Hybrid/Remote AWS Job Trends

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,908 2,494 4,273
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.60% 16.85% 15.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.92% 36.11% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 1,640 3,734
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -4.26%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% +7.14% -6.04%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,171 6,906 13,024
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.53% 46.66% 45.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4,206 4,663 11,373
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

AWS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 79 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 35 (1.83%) Apache
4 25 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.79%) CMS
5 15 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.73%) Confluence
7 11 (0.58%) nginx
8 10 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
9 8 (0.42%) WordPress
10 6 (0.31%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.26%) Drupal
12 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
12 4 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 138 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.052%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.052%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.052%) Notion
Business Applications
1 17 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (0.58%) Shopify
3 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.10%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.052%) Magento
6 1 (0.052%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.052%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.052%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 836 (43.82%) Azure
2 511 (26.78%) GCP
3 262 (13.73%) Serverless
4 255 (13.36%) SaaS
5 196 (10.27%) Microsoft 365
6 185 (9.70%) GitHub
7 174 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
8 167 (8.75%) Amazon S3
9 133 (6.97%) Amazon EKS
10 109 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 87 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
12 80 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (4.04%) Entra ID
14 73 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 72 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
16 66 (3.46%) Amazon SQS
17 61 (3.20%) dbt
18 55 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
19 49 (2.57%) OCI
19 49 (2.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 114 (5.97%) Firewall
2 61 (3.20%) Broadband
3 60 (3.14%) VPN
4 54 (2.83%) WAN
5 48 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
6 43 (2.25%) LAN
6 43 (2.25%) TCP/IP
7 42 (2.20%) DNS
7 42 (2.20%) Network Security
8 29 (1.52%) SD-WAN
9 27 (1.42%) DHCP
10 26 (1.36%) VXLAN
11 21 (1.10%) BGP
11 21 (1.10%) SSL
11 21 (1.10%) VLAN
12 19 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
13 18 (0.94%) NGFW
14 17 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (0.89%) HTTP
15 16 (0.84%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 93 (4.87%) SQL Server
4 86 (4.51%) MongoDB
5 79 (4.14%) MySQL
6 69 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.20%) Relational Database
8 58 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
9 48 (2.52%) Metadata
10 46 (2.41%) DynamoDB
11 44 (2.31%) BigQuery
12 43 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 43 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
13 42 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
14 38 (1.99%) Data Lake
15 36 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
15 36 (1.89%) Tableau
16 28 (1.47%) Redis
17 25 (1.31%) Power BI
18 23 (1.21%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 114 (5.97%) Jenkins
2 112 (5.87%) Git
3 71 (3.72%) GitLab
4 58 (3.04%) TeamCity
5 33 (1.73%) Cypress.io
6 30 (1.57%) JIRA
7 19 (1.00%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.00%) Selenium
8 17 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
9 14 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.73%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.68%) JMeter
10 13 (0.68%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.63%) MLflow
12 11 (0.58%) JUnit
13 9 (0.47%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.47%) Subversion
14 8 (0.42%) Burp Suite
14 8 (0.42%) Metasploit
15 7 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 605 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 430 (22.54%) Finance
3 203 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 177 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 171 (8.96%) Banking
6 156 (8.18%) Retail
7 148 (7.76%) Law
8 120 (6.29%) French Language
9 113 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
10 91 (4.77%) Swedish Language
11 73 (3.83%) Financial Institution
12 58 (3.04%) Back Office
13 55 (2.88%) Front Office
14 52 (2.73%) Telecoms
15 48 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
16 47 (2.46%) Games
16 47 (2.46%) Legal
17 35 (1.83%) Tech for Good
18 30 (1.57%) Marketing
19 29 (1.52%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 433 (22.69%) Senior
2 361 (18.92%) Developer
3 296 (15.51%) Software Engineer
4 253 (13.26%) Lead
5 197 (10.32%) Architect
6 162 (8.49%) Analyst
7 120 (6.29%) Service Analyst
7 120 (6.29%) Service Desk Analyst
8 108 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
8 108 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
9 93 (4.87%) Lead Developer
9 93 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
10 92 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 88 (4.61%) Data Engineer
12 87 (4.56%) Java Engineer
13 84 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 80 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
15 76 (3.98%) Software Developer
16 71 (3.72%) Java Software Engineer
17 70 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (18.08%) React
2 206 (10.80%) Node.js
3 169 (8.86%) .NET
4 142 (7.44%) Kafka
5 134 (7.02%) RESTful
6 112 (5.87%) Spring
7 100 (5.24%) Spring Boot
8 84 (4.40%) REST
9 81 (4.25%) CSS
10 76 (3.98%) AngularJS
11 73 (3.83%) HTML
11 73 (3.83%) Vue
12 56 (2.94%) Django
13 53 (2.78%) gRPC
14 50 (2.62%) .NET Core
15 46 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
16 44 (2.31%) Redux
17 39 (2.04%) JSON
18 36 (1.89%) GraphQL
19 35 (1.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 301 (15.78%) Cloud Native
2 138 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (5.03%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.62%) Public Cloud
5 68 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
6 63 (3.30%) Data Centre
7 56 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 51 (2.67%) Onboarding
9 49 (2.57%) Fixed Income
10 48 (2.52%) Blog
11 44 (2.31%) Security Posture
12 41 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
13 37 (1.94%) PKI
14 35 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
15 33 (1.73%) Data Structures
16 31 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
17 29 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
17 29 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
18 28 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
19 27 (1.42%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 193 (10.12%) Linux
2 102 (5.35%) Windows
3 74 (3.88%) Unix
4 51 (2.67%) Android
5 48 (2.52%) Windows Server
6 44 (2.31%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.26%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (1.00%) Mac OS
10 16 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
12 14 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.52%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.42%) CentOS
15 5 (0.26%) VMS
16 2 (0.10%) Debian
17 1 (0.052%) FreeBSD
17 1 (0.052%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.052%) OpenBSD
17 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (34.01%) CI/CD
2 556 (29.14%) Agile
3 523 (27.41%) DevOps
4 510 (26.73%) Software Engineering
5 438 (22.96%) Mentoring
6 353 (18.50%) Microservices
7 331 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
8 321 (16.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 308 (16.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 301 (15.78%) AI
11 280 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 254 (13.31%) Containerisation
13 232 (12.16%) Coaching
14 223 (11.69%) Roadmaps
15 205 (10.74%) ITIL
16 199 (10.43%) Test Automation
17 179 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
18 166 (8.70%) Computer Science
19 164 (8.60%) Observability
20 158 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 579 (30.35%) Python
2 482 (25.26%) Java
3 315 (16.51%) JavaScript
4 314 (16.46%) TypeScript
5 284 (14.88%) SQL
6 194 (10.17%) C#
7 166 (8.70%) Go
8 127 (6.66%) Bash
9 67 (3.51%) PHP
10 60 (3.14%) PowerShell
11 52 (2.73%) Scala
12 37 (1.94%) C++
13 23 (1.21%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.15%) Shell Script
15 19 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.00%) Ruby
15 19 (1.00%) Rust
16 16 (0.84%) Bicep
17 8 (0.42%) Delphi
17 8 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 370 (19.39%) Degree
2 285 (14.94%) AWS Certification
3 222 (11.64%) Security Cleared
4 188 (9.85%) SC Cleared
5 179 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 139 (7.29%) MCSE
7 116 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 78 (4.09%) Azure Certification
9 50 (2.62%) CISSP
10 43 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 38 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
12 35 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (1.62%) DV Cleared
14 29 (1.52%) Master's Degree
15 28 (1.47%) CREST Certified
16 27 (1.42%) CISM
17 22 (1.15%) DBS Check
18 21 (1.10%) OSCP
19 19 (1.00%) CCNP
20 18 (0.94%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (10.38%) QA
2 88 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (3.25%) GDPR
4 56 (2.94%) NIST
5 48 (2.52%) PCI DSS
6 42 (2.20%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.83%) SOC 2
8 30 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 30 (1.57%) SLA
9 28 (1.47%) GRC
10 25 (1.31%) Accessibility
11 18 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 16 (0.84%) NCSC
13 13 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.63%) JSP 440
15 11 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 7 (0.37%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.31%) EU AI Act
18 4 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
18 4 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 364 (19.08%) Docker
2 84 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.78%) Hyper-V
4 29 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.58%) vSphere
6 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.052%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.052%) Firmware
10 1 (0.052%) KVM
10 1 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.052%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 389 (20.39%) Terraform
2 361 (18.92%) Kubernetes
3 156 (8.18%) Ansible
4 138 (7.23%) Grafana
5 77 (4.04%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.36%) Argo
7 37 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (1.00%) Kustomize
10 15 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.47%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.42%) Nmap
13 7 (0.37%) Kibana
14 5 (0.26%) Autotask
14 5 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.26%) Cilium
15 4 (0.21%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.21%) Nessus
15 4 (0.21%) Packer
15 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 300 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 140 (7.34%) ServiceNow
3 122 (6.39%) Google
4 69 (3.62%) Oracle
5 54 (2.83%) VMware
6 52 (2.73%) Cisco
7 37 (1.94%) Databricks
8 32 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 30 (1.57%) Apple
10 27 (1.42%) Typelevel
11 26 (1.36%) SAP
12 25 (1.31%) Okta
13 24 (1.26%) IBM
14 23 (1.21%) Salesforce
15 22 (1.15%) Splunk
16 19 (1.00%) Adobe
16 19 (1.00%) SolarWinds
17 18 (0.94%) Fortinet
18 17 (0.89%) Palo Alto
19 16 (0.84%) Informatica