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 £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 881 1156
Rank change year-on-year -4 +275 -293
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer 23 54 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.058% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.064% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 21 43 95
10th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £68,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £114,000 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +23.08%

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 103,724 84,717 165,173
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.76% 91.22% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 73,308 55,181 85,146
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,605 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 11 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 11 June 2024. 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 +21 22 £77,500 +0.98% 1
UK excluding London -55 13 £77,500 +3.33%
Work from Home +20 10 £75,000 -6.25% 2
London +56 8 £90,000 +12.50% 1
South West -30 4 £77,500 +6.90%
East of England - 4 £76,250 -
North of England +19 3 £57,500 -20.69%
North West -21 3 £57,500 -20.69%
West Midlands -13 1 £90,000 +14.65%
Midlands -24 1 £90,000 +14.65%
South East -28 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, 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 23 (100.00%) AWS
1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (73.91%) Kubernetes
2 17 (73.91%) Terraform
3 14 (60.87%) Ansible
4 13 (56.52%) Python
5 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
6 10 (43.48%) Linux
6 10 (43.48%) GitHub
7 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
8 8 (34.78%) Agile
9 7 (30.43%) Mentoring
9 7 (30.43%) GitLab
9 7 (30.43%) Progress Chef
10 6 (26.09%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (26.09%) Docker
10 6 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (21.74%) GCP
11 5 (21.74%) Bash
11 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
11 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
11 5 (21.74%) AWS CDK
12 4 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (17.39%) Istio
12 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
12 4 (17.39%) Performance Optimisation
12 4 (17.39%) Firewall
12 4 (17.39%) Finance

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 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) GitHub
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (21.74%) GCP
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (17.39%) Azure
5 4 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.70%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (8.70%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.70%) SaaS
6 2 (8.70%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 7 (30.43%) GitLab
3 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket
3 3 (13.04%) CircleCI
4 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Law
3 2 (8.70%) Health Technology
4 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) AWS CDK
2 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.70%) FMCG
2 2 (8.70%) Genomics
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (34.78%) Agile
5 7 (30.43%) Mentoring
6 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
6 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
7 4 (17.39%) Load Balancing
7 4 (17.39%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
8 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (13.04%) Migration
8 3 (13.04%) OOP
8 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
9 2 (8.70%) E-Commerce
9 2 (8.70%) Information Security
9 2 (8.70%) Open Source
9 2 (8.70%) Secrets Management
9 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Bash
3 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.04%) PHP
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (73.91%) Kubernetes
1 17 (73.91%) Terraform
2 14 (60.87%) Ansible
3 7 (30.43%) Progress Chef
4 4 (17.39%) Istio
4 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
4 4 (17.39%) Puppet
5 2 (8.70%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.70%) VMware