AWS Platform Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary for remote or hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 570 617
Rank change year-on-year +183 +47 +184
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 10 22 56
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.067% 0.065% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.068% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7 22 56
10th Percentile £61,625 - £53,750
25th Percentile £62,688 £72,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +5.17% +20.83%
75th Percentile £85,000 £108,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £87,750 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £78,750 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.61% +10.71% +7.69%

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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

AWS Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

AWS Platform Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS Platform Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) Python
3 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (60.00%) DevOps
4 6 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (50.00%) Terraform
5 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (50.00%) AWS CDK
6 4 (40.00%) Serverless
6 4 (40.00%) AWS Control Tower
6 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (40.00%) Docker
7 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
7 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (30.00%) Bash
7 3 (30.00%) Advertising
7 3 (30.00%) YAML
7 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
8 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy

AWS Platform 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 2 (20.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (40.00%) AWS Control Tower
4 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (40.00%) Serverless
4 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (20.00%) Azure
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (30.00%) Advertising
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (30.00%) YAML
3 1 (10.00%) AWS SAM
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (20.00%) Agile
7 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (20.00%) Cost Management
7 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
7 2 (20.00%) Open Source
7 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 2 (20.00%) SDLC
7 2 (20.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Go
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian