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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 167 272
Rank change year-on-year -96 +105 -33
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 142 328 371
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 2.26% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 2.45% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 104 315 343
10th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +30.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £118,750
90th Percentile - £138,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £107,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -30.23% +34.38% -

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 17,190 13,411 31,118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 92.27% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,633 8,791 24,816
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,070
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,359
Median % change year-on-year - +6.46% -9.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,686
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.46% -12.19%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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.

1 142 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (40.85%) Python
3 51 (35.92%) DevOps
4 50 (35.21%) Terraform
5 48 (33.80%) CI/CD
6 45 (31.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (28.87%) Platform Engineering
8 30 (21.13%) Java
9 29 (20.42%) Software Engineering
10 28 (19.72%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (18.31%) Kubernetes
12 25 (17.61%) Azure
12 25 (17.61%) SaaS
12 25 (17.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 24 (16.90%) Observability
14 23 (16.20%) Docker
15 22 (15.49%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (14.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 19 (13.38%) Amazon S3
17 19 (13.38%) Cloud Security
17 19 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
17 19 (13.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 18 (12.68%) Serverless
19 16 (11.27%) AWS CloudFormation
19 16 (11.27%) Containerisation
19 16 (11.27%) Fintech
19 16 (11.27%) Full-Stack Development
19 16 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
20 15 (10.56%) Bash
20 15 (10.56%) Kafka

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 6 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.52%) Apache
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Drupal
4 1 (0.70%) IIS
4 1 (0.70%) nginx
4 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 142 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (19.72%) Amazon EKS
3 25 (17.61%) Azure
3 25 (17.61%) SaaS
3 25 (17.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 22 (15.49%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (13.38%) Amazon S3
6 18 (12.68%) Serverless
7 16 (11.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (9.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (8.45%) GitHub
10 12 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (7.75%) CloudFront
12 10 (7.04%) GCP
13 9 (6.34%) OpenShift
14 8 (5.63%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 8 (5.63%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (5.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (5.63%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.63%) BGP
1 8 (5.63%) VPN
2 5 (3.52%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (3.52%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (3.52%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (3.52%) Firewall
2 5 (3.52%) IPsec
2 5 (3.52%) LAN
2 5 (3.52%) MPLS
2 5 (3.52%) NetScaler
2 5 (3.52%) NX-OS
2 5 (3.52%) OSPF
2 5 (3.52%) SD-WAN
2 5 (3.52%) VXLAN
2 5 (3.52%) WAN
2 5 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (3.52%) WLAN
3 3 (2.11%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.11%) VLAN
4 1 (0.70%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.86%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.52%) Metadata
6 4 (2.82%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.11%) Big Data
7 3 (2.11%) Flink
8 2 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.41%) Redis
9 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.70%) MySQL
9 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.70%) Redshift Spectrum
9 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (5.63%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.11%) Git
2 3 (2.11%) GitLab
3 2 (1.41%) JMeter
4 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.70%) Gatling
4 1 (0.70%) git-flow
4 1 (0.70%) JIRA
4 1 (0.70%) Maven
4 1 (0.70%) Postman
4 1 (0.70%) Selenium
4 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.70%) Vagrant
General
1 28 (19.72%) Finance
2 19 (13.38%) Banking
3 15 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (9.15%) Law
4 13 (9.15%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.34%) Back Office
5 9 (6.34%) Financial Institution
5 9 (6.34%) Retail
6 5 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.52%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.11%) Billing
7 3 (2.11%) Games
8 2 (1.41%) Front Office
8 2 (1.41%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.41%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.70%) Advertising
9 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.56%) Kafka
2 11 (7.75%) React
3 9 (6.34%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.93%) Loki
5 6 (4.23%) Node.js
5 6 (4.23%) Spring
6 5 (3.52%) .NET
6 5 (3.52%) AWS CDK
6 5 (3.52%) RESTful
7 4 (2.82%) REST
8 2 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.41%) OAuth
8 2 (1.41%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.41%) OpenID
9 1 (0.70%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.70%) Flask
9 1 (0.70%) JWT
9 1 (0.70%) Pandas
9 1 (0.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.15%) Data Centre
3 10 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.34%) Blog
5 6 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.52%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.11%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.41%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.41%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.70%) IoT
9 1 (0.70%) Life Science
9 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.70%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.70%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Windows
2 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.92%) DevOps
2 48 (33.80%) CI/CD
3 45 (31.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (28.87%) Platform Engineering
5 29 (20.42%) Software Engineering
6 24 (16.90%) Observability
7 21 (14.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (13.38%) Cloud Security
8 19 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (13.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 16 (11.27%) Containerisation
9 16 (11.27%) Fintech
9 16 (11.27%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (10.56%) Secrets Management
11 10 (7.04%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (7.04%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (7.04%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (7.04%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (6.34%) AI
12 9 (6.34%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 58 (40.85%) Python
2 30 (21.13%) Java
3 15 (10.56%) Bash
3 15 (10.56%) TypeScript
4 12 (8.45%) Go
4 12 (8.45%) SQL
5 6 (4.23%) C#
6 3 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.41%) Groovy
8 1 (0.70%) Bicep
8 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (9.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.15%) Degree
3 9 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.93%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (2.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.70%) CISM
8 1 (0.70%) CISSP
8 1 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.70%) GSEC
8 1 (0.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.45%) SOC 2
2 9 (6.34%) PCI DSS
3 7 (4.93%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.70%) NCSC
5 1 (0.70%) NIST
5 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 23 (16.20%) Docker
2 8 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (35.21%) Terraform
2 26 (18.31%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.04%) Grafana
4 9 (6.34%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.63%) Istio
6 4 (2.82%) Argo
7 3 (2.11%) Ansible
7 3 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.41%) Packer
8 2 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.70%) Consul
9 1 (0.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.63%) Confluent
2 6 (4.23%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.52%) CheckPoint
3 5 (3.52%) Cisco
3 5 (3.52%) Dynatrace
3 5 (3.52%) Fortinet
3 5 (3.52%) Meraki
3 5 (3.52%) SolarWinds
4 3 (2.11%) Databricks
4 3 (2.11%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.41%) Google
5 2 (1.41%) Okta
6 1 (0.70%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.70%) Pega
6 1 (0.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.70%) SAP
6 1 (0.70%) TOWER Software