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 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 193 249
Rank change year-on-year -69 +56 -13
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 159 278 411
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 1.88% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 2.04% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 118 266 378
10th Percentile £56,250 £70,625 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £88,125 £67,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +25.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile - £138,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £109,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -31.19% +32.12% +3.13%

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 18,061 13,626 31,898
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 92.06% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 13,290 8,411 25,279
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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.

1 159 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (40.88%) Python
3 63 (39.62%) Terraform
4 62 (38.99%) DevOps
5 59 (37.11%) CI/CD
5 59 (37.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (24.53%) Platform Engineering
7 33 (20.75%) Kubernetes
8 31 (19.50%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (19.50%) Software Engineering
9 29 (18.24%) Amazon EC2
9 29 (18.24%) Azure
9 29 (18.24%) Docker
9 29 (18.24%) Observability
9 29 (18.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 28 (17.61%) Amazon S3
11 27 (16.98%) Java
11 27 (16.98%) SaaS
12 23 (14.47%) Cloud Security
12 23 (14.47%) Containerisation
12 23 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (13.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 21 (13.21%) Security Cleared
15 20 (12.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (12.58%) Bash
15 20 (12.58%) Serverless
16 19 (11.95%) Amazon RDS
17 18 (11.32%) Fintech
18 17 (10.69%) PostgreSQL

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 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.14%) Apache
3 2 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) Drupal
4 1 (0.63%) IIS
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
4 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 159 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (19.50%) Amazon EKS
3 29 (18.24%) Amazon EC2
3 29 (18.24%) Azure
3 29 (18.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 28 (17.61%) Amazon S3
5 27 (16.98%) SaaS
6 22 (13.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (12.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (12.58%) Serverless
8 16 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (6.92%) CloudFront
10 10 (6.29%) GCP
10 10 (6.29%) GitHub
10 10 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (5.66%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 9 (5.66%) OpenShift
12 8 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (5.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (5.03%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.03%) BGP
1 8 (5.03%) VPN
2 5 (3.14%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (3.14%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (3.14%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (3.14%) Firewall
2 5 (3.14%) IPsec
2 5 (3.14%) LAN
2 5 (3.14%) MPLS
2 5 (3.14%) NetScaler
2 5 (3.14%) NX-OS
2 5 (3.14%) OSPF
2 5 (3.14%) SD-WAN
2 5 (3.14%) VXLAN
2 5 (3.14%) WAN
2 5 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (3.14%) WLAN
3 3 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.89%) VLAN
4 2 (1.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.95%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.14%) Metadata
6 4 (2.52%) Big Data
6 4 (2.52%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.26%) Redis
8 1 (0.63%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.63%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.63%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.63%) Redshift Spectrum
8 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (7.55%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.03%) GitLab
3 4 (2.52%) Git
4 2 (1.26%) JMeter
4 2 (1.26%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.63%) Gatling
5 1 (0.63%) git-flow
5 1 (0.63%) JIRA
5 1 (0.63%) Maven
5 1 (0.63%) Postman
5 1 (0.63%) Selenium
5 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.63%) Vagrant
General
1 26 (16.35%) Finance
2 17 (10.69%) Banking
3 16 (10.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (10.06%) Social Skills
4 13 (8.18%) Law
5 9 (5.66%) Back Office
5 9 (5.66%) Financial Institution
5 9 (5.66%) Retail
6 7 (4.40%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.89%) Billing
8 3 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.26%) Games
9 2 (1.26%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Legal
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.55%) Kafka
2 11 (6.92%) React
3 8 (5.03%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.40%) Loki
5 6 (3.77%) .NET
5 6 (3.77%) Node.js
6 5 (3.14%) AWS CDK
6 5 (3.14%) RESTful
6 5 (3.14%) Spring
7 4 (2.52%) REST
8 3 (1.89%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.26%) OAuth
9 2 (1.26%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.26%) OpenID
10 1 (0.63%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.63%) Flask
10 1 (0.63%) Memcached
10 1 (0.63%) NumPy
10 1 (0.63%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.72%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.81%) Data Centre
3 12 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.66%) Blog
5 8 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.26%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.26%) Life Science
8 2 (1.26%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.63%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.63%) IoT
9 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.63%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.06%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (38.99%) DevOps
2 59 (37.11%) CI/CD
2 59 (37.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (24.53%) Platform Engineering
4 31 (19.50%) Software Engineering
5 29 (18.24%) Observability
6 23 (14.47%) Cloud Security
6 23 (14.47%) Containerisation
6 23 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (11.32%) Fintech
9 17 (10.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (10.06%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (9.43%) Secrets Management
12 14 (8.81%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (7.55%) AI
14 12 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
15 11 (6.92%) Agile
15 11 (6.92%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 65 (40.88%) Python
2 27 (16.98%) Java
3 20 (12.58%) Bash
4 15 (9.43%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.55%) Go
5 12 (7.55%) SQL
6 9 (5.66%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.03%) C#
8 3 (1.89%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.26%) Groovy
10 1 (0.63%) Bicep
10 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.18%) Degree
4 7 (4.40%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (2.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 4 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CISM
7 1 (0.63%) CISSP
7 1 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.63%) GSEC
7 1 (0.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.55%) SOC 2
2 9 (5.66%) PCI DSS
3 7 (4.40%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) NCSC
5 1 (0.63%) NIST
5 1 (0.63%) QA
5 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (18.24%) Docker
2 10 (6.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 63 (39.62%) Terraform
2 33 (20.75%) Kubernetes
3 16 (10.06%) Grafana
4 15 (9.43%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.03%) Istio
6 6 (3.77%) Ansible
6 6 (3.77%) Argo
7 3 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.26%) Packer
8 2 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.63%) Consul
9 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.03%) Confluent
2 6 (3.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.77%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.14%) CheckPoint
3 5 (3.14%) Cisco
3 5 (3.14%) Dynatrace
3 5 (3.14%) Fortinet
3 5 (3.14%) Meraki
3 5 (3.14%) SolarWinds
4 3 (1.89%) Databricks
5 2 (1.26%) Google
5 2 (1.26%) Okta
6 1 (0.63%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.63%) Pega
6 1 (0.63%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.63%) SAP
6 1 (0.63%) TOWER Software