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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 699 599 751
Rank change year-on-year -100 +152 -348
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 187 418 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.42% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.46% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 158 392 440
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,563 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £138,750 £100,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +5.77% +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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -97 179 £80,000 +3.23% 42
London -11 106 £100,000 +8.11% 27
UK excluding London -78 78 £68,750 - 20
Work from Home -87 75 £75,000 -3.23% 33
North of England -30 18 £65,000 -3.70% 6
Midlands 0 17 £57,500 -16.36% 3
South West -42 17 £67,500 -6.90% 1
South East -4 15 £82,500 +26.92% 9
East Midlands -6 15 £55,000 -21.43% 2
North West -39 10 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Scotland -59 6 £80,000 +18.52%
East of England +9 5 £70,000 -8.20% 1
North East 0 5 £75,000 +7.14%
Yorkshire +53 3 £65,000 -3.70% 1
West Midlands +8 2 £80,000 +18.52% 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 187 (100.00%) AWS
1 187 (100.00%) DevOps
2 149 (79.68%) Terraform
3 144 (77.01%) Kubernetes
4 137 (73.26%) CI/CD
5 106 (56.68%) Python
6 98 (52.41%) Docker
7 85 (45.45%) Agile
8 69 (36.90%) Serverless
9 68 (36.36%) Jenkins
10 65 (34.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 64 (34.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 63 (33.69%) AWS Lambda
13 60 (32.09%) Amazon RDS
13 60 (32.09%) Finance
14 58 (31.02%) Linux
15 57 (30.48%) Containerisation
16 55 (29.41%) Amazon S3
17 49 (26.20%) Amazon EC2
17 49 (26.20%) Ansible
18 47 (25.13%) Amazon EKS
18 47 (25.13%) Amazon ECS
19 42 (22.46%) Bash
20 41 (21.93%) Software Engineering
21 40 (21.39%) Java
21 40 (21.39%) Go
22 38 (20.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
23 37 (19.79%) Deployment Automation
24 35 (18.72%) Amazon SQS
24 35 (18.72%) Artifactory

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 (2.67%) Confluence
2 4 (2.14%) Drupal
3 2 (1.07%) nginx
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 187 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (36.90%) Serverless
3 65 (34.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 63 (33.69%) AWS Lambda
5 55 (29.41%) Amazon S3
6 49 (26.20%) Amazon EC2
7 47 (25.13%) Amazon ECS
7 47 (25.13%) Amazon EKS
8 35 (18.72%) Amazon SQS
9 33 (17.65%) Azure
10 32 (17.11%) GitHub
10 32 (17.11%) OpenShift
11 19 (10.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (10.16%) GCP
12 15 (8.02%) SaaS
13 12 (6.42%) Azure AKS
13 12 (6.42%) Route 53
14 11 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
15 10 (5.35%) AWS CodePipeline
15 10 (5.35%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.56%) Firewall
2 9 (4.81%) Network Security
3 7 (3.74%) DNS
4 4 (2.14%) VPN
5 2 (1.07%) HTTP
6 1 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (32.09%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (17.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 14 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.35%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.74%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.53%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 68 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 35 (18.72%) Artifactory
3 27 (14.44%) GitLab
4 24 (12.83%) Git
5 11 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (5.35%) Bitbucket
7 8 (4.28%) JIRA
8 6 (3.21%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.14%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.60%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.07%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.53%) ClearCase
12 1 (0.53%) ClearQuest
12 1 (0.53%) NUnit
12 1 (0.53%) Redmine
12 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.53%) Selenium
12 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 60 (32.09%) Finance
2 30 (16.04%) Front Office
3 29 (15.51%) Social Skills
4 16 (8.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.42%) Law
7 7 (3.74%) Games
8 4 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.14%) Legal
8 4 (2.14%) Retail
9 2 (1.07%) Automotive
9 2 (1.07%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.04%) J2EE
2 16 (8.56%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (5.88%) AWS CDK
4 10 (5.35%) Middleware
5 7 (3.74%) .NET
5 7 (3.74%) AWS SAM
6 4 (2.14%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.60%) Django
7 3 (1.60%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.60%) RESTful
8 2 (1.07%) Node.js
8 2 (1.07%) React
8 2 (1.07%) REST
9 1 (0.53%) CSS3
9 1 (0.53%) HTML5
9 1 (0.53%) Kafka
9 1 (0.53%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.53%) OpenID
9 1 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.04%) Tandem
2 11 (5.88%) Client/Server
3 9 (4.81%) Blockchain
4 8 (4.28%) e-Learning
4 8 (4.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.74%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.21%) PKI
7 5 (2.67%) Online Games
8 4 (2.14%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.14%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.07%) Genomics
9 2 (1.07%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.53%) FMCG
10 1 (0.53%) NHS
10 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (31.02%) Linux
2 12 (6.42%) Windows
3 3 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
4 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (100.00%) DevOps
2 137 (73.26%) CI/CD
3 85 (45.45%) Agile
4 64 (34.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (30.48%) Containerisation
6 41 (21.93%) Software Engineering
7 38 (20.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 37 (19.79%) Deployment Automation
9 35 (18.72%) Open Source
10 31 (16.58%) Decision-Making
11 30 (16.04%) Asset Management
11 30 (16.04%) Financial Modelling
12 25 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (10.16%) Configuration Management
14 18 (9.63%) Mentoring
15 17 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
16 16 (8.56%) Secrets Management
17 14 (7.49%) Microservices
17 14 (7.49%) Migration
17 14 (7.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 106 (56.68%) Python
2 42 (22.46%) Bash
3 40 (21.39%) Go
3 40 (21.39%) Java
4 18 (9.63%) PowerShell
5 12 (6.42%) SQL
6 11 (5.88%) C#
6 11 (5.88%) Groovy
6 11 (5.88%) PHP
7 7 (3.74%) Ruby
8 6 (3.21%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.90%) AWS Certification
2 26 (13.90%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.14%) Degree
6 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.60%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.74%) QA
2 5 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.60%) NIST
3 3 (1.60%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 98 (52.41%) Docker
2 5 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.53%) iptables
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 149 (79.68%) Terraform
2 144 (77.01%) Kubernetes
3 49 (26.20%) Ansible
4 24 (12.83%) Prometheus
5 21 (11.23%) Grafana
6 16 (8.56%) Progress Chef
7 8 (4.28%) Puppet
8 7 (3.74%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (2.14%) Istio
9 4 (2.14%) Karpenter
9 4 (2.14%) Rancher
10 3 (1.60%) Argo
10 3 (1.60%) Consul
10 3 (1.60%) Packer
11 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.53%) Kibana
11 1 (0.53%) Nagios
11 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (5.88%) Dynatrace
1 11 (5.88%) Oracle
2 9 (4.81%) IBM
2 9 (4.81%) Red Hat
3 5 (2.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.67%) VMware
4 2 (1.07%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.07%) ForgeRock
4 2 (1.07%) Sitecore
4 2 (1.07%) Veracode
5 1 (0.53%) Cisco
5 1 (0.53%) New Relic
5 1 (0.53%) Splunk