AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > West Midlands

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the West Midlands is £51,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
5 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 - 181
Rank change year-on-year - - +117
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 11 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.32% - 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% - 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £50,225 - £52,875
25th Percentile £50,563 - £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 - £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.33%
75th Percentile £64,188 - £83,750
90th Percentile £85,675 - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,131 5,047 3,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 93.51% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,050 2,677 2,604
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £53,168 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.53% -4.17% -

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Birmingham - 5 - -
Staffordshire - 3 £51,500 -
Solihull - 2 - -
Herefordshire - 1 £90,000 -
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 5 November 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 across the West Midlands region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) Python
2 10 (90.91%) Terraform
3 9 (81.82%) Azure
3 9 (81.82%) Jenkins
3 9 (81.82%) PowerShell
4 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
4 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
5 7 (63.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (63.64%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (63.64%) Amazon ELB
5 7 (63.64%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (63.64%) Amazon S3
5 7 (63.64%) AWS Certification
5 7 (63.64%) AWS KMS
5 7 (63.64%) Azure Certification
5 7 (63.64%) Change Management
5 7 (63.64%) Cloud Security
5 7 (63.64%) Configuration Management
5 7 (63.64%) Confluence
5 7 (63.64%) Degree
5 7 (63.64%) DFS Replication
5 7 (63.64%) DNS
5 7 (63.64%) Docker
5 7 (63.64%) Firewall
5 7 (63.64%) FTP
5 7 (63.64%) Git
5 7 (63.64%) Grafana

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 7 (63.64%) Confluence
2 6 (54.55%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) Azure
3 7 (63.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (63.64%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (63.64%) Amazon ELB
3 7 (63.64%) Amazon S3
3 7 (63.64%) AWS KMS
3 7 (63.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (54.55%) Route 53
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
5 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Datadog
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) DNS
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
1 7 (63.64%) FTP
1 7 (63.64%) HTTP
1 7 (63.64%) SMTP
1 7 (63.64%) SSH
2 6 (54.55%) IMAP
2 6 (54.55%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Jenkins
2 7 (63.64%) Git
2 7 (63.64%) JIRA
2 7 (63.64%) Vagrant
3 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (63.64%) Presentation Skills
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) LDAP
2 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Amazon Linux
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
1 7 (63.64%) VMS
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Change Management
3 7 (63.64%) Cloud Security
3 7 (63.64%) Configuration Management
3 7 (63.64%) Patch Management
4 6 (54.55%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (54.55%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) RBAC
6 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Runbook
6 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
7 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) Servant Leadership
7 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 9 (81.82%) PowerShell
3 7 (63.64%) Groovy
4 6 (54.55%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) Bash
5 2 (18.18%) Bicep
6 1 (9.09%) Go
6 1 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 1 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) AWS Certification
2 7 (63.64%) Azure Certification
2 7 (63.64%) Degree
2 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) DFS Replication
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
2 6 (54.55%) Dovecot
2 6 (54.55%) Postfix
2 6 (54.55%) Squid
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 7 (63.64%) Grafana
2 7 (63.64%) Prometheus
3 6 (54.55%) Nessus
3 6 (54.55%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) ServiceNow
2 6 (54.55%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (18.18%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
43 AWS DevOps Engineer jobs in England