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 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 196 172
Rank change year-on-year -126 -24 +37
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 134 253 482
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 1.54% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.67% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 102 249 439
10th Percentile £56,375 £77,250 £62,000
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 £135,000 £128,750
90th Percentile - £137,500 £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 21,963 15,177 23,401
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 92.60% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15,621 9,254 16,129
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 2 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 2 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.

1 134 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (38.81%) Python
3 49 (36.57%) Terraform
4 45 (33.58%) DevOps
5 40 (29.85%) CI/CD
5 40 (29.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (26.87%) Software Engineering
7 30 (22.39%) Docker
8 27 (20.15%) Kubernetes
9 25 (18.66%) Containerisation
10 23 (17.16%) Azure
11 22 (16.42%) Security Cleared
12 21 (15.67%) Amazon S3
13 18 (13.43%) Fintech
14 17 (12.69%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (12.69%) Java
15 16 (11.94%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (11.94%) Platform Engineering
16 15 (11.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 14 (10.45%) AI
17 14 (10.45%) Ansible
17 14 (10.45%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (10.45%) Observability
17 14 (10.45%) TypeScript
18 13 (9.70%) Full-Stack Development
18 13 (9.70%) GCP
18 13 (9.70%) React
18 13 (9.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 11 (8.21%) 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 (2.24%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.49%) Apache
2 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) Drupal
3 1 (0.75%) IIS
3 1 (0.75%) nginx
3 1 (0.75%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (17.16%) Azure
3 21 (15.67%) Amazon S3
4 17 (12.69%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (11.94%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (10.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (9.70%) GCP
7 13 (9.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (6.72%) SaaS
10 8 (5.97%) Amazon MSK
10 8 (5.97%) GitHub
10 8 (5.97%) OpenShift
11 7 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (5.22%) Serverless
12 6 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.73%) Datadog
14 4 (2.99%) AWS Control Tower
14 4 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) DNS
2 2 (1.49%) VPN
3 1 (0.75%) 4G
3 1 (0.75%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.73%) Big Data
4 3 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.49%) Redis
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Hudi
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.75%) DuckDB
6 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.75%) Flink
6 1 (0.75%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.75%) Metadata
6 1 (0.75%) MySQL
6 1 (0.75%) Redshift Spectrum
6 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (6.72%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.22%) GitLab
3 4 (2.99%) Git
4 2 (1.49%) JMeter
4 2 (1.49%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.75%) Gatling
5 1 (0.75%) git-flow
5 1 (0.75%) JIRA
5 1 (0.75%) Maven
5 1 (0.75%) Postman
5 1 (0.75%) Selenium
5 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.75%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (11.94%) Finance
2 10 (7.46%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.72%) Health Technology
4 8 (5.97%) Banking
5 7 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.22%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.73%) Front Office
7 4 (2.99%) Digital Health
7 4 (2.99%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.75%) Advertising
10 1 (0.75%) Billing
10 1 (0.75%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (36.57%) Terraform
2 13 (9.70%) React
3 11 (8.21%) Kafka
3 11 (8.21%) Spring Boot
4 6 (4.48%) .NET
5 5 (3.73%) Node.js
6 4 (2.99%) Pulumi
6 4 (2.99%) Spring
7 3 (2.24%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.24%) Next.js
7 3 (2.24%) REST
7 3 (2.24%) Web Services
8 2 (1.49%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.49%) Pandas
9 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.75%) D3.js
9 1 (0.75%) Flask
9 1 (0.75%) pytest
9 1 (0.75%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.72%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.24%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.49%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.49%) Life Science
4 2 (1.49%) PropTech
5 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.75%) IoT
5 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.75%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.21%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (33.58%) DevOps
2 40 (29.85%) CI/CD
2 40 (29.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (26.87%) Software Engineering
4 25 (18.66%) Containerisation
5 18 (13.43%) Fintech
6 17 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (11.94%) Platform Engineering
8 15 (11.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 14 (10.45%) AI
9 14 (10.45%) Observability
10 13 (9.70%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (8.21%) Agile
12 9 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (6.72%) Machine Learning
12 9 (6.72%) Open Source
13 8 (5.97%) Analytics
13 8 (5.97%) Cloud Security
13 8 (5.97%) DevSecOps
13 8 (5.97%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 52 (38.81%) Python
2 17 (12.69%) Java
3 14 (10.45%) TypeScript
4 10 (7.46%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.97%) Bash
5 8 (5.97%) Go
5 8 (5.97%) SQL
6 7 (5.22%) C#
7 4 (2.99%) Groovy
7 4 (2.99%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.49%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.73%) Degree
4 4 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.75%) CISM
5 1 (0.75%) CISSP
5 1 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.75%) GSEC
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.73%) SLA
2 4 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.24%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) NCSC
4 1 (0.75%) NIST
4 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 30 (22.39%) Docker
2 10 (7.46%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (20.15%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.45%) Ansible
3 11 (8.21%) Grafana
4 8 (5.97%) Istio
5 7 (5.22%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.48%) Argo
7 5 (3.73%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.49%) Packer
9 1 (0.75%) Consul
9 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.97%) Confluent
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.99%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.49%) Google
5 1 (0.75%) Databricks
5 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.75%) TOWER Software