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 3 September 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 201 177
Rank change year-on-year -122 -24 +31
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 132 254 477
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.56% 1.55% 1.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.68% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 100 251 435
10th Percentile £56,000 £77,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £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 £136,250 £135,625
90th Percentile - £137,500 £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 21,970 15,149 23,310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 92.68% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15,616 9,239 15,981
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 3 September 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 3 September 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.

1 132 (100.00%) AWS
2 50 (37.88%) Python
3 47 (35.61%) Terraform
4 43 (32.58%) DevOps
5 40 (30.30%) CI/CD
5 40 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 28 (21.21%) Docker
8 25 (18.94%) Kubernetes
9 23 (17.42%) Containerisation
10 22 (16.67%) Security Cleared
11 21 (15.91%) Amazon S3
11 21 (15.91%) Azure
12 18 (13.64%) Fintech
13 17 (12.88%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (12.88%) Java
14 16 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (10.61%) AI
15 14 (10.61%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (10.61%) Ansible
15 14 (10.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (10.61%) Observability
15 14 (10.61%) TypeScript
16 13 (9.85%) Full-Stack Development
16 13 (9.85%) React
16 13 (9.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 13 (9.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (8.33%) Agile
17 11 (8.33%) GCP

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 3 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.52%) Apache
2 2 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.76%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) Drupal
3 1 (0.76%) IIS
3 1 (0.76%) nginx
3 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (15.91%) Amazon S3
2 21 (15.91%) Azure
3 17 (12.88%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (10.61%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (10.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (9.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (8.33%) GCP
7 10 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (6.82%) SaaS
9 8 (6.06%) GitHub
10 7 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (5.30%) Serverless
11 6 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
11 6 (4.55%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.79%) Datadog
13 4 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.03%) DNS
2 2 (1.52%) VPN
3 1 (0.76%) 4G
3 1 (0.76%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.79%) Big Data
4 3 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.52%) Redis
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Hudi
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.76%) DuckDB
6 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.76%) Metadata
6 1 (0.76%) MySQL
6 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Redshift Spectrum
6 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.30%) GitLab
3 4 (3.03%) Git
4 2 (1.52%) JMeter
4 2 (1.52%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.76%) Gatling
5 1 (0.76%) git-flow
5 1 (0.76%) JIRA
5 1 (0.76%) Maven
5 1 (0.76%) Postman
5 1 (0.76%) Selenium
5 1 (0.76%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.76%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (10.61%) Finance
2 10 (7.58%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.82%) Health Technology
4 7 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (5.30%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.55%) Banking
6 5 (3.79%) Front Office
7 4 (3.03%) Digital Health
7 4 (3.03%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Billing
10 1 (0.76%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (35.61%) Terraform
2 13 (9.85%) React
3 11 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 9 (6.82%) Kafka
5 6 (4.55%) .NET
6 5 (3.79%) Node.js
7 4 (3.03%) Pulumi
7 4 (3.03%) Spring
8 3 (2.27%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.27%) Next.js
8 3 (2.27%) REST
8 3 (2.27%) Web Services
9 2 (1.52%) AWS CDK
9 2 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.52%) Pandas
10 1 (0.76%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.76%) Flask
10 1 (0.76%) Memcached
10 1 (0.76%) pytest
10 1 (0.76%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.52%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.52%) Life Science
4 2 (1.52%) PropTech
5 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.76%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.76%) IoT
5 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.76%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.76%) Windows
2 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (32.58%) DevOps
2 40 (30.30%) CI/CD
2 40 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 23 (17.42%) Containerisation
5 18 (13.64%) Fintech
6 17 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
8 14 (10.61%) AI
8 14 (10.61%) Observability
9 13 (9.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (9.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (8.33%) Agile
11 9 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (6.82%) Machine Learning
12 8 (6.06%) Analytics
12 8 (6.06%) Cloud Security
12 8 (6.06%) DevSecOps
12 8 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (5.30%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (37.88%) Python
2 17 (12.88%) Java
3 14 (10.61%) TypeScript
4 10 (7.58%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.06%) Bash
5 8 (6.06%) SQL
6 7 (5.30%) C#
7 6 (4.55%) Go
8 4 (3.03%) Groovy
8 4 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.52%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.79%) Degree
4 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.76%) CISM
5 1 (0.76%) CISSP
5 1 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.76%) GSEC
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.79%) SLA
2 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.27%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) NCSC
4 1 (0.76%) NIST
4 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 28 (21.21%) Docker
2 8 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (18.94%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.61%) Ansible
3 11 (8.33%) Grafana
4 7 (5.30%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.55%) Argo
5 6 (4.55%) Istio
6 5 (3.79%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.52%) Packer
8 1 (0.76%) Consul
8 1 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (4.55%) Confluent
1 6 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.03%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.52%) Google
4 1 (0.76%) Databricks
4 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software