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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 188 190
Rank change year-on-year -128 +2 +21
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 142 286 465
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 1.73% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.88% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 109 277 429
10th Percentile £57,250 £77,000 £57,350
25th Percentile £65,000 £100,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £128,750
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 20,553 15,207 26,075
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 92.12% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14,860 9,444 19,581
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 27 July 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 July 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 55 (38.73%) Python
3 52 (36.62%) DevOps
4 50 (35.21%) Terraform
5 46 (32.39%) CI/CD
6 43 (30.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (23.94%) Software Engineering
8 31 (21.83%) Docker
9 28 (19.72%) Kubernetes
10 27 (19.01%) Amazon S3
11 25 (17.61%) Containerisation
12 24 (16.90%) Security Cleared
13 23 (16.20%) Azure
13 23 (16.20%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (15.49%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (14.79%) Fintech
16 19 (13.38%) Java
17 18 (12.68%) Amazon EKS
18 15 (10.56%) AWS CloudFormation
18 15 (10.56%) SC Cleared
18 15 (10.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 14 (9.86%) Agile
19 14 (9.86%) AI
20 13 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
20 13 (9.15%) Full-Stack Development
20 13 (9.15%) Observability
20 13 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
20 13 (9.15%) TypeScript
21 12 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
21 12 (8.45%) 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 3 (2.11%) 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 27 (19.01%) Amazon S3
3 23 (16.20%) Azure
4 22 (15.49%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (12.68%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (10.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (10.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (8.45%) SaaS
7 12 (8.45%) Serverless
8 11 (7.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (7.04%) GCP
10 9 (6.34%) GitHub
10 9 (6.34%) OpenShift
11 8 (5.63%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.82%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (2.82%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.82%) DNS
2 3 (2.11%) VPN
3 1 (0.70%) 4G
3 1 (0.70%) 5G
3 1 (0.70%) BGP
3 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (3.52%) Big Data
4 5 (3.52%) Metadata
5 4 (2.82%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.41%) Redis
8 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.70%) Flink
8 1 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.70%) MySQL
8 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.70%) Power BI
8 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (7.04%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.63%) GitLab
3 4 (2.82%) Git
4 2 (1.41%) JMeter
4 2 (1.41%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.70%) Gatling
5 1 (0.70%) git-flow
5 1 (0.70%) JIRA
5 1 (0.70%) Maven
5 1 (0.70%) Postman
5 1 (0.70%) Selenium
5 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.70%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (12.68%) Finance
2 10 (7.04%) Banking
2 10 (7.04%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (5.63%) Health Technology
4 8 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.23%) Law
6 4 (2.82%) Digital Health
7 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.11%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.41%) Back Office
8 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.41%) Retail
8 2 (1.41%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.70%) Advertising
9 1 (0.70%) Billing
9 1 (0.70%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.45%) Kafka
1 12 (8.45%) React
2 10 (7.04%) Spring Boot
3 6 (4.23%) .NET
4 5 (3.52%) Node.js
4 5 (3.52%) Spring
5 4 (2.82%) REST
6 3 (2.11%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.11%) Web Services
7 2 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.41%) Next.js
7 2 (1.41%) Pandas
7 2 (1.41%) RESTful
8 1 (0.70%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.70%) D3.js
8 1 (0.70%) Flask
8 1 (0.70%) Memcached
8 1 (0.70%) NumPy
8 1 (0.70%) pytest
8 1 (0.70%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.41%) Blog
6 2 (1.41%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.41%) Life Science
6 2 (1.41%) PropTech
7 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.70%) IoT
7 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.70%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.70%) Video\Live Streaming
7 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 52 (36.62%) DevOps
2 46 (32.39%) CI/CD
3 43 (30.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (23.94%) Software Engineering
5 25 (17.61%) Containerisation
6 23 (16.20%) Platform Engineering
7 21 (14.79%) Fintech
8 14 (9.86%) Agile
8 14 (9.86%) AI
9 13 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (9.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (9.15%) Observability
10 11 (7.75%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (7.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (7.04%) Data Engineering
11 10 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (6.34%) Machine Learning
12 9 (6.34%) Open Source
13 8 (5.63%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 55 (38.73%) Python
2 19 (13.38%) Java
3 13 (9.15%) TypeScript
4 12 (8.45%) SQL
5 10 (7.04%) Bash
6 9 (6.34%) Go
7 7 (4.93%) C#
8 6 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.82%) Groovy
10 3 (2.11%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.11%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.56%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.63%) Degree
4 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.70%) CISM
6 1 (0.70%) CISSP
6 1 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.70%) GSEC
6 1 (0.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.93%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.52%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.70%) NCSC
5 1 (0.70%) NIST
5 1 (0.70%) QA
5 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (21.83%) Docker
2 10 (7.04%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (35.21%) Terraform
2 28 (19.72%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.34%) Ansible
4 8 (5.63%) Grafana
4 8 (5.63%) Istio
4 8 (5.63%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.23%) Argo
6 5 (3.52%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.41%) Packer
8 1 (0.70%) Consul
8 1 (0.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.63%) Confluent
2 6 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.82%) Databricks
4 2 (1.41%) Google
5 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.70%) Pega
5 1 (0.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.70%) SAP
5 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.70%) TOWER Software