AWS Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 744 661 739
Rank change year-on-year -83 +78 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 57 20 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.052% 0.041% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.045% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 43 11 54
10th Percentile £46,000 £62,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £66,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +16.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,000 - £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,500 £72,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year -9.66% +23.40% +2.17%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 103,497 43,997 75,693
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 89.68% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 71,228 25,950 47,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,169 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,159
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Top 11 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 4 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
England -66 54 £70,000 -3.45% 12
UK excluding London -91 33 £65,500 -9.66% 18
London -33 23 £85,000 - 4
South East -31 14 £70,000 -
Work from Home -39 9 £75,000 -
North of England - 9 £47,000 - 6
South West - 8 £75,000 -
North East - 4 £47,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £47,000 - 5
North West - 2 £52,500 -
Scotland - 2 £100,000 - 11

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 featuring AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) AWS
2 48 (84.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (57.89%) Terraform
4 24 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (35.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (33.33%) Python
7 17 (29.82%) Linux
8 16 (28.07%) CI/CD
8 16 (28.07%) ITIL
9 15 (26.32%) Ansible
9 15 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (26.32%) Datadog
10 14 (24.56%) Azure
10 14 (24.56%) DevOps
10 14 (24.56%) Docker
10 14 (24.56%) Kubernetes
10 14 (24.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (22.81%) Grafana
12 12 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (21.05%) Serverless
13 11 (19.30%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (19.30%) Amazon S3
13 11 (19.30%) Migration
13 11 (19.30%) PowerShell
14 10 (17.54%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (17.54%) GCP
15 9 (15.79%) Bash
15 9 (15.79%) Dynatrace
15 9 (15.79%) Observability

AWS Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.51%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (26.32%) Datadog
3 14 (24.56%) Azure
3 14 (24.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 12 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (21.05%) Serverless
5 11 (19.30%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (19.30%) Amazon S3
6 10 (17.54%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (17.54%) GCP
7 8 (14.04%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (12.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (8.77%) SaaS
11 2 (3.51%) Cloudflare
11 2 (3.51%) Google Workspace
11 2 (3.51%) IaaS
11 2 (3.51%) PaaS
11 2 (3.51%) Snowflake
12 1 (1.75%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) Firewall
2 4 (7.02%) DHCP
2 4 (7.02%) DNS
2 4 (7.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) CircleCI
1 2 (3.51%) GitLab
1 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) Git
General
1 10 (17.54%) Law
2 9 (15.79%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Banking
5 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.51%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (57.89%) Terraform
2 2 (3.51%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.51%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (29.82%) Linux
2 8 (14.04%) Windows
3 5 (8.77%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (84.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (35.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (28.07%) CI/CD
4 16 (28.07%) ITIL
5 15 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (24.56%) DevOps
7 11 (19.30%) Migration
8 9 (15.79%) Observability
9 8 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (12.28%) Cloud Security
10 7 (12.28%) GitOps
10 7 (12.28%) Identity Management
10 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (12.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (12.28%) Task Automation
11 6 (10.53%) AI
11 6 (10.53%) Cost Optimisation
11 6 (10.53%) Project Delivery
11 6 (10.53%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.33%) Python
2 11 (19.30%) PowerShell
3 9 (15.79%) Bash
4 4 (7.02%) SQL
5 2 (3.51%) C++
5 2 (3.51%) Go
5 2 (3.51%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) PCI DSS
1 4 (7.02%) SLA
2 2 (3.51%) GDPR
2 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (24.56%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.26%) vSphere
4 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (26.32%) Ansible
2 14 (24.56%) Kubernetes
3 13 (22.81%) Grafana
4 6 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.26%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.51%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (3.51%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Dynatrace
2 7 (12.28%) VMware
3 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.26%) Google
5 2 (3.51%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.51%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.51%) Databricks
5 2 (3.51%) FactSet
5 2 (3.51%) Solace