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 £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 March 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 148 273
Rank change year-on-year -140 +125 +32
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 106 329 302
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 2.24% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 2.36% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 81 313 281
10th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £105,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +35.48% -3.13%

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 15,385 13,946 27,333
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.07% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 10,291 8,762 22,860
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,858 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 2 March 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 2 March 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.

1 106 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (54.72%) Python
3 45 (42.45%) CI/CD
4 42 (39.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (37.74%) Platform Engineering
6 38 (35.85%) DevOps
6 38 (35.85%) Java
6 38 (35.85%) Terraform
7 37 (34.91%) Software Engineering
8 29 (27.36%) Observability
9 28 (26.42%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (24.53%) Kubernetes
11 25 (23.58%) Agile
12 24 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (21.70%) SaaS
13 23 (21.70%) Serverless
13 23 (21.70%) TypeScript
14 22 (20.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 19 (17.92%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (17.92%) Investment Management
16 18 (16.98%) Amazon S3
16 18 (16.98%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (16.04%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (16.04%) Apache Airflow
17 17 (16.04%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 16 (15.09%) Apache Iceberg
18 16 (15.09%) Cloud Security
18 16 (15.09%) Disaster Recovery
18 16 (15.09%) JavaScript

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 17 (16.04%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (10.38%) Apache
3 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 106 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (26.42%) Amazon EKS
3 23 (21.70%) SaaS
3 23 (21.70%) Serverless
4 22 (20.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 19 (17.92%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (16.98%) Amazon S3
6 18 (16.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (16.04%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (14.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (13.21%) GitHub
9 14 (13.21%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (12.26%) Azure
10 13 (12.26%) dbt
11 11 (10.38%) AWS Direct Connect
12 10 (9.43%) GCP
13 9 (8.49%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (8.49%) CloudFront
14 7 (6.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 7 (6.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.38%) BGP
1 11 (10.38%) VPN
2 6 (5.66%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.66%) VLAN
3 5 (4.72%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (4.72%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (4.72%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (4.72%) Firewall
3 5 (4.72%) IPsec
3 5 (4.72%) LAN
3 5 (4.72%) MPLS
3 5 (4.72%) NetScaler
3 5 (4.72%) NX-OS
3 5 (4.72%) OSPF
3 5 (4.72%) SD-WAN
3 5 (4.72%) VXLAN
3 5 (4.72%) WAN
3 5 (4.72%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (4.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.04%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (15.09%) Apache Iceberg
3 15 (14.15%) Amazon Athena
3 15 (14.15%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (12.26%) Apache Arrow
4 13 (12.26%) Dremio
5 10 (9.43%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (7.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (7.55%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.66%) Apache Ignite
7 6 (5.66%) Flink
8 5 (4.72%) DynamoDB
9 4 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.89%) Metadata
10 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.94%) Apache Hudi
11 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.83%) GitLab
3 1 (0.94%) Deequ
General
1 39 (36.79%) Finance
2 24 (22.64%) Banking
3 19 (17.92%) Front Office
3 19 (17.92%) Social Skills
4 17 (16.04%) Law
5 13 (12.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (11.32%) Back Office
6 12 (11.32%) Financial Institution
6 12 (11.32%) Retail
7 6 (5.66%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.66%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.72%) Games
9 3 (2.83%) Legal
10 2 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.89%) Billing
11 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.26%) NumPy
1 13 (12.26%) Pandas
1 13 (12.26%) SciPy
2 9 (8.49%) AWS CDK
2 9 (8.49%) Node.js
3 8 (7.55%) React
4 7 (6.60%) AngularJS
4 7 (6.60%) Kafka
4 7 (6.60%) Loki
4 7 (6.60%) RESTful
4 7 (6.60%) Vue
5 6 (5.66%) gRPC
5 6 (5.66%) Protocol Buffers
5 6 (5.66%) Spring
6 5 (4.72%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.77%) PySpark
8 3 (2.83%) REST
9 2 (1.89%) OAuth
9 2 (1.89%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.89%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.81%) Cloud Native
2 19 (17.92%) Fixed Income
3 14 (13.21%) Data Centre
4 13 (12.26%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (12.26%) Equities
4 13 (12.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (8.49%) Blog
5 9 (8.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (5.66%) Derivative
6 6 (5.66%) Hedge funds
6 6 (5.66%) Pricing Data
7 5 (4.72%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.89%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.94%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.43%) Linux
2 2 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (42.45%) CI/CD
2 42 (39.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (37.74%) Platform Engineering
4 38 (35.85%) DevOps
5 37 (34.91%) Software Engineering
6 29 (27.36%) Observability
7 25 (23.58%) Agile
8 24 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (17.92%) Investment Management
10 17 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (15.09%) Cloud Security
11 16 (15.09%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (13.21%) Asset Management
12 14 (13.21%) Secrets Management
13 13 (12.26%) Fintech
13 13 (12.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (11.32%) API Management
14 12 (11.32%) Immutable Infrastructure
14 12 (11.32%) SOA
15 10 (9.43%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 58 (54.72%) Python
2 38 (35.85%) Java
3 23 (21.70%) TypeScript
4 16 (15.09%) JavaScript
5 15 (14.15%) Bash
6 10 (9.43%) Go
6 10 (9.43%) SQL
7 4 (3.77%) C#
7 4 (3.77%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.89%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (9.43%) Degree
2 8 (7.55%) AWS Certification
2 8 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.60%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (3.77%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) PCI DSS
1 12 (11.32%) SOC 2
2 7 (6.60%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (35.85%) Terraform
2 26 (24.53%) Kubernetes
3 15 (14.15%) Grafana
4 10 (9.43%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.66%) Argo
6 2 (1.89%) Ansible
6 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (5.66%) ServiceNow
1 6 (5.66%) SolarWinds
2 5 (4.72%) CheckPoint
2 5 (4.72%) Cisco
2 5 (4.72%) Dynatrace
2 5 (4.72%) Fortinet
2 5 (4.72%) Meraki
3 2 (1.89%) Databricks
3 2 (1.89%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.89%) Okta
4 1 (0.94%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.94%) Pega
4 1 (0.94%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.94%) SAP