AWS Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the South West is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 - 235
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 8 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.079% - 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% - 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £61,875 - -
25th Percentile £70,313 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile - - £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 9,436 3,254 7,147
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.03% 92.73% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,537 2,133 4,613
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,027 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -11.71% -6.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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 the South West.

AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South West

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 18 September 2026. 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
Gloucestershire - 8 £75,000 - 2
AWS Infrastructure Engineer
England

AWS Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 South West region featuring AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
4 1 (12.50%) BCP
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 1 (12.50%) Route 53
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture

AWS Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
3 1 (12.50%) Route 53
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) BCP
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes