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 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 144 275
Rank change year-on-year -145 +131 +24
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 106 335 308
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 2.41% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 2.54% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 81 318 288
10th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £140,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £105,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +35.48% -

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 15,734 13,169 28,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 94.82% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,585 8,912 23,923
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £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 £80,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,491 £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 12 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 12 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.

1 106 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (52.83%) Python
3 43 (40.57%) CI/CD
4 41 (38.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (37.74%) DevOps
5 40 (37.74%) Platform Engineering
6 38 (35.85%) Terraform
7 37 (34.91%) Java
8 30 (28.30%) Software Engineering
9 29 (27.36%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (25.47%) Observability
11 25 (23.58%) Kubernetes
12 24 (22.64%) SaaS
13 22 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (20.75%) Serverless
13 22 (20.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (18.87%) Agile
14 20 (18.87%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (17.92%) Amazon S3
16 17 (16.04%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (16.04%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 16 (15.09%) Cloud Security
18 15 (14.15%) AWS CloudFormation
18 15 (14.15%) Disaster Recovery
18 15 (14.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 15 (14.15%) TypeScript
19 14 (13.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 14 (13.21%) Azure
19 14 (13.21%) Bash

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 13 (12.26%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (9.43%) Apache
3 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 106 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (27.36%) Amazon EKS
3 24 (22.64%) SaaS
4 22 (20.75%) Serverless
4 22 (20.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 20 (18.87%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (17.92%) Amazon S3
7 17 (16.04%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (14.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (13.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (13.21%) Azure
9 14 (13.21%) GitHub
9 14 (13.21%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (10.38%) AWS Direct Connect
11 9 (8.49%) CloudFront
12 8 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (7.55%) dbt
13 7 (6.60%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 7 (6.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (6.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.38%) BGP
1 11 (10.38%) VPN
2 6 (5.66%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.66%) VLAN
3 5 (4.72%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (4.72%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (4.72%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (4.72%) Firewall
3 5 (4.72%) IPsec
3 5 (4.72%) LAN
3 5 (4.72%) MPLS
3 5 (4.72%) NetScaler
3 5 (4.72%) NX-OS
3 5 (4.72%) OSPF
3 5 (4.72%) SD-WAN
3 5 (4.72%) VXLAN
3 5 (4.72%) WAN
3 5 (4.72%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (4.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.04%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (10.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.43%) Apache Iceberg
4 9 (8.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (7.55%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (6.60%) Apache Arrow
6 7 (6.60%) Dremio
7 6 (5.66%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.66%) DynamoDB
7 6 (5.66%) Flink
8 5 (4.72%) Apache Ignite
9 4 (3.77%) Metadata
10 3 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.94%) MySQL
12 1 (0.94%) Power BI
12 1 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.83%) GitLab
3 1 (0.94%) Deequ
General
1 36 (33.96%) Finance
2 25 (23.58%) Banking
3 19 (17.92%) Social Skills
4 17 (16.04%) Law
5 13 (12.26%) Front Office
5 13 (12.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (11.32%) Back Office
6 12 (11.32%) Financial Institution
6 12 (11.32%) Retail
7 5 (4.72%) Games
7 5 (4.72%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.72%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.83%) Legal
9 2 (1.89%) Billing
10 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.43%) Kafka
2 7 (6.60%) AWS CDK
2 7 (6.60%) Loki
2 7 (6.60%) NumPy
2 7 (6.60%) Pandas
2 7 (6.60%) RESTful
2 7 (6.60%) SciPy
3 6 (5.66%) Spring
4 5 (4.72%) gRPC
4 5 (4.72%) Protocol Buffers
4 5 (4.72%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.77%) Node.js
5 4 (3.77%) PySpark
6 3 (2.83%) React
6 3 (2.83%) REST
7 2 (1.89%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.89%) OAuth
7 2 (1.89%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.89%) OpenID
7 2 (1.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.81%) Cloud Native
2 14 (13.21%) Data Centre
3 13 (12.26%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (12.26%) Fixed Income
4 9 (8.49%) Blog
4 9 (8.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (6.60%) Equities
5 7 (6.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (4.72%) Derivative
6 5 (4.72%) Hedge funds
6 5 (4.72%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.72%) Pricing Data
7 2 (1.89%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.94%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.49%) Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.57%) CI/CD
2 41 (38.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (37.74%) DevOps
3 40 (37.74%) Platform Engineering
4 30 (28.30%) Software Engineering
5 27 (25.47%) Observability
6 22 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (18.87%) Agile
8 17 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (15.09%) Cloud Security
10 15 (14.15%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (14.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (13.21%) Secrets Management
12 13 (12.26%) Investment Management
13 12 (11.32%) API Management
13 12 (11.32%) Immutable Infrastructure
13 12 (11.32%) SOA
14 11 (10.38%) Deployment Automation
15 10 (9.43%) RBAC
16 9 (8.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 56 (52.83%) Python
2 37 (34.91%) Java
3 15 (14.15%) TypeScript
4 14 (13.21%) Bash
5 11 (10.38%) SQL
6 10 (9.43%) Go
7 9 (8.49%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.77%) C#
8 4 (3.77%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.89%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (10.38%) Degree
2 7 (6.60%) AWS Certification
2 7 (6.60%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (3.77%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) PCI DSS
1 12 (11.32%) SOC 2
2 7 (6.60%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 9 (8.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (35.85%) Terraform
2 25 (23.58%) Kubernetes
3 13 (12.26%) Grafana
4 10 (9.43%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.66%) Argo
6 2 (1.89%) Istio
6 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (5.66%) ServiceNow
1 6 (5.66%) SolarWinds
2 5 (4.72%) CheckPoint
2 5 (4.72%) Cisco
2 5 (4.72%) Dynatrace
2 5 (4.72%) Fortinet
2 5 (4.72%) Meraki
3 3 (2.83%) Databricks
4 2 (1.89%) Confluent
4 2 (1.89%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (1.89%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.89%) Okta
5 1 (0.94%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.94%) Pega
5 1 (0.94%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.94%) SAP