 8 (18.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (16.28%) Argo
12 7 (16.28%) Observability
12 7 (16.28%) OpenShift
12 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
12 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared

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 2 (4.65%) Apache
1 2 (4.65%) Confluence
1 2 (4.65%) JBoss
1 2 (4.65%) nginx
1 2 (4.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (34.88%) GitHub
3 14 (32.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (30.23%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (27.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (25.58%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (23.26%) Azure
8 8 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (16.28%) OpenShift
10 6 (13.95%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (13.95%) Amazon S3
10 6 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (13.95%) PaaS
10 6 (13.95%) Serverless
11 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (9.30%) Datadog
13 3 (6.98%) Azure AKS
14 2 (4.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 2 (4.65%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) DNS
1 3 (6.98%) HTTP
2 2 (4.65%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) FTP
2 2 (4.65%) IMAP
2 2 (4.65%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (4.65%) SMTP
2 2 (4.65%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Flink
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.30%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) MySQL
5 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.95%) Git
2 6 (13.95%) GitLab
3 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket
3 4 (9.30%) JIRA
3 4 (9.30%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.65%) Ant
4 2 (4.65%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.65%) Maven
4 2 (4.65%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.65%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (30.23%) Finance
2 6 (13.95%) Banking
2 6 (13.95%) Front Office
3 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Advertising
4 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Law
4 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) Kafka
2 4 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (9.30%) Node.js
3 3 (6.98%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.65%) .NET
4 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.65%) ARM Templates
4 2 (4.65%) AWS SAM
4 2 (4.65%) JWT
4 2 (4.65%) LDAP
4 2 (4.65%) Middleware
4 2 (4.65%) OAuth
5 1 (2.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Fixed Income
2 3 (6.98%) Clustering
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.65%) Replication
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.58%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Windows
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.65%) Unix
3 2 (4.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (74.42%) CI/CD
3 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (23.26%) Agile
5 9 (20.93%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (18.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 7 (16.28%) Observability
8 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
8 6 (13.95%) Front End Development
8 6 (13.95%) Investment Management
9 5 (11.63%) Configuration Management
9 5 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (9.30%) SDLC
10 4 (9.30%) Software Delivery
10 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
11 3 (6.98%) Fintech
11 3 (6.98%) High Availability
11 3 (6.98%) Microservices
11 3 (6.98%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 23 (53.49%) Python
2 12 (27.91%) Bash
3 11 (25.58%) Java
4 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
5 6 (13.95%) Groovy
6 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
7 4 (9.30%) Go
8 3 (6.98%) Bicep
8 3 (6.98%) SQL
8 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
9 2 (4.65%) C#
9 2 (4.65%) C++
9 2 (4.65%) Ruby
10 1 (2.33%) PHP
10 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 14 (32.56%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) DFS Replication
2 2 (4.65%) Dovecot
2 2 (4.65%) Postfix
2 2 (4.65%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (53.49%) Kubernetes
1 23 (53.49%) Terraform
2 10 (23.26%) Ansible
3 8 (18.60%) Grafana
4 7 (16.28%) Argo
5 5 (11.63%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.65%) Nessus
6 2 (4.65%) Podman
6 2 (4.65%) Proxmox
6 2 (4.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) AppDynamics
2 2 (4.65%) Cribl.io
2 2 (4.65%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.65%) SolarWinds
2 2 (4.65%) Sonatype
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle