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 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 165 272
Rank change year-on-year -89 +107 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 121 344 276
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 2.12% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 2.21% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 98 326 253
10th Percentile £56,250 £51,875 £52,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £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 £102,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +26.67% -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 14,803 15,578 25,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 95.96% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9,670 9,381 20,835
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,000 £33,757
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £43,381
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% -5.60%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £77,500
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% -8.71%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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.

1 121 (100.00%) AWS
2 77 (63.64%) Python
3 57 (47.11%) Software Engineering
4 51 (42.15%) Java
5 49 (40.50%) Agile
6 48 (39.67%) TypeScript
7 44 (36.36%) CI/CD
8 42 (34.71%) Investment Management
9 39 (32.23%) Apache Iceberg
9 39 (32.23%) JavaScript
10 38 (31.40%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (31.40%) Apache Airflow
10 38 (31.40%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (30.58%) Asset Management
11 37 (30.58%) DevOps
12 36 (29.75%) Apache Arrow
12 36 (29.75%) dbt
12 36 (29.75%) Dremio
12 36 (29.75%) NumPy
12 36 (29.75%) Pandas
12 36 (29.75%) SciPy
12 36 (29.75%) Terraform
13 33 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (23.14%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (22.31%) Observability
16 26 (21.49%) Kubernetes
17 24 (19.83%) PostgreSQL
17 24 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
18 22 (18.18%) Apache
18 22 (18.18%) SaaS

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 38 (31.40%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (18.18%) Apache
3 3 (2.48%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) AWS
2 36 (29.75%) dbt
3 28 (23.14%) Amazon EKS
4 22 (18.18%) SaaS
4 22 (18.18%) Serverless
5 21 (17.36%) Snowflake
5 21 (17.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 20 (16.53%) GCP
7 18 (14.88%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (14.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (14.05%) Amazon S3
9 16 (13.22%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (11.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (11.57%) Azure
10 14 (11.57%) GitHub
10 14 (11.57%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
12 10 (8.26%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (7.44%) CloudFront
14 7 (5.79%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.92%) VPN
2 11 (9.09%) BGP
3 6 (4.96%) Firewall
3 6 (4.96%) LAN
3 6 (4.96%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.96%) VLAN
3 6 (4.96%) WAN
3 6 (4.96%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (4.13%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (4.13%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (4.13%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (4.13%) IPsec
4 5 (4.13%) MPLS
4 5 (4.13%) NetScaler
4 5 (4.13%) NX-OS
4 5 (4.13%) OSPF
4 5 (4.13%) SD-WAN
4 5 (4.13%) VXLAN
4 5 (4.13%) WLAN
5 1 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (32.23%) Apache Iceberg
2 38 (31.40%) Amazon Athena
3 36 (29.75%) Apache Arrow
3 36 (29.75%) Dremio
4 24 (19.83%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (17.36%) Data Lake
6 20 (16.53%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (15.70%) Apache Ignite
8 8 (6.61%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (5.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (4.96%) Flink
11 5 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (3.31%) DynamoDB
13 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
14 2 (1.65%) NoSQL
15 1 (0.83%) Apache Hudi
15 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
15 1 (0.83%) MySQL
15 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.61%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.48%) GitLab
3 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.83%) Deequ
3 1 (0.83%) Git
General
1 58 (47.93%) Finance
2 42 (34.71%) Front Office
3 36 (29.75%) Banking
4 19 (15.70%) Investment Banking
4 19 (15.70%) Social Skills
5 13 (10.74%) Law
6 12 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (9.09%) Back Office
7 11 (9.09%) Financial Institution
7 11 (9.09%) Retail
8 5 (4.13%) Games
9 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.48%) Billing
10 3 (2.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (29.75%) NumPy
1 36 (29.75%) Pandas
1 36 (29.75%) SciPy
2 19 (15.70%) gRPC
2 19 (15.70%) Node.js
2 19 (15.70%) Protocol Buffers
3 18 (14.88%) React
4 17 (14.05%) AngularJS
4 17 (14.05%) Vue
5 9 (7.44%) AWS CDK
6 7 (5.79%) Kafka
6 7 (5.79%) Loki
6 7 (5.79%) RESTful
7 4 (3.31%) PySpark
7 4 (3.31%) Spring
7 4 (3.31%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.65%) OAuth
8 2 (1.65%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.65%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 42 (34.71%) Fixed Income
2 36 (29.75%) Equities
2 36 (29.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (15.70%) Derivative
3 19 (15.70%) Hedge funds
3 19 (15.70%) Pricing Data
4 17 (14.05%) Cloud Native
5 14 (11.57%) Data Centre
6 12 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (6.61%) Blog
7 8 (6.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (4.13%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.65%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.83%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.92%) Linux
2 2 (1.65%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (47.11%) Software Engineering
2 49 (40.50%) Agile
3 44 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 42 (34.71%) Investment Management
5 38 (31.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (30.58%) Asset Management
6 37 (30.58%) DevOps
7 33 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
8 27 (22.31%) Observability
9 24 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (17.36%) Fintech
11 17 (14.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (14.05%) Order Management
11 17 (14.05%) Performance Attribution
11 17 (14.05%) Risk Management
12 16 (13.22%) Cloud Security
12 16 (13.22%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (10.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (9.92%) Secrets Management
15 11 (9.09%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (63.64%) Python
2 51 (42.15%) Java
3 48 (39.67%) TypeScript
4 39 (32.23%) JavaScript
5 15 (12.40%) Bash
6 10 (8.26%) Go
6 10 (8.26%) SQL
7 6 (4.96%) C#
7 6 (4.96%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.48%) Bicep
9 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (6.61%) AWS Certification
1 8 (6.61%) Degree
2 5 (4.13%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 4 (3.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 4 (3.31%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.83%) CCNP
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.83%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 11 (9.09%) SOC 2
2 5 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (29.75%) Terraform
2 26 (21.49%) Kubernetes
3 14 (11.57%) Grafana
4 9 (7.44%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.96%) Argo
6 3 (2.48%) Ansible
7 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (5.79%) SolarWinds
2 6 (4.96%) Cisco
3 5 (4.13%) CheckPoint
3 5 (4.13%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.13%) Fortinet
3 5 (4.13%) Meraki
3 5 (4.13%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.48%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (2.48%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.65%) Okta
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle