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 29 April 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 126 289
Rank change year-on-year -138 +163 -34
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 139 348 336
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 2.58% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 2.82% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 104 335 308
10th Percentile £57,500 £64,748 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +37.50% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £120,225 £138,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +31.25% -

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 16,992 12,354 31,112
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 91.72% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,299 9,012 24,877
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,199 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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.

1 139 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (43.17%) Python
3 54 (38.85%) DevOps
4 50 (35.97%) CI/CD
4 50 (35.97%) Terraform
5 43 (30.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (30.94%) Platform Engineering
6 34 (24.46%) Java
7 32 (23.02%) Amazon EKS
8 30 (21.58%) Software Engineering
9 29 (20.86%) Kubernetes
10 25 (17.99%) Observability
11 24 (17.27%) SaaS
11 24 (17.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (15.83%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (15.83%) Azure
12 22 (15.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (15.11%) Docker
14 20 (14.39%) Amazon S3
14 20 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 19 (13.67%) Cloud Security
15 19 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (12.95%) Kafka
16 18 (12.95%) Serverless
17 16 (11.51%) Amazon RDS
18 15 (10.79%) Bash
18 15 (10.79%) Fintech
18 15 (10.79%) Secrets Management
19 14 (10.07%) AWS CloudFormation
19 14 (10.07%) AWS Lambda

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 8 (5.76%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.60%) Apache
3 2 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.72%) Confluence
4 1 (0.72%) Drupal
4 1 (0.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.72%) nginx
4 1 (0.72%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 139 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (23.02%) Amazon EKS
3 24 (17.27%) SaaS
3 24 (17.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 22 (15.83%) Amazon EC2
4 22 (15.83%) Azure
5 20 (14.39%) Amazon S3
6 18 (12.95%) Serverless
7 14 (10.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (10.07%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (10.07%) GitHub
7 14 (10.07%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (9.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (7.91%) CloudFront
10 10 (7.19%) GCP
11 9 (6.47%) AWS Direct Connect
11 9 (6.47%) OpenShift
12 8 (5.76%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (5.76%) Amazon MSK
12 8 (5.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.47%) BGP
1 9 (6.47%) VPN
2 5 (3.60%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (3.60%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (3.60%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (3.60%) Firewall
2 5 (3.60%) IPsec
2 5 (3.60%) LAN
2 5 (3.60%) MPLS
2 5 (3.60%) NetScaler
2 5 (3.60%) NX-OS
2 5 (3.60%) OSPF
2 5 (3.60%) SD-WAN
2 5 (3.60%) VXLAN
2 5 (3.60%) WAN
2 5 (3.60%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (3.60%) WLAN
3 4 (2.88%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.88%) VLAN
4 1 (0.72%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.51%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.91%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.32%) Flink
6 5 (3.60%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.60%) Metadata
7 3 (2.16%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.44%) Big Data
8 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.44%) MySQL
8 2 (1.44%) Redis
9 1 (0.72%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (0.72%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.72%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.72%) Redshift Spectrum
9 1 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (5.04%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.16%) GitLab
3 2 (1.44%) Git
3 2 (1.44%) JMeter
4 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.72%) Gatling
4 1 (0.72%) git-flow
4 1 (0.72%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) Maven
4 1 (0.72%) Postman
4 1 (0.72%) Selenium
4 1 (0.72%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.72%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (23.02%) Finance
2 23 (16.55%) Banking
3 16 (11.51%) Social Skills
4 15 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (10.07%) Law
6 10 (7.19%) Back Office
6 10 (7.19%) Financial Institution
6 10 (7.19%) Retail
7 5 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.60%) Front Office
7 5 (3.60%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.88%) Games
8 4 (2.88%) Legal
9 3 (2.16%) Billing
10 2 (1.44%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.72%) Advertising
11 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.95%) Kafka
2 9 (6.47%) React
3 8 (5.76%) Spring Boot
4 7 (5.04%) Loki
5 6 (4.32%) Spring
6 5 (3.60%) .NET
6 5 (3.60%) AWS CDK
6 5 (3.60%) Node.js
6 5 (3.60%) RESTful
7 2 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.44%) OAuth
7 2 (1.44%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.44%) OpenID
7 2 (1.44%) REST
8 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.72%) JWT
8 1 (0.72%) Memcached
8 1 (0.72%) SAML
8 1 (0.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.95%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.63%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.47%) Blog
5 7 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.32%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.60%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.16%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.44%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.72%) IoT
10 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.72%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.19%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Windows
2 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (38.85%) DevOps
2 50 (35.97%) CI/CD
3 43 (30.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (30.94%) Platform Engineering
4 30 (21.58%) Software Engineering
5 25 (17.99%) Observability
6 22 (15.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 20 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (13.67%) Cloud Security
8 19 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (10.79%) Fintech
9 15 (10.79%) Secrets Management
10 13 (9.35%) Containerisation
10 13 (9.35%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (8.63%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (7.91%) Agile
13 10 (7.19%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (7.19%) Immutable Infrastructure
13 10 (7.19%) Open Source
13 10 (7.19%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 60 (43.17%) Python
2 34 (24.46%) Java
3 15 (10.79%) Bash
4 14 (10.07%) SQL
5 13 (9.35%) Go
5 13 (9.35%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.32%) C#
7 3 (2.16%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.44%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.72%) Bicep
9 1 (0.72%) Groovy
9 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (8.63%) Degree
1 12 (8.63%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.47%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.04%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (2.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.44%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.72%) CISM
6 1 (0.72%) CISSP
6 1 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.72%) GSEC
6 1 (0.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.35%) SOC 2
2 10 (7.19%) PCI DSS
3 7 (5.04%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.72%) NCSC
5 1 (0.72%) NIST
5 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 21 (15.11%) Docker
2 8 (5.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (35.97%) Terraform
2 29 (20.86%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.19%) Grafana
4 9 (6.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.76%) Istio
6 7 (5.04%) Argo
7 3 (2.16%) Ansible
8 2 (1.44%) Packer
8 2 (1.44%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.72%) Consul
9 1 (0.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.76%) Confluent
2 6 (4.32%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.60%) CheckPoint
3 5 (3.60%) Cisco
3 5 (3.60%) Dynatrace
3 5 (3.60%) Fortinet
3 5 (3.60%) Meraki
3 5 (3.60%) SolarWinds
4 3 (2.16%) Databricks
4 3 (2.16%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.44%) Google
5 2 (1.44%) Okta
6 1 (0.72%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.72%) Pega
6 1 (0.72%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.72%) SAP
6 1 (0.72%) TOWER Software