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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,923 2,374 4,373
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.47% 17.09% 14.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.78% 36.04% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 1,655 3,837
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -6.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 6,248 6,587 13,560
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.26% 47.43% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,246 4,735 11,797
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,319 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +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 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 12 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 74 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 30 (1.56%) Apache
4 26 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.83%) CMS
6 15 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.62%) Confluence
8 11 (0.57%) nginx
9 8 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
9 8 (0.42%) WordPress
10 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.26%) Drupal
10 5 (0.26%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
11 4 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 123 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.052%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.052%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.052%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (0.62%) Shopify
3 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.21%) 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
1 823 (42.80%) Azure
2 511 (26.57%) GCP
3 270 (14.04%) Serverless
4 249 (12.95%) SaaS
5 194 (10.09%) GitHub
6 180 (9.36%) AWS Lambda
6 180 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
7 172 (8.94%) Amazon S3
8 131 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
9 107 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
11 78 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
12 76 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
13 75 (3.90%) Entra ID
14 71 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
15 69 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 56 (2.91%) dbt
17 52 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
18 47 (2.44%) Snowflake
19 40 (2.08%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 119 (6.19%) Firewall
2 70 (3.64%) Broadband
3 60 (3.12%) VPN
4 53 (2.76%) WAN
5 47 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
6 46 (2.39%) TCP/IP
7 43 (2.24%) LAN
8 42 (2.18%) DNS
9 41 (2.13%) Network Security
10 27 (1.40%) SD-WAN
11 26 (1.35%) VXLAN
12 25 (1.30%) DHCP
13 23 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
14 22 (1.14%) VLAN
15 21 (1.09%) BGP
16 20 (1.04%) SSL
17 19 (0.99%) Cisco Firepower
18 18 (0.94%) NGFW
19 17 (0.88%) HTTP
20 16 (0.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (5.93%) NoSQL
3 98 (5.10%) SQL Server
4 89 (4.63%) MongoDB
5 82 (4.26%) MySQL
6 71 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.17%) Relational Database
8 53 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
9 50 (2.60%) DynamoDB
10 48 (2.50%) Metadata
11 44 (2.29%) BigQuery
11 44 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
12 42 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 35 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
14 34 (1.77%) Data Lake
14 34 (1.77%) Tableau
15 30 (1.56%) Apache Iceberg
16 28 (1.46%) Redis
17 22 (1.14%) Power BI
17 22 (1.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 118 (6.14%) Git
2 111 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 77 (4.00%) GitLab
4 58 (3.02%) TeamCity
5 36 (1.87%) Cypress.io
6 29 (1.51%) JIRA
7 20 (1.04%) Selenium
8 19 (0.99%) Jaeger
9 15 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.73%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.73%) JMeter
10 14 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
11 13 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.62%) JUnit
12 12 (0.62%) MLflow
13 10 (0.52%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.47%) Subversion
15 8 (0.42%) Burp Suite
15 8 (0.42%) Metasploit
16 7 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 593 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 426 (22.15%) Finance
3 213 (11.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 177 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 171 (8.89%) Banking
6 158 (8.22%) Retail
7 154 (8.01%) Law
8 119 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
9 104 (5.41%) French Language
10 73 (3.80%) Swedish Language
11 71 (3.69%) Financial Institution
12 59 (3.07%) Front Office
13 58 (3.02%) Back Office
14 54 (2.81%) Telecoms
15 48 (2.50%) Legal
16 45 (2.34%) Games
16 45 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
17 34 (1.77%) Marketing
17 34 (1.77%) Tech for Good
18 30 (1.56%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 444 (23.09%) Senior
2 369 (19.19%) Developer
3 303 (15.76%) Software Engineer
4 263 (13.68%) Lead
5 193 (10.04%) Architect
6 144 (7.49%) Analyst
7 114 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
8 106 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
9 104 (5.41%) Service Analyst
9 104 (5.41%) Service Desk Analyst
10 100 (5.20%) Lead Developer
11 96 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
12 92 (4.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 89 (4.63%) Java Engineer
14 87 (4.52%) Data Engineer
15 85 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
16 82 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
17 72 (3.74%) Java Software Engineer
18 69 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 67 (3.48%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (18.30%) React
2 222 (11.54%) Node.js
3 153 (7.96%) .NET
4 147 (7.64%) Kafka
5 132 (6.86%) RESTful
6 108 (5.62%) Spring
7 96 (4.99%) Spring Boot
8 91 (4.73%) REST
9 89 (4.63%) CSS
10 78 (4.06%) HTML
11 69 (3.59%) AngularJS
12 68 (3.54%) Vue
13 61 (3.17%) gRPC
14 59 (3.07%) Django
15 55 (2.86%) Redux
16 50 (2.60%) .NET Core
17 45 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
18 43 (2.24%) GraphQL
19 38 (1.98%) JSON
20 35 (1.82%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 302 (15.70%) Cloud Native
2 141 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
3 101 (5.25%) Product Ownership
4 68 (3.54%) Public Cloud
5 67 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
6 61 (3.17%) Data Centre
7 60 (3.12%) Management Information System
8 54 (2.81%) Onboarding
9 53 (2.76%) Fixed Income
10 51 (2.65%) Blog
11 46 (2.39%) Security Posture
12 41 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
13 38 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
14 37 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
14 37 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
15 36 (1.87%) PKI
16 35 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
17 34 (1.77%) Data Structures
17 34 (1.77%) Over-the-Top Content
18 30 (1.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 195 (10.14%) Linux
2 101 (5.25%) Windows
3 73 (3.80%) Unix
4 51 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.55%) Android
6 45 (2.34%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.30%) Windows 10
8 20 (1.04%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
12 15 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.52%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.36%) CentOS
15 5 (0.26%) VMS
16 1 (0.052%) Debian
16 1 (0.052%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.052%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.052%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (34.27%) CI/CD
2 566 (29.43%) Agile
3 526 (27.35%) DevOps
4 517 (26.89%) Software Engineering
5 438 (22.78%) Mentoring
6 353 (18.36%) Microservices
7 330 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
8 328 (17.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 324 (16.85%) Full-Stack Development
10 298 (15.50%) AI
11 287 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 270 (14.04%) Containerisation
13 232 (12.06%) Coaching
14 216 (11.23%) Roadmaps
15 213 (11.08%) Test Automation
16 187 (9.72%) ITIL
17 185 (9.62%) Technical Leadership
18 167 (8.68%) Clean Code
19 166 (8.63%) Computer Science
19 166 (8.63%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 593 (30.84%) Python
2 486 (25.27%) Java
3 314 (16.33%) TypeScript
4 312 (16.22%) JavaScript
5 286 (14.87%) SQL
6 191 (9.93%) C#
7 185 (9.62%) Go
8 125 (6.50%) Bash
9 72 (3.74%) PHP
10 58 (3.02%) PowerShell
10 58 (3.02%) Scala
11 43 (2.24%) C++
12 25 (1.30%) Kotlin
13 23 (1.20%) Ruby
14 20 (1.04%) Rust
15 19 (0.99%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.83%) Bicep
17 15 (0.78%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.42%) Delphi
19 7 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 357 (18.56%) Degree
2 255 (13.26%) AWS Certification
3 218 (11.34%) Security Cleared
4 186 (9.67%) SC Cleared
5 162 (8.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 124 (6.45%) MCSE
7 115 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 71 (3.69%) Azure Certification
9 51 (2.65%) CISSP
10 39 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 37 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
12 36 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
13 35 (1.82%) DV Cleared
14 30 (1.56%) CREST Certified
15 28 (1.46%) CISM
16 26 (1.35%) Master's Degree
17 23 (1.20%) DBS Check
18 21 (1.09%) OSCP
19 20 (1.04%) CCNP
20 19 (0.99%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (9.88%) QA
2 92 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 60 (3.12%) GDPR
4 55 (2.86%) NIST
5 49 (2.55%) PCI DSS
6 43 (2.24%) Data Quality
7 33 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.72%) SOC 2
8 30 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 29 (1.51%) GRC
10 27 (1.40%) SLA
11 18 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 15 (0.78%) NCSC
13 13 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.62%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.52%) ISO 9001
15 10 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 6 (0.31%) EU AI Act
17 5 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 377 (19.60%) Docker
2 80 (4.16%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 31 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.62%) vSphere
6 7 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.26%) Firmware
8 5 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.052%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.052%) KVM
11 1 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.052%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 389 (20.23%) Terraform
2 355 (18.46%) Kubernetes
3 154 (8.01%) Ansible
4 136 (7.07%) Grafana
5 79 (4.11%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.34%) Argo
7 34 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.99%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.52%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.42%) Nmap
13 7 (0.36%) Kibana
14 5 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.26%) Cilium
14 5 (0.26%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.21%) Autotask
15 4 (0.21%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.21%) Packer
15 4 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 282 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 124 (6.45%) ServiceNow
3 123 (6.40%) Google
4 59 (3.07%) Oracle
5 58 (3.02%) VMware
6 57 (2.96%) Cisco
7 36 (1.87%) Databricks
8 34 (1.77%) Typelevel
9 30 (1.56%) Apple
9 30 (1.56%) Red Hat
10 25 (1.30%) Salesforce
11 24 (1.25%) SAP
12 23 (1.20%) Splunk
13 22 (1.14%) IBM
13 22 (1.14%) Okta
14 20 (1.04%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.04%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.99%) Adobe
15 19 (0.99%) SolarWinds
16 17 (0.88%) Dell