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 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 203 161
Rank change year-on-year -129 -42 +53
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 128 249 472
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 1.53% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 1.65% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 96 245 428
10th Percentile £56,875 £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 22,460 15,089 22,527
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 92.66% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,866 9,075 14,757
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,557
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 £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 13 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 13 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.

1 128 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (38.28%) Python
3 47 (36.72%) Terraform
4 39 (30.47%) DevOps
5 38 (29.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (28.91%) CI/CD
7 36 (28.13%) Software Engineering
8 27 (21.09%) Docker
9 24 (18.75%) Kubernetes
10 23 (17.97%) Containerisation
11 22 (17.19%) Security Cleared
12 20 (15.63%) Azure
13 19 (14.84%) Amazon S3
14 18 (14.06%) Fintech
15 17 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (13.28%) Java
16 16 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (10.94%) Ansible
17 14 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (10.94%) Platform Engineering
17 14 (10.94%) TypeScript
18 13 (10.16%) AI
18 13 (10.16%) Amazon EKS
18 13 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
18 13 (10.16%) Observability
18 13 (10.16%) React
19 12 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 12 (9.38%) Spring Boot
19 12 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 11 (8.59%) 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 (2.34%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) Drupal
3 1 (0.78%) IIS
3 1 (0.78%) nginx
3 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (15.63%) Azure
3 19 (14.84%) Amazon S3
4 16 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (10.16%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (8.59%) GCP
9 10 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (6.25%) SaaS
11 7 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (5.47%) GitHub
11 7 (5.47%) Serverless
12 6 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (4.69%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (4.69%) OpenShift
13 5 (3.91%) Datadog
14 4 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (3.13%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.13%) DNS
2 2 (1.56%) VPN
3 1 (0.78%) 4G
3 1 (0.78%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.91%) Big Data
4 2 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.56%) Redis
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.78%) DuckDB
5 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.78%) Flink
5 1 (0.78%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.78%) Metadata
5 1 (0.78%) Redshift Spectrum
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (7.03%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.47%) GitLab
3 4 (3.13%) Git
4 2 (1.56%) JMeter
4 2 (1.56%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.78%) Gatling
5 1 (0.78%) git-flow
5 1 (0.78%) JIRA
5 1 (0.78%) Maven
5 1 (0.78%) Postman
5 1 (0.78%) Selenium
5 1 (0.78%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.78%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (10.94%) Finance
2 9 (7.03%) Health Technology
2 9 (7.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (5.47%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.69%) Banking
4 6 (4.69%) Front Office
5 4 (3.13%) Digital Health
5 4 (3.13%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.34%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.78%) Advertising
8 1 (0.78%) Billing
8 1 (0.78%) Legal
8 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (36.72%) Terraform
2 13 (10.16%) React
3 12 (9.38%) Spring Boot
4 8 (6.25%) Kafka
5 6 (4.69%) .NET
6 5 (3.91%) Node.js
7 4 (3.13%) Pulumi
7 4 (3.13%) Spring
8 3 (2.34%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.34%) Next.js
8 3 (2.34%) REST
8 3 (2.34%) Web Services
9 2 (1.56%) AWS CDK
9 2 (1.56%) Pandas
10 1 (0.78%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.78%) D3.js
10 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.78%) Flask
10 1 (0.78%) pytest
10 1 (0.78%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.28%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.03%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.34%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.56%) Life Science
4 2 (1.56%) PropTech
5 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.78%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.78%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.59%) Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Windows
2 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.47%) DevOps
2 38 (29.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (28.91%) CI/CD
4 36 (28.13%) Software Engineering
5 23 (17.97%) Containerisation
6 18 (14.06%) Fintech
7 17 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (10.94%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (10.16%) AI
9 13 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (10.16%) Observability
10 12 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (8.59%) Agile
12 8 (6.25%) Cloud Security
12 8 (6.25%) DevSecOps
12 8 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (6.25%) Machine Learning
12 8 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (5.47%) Analytics
13 7 (5.47%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (38.28%) Python
2 17 (13.28%) Java
3 14 (10.94%) TypeScript
4 10 (7.81%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.47%) Bash
5 7 (5.47%) C#
5 7 (5.47%) SQL
6 6 (4.69%) Go
7 4 (3.13%) Groovy
7 4 (3.13%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.56%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.91%) Degree
4 4 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.78%) CISM
5 1 (0.78%) CISSP
5 1 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.78%) GSEC
5 1 (0.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.91%) SLA
2 3 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.56%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) NCSC
4 1 (0.78%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 27 (21.09%) Docker
2 8 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.94%) Ansible
3 11 (8.59%) Grafana
4 7 (5.47%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.69%) Istio
6 5 (3.91%) Argo
6 5 (3.91%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.56%) Packer
8 1 (0.78%) Consul
8 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (4.69%) Confluent
1 6 (4.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.13%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.56%) Google
4 1 (0.78%) Databricks
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.78%) TOWER Software