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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 207 171
Rank change year-on-year -131 -36 +37
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 122 250 468
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 1.54% 2.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.66% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 91 246 423
10th Percentile £56,250 £80,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £100,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £142,500
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 22,608 15,056 22,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 92.68% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,918 8,997 14,462
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,541
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 £77,500
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 16 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 16 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.

1 122 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (35.25%) Python
3 41 (33.61%) Terraform
4 38 (31.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (30.33%) Software Engineering
6 36 (29.51%) CI/CD
7 32 (26.23%) DevOps
8 21 (17.21%) Docker
8 21 (17.21%) Security Cleared
9 19 (15.57%) Amazon S3
10 18 (14.75%) Fintech
10 18 (14.75%) Java
10 18 (14.75%) Kubernetes
11 17 (13.93%) Containerisation
12 16 (13.11%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (11.48%) Ansible
13 14 (11.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (11.48%) Azure
13 14 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (11.48%) TypeScript
14 13 (10.66%) AI
14 13 (10.66%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (10.66%) Observability
14 13 (10.66%) React
14 13 (10.66%) Spring Boot
15 12 (9.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (9.02%) Grafana
16 11 (9.02%) Linux
17 10 (8.20%) Agile

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 (2.46%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.82%) Confluence
3 1 (0.82%) Drupal
3 1 (0.82%) IIS
3 1 (0.82%) nginx
3 1 (0.82%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (15.57%) Amazon S3
3 16 (13.11%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (11.48%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (11.48%) Azure
5 12 (9.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (8.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (6.56%) SaaS
8 7 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.74%) GitHub
8 7 (5.74%) Serverless
9 6 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.10%) Datadog
10 5 (4.10%) GCP
11 4 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.28%) AWS Control Tower
11 4 (3.28%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (2.46%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.28%) DNS
2 2 (1.64%) VPN
3 1 (0.82%) 4G
3 1 (0.82%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.74%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.10%) Big Data
4 2 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.64%) Redis
5 1 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.82%) DuckDB
5 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.82%) Flink
5 1 (0.82%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.82%) Metadata
5 1 (0.82%) Redshift Spectrum
5 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (7.38%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.74%) GitLab
3 4 (3.28%) Git
4 2 (1.64%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.82%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.82%) Gatling
5 1 (0.82%) git-flow
5 1 (0.82%) JIRA
5 1 (0.82%) JMeter
5 1 (0.82%) Maven
5 1 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.82%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (7.38%) Finance
1 9 (7.38%) Health Technology
1 9 (7.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (5.74%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.92%) Front Office
4 4 (3.28%) Digital Health
4 4 (3.28%) Tech for Good
5 3 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.82%) Advertising
7 1 (0.82%) Billing
7 1 (0.82%) Legal
7 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (33.61%) Terraform
2 13 (10.66%) React
2 13 (10.66%) Spring Boot
3 6 (4.92%) .NET
4 5 (4.10%) Node.js
4 5 (4.10%) Spring
5 4 (3.28%) Pulumi
6 3 (2.46%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.46%) Next.js
6 3 (2.46%) REST
6 3 (2.46%) Web Services
7 2 (1.64%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.64%) Kafka
7 2 (1.64%) Pandas
8 1 (0.82%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.82%) D3.js
8 1 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.82%) Flask
8 1 (0.82%) pytest
8 1 (0.82%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.93%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.38%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.46%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.64%) Life Science
4 2 (1.64%) PropTech
5 1 (0.82%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.82%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.82%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.02%) Linux
2 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.82%) Windows
2 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 37 (30.33%) Software Engineering
3 36 (29.51%) CI/CD
4 32 (26.23%) DevOps
5 18 (14.75%) Fintech
6 17 (13.93%) Containerisation
7 16 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (10.66%) AI
9 13 (10.66%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (10.66%) Observability
10 10 (8.20%) Agile
11 8 (6.56%) Cloud Security
11 8 (6.56%) DevSecOps
11 8 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (6.56%) Machine Learning
11 8 (6.56%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (5.74%) Analytics
12 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure Automation
13 6 (4.92%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (35.25%) Python
2 18 (14.75%) Java
3 14 (11.48%) TypeScript
4 10 (8.20%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.74%) Bash
5 7 (5.74%) C#
5 7 (5.74%) SQL
6 4 (3.28%) Groovy
6 4 (3.28%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.10%) Degree
4 3 (2.46%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.82%) CISM
5 1 (0.82%) CISSP
5 1 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.82%) GSEC
5 1 (0.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.10%) SLA
2 3 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.64%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.82%) NCSC
4 1 (0.82%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (17.21%) Docker
2 3 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 14 (11.48%) Ansible
3 11 (9.02%) Grafana
4 7 (5.74%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.10%) Argo
5 5 (4.10%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.64%) Packer
7 1 (0.82%) Consul
7 1 (0.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (4.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.28%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.64%) Google
4 1 (0.82%) Databricks
4 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.82%) TOWER Software