Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Jobs

Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 661 888 908
Rank change year-on-year +227 +20 +232
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 26 26 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.026% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.028% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 23 24 47
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,250 £68,750
25th Percentile £80,625 £71,875 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £127,500 £117,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £140,000 - £112,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £76,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year -14.75% +5.17% -9.38%

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 47,606 93,229 94,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,326 66,845 59,589
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
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 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior AWS DevOps Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior AWS DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior AWS DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +183 23 £112,500 +45.16% 12
Work from Home +177 19 £112,500 +66.67% 5
London +109 18 £112,500 +7.14% 5
UK excluding London +208 5 £65,000 -14.75% 9
East of England +51 5 £65,000 -10.34%

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) AWS
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 21 (80.77%) Kubernetes
4 20 (76.92%) Terraform
4 20 (76.92%) Docker
4 20 (76.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 18 (69.23%) Python
6 16 (61.54%) Finance
6 16 (61.54%) Banking
7 15 (57.69%) JavaScript
7 15 (57.69%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (57.69%) Serverless
8 14 (53.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (50.00%) Fintech
9 13 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (50.00%) Agile
9 13 (50.00%) Amazon S3
9 13 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (46.15%) Software Engineering
10 12 (46.15%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (46.15%) Asset Management
10 12 (46.15%) Front Office
10 12 (46.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (30.77%) High Availability
12 6 (23.08%) Azure
12 6 (23.08%) Go
13 5 (19.23%) Mentoring

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (57.69%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (57.69%) Serverless
3 14 (53.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 12 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (46.15%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (23.08%) Azure
7 5 (19.23%) GCP
8 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (11.54%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (11.54%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
10 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
11 1 (3.85%) Route 53
11 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (46.15%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Liquibase
General
1 16 (61.54%) Banking
1 16 (61.54%) Finance
2 12 (46.15%) Front Office
3 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Kafka
2 3 (11.54%) AWS SAM
3 2 (7.69%) AWS CDK
3 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 20 (76.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 13 (50.00%) Agile
4 13 (50.00%) Fintech
5 12 (46.15%) Asset Management
5 12 (46.15%) Software Engineering
6 8 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (30.77%) High Availability
7 5 (19.23%) Architectural Design
7 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
7 5 (19.23%) Migration
7 5 (19.23%) Software Delivery
8 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
9 3 (11.54%) Open Source
9 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
10 2 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
10 2 (7.69%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) Python
2 15 (57.69%) JavaScript
3 6 (23.08%) Go
4 3 (11.54%) Bash
5 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
System Software
1 20 (76.92%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (80.77%) Kubernetes
2 20 (76.92%) Terraform
3 4 (15.38%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) Istio
5 2 (7.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) VMware
2 3 (11.54%) Confluent
3 1 (3.85%) IBM