AWS DevOps Engineer Jobs

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 724 576 767
Rank change year-on-year -148 +191 -355
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 185 411 547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.43% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.48% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 155 381 435
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £108,750 £112,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £138,750 £104,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS DevOps Engineer
Top 15 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 1 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 -140 177 £80,000 - 30
London -10 99 £100,000 +5.26% 15
UK excluding London -94 82 £70,000 - 16
Work from Home -121 79 £75,000 -3.85% 22
South East -20 20 £82,500 +26.92% 7
Midlands -3 17 £57,500 -14.81% 2
North of England -31 17 £65,000 -7.14% 3
South West -43 16 £71,250 -1.72% 2
East Midlands -6 15 £55,000 -21.43% 2
North West -44 9 £60,000 -14.29% 3
East of England +4 6 £72,500 +11.54% 1
Scotland -60 6 £80,000 +18.52% 1
North East -8 5 £75,000 +9.09%
Yorkshire +37 3 £65,000 -3.70%
West Midlands -16 2 £80,000 +18.52%

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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.

1 185 (100.00%) AWS
1 185 (100.00%) DevOps
2 143 (77.30%) Terraform
3 140 (75.68%) Kubernetes
4 132 (71.35%) CI/CD
5 99 (53.51%) Python
6 95 (51.35%) Docker
7 82 (44.32%) Agile
8 64 (34.59%) Jenkins
9 63 (34.05%) Serverless
9 63 (34.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 61 (32.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 58 (31.35%) Linux
11 58 (31.35%) Containerisation
12 57 (30.81%) AWS Lambda
13 54 (29.19%) Amazon RDS
14 52 (28.11%) Finance
15 51 (27.57%) Amazon S3
16 49 (26.49%) Ansible
17 46 (24.86%) Amazon EC2
18 45 (24.32%) Amazon EKS
19 44 (23.78%) Amazon ECS
20 41 (22.16%) Bash
21 37 (20.00%) Software Engineering
22 35 (18.92%) Java
22 35 (18.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
23 33 (17.84%) Deployment Automation
23 33 (17.84%) Go
24 31 (16.76%) Open Source
24 31 (16.76%) Amazon SQS

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 5 (2.70%) Confluence
2 4 (2.16%) Drupal
3 2 (1.08%) nginx
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 185 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (34.05%) Serverless
3 61 (32.97%) AWS CloudFormation
4 57 (30.81%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (27.57%) Amazon S3
6 46 (24.86%) Amazon EC2
7 45 (24.32%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (23.78%) Amazon ECS
9 31 (16.76%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (16.76%) Azure
10 28 (15.14%) GitHub
10 28 (15.14%) OpenShift
11 18 (9.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (9.73%) GCP
12 16 (8.65%) SaaS
13 12 (6.49%) Amazon ECR
13 12 (6.49%) Route 53
14 10 (5.41%) AWS CodePipeline
14 10 (5.41%) Azure AKS
15 8 (4.32%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.65%) Firewall
2 9 (4.86%) Network Security
3 7 (3.78%) DNS
4 4 (2.16%) VPN
5 2 (1.08%) HTTP
6 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (29.19%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (15.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (4.32%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.24%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.54%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.54%) MySQL
7 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (34.59%) Jenkins
2 30 (16.22%) Artifactory
3 26 (14.05%) GitLab
4 22 (11.89%) Git
5 11 (5.95%) Bitbucket
6 10 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (3.78%) JIRA
8 5 (2.70%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.16%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.62%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.54%) ClearCase
12 1 (0.54%) ClearQuest
12 1 (0.54%) NUnit
12 1 (0.54%) Redmine
12 1 (0.54%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.54%) Selenium
12 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 52 (28.11%) Finance
2 29 (15.68%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.05%) Front Office
4 15 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.95%) Law
6 7 (3.78%) Games
7 4 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.16%) Legal
7 4 (2.16%) Retail
8 3 (1.62%) Marketing
9 2 (1.08%) Automotive
9 2 (1.08%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.05%) J2EE
2 17 (9.19%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (5.95%) AWS CDK
4 8 (4.32%) Middleware
5 7 (3.78%) AWS SAM
6 6 (3.24%) .NET
7 4 (2.16%) RESTful
8 3 (1.62%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.62%) Django
8 3 (1.62%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.62%) Node.js
8 3 (1.62%) React
9 2 (1.08%) REST
10 1 (0.54%) CSS3
10 1 (0.54%) JSON
10 1 (0.54%) Kafka
10 1 (0.54%) OAuth
10 1 (0.54%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.54%) OpenID
10 1 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.05%) Tandem
2 11 (5.95%) Client/Server
3 9 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.32%) Blockchain
4 8 (4.32%) e-Learning
4 8 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.78%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.24%) PKI
7 5 (2.70%) Online Games
8 4 (2.16%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.16%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.16%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.62%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.08%) FMCG
10 2 (1.08%) Genomics
10 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.54%) NHS
11 1 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 58 (31.35%) Linux
2 10 (5.41%) Windows
3 3 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (100.00%) DevOps
2 132 (71.35%) CI/CD
3 82 (44.32%) Agile
4 63 (34.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (31.35%) Containerisation
6 37 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 35 (18.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 33 (17.84%) Deployment Automation
9 31 (16.76%) Open Source
10 27 (14.59%) Decision-Making
11 26 (14.05%) Asset Management
11 26 (14.05%) Financial Modelling
12 25 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (10.27%) Mentoring
14 18 (9.73%) Artificial Intelligence
14 18 (9.73%) Configuration Management
15 17 (9.19%) Migration
16 15 (8.11%) Microservices
16 15 (8.11%) Secrets Management
17 13 (7.03%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 99 (53.51%) Python
2 41 (22.16%) Bash
3 35 (18.92%) Java
4 33 (17.84%) Go
5 18 (9.73%) PowerShell
6 13 (7.03%) Groovy
7 12 (6.49%) PHP
8 10 (5.41%) C#
8 10 (5.41%) SQL
9 6 (3.24%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.24%) Ruby
10 2 (1.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (15.68%) AWS Certification
2 28 (15.14%) SC Cleared
2 28 (15.14%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.16%) Degree
6 3 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.62%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.78%) QA
2 5 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.62%) NIST
3 3 (1.62%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 95 (51.35%) Docker
2 6 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.54%) iptables
4 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 143 (77.30%) Terraform
2 140 (75.68%) Kubernetes
3 49 (26.49%) Ansible
4 24 (12.97%) Prometheus
5 19 (10.27%) Grafana
6 15 (8.11%) Progress Chef
7 8 (4.32%) Puppet
8 7 (3.78%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (2.16%) Istio
9 4 (2.16%) Karpenter
9 4 (2.16%) Rancher
10 3 (1.62%) Argo
10 3 (1.62%) Consul
10 3 (1.62%) Packer
11 1 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.54%) Kibana
11 1 (0.54%) Nagios
11 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (5.95%) Dynatrace
2 9 (4.86%) IBM
2 9 (4.86%) Oracle
2 9 (4.86%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.24%) VMware
4 5 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.08%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.08%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.08%) New Relic
5 2 (1.08%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.08%) Veracode
6 1 (0.54%) Cisco
6 1 (0.54%) Splunk