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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 210 162
Rank change year-on-year -127 -48 +55
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 126 234 457
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 1.39% 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.50% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 93 229 414
10th Percentile £60,000 £76,250 £63,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £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 £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 23,408 15,648 21,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 93.01% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 16,253 8,792 13,500
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 1 October 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 1 October 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.

1 126 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (35.71%) Python
3 42 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 39 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (30.16%) Terraform
6 34 (26.98%) CI/CD
7 31 (24.60%) DevOps
8 23 (18.25%) Security Cleared
9 21 (16.67%) Java
10 20 (15.87%) Kubernetes
11 18 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 18 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (14.29%) Docker
12 17 (13.49%) Amazon S3
13 16 (12.70%) Fintech
14 15 (11.90%) AI
15 14 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
15 14 (11.11%) Observability
15 14 (11.11%) Spring Boot
15 14 (11.11%) TypeScript
16 13 (10.32%) Agile
16 13 (10.32%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (10.32%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (10.32%) Azure
16 13 (10.32%) React
16 13 (10.32%) SC Cleared
17 12 (9.52%) Ansible
17 12 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
17 12 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
18 11 (8.73%) Grafana

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 4 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.79%) Apache
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 126 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (13.49%) Amazon S3
3 13 (10.32%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (10.32%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (10.32%) Azure
4 9 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (7.14%) SaaS
4 9 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (5.56%) Serverless
6 6 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (4.76%) GitHub
7 5 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (3.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (3.17%) Datadog
8 4 (3.17%) GCP
9 3 (2.38%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.17%) DNS
2 2 (1.59%) VPN
3 1 (0.79%) 4G
3 1 (0.79%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.97%) Big Data
3 4 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.59%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.79%) DuckDB
5 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.79%) Flink
5 1 (0.79%) Metadata
5 1 (0.79%) Redis
5 1 (0.79%) Redshift Spectrum
5 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.35%) GitLab
1 8 (6.35%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.38%) Git
3 2 (1.59%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.79%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.79%) MLflow
General
1 12 (9.52%) Finance
2 11 (8.73%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.14%) Health Technology
5 8 (6.35%) Front Office
6 7 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.17%) Digital Health
7 4 (3.17%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Legal
8 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.79%) Billing
9 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (30.16%) Terraform
2 14 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 13 (10.32%) React
4 8 (6.35%) Spring
5 7 (5.56%) .NET
6 5 (3.97%) Node.js
7 4 (3.17%) Pulumi
8 3 (2.38%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.38%) Kafka
8 3 (2.38%) Next.js
8 3 (2.38%) REST
8 3 (2.38%) Web Services
9 2 (1.59%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.59%) Pandas
10 1 (0.79%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.79%) Flask
10 1 (0.79%) NumPy
10 1 (0.79%) pytest
10 1 (0.79%) RESTful
10 1 (0.79%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.59%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.59%) Life Science
4 2 (1.59%) PropTech
4 2 (1.59%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.79%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.79%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 39 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (26.98%) CI/CD
4 31 (24.60%) DevOps
5 18 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 18 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (12.70%) Fintech
7 15 (11.90%) AI
8 14 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (11.11%) Observability
9 13 (10.32%) Agile
10 12 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (7.94%) DevSecOps
11 10 (7.94%) Machine Learning
12 8 (6.35%) Asset Management
12 8 (6.35%) Cloud Security
13 7 (5.56%) Analytics
13 7 (5.56%) Data Engineering
13 7 (5.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 45 (35.71%) Python
2 21 (16.67%) Java
3 14 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 11 (8.73%) PowerShell
5 9 (7.14%) C#
5 9 (7.14%) SQL
6 7 (5.56%) Bash
7 4 (3.17%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.38%) Groovy
8 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.97%) Degree
4 3 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.79%) CISM
6 1 (0.79%) CISSP
6 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.79%) GSEC
6 1 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.97%) SLA
2 4 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.79%) QA
4 1 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (15.87%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.52%) Ansible
3 11 (8.73%) Grafana
4 7 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.17%) Argo
6 3 (2.38%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (3.97%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.17%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.38%) Databricks
4 1 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.79%) Google