AWS Data Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary for remote or hybrid work is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 557 601
Rank change year-on-year +179 +44 +163
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 19 35 72
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 15 33 60
10th Percentile £65,000 £47,950 £51,125
25th Percentile £68,125 £58,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.20% +5.17%
75th Percentile £98,125 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,800 - £160,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

AWS Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured AWS Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Data Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Data Engineer.

AWS Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Data Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Data 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (89.47%) Python
3 15 (78.95%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (78.95%) Serverless
4 13 (68.42%) SQL
5 12 (63.16%) Amazon S3
5 12 (63.16%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (63.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (57.89%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (52.63%) DynamoDB
8 9 (47.37%) Mentoring
8 9 (47.37%) ETL
9 7 (36.84%) Analytics
10 6 (31.58%) Terraform
10 6 (31.58%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (31.58%) Finance
11 5 (26.32%) Data Lake
11 5 (26.32%) AWS Certification
12 4 (21.05%) Agile
12 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
13 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
13 3 (15.79%) Pair Programming
13 3 (15.79%) Apache
13 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (15.79%) OO
13 3 (15.79%) C#
13 3 (15.79%) Java
13 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
13 3 (15.79%) Scala
13 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (15.79%) Apache
1 3 (15.79%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (78.95%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (78.95%) Serverless
3 12 (63.16%) Amazon S3
4 11 (57.89%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.53%) Alation
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (10.53%) dbt
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (63.16%) Amazon Redshift
2 10 (52.63%) DynamoDB
3 6 (31.58%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (26.32%) Data Lake
5 3 (15.79%) Big Data
5 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Advertising
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) PySpark
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) ETL
1 9 (47.37%) Mentoring
2 7 (36.84%) Analytics
3 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (15.79%) Data Analytics
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (15.79%) MapReduce
4 3 (15.79%) OO
4 3 (15.79%) Pair Programming
4 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Data Architecture
5 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (10.53%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Python
2 13 (68.42%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) C#
3 3 (15.79%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) Scala
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) SnowPro
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform