AWS Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £64,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 687 846 948
Rank change year-on-year +159 +102 +240
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 13 66 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.067% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.071% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 7 66 27
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,625 £48,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -16.13% -10.14%
75th Percentile £66,000 £71,563 £103,750
90th Percentile £66,848 £78,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -1.54% +26.83% -31.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 49,015 93,487 94,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,518 67,038 59,603
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

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 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Top 10 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 7 May 2025. 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 +118 13 £64,000 -1.54% 2
UK excluding London +159 8 £64,000 -1.54%
London +87 5 - - 2
East of England - 4 £64,000 -
Work from Home +113 3 £50,000 -25.93%
North of England +58 3 £50,000 -35.48%
Yorkshire - 2 £50,000 -
Midlands +46 1 - -
West Midlands +41 1 - -
North West +8 1 £66,350 -17.06%

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, 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 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (69.23%) Firewall
3 8 (61.54%) Windows
4 7 (53.85%) Citrix
4 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
4 7 (53.85%) Data Centre
4 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (46.15%) ServiceNow
5 6 (46.15%) SD-WAN
6 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
6 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
6 5 (38.46%) Cisco
6 5 (38.46%) Degree
7 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (30.77%) DHCP
7 4 (30.77%) DNS
7 4 (30.77%) Linux
7 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
7 4 (30.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
7 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
8 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (23.08%) DevOps
8 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
8 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
8 3 (23.08%) AIX

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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) SD-WAN
3 4 (30.77%) DHCP
3 4 (30.77%) DNS
4 2 (15.38%) BGP
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (15.38%) IPsec
4 2 (15.38%) LAN
4 2 (15.38%) MPLS
4 2 (15.38%) Network Security
4 2 (15.38%) NX-OS
4 2 (15.38%) OSPF
4 2 (15.38%) VPN
4 2 (15.38%) VXLAN
4 2 (15.38%) WAN
4 2 (15.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (7.69%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Local Government
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Data Centre
2 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 4 (30.77%) Linux
4 3 (23.08%) AIX
4 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
5 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Change Management
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Time Management
4 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
4 2 (15.38%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Runbook
4 2 (15.38%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
4 2 (15.38%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (15.38%) CCIE
3 2 (15.38%) CCNA
3 2 (15.38%) CCNP
3 2 (15.38%) CCSA
3 2 (15.38%) CCSE
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (23.08%) SCCM
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Citrix
2 6 (46.15%) ServiceNow
3 5 (38.46%) Cisco
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (23.08%) VMware
5 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
5 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
5 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
5 2 (15.38%) Meraki
5 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
6 1 (7.69%) Juniper