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 £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 196 200
Rank change year-on-year -103 +4 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 148 284 479
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.68% 1.72% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 1.87% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 110 275 442
10th Percentile £56,250 £76,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £98,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £110,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +18.92% +12.12%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £122,500
90th Percentile - - £148,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £88,625
% change year-on-year -31.82% +24.12% +10.78%

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 20,389 15,199 27,973
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.21% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,786 9,441 21,248
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 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 22 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.

1 148 (100.00%) AWS
2 59 (39.86%) Python
3 57 (38.51%) Terraform
4 56 (37.84%) DevOps
5 51 (34.46%) CI/CD
5 51 (34.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (22.97%) Software Engineering
7 32 (21.62%) Docker
8 31 (20.95%) Kubernetes
9 30 (20.27%) Amazon S3
9 30 (20.27%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (17.57%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (17.57%) Containerisation
11 23 (15.54%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (15.54%) Azure
11 23 (15.54%) Security Cleared
12 22 (14.86%) Java
13 21 (14.19%) Fintech
14 19 (12.84%) Observability
14 19 (12.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 18 (12.16%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (10.81%) SaaS
17 15 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 15 (10.14%) SC Cleared
18 14 (9.46%) Agile
18 14 (9.46%) AI
18 14 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
18 14 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
18 14 (9.46%) Serverless
19 13 (8.78%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.38%) Apache
3 3 (2.03%) 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
1 148 (100.00%) AWS
2 30 (20.27%) Amazon S3
3 26 (17.57%) Amazon EC2
4 23 (15.54%) Amazon EKS
4 23 (15.54%) Azure
5 19 (12.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (12.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (10.81%) SaaS
8 14 (9.46%) Serverless
9 13 (8.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (6.76%) GCP
10 10 (6.76%) GitHub
11 9 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (6.08%) OpenShift
12 8 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (5.41%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (4.05%) Route 53
14 4 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.70%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) VPN
2 4 (2.70%) DNS
3 3 (2.03%) BGP
3 3 (2.03%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.03%) VLAN
4 1 (0.68%) 4G
4 1 (0.68%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.78%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.43%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (3.38%) Big Data
4 5 (3.38%) Metadata
5 4 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.70%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.35%) Redis
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.68%) MySQL
7 1 (0.68%) Redshift Spectrum
7 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (7.43%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.08%) GitLab
3 4 (2.70%) Git
4 2 (1.35%) JMeter
4 2 (1.35%) 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 22 (14.86%) Finance
2 14 (9.46%) Banking
3 13 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (8.78%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.76%) Law
5 8 (5.41%) Health Technology
5 8 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.05%) Back Office
6 6 (4.05%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.05%) Retail
7 4 (2.70%) Digital Health
8 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Billing
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.11%) Kafka
1 12 (8.11%) React
2 9 (6.08%) Spring Boot
3 6 (4.05%) .NET
4 5 (3.38%) Node.js
5 4 (2.70%) REST
5 4 (2.70%) RESTful
5 4 (2.70%) Spring
6 3 (2.03%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.03%) Web Services
7 2 (1.35%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.35%) Next.js
7 2 (1.35%) Pandas
8 1 (0.68%) Flask
8 1 (0.68%) Loki
8 1 (0.68%) Memcached
8 1 (0.68%) NumPy
8 1 (0.68%) pytest
8 1 (0.68%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.59%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.05%) Blog
4 6 (4.05%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.35%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.35%) Life Science
6 2 (1.35%) PropTech
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%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.78%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (37.84%) DevOps
2 51 (34.46%) CI/CD
2 51 (34.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (22.97%) Software Engineering
4 30 (20.27%) Platform Engineering
5 26 (17.57%) Containerisation
6 21 (14.19%) Fintech
7 19 (12.84%) Observability
8 15 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (9.46%) Agile
9 14 (9.46%) AI
9 14 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (8.78%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (7.43%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (6.76%) Data Engineering
14 9 (6.08%) Cloud Security
14 9 (6.08%) Machine Learning
14 9 (6.08%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 59 (39.86%) Python
2 22 (14.86%) Java
3 13 (8.78%) TypeScript
4 12 (8.11%) SQL
5 11 (7.43%) Bash
5 11 (7.43%) Go
6 7 (4.73%) C#
7 6 (4.05%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.70%) Groovy
9 3 (2.03%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.03%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (15.54%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.08%) Degree
4 4 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
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
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.08%) SOC 2
2 7 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.05%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.03%) 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 (21.62%) Docker
2 10 (6.76%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (38.51%) Terraform
2 31 (20.95%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.76%) Grafana
3 10 (6.76%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.08%) Ansible
5 8 (5.41%) Istio
6 6 (4.05%) Argo
7 5 (3.38%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.35%) Packer
9 1 (0.68%) Consul
9 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.41%) Confluent
2 6 (4.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.70%) Databricks
4 2 (1.35%) Google
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