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 £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 186 251
Rank change year-on-year -75 +65 -14
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 154 290 406
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 2.00% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 2.17% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 114 277 374
10th Percentile £56,250 £70,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £63,125 £90,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +25.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £122,500
90th Percentile - £138,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -31.82% +33.33% +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 17,912 13,354 31,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 92.00% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,218 8,198 25,117
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 27 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 27 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.

1 154 (100.00%) AWS
2 64 (41.56%) Python
3 61 (39.61%) Terraform
4 59 (38.31%) DevOps
5 56 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 55 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 40 (25.97%) Platform Engineering
8 33 (21.43%) Kubernetes
9 31 (20.13%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (18.83%) Observability
10 29 (18.83%) Software Engineering
10 29 (18.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 28 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (18.18%) Azure
11 28 (18.18%) Docker
11 28 (18.18%) Java
12 27 (17.53%) SaaS
13 26 (16.88%) Amazon S3
14 23 (14.94%) Cloud Security
14 23 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (14.29%) Containerisation
15 22 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 21 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (12.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (12.99%) Bash
17 20 (12.99%) Security Cleared
18 19 (12.34%) Serverless
19 18 (11.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 17 (11.04%) Amazon RDS
21 16 (10.39%) Fintech

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 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.25%) Apache
3 2 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) Drupal
4 1 (0.65%) IIS
4 1 (0.65%) nginx
4 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 154 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (20.13%) Amazon EKS
3 29 (18.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 28 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 28 (18.18%) Azure
5 27 (17.53%) SaaS
6 26 (16.88%) Amazon S3
7 21 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (12.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (12.34%) Serverless
10 15 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (7.14%) CloudFront
11 11 (7.14%) GitHub
11 11 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (6.49%) GCP
13 9 (5.84%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 9 (5.84%) OpenShift
14 8 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (5.19%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (5.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.19%) BGP
1 8 (5.19%) VPN
2 5 (3.25%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (3.25%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (3.25%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (3.25%) Firewall
2 5 (3.25%) IPsec
2 5 (3.25%) LAN
2 5 (3.25%) MPLS
2 5 (3.25%) NetScaler
2 5 (3.25%) NX-OS
2 5 (3.25%) OSPF
2 5 (3.25%) SD-WAN
2 5 (3.25%) VXLAN
2 5 (3.25%) WAN
2 5 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (3.25%) WLAN
3 3 (1.95%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.95%) VLAN
4 2 (1.30%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.04%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.49%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.25%) Metadata
6 4 (2.60%) Big Data
6 4 (2.60%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.30%) Flink
7 2 (1.30%) Redis
8 1 (0.65%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.65%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.65%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.65%) MySQL
8 1 (0.65%) Power BI
8 1 (0.65%) Redshift Spectrum
8 1 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (7.79%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.19%) GitLab
3 4 (2.60%) Git
4 2 (1.30%) JMeter
4 2 (1.30%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.65%) Gatling
5 1 (0.65%) git-flow
5 1 (0.65%) JIRA
5 1 (0.65%) Maven
5 1 (0.65%) Postman
5 1 (0.65%) Selenium
5 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.65%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (17.53%) Finance
2 18 (11.69%) Banking
3 16 (10.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (9.74%) Social Skills
5 13 (8.44%) Law
6 9 (5.84%) Back Office
6 9 (5.84%) Financial Institution
6 9 (5.84%) Retail
7 7 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.95%) Billing
9 3 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.30%) Games
10 2 (1.30%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.65%) Advertising
11 1 (0.65%) Front Office
11 1 (0.65%) Legal
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.44%) Kafka
2 11 (7.14%) React
3 8 (5.19%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.55%) Loki
5 6 (3.90%) Node.js
6 5 (3.25%) .NET
6 5 (3.25%) AWS CDK
6 5 (3.25%) RESTful
6 5 (3.25%) Spring
7 4 (2.60%) REST
8 3 (1.95%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.30%) OAuth
9 2 (1.30%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.30%) OpenID
10 1 (0.65%) Flask
10 1 (0.65%) Memcached
10 1 (0.65%) Pandas
10 1 (0.65%) pytest
10 1 (0.65%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.84%) Blog
5 8 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.25%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.30%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.30%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.30%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.65%) IoT
9 1 (0.65%) Life Science
9 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.65%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (38.31%) DevOps
2 56 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 55 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (25.97%) Platform Engineering
5 29 (18.83%) Observability
5 29 (18.83%) Software Engineering
6 23 (14.94%) Cloud Security
6 23 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 22 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (11.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 16 (10.39%) Fintech
9 16 (10.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (9.74%) Secrets Management
11 13 (8.44%) Infrastructure Automation
12 12 (7.79%) Agile
12 12 (7.79%) AI
12 12 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (41.56%) Python
2 28 (18.18%) Java
3 20 (12.99%) Bash
4 15 (9.74%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.79%) Go
5 12 (7.79%) SQL
6 9 (5.84%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.90%) C#
8 3 (1.95%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.30%) Groovy
10 1 (0.65%) Bicep
10 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.44%) Degree
4 7 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (2.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 4 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CISM
7 1 (0.65%) CISSP
7 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.65%) GSEC
7 1 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.79%) SOC 2
2 9 (5.84%) PCI DSS
3 7 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) NCSC
5 1 (0.65%) NIST
5 1 (0.65%) QA
5 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (18.18%) Docker
2 10 (6.49%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (39.61%) Terraform
2 33 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 16 (10.39%) Grafana
4 15 (9.74%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.19%) Istio
6 7 (4.55%) Argo
7 6 (3.90%) Ansible
8 3 (1.95%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.30%) Packer
9 2 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.65%) Consul
10 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.19%) Confluent
2 6 (3.90%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.25%) CheckPoint
3 5 (3.25%) Cisco
3 5 (3.25%) Dynatrace
3 5 (3.25%) Fortinet
3 5 (3.25%) Meraki
3 5 (3.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.25%) SolarWinds
4 3 (1.95%) Databricks
5 2 (1.30%) Google
5 2 (1.30%) Okta
6 1 (0.65%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.65%) Pega
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.65%) SAP
6 1 (0.65%) TOWER Software