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 8 June 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 725 575
Rank change year-on-year +147 -150 +201
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 139 179 414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.17% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.17% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 103 151 386
10th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £121,250 £105,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £117,500 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

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 50,995 102,425 85,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.93% 91.23%
Number of salaries quoted 26,845 72,430 55,393
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,565 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,600 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +1.20% -6.54% +5.94%

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 8 June 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 14 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 8 June 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 +110 129 £110,000 +37.50% 40
London +133 104 £110,000 +10.00% 15
Work from Home +153 97 £110,000 +46.67% 30
UK excluding London +123 29 £65,000 -7.14% 34
South East +87 7 £37,500 -54.55% 7
Midlands +55 5 £80,000 +23.08% 8
East of England +31 5 £65,000 -10.34% 1
West Midlands +62 4 - - 6
North of England +39 4 £77,500 +19.23% 13
North West -7 4 £77,500 +29.17% 10
Scotland +115 3 £85,000 +6.25%
South West +96 3 £47,500 -33.33% 1
Wales - 2 £57,500 -
East Midlands +22 1 £80,000 +39.13% 2

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 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.

1 139 (100.00%) AWS
1 139 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (78.42%) CI/CD
3 108 (77.70%) Terraform
4 105 (75.54%) Python
5 101 (72.66%) Kubernetes
6 97 (69.78%) Docker
7 72 (51.80%) Serverless
7 72 (51.80%) Finance
8 70 (50.36%) Go
8 70 (50.36%) Agile
9 68 (48.92%) AWS Lambda
10 67 (48.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 66 (47.48%) Kafka
12 64 (46.04%) Java
12 64 (46.04%) Software Engineering
13 62 (44.60%) OpenShift
13 62 (44.60%) Amazon ECS
14 61 (43.88%) Open Source
15 60 (43.17%) Apache
15 60 (43.17%) Artifactory
16 58 (41.73%) Data Engineering
17 57 (41.01%) Apache Airflow
17 57 (41.01%) Amazon Athena
17 57 (41.01%) Asset Management
17 57 (41.01%) Front Office
17 57 (41.01%) dbt
17 57 (41.01%) Dremio
17 57 (41.01%) Apache Iceberg
18 55 (39.57%) Apache Arrow

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 60 (43.17%) Apache
2 57 (41.01%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (39.57%) Apache Spark
4 6 (4.32%) Confluence
5 3 (2.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.72%) CMS
6 1 (0.72%) IIS
6 1 (0.72%) JBoss
6 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 139 (100.00%) AWS
2 72 (51.80%) Serverless
3 68 (48.92%) AWS Lambda
4 62 (44.60%) Amazon ECS
4 62 (44.60%) OpenShift
5 57 (41.01%) dbt
6 19 (13.67%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (12.23%) Azure
8 15 (10.79%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (10.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (9.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (8.63%) Amazon S3
11 11 (7.91%) GCP
12 8 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (4.32%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (4.32%) GitHub
14 5 (3.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 5 (3.60%) AWS Control Tower
14 5 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (2.88%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.47%) Firewall
2 4 (2.88%) DNS
2 4 (2.88%) FTP
2 4 (2.88%) HTTP
2 4 (2.88%) SMTP
2 4 (2.88%) SSH
3 3 (2.16%) IMAP
3 3 (2.16%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.44%) Internet
5 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (41.01%) Amazon Athena
1 57 (41.01%) Apache Iceberg
1 57 (41.01%) Dremio
2 55 (39.57%) Apache Arrow
2 55 (39.57%) Apache Ignite
3 11 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.88%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.16%) KDB
7 2 (1.44%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.44%) MySQL
7 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.72%) DB2
Development Applications
1 60 (43.17%) Artifactory
2 21 (15.11%) Jenkins
3 15 (10.79%) GitLab
4 13 (9.35%) SonarQube
5 12 (8.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (7.19%) Git
7 8 (5.76%) JIRA
8 4 (2.88%) Vagrant
9 3 (2.16%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.44%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.44%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.72%) Ant
11 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.72%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.72%) Maven
11 1 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.72%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.72%) Travis CI
General
1 72 (51.80%) Finance
2 57 (41.01%) Front Office
3 17 (12.23%) Banking
4 16 (11.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (10.79%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.19%) Social Skills
7 4 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.16%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Electronics
9 1 (0.72%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.72%) Marketing
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (47.48%) Kafka
2 55 (39.57%) J2EE
2 55 (39.57%) PySpark
3 13 (9.35%) REST
4 9 (6.47%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.88%) React
6 3 (2.16%) AWS CDK
6 3 (2.16%) JSON
6 3 (2.16%) LDAP
6 3 (2.16%) Node.js
6 3 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.44%) .NET
7 2 (1.44%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.44%) AWS SAM
7 2 (1.44%) LAMP
7 2 (1.44%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (0.72%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.72%) boto
8 1 (0.72%) Ember.js
8 1 (0.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (7.91%) e-Learning
3 5 (3.60%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.88%) Replication
5 3 (2.16%) Equities
6 2 (1.44%) IoT
6 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.55%) Linux
2 8 (5.76%) Unix
2 8 (5.76%) Windows
3 6 (4.32%) VMS
4 4 (2.88%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (2.16%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.72%) Android
6 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (78.42%) CI/CD
3 70 (50.36%) Agile
4 67 (48.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 64 (46.04%) Software Engineering
6 61 (43.88%) Open Source
7 58 (41.73%) Data Engineering
8 57 (41.01%) Asset Management
9 36 (25.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (18.71%) Containerisation
11 20 (14.39%) Mentoring
12 16 (11.51%) Platform Engineering
13 15 (10.79%) Artificial Intelligence
14 14 (10.07%) Coaching
14 14 (10.07%) High Availability
14 14 (10.07%) Machine Learning
15 13 (9.35%) Disaster Recovery
15 13 (9.35%) Migration
16 12 (8.63%) Configuration Management
17 10 (7.19%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 105 (75.54%) Python
2 70 (50.36%) Go
3 64 (46.04%) Java
4 14 (10.07%) Bash
5 9 (6.47%) Groovy
6 8 (5.76%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.32%) Perl
7 6 (4.32%) PHP
8 5 (3.60%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.60%) SQL
9 4 (2.88%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.44%) C
11 2 (1.44%) C#
11 2 (1.44%) Ruby
12 1 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (12.23%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.63%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.47%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.04%) Degree
5 4 (2.88%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.63%) QA
2 2 (1.44%) GDPR
3 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 97 (69.78%) Docker
2 6 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.88%) DFS Replication
4 3 (2.16%) Dovecot
4 3 (2.16%) Postfix
4 3 (2.16%) Squid
5 2 (1.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 108 (77.70%) Terraform
2 101 (72.66%) Kubernetes
3 23 (16.55%) Ansible
4 13 (9.35%) Grafana
5 8 (5.76%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.32%) Istio
7 4 (2.88%) Packer
8 3 (2.16%) Nessus
8 3 (2.16%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.44%) Argo
9 2 (1.44%) Consul
10 1 (0.72%) Automic
10 1 (0.72%) Podman
10 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.72%) Puppet
10 1 (0.72%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (12.23%) IBM
2 12 (8.63%) Red Hat
3 6 (4.32%) Confluent
4 5 (3.60%) VMware
5 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.16%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.16%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.16%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.44%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.72%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.72%) SAP
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