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 £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 February 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 162 274
Rank change year-on-year -116 +112 +38
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 113 345 291
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.70% 2.20% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 2.29% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 89 323 271
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +40.00% -
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £100,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +33.33% -6.25%

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 15,179 15,041 26,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 95.77% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,129 9,110 22,221
10th Percentile £30,921 £35,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,207 £81,250 £75,781
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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.

1 113 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (59.29%) Python
3 47 (41.59%) Software Engineering
4 45 (39.82%) CI/CD
5 41 (36.28%) Java
6 39 (34.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (33.63%) DevOps
7 38 (33.63%) Terraform
8 37 (32.74%) Agile
8 37 (32.74%) Platform Engineering
9 35 (30.97%) TypeScript
10 30 (26.55%) Investment Management
11 29 (25.66%) Amazon EKS
11 29 (25.66%) Observability
12 27 (23.89%) Apache Airflow
12 27 (23.89%) Apache Iceberg
12 27 (23.89%) JavaScript
12 27 (23.89%) Kubernetes
13 26 (23.01%) Amazon Athena
14 25 (22.12%) Asset Management
15 24 (21.24%) Apache Arrow
15 24 (21.24%) dbt
15 24 (21.24%) Dremio
15 24 (21.24%) NumPy
15 24 (21.24%) Pandas
15 24 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (21.24%) SciPy
16 23 (20.35%) SaaS
17 22 (19.47%) Serverless
17 22 (19.47%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 27 (23.89%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (12.39%) Apache
3 3 (2.65%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 113 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (25.66%) Amazon EKS
3 24 (21.24%) dbt
4 23 (20.35%) SaaS
5 22 (19.47%) Serverless
5 22 (19.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 19 (16.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (15.93%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (15.04%) Amazon S3
8 17 (15.04%) GCP
9 16 (14.16%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (13.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (13.27%) GitHub
10 15 (13.27%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (11.50%) Azure
12 11 (9.73%) AWS Direct Connect
12 11 (9.73%) Snowflake
13 9 (7.96%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (7.96%) CloudFront
14 7 (6.19%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.73%) BGP
1 11 (9.73%) VPN
2 6 (5.31%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.31%) VLAN
3 5 (4.42%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (4.42%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (4.42%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (4.42%) Firewall
3 5 (4.42%) IPsec
3 5 (4.42%) LAN
3 5 (4.42%) MPLS
3 5 (4.42%) NetScaler
3 5 (4.42%) NX-OS
3 5 (4.42%) OSPF
3 5 (4.42%) SD-WAN
3 5 (4.42%) VXLAN
3 5 (4.42%) WAN
3 5 (4.42%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (4.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.89%) Apache Iceberg
2 26 (23.01%) Amazon Athena
3 24 (21.24%) Apache Arrow
3 24 (21.24%) Dremio
4 21 (18.58%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (15.04%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (10.62%) Data Lake
7 10 (8.85%) Apache Ignite
8 9 (7.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (5.31%) Flink
11 4 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.54%) DynamoDB
12 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.88%) Apache Hudi
13 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.88%) Metadata
13 1 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.65%) GitLab
3 1 (0.88%) Deequ
General
1 46 (40.71%) Finance
2 30 (26.55%) Front Office
3 28 (24.78%) Banking
4 18 (15.93%) Social Skills
5 15 (13.27%) Law
6 13 (11.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (10.62%) Back Office
7 12 (10.62%) Financial Institution
7 12 (10.62%) Retail
8 10 (8.85%) Investment Banking
9 5 (4.42%) Games
9 5 (4.42%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.65%) Billing
10 3 (2.65%) Legal
11 1 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (21.24%) NumPy
1 24 (21.24%) Pandas
1 24 (21.24%) SciPy
2 16 (14.16%) Node.js
3 15 (13.27%) React
4 14 (12.39%) AngularJS
4 14 (12.39%) Vue
5 10 (8.85%) gRPC
5 10 (8.85%) Protocol Buffers
6 9 (7.96%) AWS CDK
7 7 (6.19%) Kafka
7 7 (6.19%) Loki
7 7 (6.19%) RESTful
8 5 (4.42%) Spring
9 4 (3.54%) PySpark
9 4 (3.54%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.77%) OAuth
10 2 (1.77%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.77%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.55%) Fixed Income
2 24 (21.24%) Equities
2 24 (21.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (17.70%) Cloud Native
4 14 (12.39%) Data Centre
5 13 (11.50%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (8.85%) Derivative
6 10 (8.85%) Hedge funds
6 10 (8.85%) Pricing Data
7 9 (7.96%) Blog
7 9 (7.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (4.42%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.77%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.73%) Linux
2 2 (1.77%) Unix
3 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (41.59%) Software Engineering
2 45 (39.82%) CI/CD
3 39 (34.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (33.63%) DevOps
5 37 (32.74%) Agile
5 37 (32.74%) Platform Engineering
6 30 (26.55%) Investment Management
7 29 (25.66%) Observability
8 25 (22.12%) Asset Management
9 24 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (15.93%) Fintech
11 17 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (14.16%) Cloud Security
12 16 (14.16%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (12.39%) Order Management
13 14 (12.39%) Performance Attribution
13 14 (12.39%) Risk Management
14 13 (11.50%) Secrets Management
14 13 (11.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 12 (10.62%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (59.29%) Python
2 41 (36.28%) Java
3 35 (30.97%) TypeScript
4 27 (23.89%) JavaScript
5 16 (14.16%) Bash
6 10 (8.85%) Go
7 9 (7.96%) SQL
8 5 (4.42%) C#
8 5 (4.42%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.65%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (8.85%) Degree
2 8 (7.08%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.31%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.42%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (3.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.62%) PCI DSS
1 12 (10.62%) SOC 2
2 6 (5.31%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (33.63%) Terraform
2 27 (23.89%) Kubernetes
3 15 (13.27%) Grafana
4 10 (8.85%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.31%) Argo
6 2 (1.77%) Ansible
6 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (6.19%) SolarWinds
2 5 (4.42%) CheckPoint
2 5 (4.42%) Cisco
2 5 (4.42%) Dynatrace
2 5 (4.42%) Fortinet
2 5 (4.42%) Meraki
2 5 (4.42%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.65%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (2.65%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.77%) Okta
5 1 (0.88%) Databricks