AWS Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £110,000 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 132 295 254
Rank change year-on-year +163 -41 +52
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 349 347 555
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.33% 1.03% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.57% 1.07% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 336 319 507
10th Percentile £64,790 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £135,625 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £143,750 £138,750
UK median annual salary £107,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +34.38% - -

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 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

AWS Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

AWS Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS 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 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 349 (100.00%) AWS
2 289 (82.81%) Python
3 268 (76.79%) Finance
3 268 (76.79%) Agile
4 265 (75.93%) Software Engineering
5 247 (70.77%) Asset Management
5 247 (70.77%) Front Office
6 228 (65.33%) Amazon Athena
7 223 (63.90%) dbt
8 221 (63.32%) Apache Iceberg
8 221 (63.32%) Apache Airflow
8 221 (63.32%) Dremio
9 219 (62.75%) Apache Arrow
10 188 (53.87%) Apache
11 184 (52.72%) Java
12 170 (48.71%) JavaScript
13 166 (47.56%) Apache Ignite
14 154 (44.13%) DevOps
15 148 (42.41%) Fixed Income
16 146 (41.83%) TypeScript
17 138 (39.54%) Terraform
18 132 (37.82%) Pandas
18 132 (37.82%) SciPy
18 132 (37.82%) NumPy
18 132 (37.82%) Amazon ECS
18 132 (37.82%) Serverless
19 130 (37.25%) CI/CD
20 128 (36.68%) AWS Lambda
20 128 (36.68%) Banking
21 124 (35.53%) PySpark

AWS 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
1 221 (63.32%) Apache Airflow
2 188 (53.87%) Apache
3 74 (21.20%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.15%) Confluence
5 2 (0.57%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 349 (100.00%) AWS
2 223 (63.90%) dbt
3 132 (37.82%) Amazon ECS
3 132 (37.82%) Serverless
4 128 (36.68%) AWS Lambda
5 104 (29.80%) GCP
6 92 (26.36%) Snowflake
7 80 (22.92%) Amazon EC2
8 77 (22.06%) OpenShift
9 52 (14.90%) Amazon S3
10 51 (14.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 46 (13.18%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (9.74%) Dagster
13 31 (8.88%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (4.87%) Azure
15 14 (4.01%) SaaS
16 10 (2.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 6 (1.72%) Amazon MSK
18 6 (1.72%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.73%) Firewall
2 2 (0.57%) BGP
2 2 (0.57%) Internet
2 2 (0.57%) IPsec
2 2 (0.57%) OSPF
2 2 (0.57%) SSL
2 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.57%) VoIP
2 2 (0.57%) VPN
3 1 (0.29%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.29%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (65.33%) Amazon Athena
2 221 (63.32%) Apache Iceberg
2 221 (63.32%) Dremio
3 219 (62.75%) Apache Arrow
4 166 (47.56%) Apache Ignite
5 81 (23.21%) Data Lake
6 44 (12.61%) Amazon RDS
7 41 (11.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 39 (11.17%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (5.16%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.43%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.43%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.15%) Big Data
11 4 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.15%) MySQL
12 3 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.86%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.57%) SQL Server
14 1 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (21.20%) Artifactory
2 13 (3.72%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.58%) GitLab
3 9 (2.58%) SonarQube
4 6 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.43%) JIRA
6 4 (1.15%) Storybook
7 3 (0.86%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.86%) Git
General
1 268 (76.79%) Finance
2 247 (70.77%) Front Office
3 128 (36.68%) Banking
4 89 (25.50%) Investment Banking
5 19 (5.44%) Law
6 12 (3.44%) Social Skills
7 7 (2.01%) Advertising
8 6 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.15%) Games
9 4 (1.15%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.86%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.86%) Publishing
10 3 (0.86%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.29%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (37.82%) NumPy
1 132 (37.82%) Pandas
1 132 (37.82%) SciPy
2 124 (35.53%) PySpark
3 95 (27.22%) gRPC
3 95 (27.22%) Protocol Buffers
4 80 (22.92%) Kafka
5 71 (20.34%) J2EE
6 66 (18.91%) React
7 61 (17.48%) Node.js
8 60 (17.19%) AngularJS
9 59 (16.91%) Vue
10 26 (7.45%) Redux
11 9 (2.58%) REST
12 7 (2.01%) AWS CDK
13 6 (1.72%) GraphQL
13 6 (1.72%) RESTful
14 5 (1.43%) .NET
14 5 (1.43%) JSON
14 5 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 148 (42.41%) Fixed Income
2 118 (33.81%) Equities
2 118 (33.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 90 (25.79%) Hedge funds
4 89 (25.50%) Derivative
5 39 (11.17%) Pricing Data
6 18 (5.16%) Security Posture
7 15 (4.30%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.43%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.15%) Legacy Code
10 3 (0.86%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.86%) IoT
10 3 (0.86%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.57%) Online Games
11 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.72%) Linux
2 3 (0.86%) Unix
3 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (76.79%) Agile
2 265 (75.93%) Software Engineering
3 247 (70.77%) Asset Management
4 154 (44.13%) DevOps
5 130 (37.25%) CI/CD
6 103 (29.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 98 (28.08%) Investment Management
8 91 (26.07%) Data Engineering
9 89 (25.50%) Fintech
10 82 (23.50%) Open Source
11 59 (16.91%) Performance Attribution
12 42 (12.03%) Migration
13 38 (10.89%) Risk Management
14 37 (10.60%) Order Management
15 29 (8.31%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (7.45%) Cloud Security
16 26 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (6.59%) Mentoring
18 22 (6.30%) Credit Risk Analysis
19 21 (6.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 289 (82.81%) Python
2 184 (52.72%) Java
3 170 (48.71%) JavaScript
4 146 (41.83%) TypeScript
5 84 (24.07%) Go
6 30 (8.60%) SQL
7 10 (2.87%) C#
8 6 (1.72%) Bash
9 4 (1.15%) Perl
9 4 (1.15%) Scala
10 3 (0.86%) Groovy
10 3 (0.86%) PHP
10 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.29%) C
11 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (7.74%) AWS Certification
2 15 (4.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 10 (2.87%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (0.86%) Degree
4 3 (0.86%) RHCE
4 3 (0.86%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.29%) CCNP
6 1 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.29%) QA
2 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.29%) NIST
3 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 119 (34.10%) Docker
2 6 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 138 (39.54%) Terraform
2 122 (34.96%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.30%) Ansible
4 6 (1.72%) Istio
5 4 (1.15%) Grafana
5 4 (1.15%) Packer
6 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.29%) Argo
7 1 (0.29%) Consul
Vendors
1 6 (1.72%) Confluent
2 4 (1.15%) Atlassian
3 3 (0.86%) AppDynamics
3 3 (0.86%) IBM
3 3 (0.86%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.57%) Cribl.io
4 2 (0.57%) Splunk
5 1 (0.29%) Cisco
5 1 (0.29%) Juniper
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft