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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 9 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,015 2,145 4,426
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.03% 16.74% 14.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.04% 35.71% 31.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 1,603 3,881
10th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,830 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,039 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.39% +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 6,492 6,007 13,837
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.77% 46.89% 44.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,386 4,673 11,985
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,715
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 1 April 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 73 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 27 (1.34%) Apache
4 21 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.79%) CMS
6 13 (0.65%) Confluence
7 12 (0.60%) nginx
8 11 (0.55%) SharePoint
9 9 (0.45%) WordPress
10 6 (0.30%) Drupal
11 5 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.25%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
12 4 (0.20%) SAS
13 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.15%) IIS
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 107 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.099%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.050%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.050%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.050%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.050%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (0.60%) Shopify
2 8 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.099%) Magento
4 2 (0.099%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.050%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.050%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.050%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 859 (42.63%) Azure
2 553 (27.44%) GCP
3 275 (13.65%) Serverless
4 254 (12.61%) SaaS
5 197 (9.78%) GitHub
6 181 (8.98%) AWS Lambda
7 180 (8.93%) Amazon S3
8 160 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
9 138 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
10 105 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
12 85 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
13 83 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
15 67 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 67 (3.33%) Entra ID
16 52 (2.58%) dbt
17 50 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
18 44 (2.18%) Snowflake
19 40 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 127 (6.30%) Firewall
2 98 (4.86%) Broadband
3 59 (2.93%) VPN
3 59 (2.93%) WAN
4 51 (2.53%) DNS
4 51 (2.53%) LAN
5 50 (2.48%) TCP/IP
6 46 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
7 45 (2.23%) Network Security
8 28 (1.39%) SD-WAN
9 27 (1.34%) Cisco ASA
9 27 (1.34%) DHCP
10 26 (1.29%) VXLAN
11 25 (1.24%) VLAN
12 24 (1.19%) HTTP
13 22 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
14 21 (1.04%) BGP
15 20 (0.99%) SSL
16 18 (0.89%) NGFW
17 16 (0.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (6.35%) NoSQL
3 104 (5.16%) MongoDB
3 104 (5.16%) SQL Server
4 82 (4.07%) MySQL
5 76 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
6 60 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 52 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
8 51 (2.53%) DynamoDB
9 48 (2.38%) Metadata
10 46 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
11 43 (2.13%) BigQuery
12 39 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 34 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
13 34 (1.69%) Data Lake
14 33 (1.64%) Tableau
15 28 (1.39%) Redis
16 24 (1.19%) Apache Iceberg
17 22 (1.09%) Power BI
17 22 (1.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 123 (6.10%) Git
2 97 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 79 (3.92%) GitLab
4 61 (3.03%) TeamCity
5 48 (2.38%) Cypress.io
6 39 (1.94%) JIRA
7 21 (1.04%) Selenium
8 19 (0.94%) Jaeger
9 15 (0.74%) CircleCI
9 15 (0.74%) JMeter
10 14 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.69%) Cucumber
11 13 (0.65%) MLflow
11 13 (0.65%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.50%) JUnit
13 9 (0.45%) Crashlytics
13 9 (0.45%) Subversion
13 9 (0.45%) XCTest
14 8 (0.40%) Burp Suite
14 8 (0.40%) Storybook
General
1 596 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 456 (22.63%) Finance
3 220 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 198 (9.83%) Banking
5 189 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 166 (8.24%) Law
7 164 (8.14%) Retail
8 128 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
9 88 (4.37%) French Language
10 70 (3.47%) Financial Institution
11 61 (3.03%) Back Office
12 58 (2.88%) Telecoms
13 57 (2.83%) Front Office
14 52 (2.58%) Legal
15 51 (2.53%) Swedish Language
16 50 (2.48%) Games
17 46 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
18 36 (1.79%) Marketing
19 33 (1.64%) Tech for Good
20 28 (1.39%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 454 (22.53%) Senior
2 392 (19.45%) Developer
3 333 (16.53%) Software Engineer
4 279 (13.85%) Lead
5 198 (9.83%) Architect
6 127 (6.30%) Analyst
7 123 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
8 120 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
9 104 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
10 98 (4.86%) Lead Developer
11 96 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 90 (4.47%) Java Engineer
13 88 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
13 88 (4.37%) Service Analyst
13 88 (4.37%) Service Desk Analyst
14 84 (4.17%) Data Engineer
15 79 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
16 74 (3.67%) Java Software Engineer
17 73 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 71 (3.52%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (17.97%) React
2 239 (11.86%) Node.js
3 150 (7.44%) .NET
4 145 (7.20%) Kafka
5 126 (6.25%) RESTful
6 115 (5.71%) REST
7 110 (5.46%) Spring
8 108 (5.36%) CSS
9 96 (4.76%) Spring Boot
10 84 (4.17%) HTML
11 75 (3.72%) Vue
12 72 (3.57%) gRPC
13 69 (3.42%) AngularJS
14 62 (3.08%) Django
15 54 (2.68%) Redux
16 49 (2.43%) .NET Core
17 47 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
18 40 (1.99%) GraphQL
19 38 (1.89%) JSON
20 37 (1.84%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 302 (14.99%) Cloud Native
2 148 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 77 (3.82%) Public Cloud
5 63 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 61 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 61 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 56 (2.78%) Blog
8 55 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (2.68%) Video\Live Streaming
10 53 (2.63%) Security Posture
11 51 (2.53%) Fixed Income
12 45 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
12 45 (2.23%) Over-the-Top Content
13 42 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
14 41 (2.03%) Mobile App
15 38 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
16 37 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
17 33 (1.64%) Data Structures
18 32 (1.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 200 (9.93%) Linux
2 105 (5.21%) Windows
3 69 (3.42%) Unix
4 53 (2.63%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.43%) Android
6 48 (2.38%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.29%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.04%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
10 16 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.35%) CentOS
14 2 (0.099%) VMS
15 1 (0.050%) Debian
15 1 (0.050%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.050%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.050%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 697 (34.59%) CI/CD
2 595 (29.53%) Agile
3 573 (28.44%) Software Engineering
4 532 (26.40%) DevOps
5 450 (22.33%) Mentoring
6 376 (18.66%) Microservices
7 352 (17.47%) Full-Stack Development
8 349 (17.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 349 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
9 320 (15.88%) AI
10 315 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 298 (14.79%) Containerisation
12 247 (12.26%) Test Automation
13 244 (12.11%) Roadmaps
14 242 (12.01%) Coaching
15 211 (10.47%) Technical Leadership
16 192 (9.53%) Clean Code
17 181 (8.98%) Machine Learning
18 172 (8.54%) Computer Science
19 166 (8.24%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 624 (30.97%) Python
2 506 (25.11%) Java
3 314 (15.58%) JavaScript
4 306 (15.19%) TypeScript
5 294 (14.59%) SQL
6 210 (10.42%) Go
7 205 (10.17%) C#
8 126 (6.25%) Bash
9 80 (3.97%) PHP
10 71 (3.52%) Scala
11 59 (2.93%) C++
12 52 (2.58%) PowerShell
13 31 (1.54%) Ruby
14 30 (1.49%) Kotlin
15 23 (1.14%) Rust
16 15 (0.74%) Bicep
17 13 (0.65%) Shell Script
18 9 (0.45%) Swift
19 8 (0.40%) Delphi
19 8 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 344 (17.07%) Degree
2 223 (11.07%) Security Cleared
3 222 (11.02%) AWS Certification
4 190 (9.43%) SC Cleared
5 139 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 121 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 110 (5.46%) MCSE
8 66 (3.28%) Azure Certification
9 51 (2.53%) CISSP
10 42 (2.08%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
12 35 (1.74%) CREST Certified
13 33 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
14 29 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 28 (1.39%) CISM
16 24 (1.19%) OSCP
17 23 (1.14%) DBS Check
17 23 (1.14%) Master's Degree
18 22 (1.09%) CCNP
19 21 (1.04%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (9.23%) QA
2 91 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.83%) GDPR
4 56 (2.78%) NIST
5 50 (2.48%) PCI DSS
6 42 (2.08%) Data Quality
7 39 (1.94%) Accessibility
8 33 (1.64%) GRC
8 33 (1.64%) SOC 2
9 29 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 24 (1.19%) SLA
11 16 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
12 15 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 15 (0.74%) NCSC
13 13 (0.65%) JSP 440
14 10 (0.50%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 7 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.30%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 407 (20.20%) Docker
2 74 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 31 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.69%) vSphere
7 7 (0.35%) Firmware
8 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.050%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.050%) KVM
11 1 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 402 (19.95%) Terraform
2 370 (18.36%) Kubernetes
3 150 (7.44%) Ansible
4 138 (6.85%) Grafana
5 76 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.23%) Argo
7 30 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.94%) Kustomize
10 18 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.40%) Istio
11 8 (0.40%) Nmap
12 7 (0.35%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
13 6 (0.30%) Kibana
13 6 (0.30%) Podman
13 6 (0.30%) Puppet
14 5 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.25%) Packer
14 5 (0.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 284 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.75%) Google
3 105 (5.21%) ServiceNow
4 64 (3.18%) Cisco
5 58 (2.88%) VMware
6 53 (2.63%) Oracle
7 45 (2.23%) Typelevel
8 33 (1.64%) Databricks
9 31 (1.54%) Splunk
10 30 (1.49%) Apple
11 29 (1.44%) Red Hat
12 28 (1.39%) Fortinet
12 28 (1.39%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.29%) Salesforce
14 25 (1.24%) SAP
15 21 (1.04%) SolarWinds
16 20 (0.99%) Adobe
17 18 (0.89%) Okta
18 16 (0.79%) IBM
18 16 (0.79%) Informatica