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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 191 210
Rank change year-on-year -107 +19 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 147 286 493
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.69% 1.73% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 1.88% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 109 276 455
10th Percentile £56,250 £73,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £97,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +18.92% +12.12%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £122,500
90th Percentile - - £148,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -31.82% +25.71% +9.38%

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 20,071 15,221 30,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 92.31% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 14,571 9,459 23,646
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,023
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.84% -8.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 15 July 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 15 July 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.

1 147 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (40.82%) Python
3 58 (39.46%) Terraform
4 54 (36.73%) DevOps
5 52 (35.37%) CI/CD
6 51 (34.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (21.77%) Docker
7 32 (21.77%) Kubernetes
7 32 (21.77%) Software Engineering
8 31 (21.09%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (19.73%) Amazon S3
10 27 (18.37%) Containerisation
11 26 (17.69%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (17.01%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (16.33%) Azure
13 24 (16.33%) Security Cleared
14 23 (15.65%) Java
15 21 (14.29%) Observability
16 19 (12.93%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (12.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (11.56%) Fintech
18 16 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
19 15 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 15 (10.20%) SaaS
19 15 (10.20%) SC Cleared
20 14 (9.52%) Agile
20 14 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
21 13 (8.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 13 (8.84%) Full-Stack Development
21 13 (8.84%) Linux

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 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.40%) Apache
3 2 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) Drupal
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) nginx
4 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 147 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (19.73%) Amazon S3
3 26 (17.69%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (17.01%) Amazon EKS
5 24 (16.33%) Azure
6 19 (12.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (12.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (10.20%) SaaS
8 13 (8.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (8.84%) Serverless
9 12 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (6.80%) GCP
10 10 (6.80%) GitHub
10 10 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (6.12%) OpenShift
12 8 (5.44%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (4.08%) Route 53
14 5 (3.40%) AWS Control Tower
15 4 (2.72%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.40%) VPN
2 4 (2.72%) DNS
3 3 (2.04%) BGP
3 3 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.04%) VLAN
4 1 (0.68%) 4G
4 1 (0.68%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.48%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (3.40%) Metadata
5 4 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.72%) Big Data
5 4 (2.72%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.36%) Redis
7 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.68%) Flink
7 1 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.68%) Power BI
7 1 (0.68%) Redshift Spectrum
7 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (8.16%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.12%) GitLab
3 4 (2.72%) Git
4 2 (1.36%) JMeter
4 2 (1.36%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.68%) Gatling
5 1 (0.68%) git-flow
5 1 (0.68%) JIRA
5 1 (0.68%) Maven
5 1 (0.68%) Postman
5 1 (0.68%) Selenium
5 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.68%) Vagrant
General
1 21 (14.29%) Finance
2 14 (9.52%) Banking
3 13 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (7.48%) Social Skills
5 10 (6.80%) Law
6 8 (5.44%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.76%) Health Technology
8 6 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.08%) Back Office
8 6 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 6 (4.08%) Retail
9 4 (2.72%) Digital Health
10 3 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.36%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.68%) Advertising
12 1 (0.68%) Billing
12 1 (0.68%) Games
12 1 (0.68%) Legal
12 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.16%) Kafka
2 11 (7.48%) React
3 9 (6.12%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.40%) .NET
4 5 (3.40%) Node.js
4 5 (3.40%) Spring
5 4 (2.72%) RESTful
6 3 (2.04%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.04%) AWS CDK
6 3 (2.04%) REST
6 3 (2.04%) Web Services
7 2 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.68%) CSS
8 1 (0.68%) D3.js
8 1 (0.68%) JWT
8 1 (0.68%) Loki
8 1 (0.68%) Next.js
8 1 (0.68%) PySpark
8 1 (0.68%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.08%) Blog
4 6 (4.08%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.36%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.36%) Life Science
7 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.68%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.68%) IoT
7 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.68%) PropTech
7 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.84%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.73%) DevOps
2 52 (35.37%) CI/CD
3 51 (34.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (21.77%) Software Engineering
5 31 (21.09%) Platform Engineering
6 27 (18.37%) Containerisation
7 21 (14.29%) Observability
8 17 (11.56%) Fintech
9 16 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (9.52%) Agile
11 14 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (8.84%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (8.16%) AI
13 12 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (7.48%) Data Pipeline
15 10 (6.80%) Cloud Security
15 10 (6.80%) Data Engineering
15 10 (6.80%) Technical Leadership
16 9 (6.12%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 60 (40.82%) Python
2 23 (15.65%) Java
3 12 (8.16%) Bash
3 12 (8.16%) Go
3 12 (8.16%) SQL
4 11 (7.48%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.08%) C#
7 4 (2.72%) Groovy
8 3 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.36%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.68%) Bicep
10 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.44%) Degree
4 4 (2.72%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.68%) CISM
6 1 (0.68%) CISSP
6 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.68%) GSEC
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.12%) SOC 2
2 7 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.08%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) NCSC
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) QA
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (21.77%) Docker
2 10 (6.80%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (39.46%) Terraform
2 32 (21.77%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.48%) Grafana
4 10 (6.80%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.12%) Ansible
6 8 (5.44%) Istio
7 6 (4.08%) Argo
8 5 (3.40%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.36%) Packer
10 1 (0.68%) Consul
10 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.44%) Confluent
2 6 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.04%) Databricks
4 2 (1.36%) Google
5 1 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.68%) Pega
5 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.68%) SAP
5 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.68%) TOWER Software