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 £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 201 167
Rank change year-on-year -143 -34 +51
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 121 252 469
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 1.55% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 1.68% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 90 246 425
10th Percentile £59,625 £80,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £100,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +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 22,898 15,017 22,332
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 92.66% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,035 8,936 14,304
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,588
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,531
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 21 September 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 21 September 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 42 (34.71%) Python
3 39 (32.23%) Terraform
4 38 (31.40%) Software Engineering
5 37 (30.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (28.10%) CI/CD
7 31 (25.62%) DevOps
8 20 (16.53%) Docker
8 20 (16.53%) Security Cleared
9 19 (15.70%) Java
10 18 (14.88%) Amazon S3
10 18 (14.88%) Kubernetes
11 17 (14.05%) Containerisation
11 17 (14.05%) Fintech
12 16 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (12.40%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (11.57%) Full-Stack Development
14 14 (11.57%) Spring Boot
14 14 (11.57%) TypeScript
15 13 (10.74%) AI
15 13 (10.74%) Ansible
15 13 (10.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (10.74%) Azure
15 13 (10.74%) Observability
15 13 (10.74%) Platform Engineering
15 13 (10.74%) React
16 11 (9.09%) Grafana
16 11 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 10 (8.26%) Agile
17 10 (8.26%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 3 (2.48%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.83%) Apache
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (14.88%) Amazon S3
3 15 (12.40%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (10.74%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (10.74%) Azure
5 11 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (8.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (6.61%) SaaS
8 7 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.79%) Serverless
9 6 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.96%) GitHub
10 5 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.13%) Datadog
10 5 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.31%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (3.31%) GCP
12 3 (2.48%) Cloudflare
12 3 (2.48%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) DNS
2 2 (1.65%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) 4G
3 1 (0.83%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.13%) Big Data
4 2 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.83%) DuckDB
5 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.83%) Flink
5 1 (0.83%) Metadata
5 1 (0.83%) Redis
5 1 (0.83%) Redshift Spectrum
5 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (7.44%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.79%) GitLab
3 4 (3.31%) Git
4 2 (1.65%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.83%) git-flow
5 1 (0.83%) Maven
5 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (8.26%) Finance
2 9 (7.44%) Health Technology
2 9 (7.44%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (5.79%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.96%) Front Office
5 4 (3.31%) Digital Health
5 4 (3.31%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.83%) Advertising
8 1 (0.83%) Billing
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (32.23%) Terraform
2 14 (11.57%) Spring Boot
3 13 (10.74%) React
4 6 (4.96%) .NET
4 6 (4.96%) Spring
5 5 (4.13%) Node.js
6 4 (3.31%) Pulumi
7 3 (2.48%) Next.js
7 3 (2.48%) REST
7 3 (2.48%) Web Services
8 2 (1.65%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.65%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.65%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.65%) Kafka
8 2 (1.65%) Pandas
9 1 (0.83%) CSS
9 1 (0.83%) D3.js
9 1 (0.83%) HTML
9 1 (0.83%) NumPy
9 1 (0.83%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.05%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.44%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.48%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.65%) Life Science
4 2 (1.65%) PropTech
4 2 (1.65%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.83%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.40%) Software Engineering
2 37 (30.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (28.10%) CI/CD
4 31 (25.62%) DevOps
5 17 (14.05%) Containerisation
5 17 (14.05%) Fintech
6 16 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (11.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (10.74%) AI
8 13 (10.74%) Observability
8 13 (10.74%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (8.26%) Agile
10 8 (6.61%) DevSecOps
10 8 (6.61%) Machine Learning
10 8 (6.61%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (5.79%) Analytics
11 7 (5.79%) Cloud Security
11 7 (5.79%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (5.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (4.96%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 42 (34.71%) Python
2 19 (15.70%) Java
3 14 (11.57%) TypeScript
4 10 (8.26%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.61%) C#
6 7 (5.79%) Bash
6 7 (5.79%) SQL
7 4 (3.31%) Groovy
7 4 (3.31%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.48%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (16.53%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.26%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.13%) Degree
4 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.83%) CISM
5 1 (0.83%) CISSP
5 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.83%) GSEC
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.13%) SLA
2 3 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.65%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (16.53%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (14.88%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.74%) Ansible
3 11 (9.09%) Grafana
4 7 (5.79%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.13%) Argo
6 4 (3.31%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.83%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (4.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.31%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.83%) Databricks
3 1 (0.83%) Google
3 1 (0.83%) Red Hat