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 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 153 273
Rank change year-on-year -117 +120 +37
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 116 342 294
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 2.26% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 2.38% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 91 320 273
10th Percentile £56,250 £60,875 £54,000
25th Percentile £75,625 £80,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -
75th Percentile £111,250 £122,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £142,750
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 15,403 14,387 26,430
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 95.25% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 10,287 8,936 22,144
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,516
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £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 26 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 26 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 65 (56.03%) Python
3 46 (39.66%) CI/CD
4 44 (37.93%) Software Engineering
5 42 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (35.34%) DevOps
7 40 (34.48%) Java
7 40 (34.48%) Platform Engineering
8 39 (33.62%) Terraform
9 33 (28.45%) Agile
10 30 (25.86%) TypeScript
11 29 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
11 29 (25.00%) Observability
12 27 (23.28%) Kubernetes
13 25 (21.55%) Investment Management
14 24 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (20.69%) SaaS
15 23 (19.83%) Apache Airflow
15 23 (19.83%) JavaScript
15 23 (19.83%) Serverless
16 22 (18.97%) Apache Iceberg
16 22 (18.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 21 (18.10%) Amazon Athena
18 20 (17.24%) Asset Management
19 19 (16.38%) Amazon EC2
19 19 (16.38%) Apache Arrow
19 19 (16.38%) AWS CloudFormation
19 19 (16.38%) dbt
19 19 (16.38%) Dremio
19 19 (16.38%) NumPy

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 23 (19.83%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (11.21%) Apache
3 3 (2.59%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 116 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 24 (20.69%) SaaS
4 23 (19.83%) Serverless
5 22 (18.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 19 (16.38%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (16.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (16.38%) dbt
7 18 (15.52%) Amazon S3
8 17 (14.66%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (12.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (12.93%) GitHub
9 15 (12.93%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (12.07%) Azure
10 14 (12.07%) GCP
11 11 (9.48%) AWS Direct Connect
12 9 (7.76%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (7.76%) CloudFront
12 9 (7.76%) Snowflake
13 7 (6.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.48%) BGP
1 11 (9.48%) VPN
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%) Firewall
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 22 (18.97%) Apache Iceberg
2 21 (18.10%) Amazon Athena
3 19 (16.38%) Apache Arrow
3 19 (16.38%) Dremio
3 19 (16.38%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (14.66%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (8.62%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (8.62%) Data Lake
6 8 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (6.90%) Apache Ignite
7 6 (5.17%) Flink
8 5 (4.31%) DynamoDB
9 4 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.72%) Metadata
10 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.86%) Apache Hudi
11 1 (0.86%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.59%) GitLab
3 1 (0.86%) Deequ
General
1 45 (38.79%) Finance
2 26 (22.41%) Banking
3 25 (21.55%) Front Office
4 19 (16.38%) Social Skills
5 17 (14.66%) Law
6 13 (11.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (10.34%) Back Office
7 12 (10.34%) Financial Institution
7 12 (10.34%) Retail
8 8 (6.90%) Investment Banking
9 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
10 5 (4.31%) Games
11 3 (2.59%) Billing
11 3 (2.59%) Legal
12 2 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.38%) NumPy
1 19 (16.38%) Pandas
1 19 (16.38%) SciPy
2 13 (11.21%) Node.js
3 12 (10.34%) React
4 11 (9.48%) AngularJS
4 11 (9.48%) Vue
5 9 (7.76%) AWS CDK
6 8 (6.90%) gRPC
6 8 (6.90%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (6.03%) Kafka
7 7 (6.03%) Loki
7 7 (6.03%) RESTful
8 6 (5.17%) Spring
9 5 (4.31%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.45%) PySpark
11 3 (2.59%) REST
12 2 (1.72%) .NET
12 2 (1.72%) OAuth
12 2 (1.72%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.55%) Fixed Income
2 21 (18.10%) Cloud Native
3 19 (16.38%) Equities
3 19 (16.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (12.07%) Data Centre
5 13 (11.21%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (7.76%) Blog
6 9 (7.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (6.90%) Derivative
7 8 (6.90%) Hedge funds
7 8 (6.90%) Pricing Data
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
10 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.48%) Linux
2 2 (1.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (39.66%) CI/CD
2 44 (37.93%) Software Engineering
3 42 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (35.34%) DevOps
5 40 (34.48%) Platform Engineering
6 33 (28.45%) Agile
7 29 (25.00%) Observability
8 25 (21.55%) Investment Management
9 24 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (17.24%) Asset Management
11 17 (14.66%) Fintech
11 17 (14.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (13.79%) Cloud Security
12 16 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (12.07%) Secrets Management
14 13 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 12 (10.34%) API Management
15 12 (10.34%) Immutable Infrastructure
15 12 (10.34%) SOA
16 11 (9.48%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 65 (56.03%) Python
2 40 (34.48%) Java
3 30 (25.86%) TypeScript
4 23 (19.83%) JavaScript
5 16 (13.79%) Bash
6 10 (8.62%) Go
6 10 (8.62%) SQL
7 5 (4.31%) C#
7 5 (4.31%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.59%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (9.48%) Degree
2 8 (6.90%) AWS Certification
2 8 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.03%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.34%) PCI DSS
1 12 (10.34%) SOC 2
2 7 (6.03%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (33.62%) 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 6 (5.17%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.31%) CheckPoint
3 5 (4.31%) Cisco
3 5 (4.31%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.31%) Fortinet
3 5 (4.31%) Meraki
4 3 (2.59%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (2.59%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.72%) Databricks
5 2 (1.72%) Okta
6 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.86%) Pega
6 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.86%) SAP