Hybrid/Remote AWS Data Engineer Job Trends

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary for remote/hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 416 444
Rank change year-on-year +51 +28 +252
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 10 18 20
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.065% 0.10% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 20
10th Percentile £47,500 - £43,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +23.08% -21.21%
75th Percentile £100,625 £93,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £79,125
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -21.88%

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 remote/hybrid work 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 14,309 16,657 18,861
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 96.23% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,275 10,333 15,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,408 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +0.68% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Data Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote AWS Data Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote AWS Data Engineer job vacancies

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Data Engineer over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

AWS Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, AWS Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) Python
3 8 (80.00%) SQL
4 7 (70.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
5 6 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (60.00%) Serverless
6 5 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (50.00%) Analytics
6 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
6 5 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (40.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
7 4 (40.00%) Data Science
7 4 (40.00%) Docker
7 4 (40.00%) ETL
7 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (40.00%) PySpark
7 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
8 3 (30.00%) Agile
8 3 (30.00%) Apache
8 3 (30.00%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark
8 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
8 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
8 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
9 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Apache
1 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (60.00%) Serverless
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (40.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (20.00%) Azure
5 2 (20.00%) Dagster
5 2 (20.00%) GCP
5 2 (20.00%) Prefect
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (30.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Deequ
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Legal
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Games
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) Great Expectations
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (40.00%) Data Science
2 4 (40.00%) ETL
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Presales
4 2 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 8 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform