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 £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 190 247
Rank change year-on-year -75 +57 -32
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 156 285 451
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 1.85% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 2.01% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 116 274 414
10th Percentile £56,250 £76,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £97,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% +10.77%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile - £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £84,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +30.95% +5.00%

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 18,802 14,192 33,322
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 92.10% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13,698 8,671 26,073
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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.

1 156 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (40.38%) Python
3 62 (39.74%) DevOps
3 62 (39.74%) Terraform
4 58 (37.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (35.90%) CI/CD
6 36 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
7 33 (21.15%) Kubernetes
8 31 (19.87%) Docker
9 30 (19.23%) Amazon S3
9 30 (19.23%) Software Engineering
10 29 (18.59%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (17.95%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (17.95%) Azure
12 26 (16.67%) Containerisation
12 26 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (16.03%) Observability
14 23 (14.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (14.10%) Java
15 22 (14.10%) Security Cleared
16 21 (13.46%) SaaS
17 20 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
18 19 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 18 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 18 (11.54%) Cloud Security
19 18 (11.54%) Serverless
20 17 (10.90%) Bash
20 17 (10.90%) Fintech
21 16 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
21 16 (10.26%) PostgreSQL

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 6 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.21%) Apache
3 2 (1.28%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) Drupal
4 1 (0.64%) IIS
4 1 (0.64%) nginx
4 1 (0.64%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 156 (100.00%) AWS
2 30 (19.23%) Amazon S3
3 29 (18.59%) Amazon EC2
4 28 (17.95%) Amazon EKS
4 28 (17.95%) Azure
5 26 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (14.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (13.46%) SaaS
8 18 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (11.54%) Serverless
9 14 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (7.05%) GitHub
10 11 (7.05%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (6.41%) GCP
12 9 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (5.77%) OpenShift
13 8 (5.13%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
14 6 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
14 6 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.49%) VPN
2 6 (3.85%) BGP
3 3 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.92%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (1.92%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (1.92%) DNS
3 3 (1.92%) Firewall
3 3 (1.92%) IPsec
3 3 (1.92%) LAN
3 3 (1.92%) MPLS
3 3 (1.92%) NetScaler
3 3 (1.92%) NX-OS
3 3 (1.92%) OSPF
3 3 (1.92%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.92%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.92%) VLAN
3 3 (1.92%) VXLAN
3 3 (1.92%) WAN
3 3 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.49%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (3.21%) Metadata
4 4 (2.56%) Big Data
4 4 (2.56%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.28%) Redis
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Hudi
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.64%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.64%) Flink
6 1 (0.64%) MySQL
6 1 (0.64%) Power BI
6 1 (0.64%) Redshift Spectrum
6 1 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.77%) GitLab
3 4 (2.56%) Git
4 2 (1.28%) JMeter
4 2 (1.28%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.64%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.64%) Gatling
5 1 (0.64%) git-flow
5 1 (0.64%) JIRA
5 1 (0.64%) Maven
5 1 (0.64%) Postman
5 1 (0.64%) Selenium
5 1 (0.64%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.64%) Vagrant
General
1 22 (14.10%) Finance
2 15 (9.62%) Banking
3 14 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 11 (7.05%) Law
6 8 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.49%) Back Office
7 7 (4.49%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.49%) Retail
8 6 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.92%) Billing
9 3 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.28%) Games
10 2 (1.28%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.28%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.64%) Advertising
11 1 (0.64%) Legal
11 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.69%) Kafka
2 10 (6.41%) React
3 8 (5.13%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.21%) .NET
4 5 (3.21%) Node.js
4 5 (3.21%) Spring
5 4 (2.56%) Loki
5 4 (2.56%) REST
5 4 (2.56%) RESTful
6 3 (1.92%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.92%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.28%) Web Services
8 1 (0.64%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.64%) CSS
8 1 (0.64%) D3.js
8 1 (0.64%) HTML
8 1 (0.64%) Memcached
8 1 (0.64%) NumPy
8 1 (0.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.41%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.49%) Blog
4 6 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.28%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.28%) Life Science
6 2 (1.28%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.64%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.64%) IoT
7 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.64%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.64%) PropTech
7 1 (0.64%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.97%) Linux
2 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.64%) Windows
2 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (39.74%) DevOps
2 58 (37.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (35.90%) CI/CD
4 36 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
5 30 (19.23%) Software Engineering
6 26 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 25 (16.03%) Observability
8 20 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 18 (11.54%) Cloud Security
11 17 (10.90%) Fintech
12 15 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (8.97%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (8.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (8.33%) Agile
15 12 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
16 11 (7.05%) AI
16 11 (7.05%) Data Pipeline
16 11 (7.05%) Secrets Management
17 10 (6.41%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 63 (40.38%) Python
2 22 (14.10%) Java
3 17 (10.90%) Bash
4 13 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.69%) Go
5 12 (7.69%) SQL
6 9 (5.77%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.49%) C#
8 3 (1.92%) Groovy
8 3 (1.92%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.64%) Bicep
9 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (14.10%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.41%) Degree
4 7 (4.49%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (2.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 4 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.64%) CISM
7 1 (0.64%) CISSP
7 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.64%) GSEC
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.41%) SOC 2
2 7 (4.49%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.49%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.64%) NCSC
4 1 (0.64%) NIST
4 1 (0.64%) QA
4 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (19.87%) Docker
2 10 (6.41%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (39.74%) Terraform
2 33 (21.15%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.97%) Grafana
4 13 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.13%) Ansible
5 8 (5.13%) Istio
6 6 (3.85%) Argo
7 4 (2.56%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.28%) Packer
9 1 (0.64%) Consul
9 1 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.13%) Confluent
2 6 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.92%) CheckPoint
4 3 (1.92%) Cisco
4 3 (1.92%) Databricks
4 3 (1.92%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.92%) Fortinet
4 3 (1.92%) Meraki
4 3 (1.92%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.28%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.64%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.64%) Pega
6 1 (0.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.64%) SAP
6 1 (0.64%) TOWER Software