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 £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 January 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 164 260
Rank change year-on-year -86 +96 +49
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 128 344 246
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 2.03% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 2.12% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 113 322 224
10th Percentile £65,250 £51,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £76,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -1.03%
75th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £105,625
90th Percentile - £140,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +16.13% -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 14,134 16,257 19,706
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 96.14% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,119 9,929 16,028
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,032
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 2 January 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 January 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.

1 128 (100.00%) AWS
2 94 (73.44%) Python
3 81 (63.28%) Software Engineering
4 75 (58.59%) Agile
5 72 (56.25%) TypeScript
6 68 (53.13%) Investment Management
7 65 (50.78%) Apache Iceberg
7 65 (50.78%) JavaScript
8 64 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
8 64 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
9 62 (48.44%) Apache Arrow
9 62 (48.44%) Asset Management
9 62 (48.44%) dbt
9 62 (48.44%) Dremio
9 62 (48.44%) NumPy
9 62 (48.44%) Pandas
9 62 (48.44%) SciPy
10 56 (43.75%) Java
11 36 (28.13%) Apache
12 35 (27.34%) CI/CD
12 35 (27.34%) Data Lake
13 34 (26.56%) Snowflake
14 33 (25.78%) Apache Ignite
14 33 (25.78%) Fintech
14 33 (25.78%) gRPC
14 33 (25.78%) PostgreSQL
14 33 (25.78%) Protocol Buffers
15 32 (25.00%) GCP
16 31 (24.22%) Node.js
17 30 (23.44%) DevOps

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 64 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (28.13%) Apache
3 3 (2.34%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) AWS
2 62 (48.44%) dbt
3 34 (26.56%) Snowflake
4 32 (25.00%) GCP
5 20 (15.63%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (14.06%) Serverless
7 16 (12.50%) Azure
8 15 (11.72%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (10.94%) SaaS
10 13 (10.16%) Amazon S3
10 13 (10.16%) GitHub
10 13 (10.16%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (8.59%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (5.47%) AWS Direct Connect
15 6 (4.69%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (4.69%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.81%) VPN
2 7 (5.47%) BGP
2 7 (5.47%) LAN
2 7 (5.47%) WAN
2 7 (5.47%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (3.91%) Firewall
4 4 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (3.13%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (3.13%) IPsec
4 4 (3.13%) MPLS
4 4 (3.13%) NetScaler
4 4 (3.13%) NX-OS
4 4 (3.13%) OSPF
4 4 (3.13%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.13%) VXLAN
4 4 (3.13%) WLAN
5 3 (2.34%) Network Security
5 3 (2.34%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (50.78%) Apache Iceberg
2 64 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
3 62 (48.44%) Apache Arrow
3 62 (48.44%) Dremio
4 35 (27.34%) Data Lake
5 33 (25.78%) Apache Ignite
5 33 (25.78%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (10.94%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.69%) Flink
9 5 (3.91%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.13%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.56%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.78%) Apache Hudi
13 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.78%) MySQL
13 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.56%) GitLab
3 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.78%) Deequ
3 1 (0.78%) Git
General
1 78 (60.94%) Finance
2 68 (53.13%) Front Office
3 44 (34.38%) Banking
4 33 (25.78%) Investment Banking
5 15 (11.72%) Social Skills
6 7 (5.47%) Law
7 6 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.91%) Back Office
8 5 (3.91%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.91%) Retail
9 3 (2.34%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.34%) Games
9 3 (2.34%) Legal
9 3 (2.34%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.56%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (48.44%) NumPy
1 62 (48.44%) Pandas
1 62 (48.44%) SciPy
2 33 (25.78%) gRPC
2 33 (25.78%) Protocol Buffers
3 31 (24.22%) Node.js
4 30 (23.44%) React
5 29 (22.66%) AngularJS
5 29 (22.66%) Vue
6 7 (5.47%) AWS CDK
6 7 (5.47%) Kafka
7 4 (3.13%) Loki
7 4 (3.13%) PySpark
7 4 (3.13%) RESTful
8 3 (2.34%) Spring
8 3 (2.34%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.56%) OAuth
9 2 (1.56%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.56%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 68 (53.13%) Fixed Income
2 62 (48.44%) Equities
2 62 (48.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 33 (25.78%) Derivative
3 33 (25.78%) Hedge funds
3 33 (25.78%) Pricing Data
4 12 (9.38%) Data Centre
5 9 (7.03%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (3.13%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.34%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.34%) Web3
10 2 (1.56%) Blog
10 2 (1.56%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.59%) Linux
2 2 (1.56%) Unix
3 1 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (63.28%) Software Engineering
2 75 (58.59%) Agile
3 68 (53.13%) Investment Management
4 62 (48.44%) Asset Management
5 35 (27.34%) CI/CD
6 33 (25.78%) Fintech
7 30 (23.44%) DevOps
8 29 (22.66%) Order Management
8 29 (22.66%) Performance Attribution
8 29 (22.66%) Risk Management
9 25 (19.53%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (12.50%) Observability
13 11 (8.59%) Cloud Security
14 10 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 10 (7.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 8 (6.25%) AI
16 7 (5.47%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 94 (73.44%) Python
2 72 (56.25%) TypeScript
3 65 (50.78%) JavaScript
4 56 (43.75%) Java
5 12 (9.38%) Bash
6 10 (7.81%) SQL
7 6 (4.69%) Go
8 5 (3.91%) C#
8 5 (3.91%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.34%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (3.91%) Degree
2 4 (3.13%) AWS Certification
2 4 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.13%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.34%) CCNP
3 3 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.56%) RHCE
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.91%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.91%) PCI DSS
1 5 (3.91%) SOC 2
2 4 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (21.88%) Terraform
2 20 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.59%) Grafana
4 6 (4.69%) Argo
4 6 (4.69%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.91%) Ansible
6 2 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (5.47%) Cisco
2 6 (4.69%) SolarWinds
3 4 (3.13%) CheckPoint
3 4 (3.13%) Dynatrace
3 4 (3.13%) Fortinet
3 4 (3.13%) Meraki
3 4 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.34%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (2.34%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.56%) Okta
5 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle