AWS Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 294 260
Rank change year-on-year +152 -34 +45
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 345 345 560
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.31% 1.02% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.54% 1.06% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 332 317 513
10th Percentile £64,622 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £137,500 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £143,750 £138,750
UK median annual salary £107,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +34.38% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

AWS Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Engineer.

AWS Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

AWS Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 345 (100.00%) AWS
2 285 (82.61%) Python
3 264 (76.52%) Finance
3 264 (76.52%) Agile
4 261 (75.65%) Software Engineering
5 243 (70.43%) Asset Management
5 243 (70.43%) Front Office
6 226 (65.51%) Amazon Athena
7 221 (64.06%) dbt
8 219 (63.48%) Apache Iceberg
8 219 (63.48%) Apache Airflow
8 219 (63.48%) Dremio
9 217 (62.90%) Apache Arrow
10 183 (53.04%) Apache
11 181 (52.46%) Java
12 166 (48.12%) JavaScript
13 161 (46.67%) Apache Ignite
14 152 (44.06%) DevOps
15 146 (42.32%) Fixed Income
16 144 (41.74%) TypeScript
17 136 (39.42%) Terraform
18 130 (37.68%) Pandas
18 130 (37.68%) SciPy
18 130 (37.68%) NumPy
18 130 (37.68%) Amazon ECS
18 130 (37.68%) Serverless
19 128 (37.10%) CI/CD
20 126 (36.52%) AWS Lambda
21 124 (35.94%) PySpark
22 123 (35.65%) Banking

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 219 (63.48%) Apache Airflow
2 183 (53.04%) Apache
3 74 (21.45%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.16%) Confluence
5 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 345 (100.00%) AWS
2 221 (64.06%) dbt
3 130 (37.68%) Amazon ECS
3 130 (37.68%) Serverless
4 126 (36.52%) AWS Lambda
5 105 (30.43%) GCP
6 89 (25.80%) Snowflake
7 78 (22.61%) Amazon EC2
8 77 (22.32%) OpenShift
9 50 (14.49%) Amazon S3
10 49 (14.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 46 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (9.86%) Dagster
13 29 (8.41%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (4.93%) Azure
15 14 (4.06%) SaaS
16 10 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 6 (1.74%) Amazon MSK
18 6 (1.74%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.80%) Firewall
2 2 (0.58%) BGP
2 2 (0.58%) Internet
2 2 (0.58%) IPsec
2 2 (0.58%) OSPF
2 2 (0.58%) SSL
2 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.58%) VoIP
2 2 (0.58%) VPN
3 1 (0.29%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.29%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (65.51%) Amazon Athena
2 219 (63.48%) Apache Iceberg
2 219 (63.48%) Dremio
3 217 (62.90%) Apache Arrow
4 161 (46.67%) Apache Ignite
5 78 (22.61%) Data Lake
6 42 (12.17%) Amazon RDS
6 42 (12.17%) PostgreSQL
7 39 (11.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (5.22%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.45%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.16%) Big Data
10 4 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.16%) MySQL
11 3 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.87%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.58%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.29%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 74 (21.45%) Artifactory
2 13 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.61%) GitLab
3 9 (2.61%) SonarQube
4 6 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (1.45%) JIRA
6 4 (1.16%) Storybook
7 3 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.87%) Git
General
1 264 (76.52%) Finance
2 243 (70.43%) Front Office
3 123 (35.65%) Banking
4 86 (24.93%) Investment Banking
5 19 (5.51%) Law
6 12 (3.48%) Social Skills
7 7 (2.03%) Advertising
8 6 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.16%) Games
9 4 (1.16%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.87%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Publishing
10 3 (0.87%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.29%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (37.68%) NumPy
1 130 (37.68%) Pandas
1 130 (37.68%) SciPy
2 124 (35.94%) PySpark
3 90 (26.09%) gRPC
3 90 (26.09%) Protocol Buffers
4 80 (23.19%) Kafka
5 71 (20.58%) J2EE
6 67 (19.42%) React
7 62 (17.97%) Node.js
8 61 (17.68%) AngularJS
9 60 (17.39%) Vue
10 24 (6.96%) Redux
11 9 (2.61%) REST
12 7 (2.03%) AWS CDK
13 6 (1.74%) GraphQL
13 6 (1.74%) RESTful
14 5 (1.45%) .NET
14 5 (1.45%) JSON
14 5 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 146 (42.32%) Fixed Income
2 118 (34.20%) Equities
2 118 (34.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 87 (25.22%) Hedge funds
4 86 (24.93%) Derivative
5 36 (10.43%) Pricing Data
6 18 (5.22%) Security Posture
7 15 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.45%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.16%) Legacy Code
10 3 (0.87%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.87%) IoT
10 3 (0.87%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.58%) Online Games
11 2 (0.58%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.29%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.29%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.77%) Linux
2 3 (0.87%) Unix
3 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (76.52%) Agile
2 261 (75.65%) Software Engineering
3 243 (70.43%) Asset Management
4 152 (44.06%) DevOps
5 128 (37.10%) CI/CD
6 101 (29.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 96 (27.83%) Investment Management
8 91 (26.38%) Data Engineering
9 88 (25.51%) Fintech
10 82 (23.77%) Open Source
11 60 (17.39%) Performance Attribution
12 42 (12.17%) Migration
13 41 (11.88%) Risk Management
14 40 (11.59%) Order Management
15 29 (8.41%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (7.54%) Cloud Security
16 26 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (6.67%) Mentoring
18 21 (6.09%) Roadmaps
19 20 (5.80%) Credit Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 285 (82.61%) Python
2 181 (52.46%) Java
3 166 (48.12%) JavaScript
4 144 (41.74%) TypeScript
5 84 (24.35%) Go
6 30 (8.70%) SQL
7 10 (2.90%) C#
8 6 (1.74%) Bash
9 4 (1.16%) Perl
9 4 (1.16%) Scala
10 3 (0.87%) Groovy
10 3 (0.87%) PHP
10 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.29%) C
11 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (7.83%) AWS Certification
2 15 (4.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 10 (2.90%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (0.87%) Degree
4 3 (0.87%) RHCE
4 3 (0.87%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.29%) CCNP
6 1 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.32%) QA
2 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.29%) NIST
3 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 117 (33.91%) Docker
2 6 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 136 (39.42%) Terraform
2 120 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.35%) Ansible
4 6 (1.74%) Istio
5 4 (1.16%) Grafana
5 4 (1.16%) Packer
6 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.29%) Argo
7 1 (0.29%) Consul
Vendors
1 6 (1.74%) Confluent
2 4 (1.16%) Atlassian
3 3 (0.87%) AppDynamics
3 3 (0.87%) IBM
3 3 (0.87%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.58%) Cribl.io
4 2 (0.58%) Splunk
5 1 (0.29%) Cisco
5 1 (0.29%) Juniper
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft