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 3 May 2025.

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

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 686 605
Rank change year-on-year +145 -81 +128
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 159 193 408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.20% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.21% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 139 165 380
10th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £86,250 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £84,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% +5.00% +10.34%
75th Percentile £138,750 £112,500 £107,500
90th Percentile - £138,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +5.88%

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 47,358 93,248 95,013
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,451 66,908 59,769
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.21% +5.50%

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 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 12 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 3 May 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 +155 151 £110,000 +30.95% 25
London +121 131 £110,000 +10.00% 12
Work from Home +217 125 £110,000 +62.96% 11
UK excluding London +151 23 £65,000 - 17
South East +93 6 £42,500 -34.62% 7
East of England +49 5 £65,000 -7.14%
South West +102 4 £63,750 -5.56% 1
North of England +59 4 £77,500 +19.23% 6
North West +21 4 £77,500 +29.17% 5
Scotland +129 3 £85,000 +30.77% 1
Midlands +51 1 £80,000 +39.13% 2
East Midlands +35 1 £80,000 +45.45% 2

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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.

1 159 (100.00%) AWS
1 159 (100.00%) DevOps
2 143 (89.94%) Kubernetes
3 142 (89.31%) CI/CD
4 139 (87.42%) Terraform
5 133 (83.65%) Python
6 132 (83.02%) Docker
7 117 (73.58%) Finance
7 117 (73.58%) Serverless
8 116 (72.96%) Agile
9 115 (72.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 113 (71.07%) AWS Lambda
11 105 (66.04%) Asset Management
11 105 (66.04%) Software Engineering
11 105 (66.04%) Front Office
12 104 (65.41%) Amazon ECS
13 92 (57.86%) Go
14 89 (55.97%) Java
15 86 (54.09%) OpenShift
16 85 (53.46%) Open Source
17 84 (52.83%) Kafka
18 83 (52.20%) Artifactory
19 79 (49.69%) J2EE
20 75 (47.17%) Apache
21 73 (45.91%) Dremio
21 73 (45.91%) dbt
21 73 (45.91%) Apache Iceberg
21 73 (45.91%) Amazon Athena
21 73 (45.91%) Apache Airflow
21 73 (45.91%) Data Engineering

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 75 (47.17%) Apache
2 73 (45.91%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (44.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.26%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) CMS
5 1 (0.63%) JBoss
5 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 159 (100.00%) AWS
2 117 (73.58%) Serverless
3 113 (71.07%) AWS Lambda
4 104 (65.41%) Amazon ECS
5 86 (54.09%) OpenShift
6 73 (45.91%) dbt
7 40 (25.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 39 (24.53%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (23.27%) Amazon S3
10 32 (20.13%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (10.06%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (7.55%) Azure
13 11 (6.92%) GCP
14 6 (3.77%) Amazon MSK
15 4 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 3 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 3 (1.89%) AWS CodeBuild
16 3 (1.89%) AWS CodeCommit
16 3 (1.89%) AWS CodeDeploy
16 3 (1.89%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.89%) Firewall
2 2 (1.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (45.91%) Amazon Athena
1 73 (45.91%) Apache Iceberg
1 73 (45.91%) Dremio
2 71 (44.65%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (44.65%) Apache Ignite
3 33 (20.75%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (20.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.63%) MySQL
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 83 (52.20%) Artifactory
2 25 (15.72%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.55%) GitLab
4 9 (5.66%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (3.14%) Git
7 4 (2.52%) JIRA
7 4 (2.52%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.89%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.26%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.63%) Ant
10 1 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.63%) Maven
10 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.63%) Travis CI
General
1 117 (73.58%) Finance
2 105 (66.04%) Front Office
3 38 (23.90%) Banking
4 8 (5.03%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.63%) Electronics
5 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.63%) Marketing
5 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (52.83%) Kafka
2 79 (49.69%) J2EE
3 71 (44.65%) PySpark
4 9 (5.66%) REST
5 6 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.89%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.89%) AWS SAM
6 3 (1.89%) JSON
6 3 (1.89%) Node.js
6 3 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.89%) React
7 2 (1.26%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (0.63%) .NET
8 1 (0.63%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.63%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.63%) Java EE
8 1 (0.63%) LAMP
8 1 (0.63%) Middleware
8 1 (0.63%) Spring
8 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.03%) Tandem
2 5 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.26%) IoT
3 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.55%) Linux
2 3 (1.89%) Unix
3 2 (1.26%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (100.00%) DevOps
2 142 (89.31%) CI/CD
3 116 (72.96%) Agile
4 115 (72.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 105 (66.04%) Asset Management
5 105 (66.04%) Software Engineering
6 85 (53.46%) Open Source
7 73 (45.91%) Data Engineering
8 27 (16.98%) Fintech
9 24 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (11.32%) Containerisation
11 12 (7.55%) Migration
12 11 (6.92%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (6.92%) High Availability
13 10 (6.29%) Platform Engineering
14 8 (5.03%) Decision-Making
14 8 (5.03%) Disaster Recovery
14 8 (5.03%) Financial Modelling
14 8 (5.03%) Mentoring
14 8 (5.03%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 133 (83.65%) Python
2 92 (57.86%) Go
3 89 (55.97%) Java
4 30 (18.87%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.03%) Bash
6 4 (2.52%) Groovy
6 4 (2.52%) Perl
6 4 (2.52%) PHP
6 4 (2.52%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.89%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.26%) C#
8 2 (1.26%) Ruby
9 1 (0.63%) C
9 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (8.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.52%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (1.89%) Degree
5 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.66%) QA
2 2 (1.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 132 (83.02%) Docker
2 6 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 143 (89.94%) Kubernetes
2 139 (87.42%) Terraform
3 18 (11.32%) Ansible
4 6 (3.77%) Istio
5 4 (2.52%) Packer
6 3 (1.89%) Grafana
7 2 (1.26%) Argo
7 2 (1.26%) Consul
8 1 (0.63%) Automic
8 1 (0.63%) Podman
8 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.63%) Puppet
8 1 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (3.77%) Confluent
1 6 (3.77%) IBM
2 5 (3.14%) VMware
3 3 (1.89%) AppDynamics
3 3 (1.89%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.26%) Cribl.io
5 1 (0.63%) Hitachi
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.63%) SAP