Hybrid/Remote AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 January 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 163 261
Rank change year-on-year -75 +98 +50
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 126 340 250
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 2.06% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 2.15% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 111 319 229
10th Percentile £56,250 £51,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £80,625 £76,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £100,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £136,250 £122,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year +11.11% +18.03% -4.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 14,092 15,834 20,658
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.59% 96.12% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 9,174 9,570 16,899
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,850
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +2.01% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

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

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote AWS Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote AWS Engineer job vacancies

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

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

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

For the 6 months to 10 January 2026, AWS 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 126 (100.00%) AWS
2 88 (69.84%) Python
3 74 (58.73%) Software Engineering
4 68 (53.97%) Agile
5 67 (53.17%) TypeScript
6 61 (48.41%) Investment Management
7 58 (46.03%) Apache Iceberg
7 58 (46.03%) JavaScript
8 57 (45.24%) Amazon Athena
8 57 (45.24%) Apache Airflow
9 55 (43.65%) Apache Arrow
9 55 (43.65%) Asset Management
9 55 (43.65%) dbt
9 55 (43.65%) Dremio
9 55 (43.65%) NumPy
9 55 (43.65%) Pandas
9 55 (43.65%) SciPy
10 53 (42.06%) Java
11 36 (28.57%) CI/CD
12 33 (26.19%) DevOps
13 32 (25.40%) Apache
13 32 (25.40%) PostgreSQL
14 31 (24.60%) Data Lake
15 30 (23.81%) Fintech
15 30 (23.81%) Snowflake
16 29 (23.02%) Apache Ignite
16 29 (23.02%) GCP
16 29 (23.02%) gRPC
16 29 (23.02%) Protocol Buffers
17 28 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code

AWS 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 57 (45.24%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (25.40%) Apache
3 3 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 126 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (43.65%) dbt
3 30 (23.81%) Snowflake
4 29 (23.02%) GCP
5 20 (15.87%) Amazon EKS
5 20 (15.87%) Serverless
6 16 (12.70%) Azure
7 15 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (11.90%) SaaS
8 14 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (10.32%) Amazon S3
9 13 (10.32%) GitHub
9 13 (10.32%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (8.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
12 7 (5.56%) CloudFront
13 6 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.94%) VPN
2 7 (5.56%) BGP
2 7 (5.56%) LAN
2 7 (5.56%) WAN
2 7 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (3.97%) Firewall
4 4 (3.17%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (3.17%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (3.17%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (3.17%) IPsec
4 4 (3.17%) MPLS
4 4 (3.17%) NetScaler
4 4 (3.17%) NX-OS
4 4 (3.17%) OSPF
4 4 (3.17%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.17%) VXLAN
4 4 (3.17%) WLAN
5 3 (2.38%) DNS
5 3 (2.38%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (46.03%) Apache Iceberg
2 57 (45.24%) Amazon Athena
3 55 (43.65%) Apache Arrow
3 55 (43.65%) Dremio
4 32 (25.40%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (24.60%) Data Lake
6 29 (23.02%) Apache Ignite
7 15 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (4.76%) Flink
10 5 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.17%) DynamoDB
12 3 (2.38%) SQL Server
13 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
14 1 (0.79%) Apache Hudi
14 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
14 1 (0.79%) MySQL
14 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.59%) GitLab
3 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.79%) Deequ
3 1 (0.79%) Git
General
1 71 (56.35%) Finance
2 61 (48.41%) Front Office
3 40 (31.75%) Banking
4 29 (23.02%) Investment Banking
5 16 (12.70%) Social Skills
6 7 (5.56%) Law
7 6 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.97%) Back Office
8 5 (3.97%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.97%) Retail
9 4 (3.17%) Games
10 3 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.38%) Billing
10 3 (2.38%) Legal
10 3 (2.38%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (43.65%) NumPy
1 55 (43.65%) Pandas
1 55 (43.65%) SciPy
2 29 (23.02%) gRPC
2 29 (23.02%) Protocol Buffers
3 28 (22.22%) Node.js
4 27 (21.43%) React
5 26 (20.63%) AngularJS
5 26 (20.63%) Vue
6 7 (5.56%) AWS CDK
6 7 (5.56%) Kafka
7 5 (3.97%) Loki
8 4 (3.17%) PySpark
8 4 (3.17%) RESTful
9 3 (2.38%) Spring
9 3 (2.38%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.59%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.59%) AWS SAM
10 2 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.59%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 61 (48.41%) Fixed Income
2 55 (43.65%) Equities
2 55 (43.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 29 (23.02%) Derivative
3 29 (23.02%) Hedge funds
3 29 (23.02%) Pricing Data
4 12 (9.52%) Data Centre
5 9 (7.14%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (3.17%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.38%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.38%) Web3
10 2 (1.59%) Blog
10 2 (1.59%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.94%) Linux
2 2 (1.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (58.73%) Software Engineering
2 68 (53.97%) Agile
3 61 (48.41%) Investment Management
4 55 (43.65%) Asset Management
5 36 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 33 (26.19%) DevOps
7 30 (23.81%) Fintech
8 28 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (20.63%) Order Management
9 26 (20.63%) Performance Attribution
9 26 (20.63%) Risk Management
10 22 (17.46%) Platform Engineering
11 20 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (13.49%) Observability
13 13 (10.32%) Cloud Security
14 11 (8.73%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (8.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 10 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 8 (6.35%) AI
16 8 (6.35%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 88 (69.84%) Python
2 67 (53.17%) TypeScript
3 58 (46.03%) JavaScript
4 53 (42.06%) Java
5 13 (10.32%) Bash
6 10 (7.94%) SQL
7 6 (4.76%) C#
7 6 (4.76%) Go
7 6 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.38%) Bicep
9 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (4.76%) AWS Certification
1 6 (4.76%) Degree
2 4 (3.17%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.17%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (2.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 3 (2.38%) CCNP
3 3 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.79%) RHCE
4 1 (0.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.97%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.97%) PCI DSS
1 5 (3.97%) SOC 2
2 4 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (22.22%) Terraform
2 21 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.73%) Grafana
4 6 (4.76%) Argo
4 6 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.97%) Ansible
6 2 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (5.56%) Cisco
2 6 (4.76%) SolarWinds
3 4 (3.17%) CheckPoint
3 4 (3.17%) Dynatrace
3 4 (3.17%) Fortinet
3 4 (3.17%) Meraki
3 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.38%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (2.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.59%) Okta
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle
6 1 (0.79%) Red Hat