AWS Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 813 945 1191
Rank change year-on-year +132 +246 -300
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 71 30 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.030% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.033% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 71 25 48
10th Percentile £52,500 - £50,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £52,500 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% -13.89% +84.62%
75th Percentile £68,750 £112,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £77,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -23.33% +57.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 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 20 May 2024. 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 +125 67 £65,000 -11.86% 2
UK excluding London +41 52 £60,000 +4.35% 1
Work from Home +107 43 £67,500 -32.50% 1
South East - 29 £65,000 -
London +101 16 £75,000 -6.25% 1
Midlands - 15 £57,500 - 1
East Midlands - 12 £56,250 - 1
North of England - 6 £77,500 -
North West - 4 £80,000 -
West Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
North East - 2 £60,000 -
South West -23 1 £48,500 -5.37%
Scotland -64 1 £45,000 -52.63%

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 71 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (91.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (57.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (50.70%) Docker
5 32 (45.07%) DevOps
6 31 (43.66%) Kubernetes
7 30 (42.25%) Terraform
8 26 (36.62%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (35.21%) Linux
9 25 (35.21%) CI/CD
10 23 (32.39%) Serverless
10 23 (32.39%) Amazon S3
11 21 (29.58%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (29.58%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (28.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (28.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (26.76%) Data Centre
13 19 (26.76%) Ansible
14 18 (25.35%) Route 53
14 18 (25.35%) Python
15 17 (23.94%) Firewall
15 17 (23.94%) AWS Certification
16 16 (22.54%) Containerisation
16 16 (22.54%) Azure
17 15 (21.13%) Infrastructure Management
18 14 (19.72%) Agile
18 14 (19.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 13 (18.31%) Degree
19 13 (18.31%) SC Cleared
19 13 (18.31%) Security Cleared

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 4 (5.63%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 71 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (36.62%) Amazon EC2
3 23 (32.39%) Amazon S3
3 23 (32.39%) Serverless
4 21 (29.58%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (28.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (28.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (25.35%) Route 53
7 16 (22.54%) Azure
8 13 (18.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (16.90%) CloudFront
10 11 (15.49%) GitHub
11 8 (11.27%) Azure Pipelines
12 7 (9.86%) SaaS
13 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (4.23%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (4.23%) IaaS
14 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudTrail
14 2 (2.82%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.94%) Firewall
2 5 (7.04%) DNS
3 3 (4.23%) VPN
4 1 (1.41%) Network Security
4 1 (1.41%) SAN
4 1 (1.41%) VLAN
4 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (29.58%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (18.31%) Git
2 7 (9.86%) Bitbucket
2 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.63%) JIRA
3 4 (5.63%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (5.63%) Subversion
4 2 (2.82%) GitLab
General
1 8 (11.27%) Finance
2 6 (8.45%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.63%) Tech for Good
4 3 (4.23%) Japanese Language
5 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) SAML
2 3 (4.23%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.41%) JSON
3 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.76%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.23%) PMI
4 2 (2.82%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.41%) Clustering
5 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 25 (35.21%) Linux
2 10 (14.08%) Windows
3 8 (11.27%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (91.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (57.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (45.07%) DevOps
4 25 (35.21%) CI/CD
5 16 (22.54%) Containerisation
6 15 (21.13%) Infrastructure Management
7 14 (19.72%) Agile
8 12 (16.90%) Computer Science
8 12 (16.90%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (14.08%) Analytics
9 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (14.08%) Scrum
10 9 (12.68%) Customer Experience
10 9 (12.68%) Data Protection
10 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (12.68%) Project Delivery
11 6 (8.45%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (8.45%) Server Management
12 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Automation
12 5 (7.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.35%) Python
2 9 (12.68%) Bash
3 5 (7.04%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.63%) Java
5 3 (4.23%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) AWS Certification
2 14 (19.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 13 (18.31%) Degree
3 13 (18.31%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.31%) Security Cleared
4 12 (16.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 12 (16.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.23%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.08%) QA
System Software
1 36 (50.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (43.66%) Kubernetes
2 30 (42.25%) Terraform
3 19 (26.76%) Ansible
4 10 (14.08%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (5.63%) Packer
5 4 (5.63%) Progress Chef
5 4 (5.63%) Puppet
5 4 (5.63%) Salt
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 4 (5.63%) Atlassian
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.82%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.41%) VMware