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 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 828 947
Rank change year-on-year +138 +119 +240
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 15 69 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.070% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.074% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 7 69 25
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,350 £46,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -7.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £66,000 £68,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £66,848 £78,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £62,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +2.40% +21.95% -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 49,982 93,747 91,844
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.62% 94.66% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 26,989 67,111 57,934
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £74,014 £71,250 £80,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 15 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 15 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 +98 15 £64,000 -1.54% 14
UK excluding London +137 9 £64,000 +2.40% 10
London +94 6 - - 4
East of England - 4 £64,000 -
Work from Home +96 3 £50,000 -25.93% 2
North of England +53 3 £50,000 -35.48% 3
West Midlands +55 2 - - 5
Midlands +55 2 - - 5
Yorkshire - 2 £50,000 -
North West -4 1 £66,350 -17.06% 3

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 15 (100.00%) AWS
1 15 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (73.33%) Firewall
3 9 (60.00%) Windows
4 8 (53.33%) Data Centre
4 8 (53.33%) ServiceNow
5 7 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (46.67%) SD-WAN
5 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
5 7 (46.67%) Citrix
6 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
6 6 (40.00%) Management Information System
6 6 (40.00%) Cisco
6 6 (40.00%) Degree
7 5 (33.33%) Linux
7 5 (33.33%) Change Management
7 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
7 5 (33.33%) AWS Certification
7 5 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (26.67%) DevOps
8 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (26.67%) Azure
8 4 (26.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
8 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
8 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (26.67%) DHCP
8 4 (26.67%) DNS
8 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (20.00%) VMware

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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
5 3 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
6 2 (13.33%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) Firewall
2 7 (46.67%) SD-WAN
3 4 (26.67%) DHCP
3 4 (26.67%) DNS
4 3 (20.00%) BGP
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (20.00%) IPsec
4 3 (20.00%) LAN
4 3 (20.00%) MPLS
4 3 (20.00%) Network Security
4 3 (20.00%) NX-OS
4 3 (20.00%) OSPF
4 3 (20.00%) VPN
4 3 (20.00%) VXLAN
4 3 (20.00%) WAN
4 3 (20.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
1 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (13.33%) Vagrant
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Law
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Data Centre
2 6 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (33.33%) Linux
4 3 (20.00%) AIX
4 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (13.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Change Management
3 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Runbook
4 3 (20.00%) Time Management
4 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
5 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
5 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 3 (20.00%) CCIE
3 3 (20.00%) CCNA
3 3 (20.00%) CCNP
3 3 (20.00%) CCSA
3 3 (20.00%) CCSE
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (20.00%) SCCM
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Grafana
3 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) ServiceNow
2 7 (46.67%) Citrix
3 6 (40.00%) Cisco
4 3 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
4 3 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 3 (20.00%) Meraki
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 3 (20.00%) VMware
5 2 (13.33%) Juniper