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 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 130 289
Rank change year-on-year -131 +159 -4
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 123 336 319
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.73% 2.62% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 2.78% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 97 322 301
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,713 £53,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +43.33% -1.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £140,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +35.48% -1.27%

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 15,789 12,096 29,817
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 94.15% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,291 8,928 24,530
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,000 £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 £92,500
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 2 April 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 April 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.

1 123 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (49.59%) Python
3 52 (42.28%) DevOps
4 50 (40.65%) Terraform
5 46 (37.40%) CI/CD
6 45 (36.59%) Platform Engineering
7 43 (34.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (30.89%) Java
9 36 (29.27%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (25.20%) Kubernetes
11 30 (24.39%) Software Engineering
12 27 (21.95%) Observability
13 26 (21.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (20.33%) SaaS
15 24 (19.51%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (18.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 22 (17.89%) Azure
18 20 (16.26%) Amazon S3
18 20 (16.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 19 (15.45%) Amazon RDS
19 19 (15.45%) Cloud Security
19 19 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
20 18 (14.63%) Docker
21 17 (13.82%) Kafka
21 17 (13.82%) Serverless
22 16 (13.01%) Go
23 15 (12.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 15 (12.20%) Bash
23 15 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
23 15 (12.20%) GitHub

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 (8.94%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.50%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) Drupal
3 1 (0.81%) IIS
3 1 (0.81%) nginx
3 1 (0.81%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) AWS
2 36 (29.27%) Amazon EKS
3 26 (21.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 25 (20.33%) SaaS
5 24 (19.51%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (17.89%) Azure
7 20 (16.26%) Amazon S3
8 17 (13.82%) Serverless
9 15 (12.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (12.20%) GitHub
9 15 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (10.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (10.57%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (8.94%) AWS Direct Connect
11 11 (8.94%) CloudFront
11 11 (8.94%) GCP
12 9 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (7.32%) OpenShift
13 8 (6.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 8 (6.50%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.94%) BGP
1 11 (8.94%) VPN
2 6 (4.88%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.88%) VLAN
3 5 (4.07%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (4.07%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (4.07%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (4.07%) Firewall
3 5 (4.07%) IPsec
3 5 (4.07%) LAN
3 5 (4.07%) MPLS
3 5 (4.07%) NetScaler
3 5 (4.07%) NX-OS
3 5 (4.07%) OSPF
3 5 (4.07%) SD-WAN
3 5 (4.07%) VXLAN
3 5 (4.07%) WAN
3 5 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (4.07%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.45%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (8.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.88%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.88%) Flink
6 5 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.25%) Apache Arrow
7 4 (3.25%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (3.25%) Apache Ignite
7 4 (3.25%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.25%) Dremio
7 4 (3.25%) Metadata
8 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.63%) MySQL
10 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.81%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.63%) GitLab
2 2 (1.63%) JMeter
3 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.81%) Gatling
3 1 (0.81%) Git
3 1 (0.81%) git-flow
3 1 (0.81%) JIRA
3 1 (0.81%) Maven
3 1 (0.81%) Postman
3 1 (0.81%) Selenium
3 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.81%) Vagrant
General
1 38 (30.89%) Finance
2 30 (24.39%) Banking
3 18 (14.63%) Social Skills
4 16 (13.01%) Law
5 12 (9.76%) Back Office
5 12 (9.76%) Financial Institution
5 12 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.76%) Retail
6 10 (8.13%) Front Office
7 5 (4.07%) Games
7 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.25%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.44%) Legal
10 2 (1.63%) Billing
11 1 (0.81%) Advertising
11 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.82%) Kafka
2 7 (5.69%) Loki
2 7 (5.69%) RESTful
3 6 (4.88%) AWS CDK
3 6 (4.88%) Spring
3 6 (4.88%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.25%) gRPC
4 4 (3.25%) NumPy
4 4 (3.25%) Pandas
4 4 (3.25%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (3.25%) SciPy
5 3 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.44%) REST
6 2 (1.63%) .NET
6 2 (1.63%) OAuth
6 2 (1.63%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.63%) OpenID
7 1 (0.81%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.81%) SAML
7 1 (0.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.26%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.38%) Data Centre
3 12 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (8.13%) Fixed Income
5 9 (7.32%) Blog
5 9 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.07%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.25%) Derivative
7 4 (3.25%) Equities
7 4 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.25%) Hedge funds
7 4 (3.25%) Pricing Data
8 3 (2.44%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.81%) IoT
10 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.94%) Linux
2 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.81%) Unix
2 1 (0.81%) Windows
2 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (42.28%) DevOps
2 46 (37.40%) CI/CD
3 45 (36.59%) Platform Engineering
4 43 (34.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (24.39%) Software Engineering
6 27 (21.95%) Observability
7 23 (18.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 20 (16.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (15.45%) Cloud Security
9 19 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (11.38%) Agile
11 14 (11.38%) Secrets Management
12 13 (10.57%) Containerisation
13 12 (9.76%) API Management
13 12 (9.76%) Immutable Infrastructure
13 12 (9.76%) SOA
14 11 (8.94%) Deployment Automation
15 10 (8.13%) Fintech
15 10 (8.13%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (49.59%) Python
2 38 (30.89%) Java
3 16 (13.01%) Go
4 15 (12.20%) Bash
5 11 (8.94%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.50%) SQL
7 6 (4.88%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.25%) C#
9 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.81%) Bicep
10 1 (0.81%) Groovy
10 1 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (8.94%) Degree
2 10 (8.13%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.50%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.69%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (3.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.38%) SOC 2
2 12 (9.76%) PCI DSS
3 6 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.07%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.63%) QA
6 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (14.63%) Docker
2 8 (6.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (40.65%) Terraform
2 31 (25.20%) Kubernetes
3 12 (9.76%) Grafana
4 10 (8.13%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.50%) Argo
5 8 (6.50%) Istio
6 3 (2.44%) Ansible
7 2 (1.63%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.81%) Consul
8 1 (0.81%) Packer
8 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (6.50%) Confluent
2 6 (4.88%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.07%) CheckPoint
3 5 (4.07%) Cisco
3 5 (4.07%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.07%) Fortinet
3 5 (4.07%) Meraki
3 5 (4.07%) SolarWinds
4 3 (2.44%) Databricks
5 2 (1.63%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.63%) Okta
6 1 (0.81%) Google
6 1 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.81%) Pega
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.81%) SAP
6 1 (0.81%) TOWER Software