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 22 March 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 148 292
Rank change year-on-year -128 +144 -5
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 115 330 300
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 2.46% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 2.60% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 90 314 284
10th Percentile £56,250 £61,625 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,063 £80,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +43.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £100,625
90th Percentile £127,500 £140,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £105,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.23%

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 16,051 12,681 29,261
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 94.51% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,917 8,924 24,200
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 22 March 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 22 March 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.

1 115 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (53.04%) Python
3 49 (42.61%) DevOps
4 45 (39.13%) CI/CD
4 45 (39.13%) Terraform
5 42 (36.52%) Platform Engineering
6 41 (35.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (32.17%) Amazon EKS
8 36 (31.30%) Java
9 30 (26.09%) Kubernetes
10 29 (25.22%) Software Engineering
11 28 (24.35%) Observability
12 25 (21.74%) SaaS
13 24 (20.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 22 (19.13%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (19.13%) Azure
14 22 (19.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 21 (18.26%) Amazon S3
15 21 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (16.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 19 (16.52%) Serverless
17 18 (15.65%) Amazon RDS
17 18 (15.65%) Cloud Security
18 17 (14.78%) Agile
18 17 (14.78%) Kafka
19 16 (13.91%) Docker
19 16 (13.91%) Go
20 15 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
20 15 (13.04%) Bash
20 15 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery

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 11 (9.57%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.87%) Drupal
3 1 (0.87%) IIS
3 1 (0.87%) nginx
3 1 (0.87%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (32.17%) Amazon EKS
3 25 (21.74%) SaaS
4 24 (20.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 22 (19.13%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (19.13%) Azure
6 21 (18.26%) Amazon S3
7 19 (16.52%) Serverless
8 15 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (13.04%) GitHub
8 15 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (12.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (12.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (9.57%) AWS Direct Connect
10 11 (9.57%) GCP
11 10 (8.70%) CloudFront
12 9 (7.83%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (7.83%) OpenShift
13 8 (6.96%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 8 (6.96%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.57%) BGP
1 11 (9.57%) VPN
2 6 (5.22%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.22%) VLAN
3 5 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (4.35%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (4.35%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (4.35%) Firewall
3 5 (4.35%) IPsec
3 5 (4.35%) LAN
3 5 (4.35%) MPLS
3 5 (4.35%) NetScaler
3 5 (4.35%) NX-OS
3 5 (4.35%) OSPF
3 5 (4.35%) SD-WAN
3 5 (4.35%) VXLAN
3 5 (4.35%) WAN
3 5 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (4.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.65%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (9.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (7.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.09%) Apache Iceberg
5 6 (5.22%) Flink
6 5 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.35%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.48%) Apache Arrow
7 4 (3.48%) Apache Ignite
7 4 (3.48%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.48%) Dremio
7 4 (3.48%) Metadata
8 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.61%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.74%) MySQL
10 1 (0.87%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.61%) GitLab
3 2 (1.74%) JMeter
4 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.87%) Deequ
4 1 (0.87%) Gatling
4 1 (0.87%) JIRA
4 1 (0.87%) Postman
4 1 (0.87%) Selenium
4 1 (0.87%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.87%) Vagrant
General
1 38 (33.04%) Finance
2 30 (26.09%) Banking
3 20 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 16 (13.91%) Law
5 13 (11.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (10.43%) Back Office
6 12 (10.43%) Financial Institution
6 12 (10.43%) Retail
7 10 (8.70%) Front Office
8 5 (4.35%) Games
8 5 (4.35%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.48%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.61%) Legal
11 2 (1.74%) Billing
12 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.78%) Kafka
2 7 (6.09%) Loki
2 7 (6.09%) RESTful
3 6 (5.22%) AWS CDK
3 6 (5.22%) Spring
4 4 (3.48%) gRPC
4 4 (3.48%) NumPy
4 4 (3.48%) Pandas
4 4 (3.48%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (3.48%) SciPy
4 4 (3.48%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.61%) PySpark
5 3 (2.61%) REST
6 2 (1.74%) .NET
6 2 (1.74%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.74%) OAuth
6 2 (1.74%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.74%) OpenID
7 1 (0.87%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.26%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.17%) Data Centre
3 12 (10.43%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (8.70%) Fixed Income
5 9 (7.83%) Blog
5 9 (7.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.35%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.48%) Derivative
7 4 (3.48%) Equities
7 4 (3.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.48%) Hedge funds
7 4 (3.48%) Pricing Data
8 3 (2.61%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.87%) IoT
10 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (0.87%) Unix
2 1 (0.87%) Windows
2 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (42.61%) DevOps
2 45 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 42 (36.52%) Platform Engineering
4 41 (35.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (25.22%) Software Engineering
6 28 (24.35%) Observability
7 22 (19.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 21 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (16.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 18 (15.65%) Cloud Security
11 17 (14.78%) Agile
12 15 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (12.17%) Secrets Management
14 12 (10.43%) API Management
14 12 (10.43%) Immutable Infrastructure
14 12 (10.43%) SOA
15 11 (9.57%) Containerisation
15 11 (9.57%) Deployment Automation
16 10 (8.70%) Investment Management
16 10 (8.70%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 61 (53.04%) Python
2 36 (31.30%) Java
3 16 (13.91%) Go
4 15 (13.04%) Bash
5 11 (9.57%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.70%) SQL
7 6 (5.22%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.48%) C#
8 4 (3.48%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.74%) Bicep
10 1 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (9.57%) Degree
2 9 (7.83%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) AWS Certification
3 7 (6.09%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (3.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.30%) SOC 2
2 12 (10.43%) PCI DSS
3 7 (6.09%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.74%) QA
6 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.87%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (13.91%) Docker
2 8 (6.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (39.13%) Terraform
2 30 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 13 (11.30%) Grafana
4 10 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.96%) Istio
6 7 (6.09%) Argo
7 2 (1.74%) Ansible
7 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.87%) Consul
8 1 (0.87%) Packer
8 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (6.96%) Confluent
2 6 (5.22%) ServiceNow
2 6 (5.22%) SolarWinds
3 5 (4.35%) CheckPoint
3 5 (4.35%) Cisco
3 5 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.35%) Fortinet
3 5 (4.35%) Meraki
4 3 (2.61%) Databricks
4 3 (2.61%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.74%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (1.74%) Okta
6 1 (0.87%) Google
6 1 (0.87%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.87%) Pega
6 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.87%) SAP
6 1 (0.87%) TOWER Software