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 £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 152 239
Rank change year-on-year -83 +87 +90
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 145 407 261
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 2.16% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 2.24% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 136 383 240
10th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -5.36%
75th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £98,125
90th Percentile - £148,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £105,000 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +16.13% -3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 14,301 18,135 19,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 96.44% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,124 11,360 16,118
10th Percentile £29,825 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -0.83% -3.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025, 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.

1 145 (100.00%) AWS
2 121 (83.45%) Python
3 110 (75.86%) Software Engineering
4 107 (73.79%) Agile
5 101 (69.66%) TypeScript
6 100 (68.97%) Investment Management
7 97 (66.90%) Apache Iceberg
7 97 (66.90%) JavaScript
8 96 (66.21%) Amazon Athena
8 96 (66.21%) Apache Airflow
9 94 (64.83%) Apache Arrow
9 94 (64.83%) Asset Management
9 94 (64.83%) dbt
9 94 (64.83%) Dremio
9 94 (64.83%) NumPy
9 94 (64.83%) Pandas
9 94 (64.83%) SciPy
10 70 (48.28%) Java
11 52 (35.86%) Apache
12 51 (35.17%) Data Lake
12 51 (35.17%) Snowflake
13 49 (33.79%) Apache Ignite
13 49 (33.79%) gRPC
13 49 (33.79%) Protocol Buffers
14 48 (33.10%) GCP
15 47 (32.41%) Fintech
15 47 (32.41%) PostgreSQL
16 46 (31.72%) Node.js
17 45 (31.03%) AngularJS
17 45 (31.03%) Order Management

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 96 (66.21%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (35.86%) Apache
3 3 (2.07%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 145 (100.00%) AWS
2 94 (64.83%) dbt
3 51 (35.17%) Snowflake
4 48 (33.10%) GCP
5 19 (13.10%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (10.34%) Serverless
7 13 (8.97%) Amazon S3
7 13 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (8.28%) Azure
8 12 (8.28%) GitHub
8 12 (8.28%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (5.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (4.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (4.14%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (4.14%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (4.14%) SaaS
13 5 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.83%) VPN
2 4 (2.76%) BGP
2 4 (2.76%) LAN
2 4 (2.76%) WAN
2 4 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.07%) DNS
3 3 (2.07%) Network Security
3 3 (2.07%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.07%) VLAN
3 3 (2.07%) Wireless
4 2 (1.38%) Firewall
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.69%) IPsec
5 1 (0.69%) MPLS
5 1 (0.69%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.69%) OSPF
5 1 (0.69%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (66.90%) Apache Iceberg
2 96 (66.21%) Amazon Athena
3 94 (64.83%) Apache Arrow
3 94 (64.83%) Dremio
4 51 (35.17%) Data Lake
5 49 (33.79%) Apache Ignite
6 47 (32.41%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (8.97%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (4.14%) Flink
10 5 (3.45%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.76%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
13 2 (1.38%) NoSQL
14 1 (0.69%) Apache Hudi
14 1 (0.69%) Delta Lake
14 1 (0.69%) MySQL
14 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.38%) GitLab
3 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.69%) Deequ
3 1 (0.69%) Git
General
1 106 (73.10%) Finance
2 100 (68.97%) Front Office
3 58 (40.00%) Banking
4 49 (33.79%) Investment Banking
5 14 (9.66%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.45%) Law
7 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.07%) Back Office
8 3 (2.07%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.07%) Games
8 3 (2.07%) Legal
8 3 (2.07%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.07%) Retail
9 1 (0.69%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (64.83%) NumPy
1 94 (64.83%) Pandas
1 94 (64.83%) SciPy
2 49 (33.79%) gRPC
2 49 (33.79%) Protocol Buffers
3 46 (31.72%) Node.js
4 45 (31.03%) AngularJS
4 45 (31.03%) React
4 45 (31.03%) Vue
5 7 (4.83%) Kafka
6 5 (3.45%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.76%) PySpark
8 3 (2.07%) Loki
8 3 (2.07%) RESTful
8 3 (2.07%) Spring
8 3 (2.07%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.38%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.38%) AWS SAM
9 2 (1.38%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.69%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 100 (68.97%) Fixed Income
2 94 (64.83%) Equities
2 94 (64.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 49 (33.79%) Derivative
3 49 (33.79%) Hedge funds
3 49 (33.79%) Pricing Data
4 7 (4.83%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.83%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.07%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.07%) Web3
7 2 (1.38%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.90%) Linux
2 2 (1.38%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (75.86%) Software Engineering
2 107 (73.79%) Agile
3 100 (68.97%) Investment Management
4 94 (64.83%) Asset Management
5 47 (32.41%) Fintech
6 45 (31.03%) Order Management
6 45 (31.03%) Performance Attribution
6 45 (31.03%) Risk Management
7 31 (21.38%) CI/CD
8 27 (18.62%) DevOps
9 20 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (8.97%) Observability
12 12 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (6.21%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (6.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 8 (5.52%) Mentoring
15 6 (4.14%) Analytics
15 6 (4.14%) High Availability
15 6 (4.14%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 121 (83.45%) Python
2 101 (69.66%) TypeScript
3 97 (66.90%) JavaScript
4 70 (48.28%) Java
5 11 (7.59%) SQL
6 10 (6.90%) Bash
7 6 (4.14%) Go
8 4 (2.76%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.07%) Bicep
9 3 (2.07%) C#
10 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (3.45%) Degree
2 4 (2.76%) AWS Certification
2 4 (2.76%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.07%) CCNP
3 3 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.38%) RHCE
4 2 (1.38%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.07%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.07%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.38%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (16.55%) Terraform
2 19 (13.10%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.90%) Grafana
4 6 (4.14%) Argo
5 5 (3.45%) Ansible
5 5 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (2.76%) Cisco
2 3 (2.07%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.07%) SolarWinds
3 2 (1.38%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (0.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.69%) Meraki
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle
4 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow