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 29 March 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 136 287
Rank change year-on-year -146 +151 -3
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 119 336 312
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 2.60% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 2.76% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 93 322 293
10th Percentile £56,500 £61,713 £52,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +43.33% -1.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £140,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% -5.06%

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 15,807 12,174 29,732
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 94.20% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,136 8,976 24,450
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,996
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
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 29 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 29 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.

1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (51.26%) Python
3 50 (42.02%) DevOps
4 47 (39.50%) Terraform
5 45 (37.82%) CI/CD
6 42 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
7 41 (34.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (31.09%) Java
9 35 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (25.21%) Software Engineering
11 29 (24.37%) Kubernetes
12 27 (22.69%) Observability
13 25 (21.01%) SaaS
13 25 (21.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 23 (19.33%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (18.49%) Azure
15 22 (18.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 21 (17.65%) Amazon S3
17 20 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
18 19 (15.97%) Amazon RDS
18 19 (15.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 19 (15.97%) Serverless
19 18 (15.13%) Cloud Security
20 17 (14.29%) Docker
20 17 (14.29%) Kafka
21 16 (13.45%) Agile
21 16 (13.45%) Go
22 15 (12.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 15 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
22 15 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery

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 11 (9.24%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.84%) Confluence
3 1 (0.84%) Drupal
3 1 (0.84%) IIS
3 1 (0.84%) nginx
3 1 (0.84%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
3 25 (21.01%) SaaS
3 25 (21.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 23 (19.33%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (18.49%) Azure
6 21 (17.65%) Amazon S3
7 19 (15.97%) Serverless
8 15 (12.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (12.61%) GitHub
8 15 (12.61%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (10.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (9.24%) AWS Direct Connect
10 11 (9.24%) CloudFront
10 11 (9.24%) GCP
11 9 (7.56%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (7.56%) OpenShift
12 8 (6.72%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 8 (6.72%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.24%) BGP
1 11 (9.24%) VPN
2 6 (5.04%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.04%) VLAN
3 5 (4.20%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (4.20%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (4.20%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (4.20%) Firewall
3 5 (4.20%) IPsec
3 5 (4.20%) LAN
3 5 (4.20%) MPLS
3 5 (4.20%) NetScaler
3 5 (4.20%) NX-OS
3 5 (4.20%) OSPF
3 5 (4.20%) SD-WAN
3 5 (4.20%) VXLAN
3 5 (4.20%) WAN
3 5 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (4.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.97%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (9.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (5.04%) Apache Iceberg
5 6 (5.04%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.04%) Flink
6 5 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.36%) Apache Arrow
7 4 (3.36%) Apache Ignite
7 4 (3.36%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.36%) Dremio
7 4 (3.36%) Metadata
8 3 (2.52%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.68%) MySQL
9 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.84%) Redis
10 1 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.52%) GitLab
3 2 (1.68%) JMeter
4 1 (0.84%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.84%) Deequ
4 1 (0.84%) Gatling
4 1 (0.84%) Git
4 1 (0.84%) git-flow
4 1 (0.84%) JIRA
4 1 (0.84%) Maven
4 1 (0.84%) Postman
4 1 (0.84%) Selenium
4 1 (0.84%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.84%) Vagrant
General
1 39 (32.77%) Finance
2 30 (25.21%) Banking
3 19 (15.97%) Social Skills
4 16 (13.45%) Law
5 13 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (10.08%) Back Office
6 12 (10.08%) Financial Institution
6 12 (10.08%) Retail
7 10 (8.40%) Front Office
8 5 (4.20%) Games
8 5 (4.20%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.36%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.52%) Legal
11 2 (1.68%) Billing
12 1 (0.84%) Advertising
12 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.29%) Kafka
2 7 (5.88%) Loki
2 7 (5.88%) RESTful
3 6 (5.04%) AWS CDK
3 6 (5.04%) Spring
4 5 (4.20%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.36%) gRPC
5 4 (3.36%) NumPy
5 4 (3.36%) Pandas
5 4 (3.36%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (3.36%) SciPy
6 3 (2.52%) REST
7 2 (1.68%) .NET
7 2 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.68%) OAuth
7 2 (1.68%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.68%) OpenID
7 2 (1.68%) PySpark
8 1 (0.84%) pytest
8 1 (0.84%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 12 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (8.40%) Fixed Income
5 9 (7.56%) Blog
5 9 (7.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.20%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.36%) Derivative
7 4 (3.36%) Equities
7 4 (3.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.36%) Hedge funds
7 4 (3.36%) Pricing Data
8 3 (2.52%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.84%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.24%) Linux
2 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.84%) Unix
2 1 (0.84%) Windows
2 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.02%) DevOps
2 45 (37.82%) CI/CD
3 42 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
4 41 (34.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (25.21%) Software Engineering
6 27 (22.69%) Observability
7 22 (18.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 20 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (15.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 18 (15.13%) Cloud Security
11 16 (13.45%) Agile
12 15 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (11.76%) Secrets Management
14 12 (10.08%) API Management
14 12 (10.08%) Containerisation
14 12 (10.08%) Immutable Infrastructure
14 12 (10.08%) SOA
15 11 (9.24%) Deployment Automation
16 10 (8.40%) Investment Management
17 9 (7.56%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (51.26%) Python
2 37 (31.09%) Java
3 16 (13.45%) Go
4 14 (11.76%) Bash
5 11 (9.24%) TypeScript
6 9 (7.56%) SQL
7 6 (5.04%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.36%) C#
9 3 (2.52%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.84%) Bicep
10 1 (0.84%) Groovy
10 1 (0.84%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (9.24%) Degree
2 9 (7.56%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 7 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (3.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.92%) SOC 2
2 12 (10.08%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.04%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.68%) QA
6 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.84%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (14.29%) Docker
2 8 (6.72%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (39.50%) Terraform
2 29 (24.37%) Kubernetes
3 12 (10.08%) Grafana
4 10 (8.40%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.72%) Istio
6 7 (5.88%) Argo
7 3 (2.52%) Ansible
8 2 (1.68%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.84%) Consul
9 1 (0.84%) Packer
9 1 (0.84%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (6.72%) Confluent
2 6 (5.04%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.20%) CheckPoint
3 5 (4.20%) Cisco
3 5 (4.20%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.20%) Fortinet
3 5 (4.20%) Meraki
3 5 (4.20%) SolarWinds
4 3 (2.52%) Databricks
5 2 (1.68%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.68%) Okta
6 1 (0.84%) Google
6 1 (0.84%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.84%) Pega
6 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.84%) SAP
6 1 (0.84%) TOWER Software