AWS Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 831 948 1153
Rank change year-on-year +117 +205 -272
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 67 32 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.032% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.035% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 67 27 45
10th Percentile £50,200 £48,500 £48,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £52,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% -11.43% +79.49%
75th Percentile £70,625 £103,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £51,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +26.83% -31.67% +57.89%

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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
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 £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Infrastructure Engineer.

Salary trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +132 63 £65,000 -11.86% 5
UK excluding London +35 48 £65,000 +26.83% 4
Work from Home +85 41 £67,500 -25.00% 3
South East - 28 £66,250 - 1
London +106 16 £75,000 -6.25% 1
Midlands - 12 £57,500 - 2
East Midlands - 9 £55,000 - 2
North of England - 6 £77,500 -
North West - 4 £80,000 -
West Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
North East - 2 £60,000 -
South West -22 1 £48,500 +7.78% 1
Scotland -58 1 £45,000 -52.63%

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, AWS Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (91.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 40 (59.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (49.25%) Docker
5 29 (43.28%) DevOps
5 29 (43.28%) Kubernetes
6 28 (41.79%) Terraform
7 25 (37.31%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (34.33%) Amazon S3
8 23 (34.33%) Serverless
8 23 (34.33%) CI/CD
9 22 (32.84%) Linux
10 21 (31.34%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (29.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (29.85%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (28.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 18 (26.87%) Data Centre
13 18 (26.87%) Ansible
13 18 (26.87%) Route 53
13 18 (26.87%) Python
14 17 (25.37%) AWS Certification
15 15 (22.39%) Firewall
15 15 (22.39%) Containerisation
16 14 (20.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 14 (20.90%) Azure
16 14 (20.90%) Infrastructure Management
17 13 (19.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (19.40%) Degree
17 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
17 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared

AWS Infrastructure 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 4 (5.97%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 67 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (37.31%) Amazon EC2
3 23 (34.33%) Amazon S3
3 23 (34.33%) Serverless
4 21 (31.34%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (29.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (28.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 18 (26.87%) Route 53
8 14 (20.90%) Azure
9 13 (19.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (17.91%) CloudFront
11 11 (16.42%) GitHub
12 8 (11.94%) Azure Pipelines
13 5 (7.46%) SaaS
14 3 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (4.48%) AWS CodePipeline
14 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudTrail
15 2 (2.99%) AWS Direct Connect
15 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (22.39%) Firewall
2 4 (5.97%) DNS
3 2 (2.99%) VPN
4 1 (1.49%) Network Security
4 1 (1.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (29.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) Git
2 7 (10.45%) Bitbucket
2 7 (10.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.97%) JIRA
3 4 (5.97%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (5.97%) Subversion
4 2 (2.99%) GitLab
General
1 7 (10.45%) Finance
2 6 (8.96%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.97%) Tech for Good
4 3 (4.48%) Japanese Language
5 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) SAML
2 3 (4.48%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.49%) JSON
3 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.87%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.48%) PMI
4 2 (2.99%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.84%) Linux
2 9 (13.43%) Windows
3 7 (10.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (91.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (59.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (43.28%) DevOps
4 23 (34.33%) CI/CD
5 15 (22.39%) Containerisation
6 14 (20.90%) Infrastructure Management
7 12 (17.91%) Computer Science
7 12 (17.91%) Root Cause Analysis
8 11 (16.42%) Agile
9 10 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (13.43%) Analytics
10 9 (13.43%) Data Protection
10 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.43%) Project Delivery
11 8 (11.94%) Customer Experience
11 8 (11.94%) Scrum
12 6 (8.96%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (8.96%) Server Management
13 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Automation
13 5 (7.46%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.87%) Python
2 9 (13.43%) Bash
3 4 (5.97%) Java
3 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.48%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.99%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) AWS Certification
2 14 (20.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 13 (19.40%) Degree
3 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared
4 12 (17.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 12 (17.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.48%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) QA
System Software
1 33 (49.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (43.28%) Kubernetes
2 28 (41.79%) Terraform
3 18 (26.87%) Ansible
4 9 (13.43%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (5.97%) Packer
5 4 (5.97%) Progress Chef
5 4 (5.97%) Puppet
5 4 (5.97%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (5.97%) Atlassian
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.48%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.99%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.49%) VMware