AWS Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > London

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 424 452
Rank change year-on-year +64 +28 +194
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 20 9 21
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.13% 0.059% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.065% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 20
10th Percentile - - £50,375
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +38.46% +18.18%
75th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £75,625
90th Percentile - - £77,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +15.38% +35.42%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,837 13,902 20,186
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 91.67% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 9,213 7,981 16,281
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,420
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in London

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in London

AWS Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 8 February 2026, AWS Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) AWS
1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (80.00%) SaaS
3 12 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (60.00%) Java
3 12 (60.00%) PCI DSS
3 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (60.00%) SOC 2
3 12 (60.00%) Terraform
4 11 (55.00%) API Management
4 11 (55.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 11 (55.00%) BGP
4 11 (55.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
4 11 (55.00%) Observability
4 11 (55.00%) Platform Engineering
4 11 (55.00%) SOA
4 11 (55.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 11 (55.00%) VPN
5 9 (45.00%) Azure
6 8 (40.00%) Cisco
6 8 (40.00%) Dynatrace
6 8 (40.00%) Firewall
6 8 (40.00%) ServiceNow
6 8 (40.00%) SolarWinds
7 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
7 7 (35.00%) Go
7 7 (35.00%) Python
8 6 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (30.00%) Amazon EKS

AWS Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (80.00%) SaaS
3 11 (55.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 11 (55.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (45.00%) Azure
5 6 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
5 6 (30.00%) Route 53
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) Datadog
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) BGP
1 11 (55.00%) VPN
2 8 (40.00%) Firewall
3 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (30.00%) VLAN
4 5 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (25.00%) IPsec
4 5 (25.00%) LAN
4 5 (25.00%) MPLS
4 5 (25.00%) NetScaler
4 5 (25.00%) NX-OS
4 5 (25.00%) OSPF
4 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 5 (25.00%) VXLAN
4 5 (25.00%) WAN
4 5 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (25.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (55.00%) Back Office
1 11 (55.00%) Banking
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
1 11 (55.00%) Financial Institution
1 11 (55.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 11 (55.00%) Law
1 11 (55.00%) Retail
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) RESTful
2 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (65.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (55.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (55.00%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (40.00%) Blog
3 8 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (55.00%) API Management
3 11 (55.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
3 11 (55.00%) Observability
3 11 (55.00%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (55.00%) SOA
4 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (30.00%) Load Balancing
5 6 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 5 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
6 5 (25.00%) Line Management
6 5 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
6 5 (25.00%) RBAC
6 5 (25.00%) Runbook
6 5 (25.00%) Secrets Management
6 5 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) Go
2 7 (35.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (60.00%) PCI DSS
1 12 (60.00%) SOC 2
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Cisco
1 8 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 8 (40.00%) ServiceNow
1 8 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 5 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 5 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 5 (25.00%) Meraki