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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 837 914 1212
Rank change year-on-year +77 +298 -312
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 68 32 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.034% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.037% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 68 27 49
10th Percentile £50,775 £52,500 £54,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,375 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -22.22% +63.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £112,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £78,250 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.58% +37.89%

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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +101 64 £62,500 -9.09% 3
UK excluding London +11 52 £60,000 -4.00% 4
Work from Home +65 40 £63,750 -20.31% 2
South East - 29 £65,000 -
Midlands - 15 £57,500 - 2
London +96 13 £75,000 -
East Midlands - 12 £56,250 - 2
North of England - 6 £77,500 - 1
North West - 4 £80,000 -
West Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
North East - 2 £60,000 -
South West -30 1 £48,500 -22.40%
Scotland -67 1 £45,000 -52.63% 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 68 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (95.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 38 (55.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (48.53%) Docker
5 32 (47.06%) DevOps
6 28 (41.18%) Kubernetes
7 27 (39.71%) Terraform
8 25 (36.76%) Linux
9 23 (33.82%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (32.35%) CI/CD
11 20 (29.41%) Serverless
11 20 (29.41%) Amazon S3
12 19 (27.94%) Data Centre
13 18 (26.47%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (26.47%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (25.00%) AWS Certification
14 17 (25.00%) Firewall
15 16 (23.53%) Containerisation
15 16 (23.53%) Azure
15 16 (23.53%) Ansible
16 15 (22.06%) Route 53
16 15 (22.06%) Python
17 14 (20.59%) Agile
17 14 (20.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 13 (19.12%) Degree
18 13 (19.12%) Git
18 13 (19.12%) SC Cleared
18 13 (19.12%) 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 1 (1.47%) Confluence
1 1 (1.47%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (33.82%) Amazon EC2
3 20 (29.41%) Amazon S3
3 20 (29.41%) Serverless
4 18 (26.47%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (23.53%) Azure
7 15 (22.06%) Route 53
8 13 (19.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (17.65%) CloudFront
10 8 (11.76%) Azure Pipelines
10 8 (11.76%) GitHub
11 7 (10.29%) SaaS
12 3 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (4.41%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (4.41%) IaaS
13 2 (2.94%) AWS Direct Connect
13 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (4.41%) VPN
3 2 (2.94%) DNS
4 1 (1.47%) Network Security
4 1 (1.47%) SAN
4 1 (1.47%) VLAN
4 1 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.47%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (19.12%) Git
2 4 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.94%) GitLab
4 1 (1.47%) JIRA
4 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.47%) Subversion
General
1 8 (11.76%) Finance
2 6 (8.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.88%) Tech for Good
4 3 (4.41%) Japanese Language
5 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.47%) JSON
2 1 (1.47%) SAML
2 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.94%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (4.41%) PMI
3 2 (2.94%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.47%) Clustering
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 25 (36.76%) Linux
2 10 (14.71%) Windows
3 8 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (95.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (55.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (47.06%) DevOps
4 22 (32.35%) CI/CD
5 16 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 14 (20.59%) Agile
7 12 (17.65%) Computer Science
7 12 (17.65%) Infrastructure Management
7 12 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (14.71%) Analytics
8 10 (14.71%) Scrum
9 9 (13.24%) Customer Experience
9 9 (13.24%) Data Protection
9 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (13.24%) Project Delivery
10 7 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (8.82%) Server Management
12 5 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (7.35%) Technical Leadership
13 4 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.06%) Python
2 9 (13.24%) Bash
3 5 (7.35%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.94%) SQL
6 1 (1.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 14 (20.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 13 (19.12%) Degree
3 13 (19.12%) SC Cleared
3 13 (19.12%) Security Cleared
4 12 (17.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 12 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.41%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.71%) QA
System Software
1 33 (48.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 27 (39.71%) Terraform
3 16 (23.53%) Ansible
4 10 (14.71%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.47%) Packer
5 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.47%) Puppet
5 1 (1.47%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.94%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.47%) VMware