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 £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 166 223
Rank change year-on-year -65 +57 +117
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 185 400 310
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.16% 2.00% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 2.07% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 178 369 285
10th Percentile £73,375 £62,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +29.03% -3.13%
75th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £112,500
90th Percentile - £148,750 £138,750
UK median annual salary £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -3.32%

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 15,087 19,283 21,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 96.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,020 12,065 17,231
10th Percentile £29,225 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,298 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% -4.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025, 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.

1 185 (100.00%) AWS
2 156 (84.32%) Python
3 149 (80.54%) Software Engineering
4 140 (75.68%) Agile
5 137 (74.05%) TypeScript
6 136 (73.51%) JavaScript
7 133 (71.89%) Apache Iceberg
7 133 (71.89%) Investment Management
8 132 (71.35%) Amazon Athena
9 131 (70.81%) Apache Airflow
10 130 (70.27%) Apache Arrow
10 130 (70.27%) Asset Management
10 130 (70.27%) dbt
10 130 (70.27%) Dremio
10 130 (70.27%) NumPy
10 130 (70.27%) Pandas
10 130 (70.27%) SciPy
11 89 (48.11%) Java
12 70 (37.84%) Apache
13 68 (36.76%) GCP
14 67 (36.22%) Data Lake
14 67 (36.22%) PostgreSQL
14 67 (36.22%) Snowflake
15 66 (35.68%) Node.js
16 65 (35.14%) AngularJS
16 65 (35.14%) Apache Ignite
16 65 (35.14%) Fintech
16 65 (35.14%) gRPC
16 65 (35.14%) Order Management
16 65 (35.14%) Performance Attribution

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
1 131 (70.81%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (37.84%) Apache
3 4 (2.16%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 185 (100.00%) AWS
2 130 (70.27%) dbt
3 68 (36.76%) GCP
4 67 (36.22%) Snowflake
5 21 (11.35%) Serverless
6 20 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (10.27%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (9.73%) Amazon S3
9 15 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (6.49%) GitHub
10 12 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (5.95%) Azure
12 9 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 6 (3.24%) AWS Control Tower
15 5 (2.70%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.32%) VPN
2 7 (3.78%) Firewall
3 6 (3.24%) DNS
4 3 (1.62%) LAN
4 3 (1.62%) Network Security
4 3 (1.62%) WAN
4 3 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.62%) Wireless
5 2 (1.08%) BGP
5 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (71.89%) Apache Iceberg
2 132 (71.35%) Amazon Athena
3 130 (70.27%) Apache Arrow
3 130 (70.27%) Dremio
4 67 (36.22%) Data Lake
4 67 (36.22%) PostgreSQL
5 65 (35.14%) Apache Ignite
6 14 (7.57%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.16%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.62%) Flink
10 3 (1.62%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.54%) Apache Hudi
11 1 (0.54%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.54%) MySQL
11 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.54%) Power BI
11 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.70%) GitLab
3 3 (1.62%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.54%) Deequ
5 1 (0.54%) Git
General
1 138 (74.59%) Finance
2 133 (71.89%) Front Office
3 70 (37.84%) Banking
4 65 (35.14%) Investment Banking
5 12 (6.49%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.70%) Law
7 4 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.62%) Legal
8 3 (1.62%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.08%) Back Office
9 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.08%) Games
9 2 (1.08%) Retail
10 1 (0.54%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (70.27%) NumPy
1 130 (70.27%) Pandas
1 130 (70.27%) SciPy
2 66 (35.68%) Node.js
3 65 (35.14%) AngularJS
3 65 (35.14%) gRPC
3 65 (35.14%) Protocol Buffers
3 65 (35.14%) React
3 65 (35.14%) Vue
4 5 (2.70%) AWS CDK
4 5 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.70%) PySpark
5 4 (2.16%) REST
6 3 (1.62%) Kafka
7 2 (1.08%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.08%) AWS SAM
7 2 (1.08%) RESTful
7 2 (1.08%) Spring
7 2 (1.08%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.54%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 133 (71.89%) Fixed Income
2 130 (70.27%) Equities
2 130 (70.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 65 (35.14%) Derivative
3 65 (35.14%) Hedge funds
3 65 (35.14%) Pricing Data
4 6 (3.24%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.62%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.62%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.62%) Web3
7 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.54%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.57%) Linux
2 5 (2.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (80.54%) Software Engineering
2 140 (75.68%) Agile
3 133 (71.89%) Investment Management
4 130 (70.27%) Asset Management
5 65 (35.14%) Fintech
5 65 (35.14%) Order Management
5 65 (35.14%) Performance Attribution
5 65 (35.14%) Risk Management
6 34 (18.38%) CI/CD
7 31 (16.76%) DevOps
8 30 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (7.57%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (7.03%) Observability
12 12 (6.49%) Containerisation
13 11 (5.95%) Mentoring
14 9 (4.86%) Infrastructure Automation
14 9 (4.86%) Machine Learning
15 8 (4.32%) Disaster Recovery
15 8 (4.32%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 156 (84.32%) Python
2 137 (74.05%) TypeScript
3 136 (73.51%) JavaScript
4 89 (48.11%) Java
5 16 (8.65%) Bash
6 11 (5.95%) SQL
7 8 (4.32%) Go
8 7 (3.78%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.62%) Bicep
9 3 (1.62%) C#
10 1 (0.54%) C
10 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.54%) Perl
10 1 (0.54%) PHP
10 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (5.41%) SC Cleared
1 10 (5.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.16%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.62%) CCNP
3 3 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.08%) Degree
4 2 (1.08%) RHCE
4 2 (1.08%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.70%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.70%) QA
2 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (9.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (17.30%) Terraform
2 19 (10.27%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.57%) Ansible
4 13 (7.03%) Grafana
5 5 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.62%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (1.62%) Cisco
1 3 (1.62%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (1.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
2 2 (1.08%) SolarWinds
3 1 (0.54%) Databricks
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle