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 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 163 272
Rank change year-on-year -88 +109 +28
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 116 341 281
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.73% 2.14% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 2.23% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 92 322 260
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,875 £53,625
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% +0.67%
75th Percentile £135,000 £121,563 £100,000
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 14,975 15,297 26,268
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 95.94% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9,823 9,254 21,909
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,000 £33,516
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,188 £76,250
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 6 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 6 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.

1 116 (100.00%) AWS
2 70 (60.34%) Python
3 51 (43.97%) Software Engineering
4 47 (40.52%) Java
5 45 (38.79%) CI/CD
6 42 (36.21%) Agile
7 41 (35.34%) TypeScript
8 38 (32.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (31.90%) DevOps
10 36 (31.03%) Platform Engineering
10 36 (31.03%) Terraform
11 35 (30.17%) Investment Management
12 32 (27.59%) Apache Iceberg
12 32 (27.59%) JavaScript
13 31 (26.72%) Amazon Athena
13 31 (26.72%) Apache Airflow
14 30 (25.86%) Asset Management
15 29 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (25.00%) Apache Arrow
15 29 (25.00%) dbt
15 29 (25.00%) Dremio
15 29 (25.00%) NumPy
15 29 (25.00%) Pandas
15 29 (25.00%) SciPy
16 28 (24.14%) Observability
17 27 (23.28%) Kubernetes
18 24 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
19 22 (18.97%) SaaS
19 22 (18.97%) Serverless
19 22 (18.97%) 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 31 (26.72%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (15.52%) Apache
3 3 (2.59%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 116 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 29 (25.00%) dbt
3 22 (18.97%) SaaS
3 22 (18.97%) Serverless
3 22 (18.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 19 (16.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (15.52%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (14.66%) Amazon S3
6 17 (14.66%) GCP
7 16 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (13.79%) Snowflake
8 15 (12.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (12.93%) GitHub
8 15 (12.93%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (11.21%) Azure
10 11 (9.48%) AWS Direct Connect
11 10 (8.62%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (7.76%) CloudFront
13 7 (6.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.48%) BGP
1 11 (9.48%) VPN
2 6 (5.17%) Firewall
2 6 (5.17%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.17%) VLAN
3 5 (4.31%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (4.31%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (4.31%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (4.31%) IPsec
3 5 (4.31%) LAN
3 5 (4.31%) MPLS
3 5 (4.31%) NetScaler
3 5 (4.31%) NX-OS
3 5 (4.31%) OSPF
3 5 (4.31%) SD-WAN
3 5 (4.31%) VXLAN
3 5 (4.31%) WAN
3 5 (4.31%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (4.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (27.59%) Apache Iceberg
2 31 (26.72%) Amazon Athena
3 29 (25.00%) Apache Arrow
3 29 (25.00%) Dremio
4 21 (18.10%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (16.38%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (14.66%) Data Lake
7 15 (12.93%) Apache Ignite
8 8 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (5.17%) Flink
10 4 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.59%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.86%) Apache Hudi
13 1 (0.86%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.86%) MySQL
13 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.86%) Deequ
3 1 (0.86%) Git
General
1 50 (43.10%) Finance
2 35 (30.17%) Front Office
3 32 (27.59%) Banking
4 18 (15.52%) Social Skills
5 15 (12.93%) Investment Banking
6 13 (11.21%) Law
7 12 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (9.48%) Back Office
8 11 (9.48%) Financial Institution
8 11 (9.48%) Retail
9 5 (4.31%) Games
10 4 (3.45%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.59%) Billing
11 3 (2.59%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (25.00%) NumPy
1 29 (25.00%) Pandas
1 29 (25.00%) SciPy
2 16 (13.79%) Node.js
3 15 (12.93%) gRPC
3 15 (12.93%) Protocol Buffers
3 15 (12.93%) React
4 14 (12.07%) AngularJS
4 14 (12.07%) Vue
5 9 (7.76%) AWS CDK
6 7 (6.03%) Kafka
6 7 (6.03%) Loki
6 7 (6.03%) RESTful
7 5 (4.31%) Spring
8 4 (3.45%) PySpark
8 4 (3.45%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.72%) OAuth
9 2 (1.72%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.72%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 35 (30.17%) Fixed Income
2 29 (25.00%) Equities
2 29 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (16.38%) Cloud Native
4 15 (12.93%) Derivative
4 15 (12.93%) Hedge funds
4 15 (12.93%) Pricing Data
5 13 (11.21%) Data Centre
6 12 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (6.90%) Blog
7 8 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (4.31%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.72%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.34%) Linux
2 2 (1.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (43.97%) Software Engineering
2 45 (38.79%) CI/CD
3 42 (36.21%) Agile
4 38 (32.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (31.90%) DevOps
6 36 (31.03%) Platform Engineering
7 35 (30.17%) Investment Management
8 30 (25.86%) Asset Management
9 28 (24.14%) Observability
10 24 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (15.52%) Fintech
12 17 (14.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (13.79%) Cloud Security
13 16 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
14 14 (12.07%) Order Management
14 14 (12.07%) Performance Attribution
14 14 (12.07%) Risk Management
15 13 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (10.34%) Secrets Management
17 11 (9.48%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (60.34%) Python
2 47 (40.52%) Java
3 41 (35.34%) TypeScript
4 32 (27.59%) JavaScript
5 15 (12.93%) Bash
6 10 (8.62%) Go
7 9 (7.76%) SQL
8 6 (5.17%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.31%) C#
10 3 (2.59%) Bicep
11 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.90%) AWS Certification
1 8 (6.90%) Degree
2 5 (4.31%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 4 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.48%) PCI DSS
1 11 (9.48%) SOC 2
2 5 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (31.03%) Terraform
2 27 (23.28%) Kubernetes
3 15 (12.93%) Grafana
4 10 (8.62%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.17%) Argo
6 2 (1.72%) Ansible
6 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (6.03%) SolarWinds
2 5 (4.31%) CheckPoint
2 5 (4.31%) Cisco
2 5 (4.31%) Dynatrace
2 5 (4.31%) Fortinet
2 5 (4.31%) Meraki
2 5 (4.31%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.59%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (2.59%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.72%) Okta
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle