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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 219 168
Rank change year-on-year -126 -51 +62
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 119 211 439
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 1.28% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.37% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 88 206 404
10th Percentile £58,875 £76,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £100,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £128,750
90th Percentile - - £148,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +22.22% +12.50%

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 23,475 15,383 20,576
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 93.25% 96.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16,102 8,694 12,681
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% -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 13 October 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 13 October 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.

1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (38.66%) Python
3 44 (36.97%) Software Engineering
4 39 (32.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (31.93%) Terraform
6 31 (26.05%) CI/CD
6 31 (26.05%) DevOps
7 23 (19.33%) Security Cleared
8 21 (17.65%) Java
9 20 (16.81%) Kubernetes
10 19 (15.97%) Amazon S3
10 19 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (15.13%) AI
11 18 (15.13%) Containerisation
12 16 (13.45%) Agile
13 15 (12.61%) Docker
14 14 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (11.76%) Fintech
14 14 (11.76%) Observability
14 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (10.92%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (10.92%) Azure
15 13 (10.92%) SC Cleared
16 12 (10.08%) Ansible
16 12 (10.08%) Machine Learning
16 12 (10.08%) Spring Boot
17 11 (9.24%) Grafana
17 11 (9.24%) PowerShell
18 10 (8.40%) DevSecOps
18 10 (8.40%) Platform Engineering

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 4 (3.36%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (15.97%) Amazon S3
3 14 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (10.92%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (10.92%) Azure
5 9 (7.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (7.56%) SaaS
5 9 (7.56%) Serverless
5 9 (7.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (6.72%) GitHub
7 7 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.36%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (3.36%) Datadog
9 4 (3.36%) GCP
10 3 (2.52%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (2.52%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) DNS
2 2 (1.68%) VPN
3 1 (0.84%) 4G
3 1 (0.84%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.36%) Big Data
4 4 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.68%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.84%) Apache Hudi
7 1 (0.84%) DuckDB
7 1 (0.84%) Flink
7 1 (0.84%) Metadata
7 1 (0.84%) Redis
7 1 (0.84%) Redshift Spectrum
7 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.72%) GitLab
1 8 (6.72%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.52%) Git
3 2 (1.68%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.68%) MLflow
3 2 (1.68%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.84%) CircleCI
General
1 14 (11.76%) Finance
2 11 (9.24%) Public Sector
2 11 (9.24%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.56%) Health Technology
4 8 (6.72%) Front Office
5 4 (3.36%) Digital Health
5 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.36%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Legal
7 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.84%) Billing
8 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (31.93%) Terraform
2 12 (10.08%) Spring Boot
3 8 (6.72%) React
3 8 (6.72%) Spring
4 7 (5.88%) .NET
5 4 (3.36%) Pulumi
6 3 (2.52%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.52%) Kafka
6 3 (2.52%) Next.js
6 3 (2.52%) REST
6 3 (2.52%) Web Services
7 2 (1.68%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.68%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.68%) Node.js
7 2 (1.68%) Pandas
7 2 (1.68%) PySpark
8 1 (0.84%) CSS
8 1 (0.84%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.84%) NumPy
8 1 (0.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.52%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.52%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.68%) Life Science
4 2 (1.68%) PropTech
5 1 (0.84%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.84%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.84%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (36.97%) Software Engineering
2 39 (32.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (26.05%) CI/CD
3 31 (26.05%) DevOps
4 19 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (15.13%) AI
5 18 (15.13%) Containerisation
6 16 (13.45%) Agile
7 14 (11.76%) Fintech
7 14 (11.76%) Observability
7 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (10.08%) Machine Learning
9 10 (8.40%) DevSecOps
9 10 (8.40%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (7.56%) Cloud Security
10 9 (7.56%) Mentoring
11 8 (6.72%) Asset Management
11 8 (6.72%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (6.72%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (38.66%) Python
2 21 (17.65%) Java
3 11 (9.24%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.56%) C#
4 9 (7.56%) SQL
4 9 (7.56%) TypeScript
5 7 (5.88%) Bash
6 4 (3.36%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.52%) Groovy
8 2 (1.68%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (19.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.04%) Degree
4 4 (3.36%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.84%) CISM
7 1 (0.84%) CISSP
7 1 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.84%) GSEC
7 1 (0.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.20%) SLA
2 4 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.68%) QA
4 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.84%) NIST
4 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.84%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (12.61%) Docker
2 2 (1.68%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (16.81%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.08%) Ansible
3 11 (9.24%) Grafana
4 7 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.36%) Argo
6 3 (2.52%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.84%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (4.20%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.36%) Databricks
2 4 (3.36%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.84%) Ab Initio
3 1 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (0.84%) Google