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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,789 2,719 4,171
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.20% 17.05% 15.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.34% 36.49% 33.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,248 1,731 3,628
10th Percentile £46,446 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,750 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% +7.14% -6.67%

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 5,896 7,451 12,584
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.90% 46.73% 45.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,083 4,787 11,007
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,629
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 6 February 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 89 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (2.52%) Apache
3 40 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.95%) Confluence
6 14 (0.78%) CMS
6 14 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.78%) Tomcat
6 14 (0.78%) WebSphere
6 14 (0.78%) WebSphere Application Server
7 11 (0.61%) nginx
8 7 (0.39%) Ethereum
8 7 (0.39%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.28%) Drupal
10 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
10 4 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 127 (7.10%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.22%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.056%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.056%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.056%) Notion
Business Applications
1 20 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.56%) Shopify
3 8 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.11%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.056%) Magento
6 1 (0.056%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.056%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.056%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 809 (45.22%) Azure
2 459 (25.66%) GCP
3 256 (14.31%) Serverless
4 249 (13.92%) SaaS
5 182 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
6 181 (10.12%) GitHub
7 180 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
8 162 (9.06%) Amazon S3
9 125 (6.99%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (6.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 82 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
12 74 (4.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 72 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
15 68 (3.80%) Entra ID
16 67 (3.75%) dbt
17 62 (3.47%) Amazon SQS
18 61 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
19 58 (3.24%) Snowflake
20 52 (2.91%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 97 (5.42%) Firewall
2 51 (2.85%) VPN
3 44 (2.46%) Network Security
3 44 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
4 43 (2.40%) WAN
5 42 (2.35%) Broadband
6 34 (1.90%) DNS
6 34 (1.90%) TCP/IP
7 33 (1.84%) LAN
8 28 (1.57%) SD-WAN
9 24 (1.34%) VXLAN
10 23 (1.29%) SSL
11 19 (1.06%) BGP
11 19 (1.06%) DHCP
12 18 (1.01%) NGFW
12 18 (1.01%) VLAN
13 16 (0.89%) HTTP
13 16 (0.89%) Wireshark
14 15 (0.84%) VoIP
15 14 (0.78%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (5.53%) NoSQL
3 90 (5.03%) SQL Server
4 81 (4.53%) MongoDB
5 71 (3.97%) MySQL
6 67 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
7 61 (3.41%) Relational Database
8 55 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
8 55 (3.07%) DynamoDB
9 52 (2.91%) Apache Iceberg
9 52 (2.91%) Data Lake
10 51 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
11 44 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
12 42 (2.35%) Metadata
13 39 (2.18%) BigQuery
14 35 (1.96%) Tableau
15 29 (1.62%) Apache Arrow
15 29 (1.62%) Dremio
16 27 (1.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 125 (6.99%) Jenkins
2 106 (5.93%) Git
3 69 (3.86%) GitLab
4 48 (2.68%) TeamCity
5 33 (1.84%) JIRA
6 31 (1.73%) Cypress.io
7 20 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
8 19 (1.06%) Jaeger
8 19 (1.06%) Selenium
9 15 (0.84%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.78%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.67%) JUnit
11 12 (0.67%) MLflow
12 11 (0.61%) Burp Suite
12 11 (0.61%) CircleCI
12 11 (0.61%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.61%) Metasploit
13 9 (0.50%) JMeter
13 9 (0.50%) Subversion
14 7 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 566 (31.64%) Social Skills
2 399 (22.30%) Finance
3 170 (9.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 162 (9.06%) Banking
5 142 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 128 (7.15%) Retail
7 115 (6.43%) French Language
8 113 (6.32%) Law
9 108 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
10 95 (5.31%) Swedish Language
11 66 (3.69%) Financial Institution
12 55 (3.07%) Telecoms
13 48 (2.68%) Back Office
14 46 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (2.46%) Front Office
16 43 (2.40%) Games
17 42 (2.35%) Tech for Good
18 40 (2.24%) Legal
19 33 (1.84%) Health Technology
20 28 (1.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 400 (22.36%) Senior
2 346 (19.34%) Developer
3 240 (13.42%) Software Engineer
4 220 (12.30%) Lead
5 190 (10.62%) Architect
6 162 (9.06%) Analyst
7 116 (6.48%) AWS Engineer
8 115 (6.43%) Service Analyst
8 115 (6.43%) Service Desk Analyst
9 96 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
10 93 (5.20%) Full-Stack Developer
11 89 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
12 85 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
13 84 (4.70%) Software Developer
14 82 (4.58%) Data Engineer
15 74 (4.14%) Java Engineer
15 74 (4.14%) Lead Developer
16 73 (4.08%) AWS Developer
17 68 (3.80%) Senior Developer
18 66 (3.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (18.17%) React
2 185 (10.34%) .NET
2 185 (10.34%) Node.js
3 131 (7.32%) RESTful
4 113 (6.32%) Kafka
5 105 (5.87%) Spring
6 93 (5.20%) Spring Boot
7 83 (4.64%) REST
8 80 (4.47%) AngularJS
9 78 (4.36%) Vue
10 67 (3.75%) CSS
11 63 (3.52%) HTML
12 54 (3.02%) .NET Core
13 51 (2.85%) Django
14 49 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
15 45 (2.52%) gRPC
16 37 (2.07%) JSON
17 35 (1.96%) XML
18 33 (1.84%) Pandas
19 32 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 263 (14.70%) Cloud Native
2 120 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (3.80%) Public Cloud
6 61 (3.41%) Data Centre
7 49 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 46 (2.57%) Onboarding
9 39 (2.18%) Blog
10 38 (2.12%) Fixed Income
10 38 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (2.12%) Security Posture
11 36 (2.01%) PKI
12 33 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
13 32 (1.79%) Equities
14 31 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 29 (1.62%) Data Structures
16 27 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
17 23 (1.29%) Hedge funds
17 23 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 201 (11.24%) Linux
2 105 (5.87%) Windows
3 73 (4.08%) Unix
4 39 (2.18%) Android
5 37 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 30 (1.68%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.89%) Mac OS
8 16 (0.89%) Windows 10
9 13 (0.73%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.50%) CentOS
13 6 (0.34%) Debian
14 5 (0.28%) VMS
15 1 (0.056%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (32.64%) CI/CD
2 519 (29.01%) Agile
3 492 (27.50%) DevOps
4 463 (25.88%) Software Engineering
5 398 (22.25%) Mentoring
6 313 (17.50%) Microservices
7 300 (16.77%) AI
8 298 (16.66%) Problem-Solving
9 293 (16.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 278 (15.54%) Full-Stack Development
11 256 (14.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 227 (12.69%) Roadmaps
13 215 (12.02%) Containerisation
14 198 (11.07%) ITIL
15 183 (10.23%) Coaching
16 162 (9.06%) Technical Leadership
17 161 (9.00%) Computer Science
18 157 (8.78%) Test Automation
19 151 (8.44%) ITSM
20 144 (8.05%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 558 (31.19%) Python
2 426 (23.81%) Java
3 317 (17.72%) JavaScript
4 312 (17.44%) TypeScript
5 283 (15.82%) SQL
6 197 (11.01%) C#
7 129 (7.21%) Bash
8 122 (6.82%) Go
9 65 (3.63%) PowerShell
10 64 (3.58%) PHP
11 36 (2.01%) Scala
12 29 (1.62%) C++
13 25 (1.40%) Shell Script
14 23 (1.29%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.06%) Bicep
16 18 (1.01%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.95%) Rust
18 15 (0.84%) Ruby
19 8 (0.45%) Delphi
19 8 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 350 (19.56%) Degree
2 302 (16.88%) AWS Certification
3 196 (10.96%) Security Cleared
4 173 (9.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 165 (9.22%) SC Cleared
6 132 (7.38%) MCSE
7 114 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 80 (4.47%) Azure Certification
9 53 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 40 (2.24%) CISSP
11 38 (2.12%) TOGAF Certification
12 37 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
13 30 (1.68%) DV Cleared
14 28 (1.57%) Master's Degree
15 24 (1.34%) CISM
15 24 (1.34%) CREST Certified
16 19 (1.06%) CCNP
16 19 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
17 18 (1.01%) DBS Check
18 17 (0.95%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (10.56%) QA
2 91 (5.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (3.47%) GDPR
4 51 (2.85%) NIST
5 46 (2.57%) PCI DSS
6 44 (2.46%) Data Quality
7 32 (1.79%) SLA
8 31 (1.73%) SOC 2
9 29 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 26 (1.45%) GRC
11 25 (1.40%) Accessibility
12 18 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 18 (1.01%) NCSC
13 13 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 9 (0.50%) JSP 440
16 7 (0.39%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.34%) EU AI Act
18 3 (0.17%) HL7
19 2 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 327 (18.28%) Docker
2 74 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.40%) Hyper-V
3 25 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.56%) vSphere
5 5 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.17%) Firmware
7 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.056%) HDFS
8 1 (0.056%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 373 (20.85%) Terraform
2 341 (19.06%) Kubernetes
3 155 (8.66%) Ansible
4 119 (6.65%) Grafana
5 75 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.57%) Argo
7 39 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (1.06%) Kustomize
10 11 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.61%) Nmap
11 8 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.39%) Kibana
12 7 (0.39%) Puppet
13 6 (0.34%) Proxmox
14 5 (0.28%) Autotask
14 5 (0.28%) Cilium
15 4 (0.22%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.22%) Nessus
15 4 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 289 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 135 (7.55%) ServiceNow
3 104 (5.81%) Google
4 73 (4.08%) Oracle
5 44 (2.46%) VMware
6 40 (2.24%) Cisco
7 39 (2.18%) Red Hat
8 36 (2.01%) Databricks
9 28 (1.57%) IBM
10 25 (1.40%) Okta
11 23 (1.29%) SAP
12 22 (1.23%) Adobe
12 22 (1.23%) Apple
13 20 (1.12%) Splunk
14 18 (1.01%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.01%) SolarWinds
15 15 (0.84%) Arista
15 15 (0.84%) Aruba
15 15 (0.84%) Informatica
15 15 (0.84%) NetScout