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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,361 2,171 4,902
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.58% 13.88% 14.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.40% 36.48% 33.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,519 1,370 4,140
10th Percentile £46,050 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,551 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £107,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,050 £135,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 7,766 5,951 14,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.11% 38.05% 42.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,505 4,348 12,077
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

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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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS over the 6 months to 25 June 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 61 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 27 (1.14%) Apache
4 23 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.68%) CMS
6 15 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.47%) IIS
8 8 (0.34%) Confluence
9 7 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.30%) nginx
10 6 (0.25%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.25%) WordPress
11 4 (0.17%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.17%) Mule
12 3 (0.13%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.085%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.085%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 88 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.21%) AutoCAD
3 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.21%) DaVinci Resolve
3 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.085%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.085%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.042%) Elementor
6 1 (0.042%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.02%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.21%) Shopify
3 4 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.085%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.042%) Magento
5 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.042%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 999 (42.31%) Azure
2 598 (25.33%) GCP
3 256 (10.84%) Serverless
4 240 (10.17%) SaaS
5 190 (8.05%) GitHub
6 169 (7.16%) Amazon S3
7 166 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
8 153 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
9 122 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
10 104 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 103 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
12 87 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
13 83 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
14 71 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
15 56 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 56 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
16 49 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
16 49 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 48 (2.03%) Entra ID
18 43 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 140 (5.93%) Firewall
2 136 (5.76%) Broadband
3 77 (3.26%) VPN
4 75 (3.18%) WAN
5 68 (2.88%) DNS
6 65 (2.75%) LAN
7 55 (2.33%) Network Security
8 48 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
9 44 (1.86%) TCP/IP
10 42 (1.78%) DHCP
11 38 (1.61%) HTTP
12 34 (1.44%) SD-WAN
13 30 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
14 29 (1.23%) VXLAN
15 26 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
16 23 (0.97%) VLAN
17 20 (0.85%) BGP
18 17 (0.72%) NGFW
19 16 (0.68%) MPLS
19 16 (0.68%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
2 222 (9.40%) MongoDB
3 121 (5.12%) NoSQL
4 97 (4.11%) SQL Server
5 92 (3.90%) MySQL
6 90 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
7 63 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
8 61 (2.58%) DynamoDB
9 58 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 58 (2.46%) Relational Database
10 56 (2.37%) Metadata
11 45 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
13 38 (1.61%) Redis
14 35 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
15 30 (1.27%) BigQuery
16 28 (1.19%) Data Lake
17 27 (1.14%) Tableau
18 22 (0.93%) Power BI
19 20 (0.85%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 128 (5.42%) Git
2 81 (3.43%) GitLab
2 81 (3.43%) Jenkins
3 63 (2.67%) TeamCity
4 51 (2.16%) Cypress.io
5 41 (1.74%) JIRA
6 25 (1.06%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.72%) Selenium
8 16 (0.68%) JUnit
9 15 (0.64%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.59%) Crashlytics
10 14 (0.59%) JMeter
10 14 (0.59%) Maven
10 14 (0.59%) XCTest
11 12 (0.51%) Jaeger
12 11 (0.47%) Postman
13 9 (0.38%) MLflow
13 9 (0.38%) Mockito
14 7 (0.30%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.25%) Metasploit
General
1 570 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 523 (22.15%) Finance
3 258 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 226 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 218 (9.23%) Banking
6 179 (7.58%) Law
7 146 (6.18%) Retail
8 127 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
9 65 (2.75%) Legal
10 54 (2.29%) Back Office
11 53 (2.24%) Financial Institution
12 51 (2.16%) Games
13 44 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.78%) French Language
14 42 (1.78%) Front Office
15 35 (1.48%) Swedish Language
16 27 (1.14%) Marketing
16 27 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
17 23 (0.97%) Telecoms
18 22 (0.93%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 557 (23.59%) Senior
2 506 (21.43%) Developer
3 416 (17.62%) Software Engineer
4 319 (13.51%) Lead
5 262 (11.10%) Architect
6 156 (6.61%) AWS Engineer
7 146 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
8 118 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 118 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 114 (4.83%) Analyst
10 107 (4.53%) Lead Software Engineer
11 106 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 97 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
13 96 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
14 93 (3.94%) Lead Developer
15 92 (3.90%) .NET Developer
15 92 (3.90%) Software Developer
16 89 (3.77%) Consultant
16 89 (3.77%) Engineering Manager
16 89 (3.77%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 408 (17.28%) React
2 341 (14.44%) Node.js
3 200 (8.47%) .NET
4 150 (6.35%) REST
5 128 (5.42%) Spring
6 125 (5.29%) RESTful
7 122 (5.17%) Kafka
8 114 (4.83%) CSS
9 113 (4.79%) Vue
10 98 (4.15%) AngularJS
11 92 (3.90%) Spring Boot
12 86 (3.64%) .NET Core
13 78 (3.30%) HTML
14 76 (3.22%) ASP.NET
15 68 (2.88%) ASP.NET Core
16 53 (2.24%) Ruby on Rails
17 50 (2.12%) Redux
18 49 (2.08%) gRPC
19 48 (2.03%) .NET Framework
20 41 (1.74%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 390 (16.52%) Cloud Native
2 196 (8.30%) Product Ownership
3 180 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.07%) Public Cloud
5 79 (3.35%) Video\Live Streaming
6 78 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
7 64 (2.71%) Data Centre
8 57 (2.41%) Security Posture
9 55 (2.33%) Onboarding
10 54 (2.29%) Management Information System
11 53 (2.24%) Blog
12 46 (1.95%) Over-the-Top Content
13 45 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
14 44 (1.86%) Fixed Income
14 44 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
15 42 (1.78%) Mobile App
16 39 (1.65%) AI Agents
16 39 (1.65%) PKI
17 35 (1.48%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 205 (8.68%) Linux
2 131 (5.55%) Windows
3 56 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 53 (2.24%) Unix
5 41 (1.74%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.19%) Android
7 16 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (0.38%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.17%) Debian
13 3 (0.13%) CentOS
14 1 (0.042%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.042%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.042%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.042%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (35.32%) CI/CD
2 742 (31.43%) Agile
3 732 (31.00%) Software Engineering
4 539 (22.83%) Mentoring
5 535 (22.66%) DevOps
6 492 (20.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 475 (20.12%) Microservices
8 434 (18.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 433 (18.34%) AI
10 410 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 395 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
12 353 (14.95%) Test Automation
13 341 (14.44%) Containerisation
14 331 (14.02%) Technical Leadership
15 300 (12.71%) Roadmaps
16 278 (11.77%) Coaching
17 251 (10.63%) Clean Code
18 239 (10.12%) Machine Learning
19 227 (9.61%) Observability
20 222 (9.40%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 659 (27.91%) Python
2 534 (22.62%) Java
3 389 (16.48%) TypeScript
4 366 (15.50%) JavaScript
5 337 (14.27%) SQL
6 250 (10.59%) C#
7 203 (8.60%) Go
8 111 (4.70%) Bash
9 77 (3.26%) Scala
10 70 (2.96%) C++
10 70 (2.96%) PHP
11 63 (2.67%) Ruby
12 55 (2.33%) PowerShell
13 34 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 27 (1.14%) Rust
15 17 (0.72%) Bicep
16 14 (0.59%) Swift
17 13 (0.55%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.38%) Groovy
19 7 (0.30%) C
Qualifications
1 316 (13.38%) Security Cleared
2 285 (12.07%) Degree
3 264 (11.18%) SC Cleared
4 184 (7.79%) AWS Certification
5 97 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 82 (3.47%) MCSE
7 81 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 62 (2.63%) CISSP
9 55 (2.33%) Azure Certification
10 46 (1.95%) DV Cleared
11 41 (1.74%) CISM
12 37 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 32 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
14 26 (1.10%) DBS Check
15 22 (0.93%) CREST Certified
16 21 (0.89%) CCNP
17 18 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
18 17 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
19 16 (0.68%) CCNA
19 16 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (7.88%) QA
2 92 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 66 (2.80%) NIST
4 58 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 54 (2.29%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.95%) GDPR
7 37 (1.57%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.19%) GRC
9 26 (1.10%) NCSC
10 17 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 16 (0.68%) SOC 2
12 15 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.51%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.47%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.38%) SLA
16 8 (0.34%) WCAG
17 7 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 425 (18.00%) Docker
2 63 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 42 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.74%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.76%) vSphere
7 6 (0.25%) Firmware
7 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.21%) KVM
9 3 (0.13%) iptables
9 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.085%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.042%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.042%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 420 (17.79%) Terraform
2 380 (16.09%) Kubernetes
3 138 (5.84%) Ansible
4 120 (5.08%) Grafana
5 55 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.52%) Argo
7 23 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.68%) Proxmox
9 14 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (0.55%) Istio
11 12 (0.51%) Kustomize
11 12 (0.51%) Podman
11 12 (0.51%) Puppet
11 12 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.38%) Packer
13 7 (0.30%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.25%) Nmap
Vendors
1 374 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 113 (4.79%) ServiceNow
3 106 (4.49%) Google
4 70 (2.96%) VMware
5 67 (2.84%) Cisco
6 55 (2.33%) Oracle
7 45 (1.91%) Typelevel
8 40 (1.69%) Databricks
9 35 (1.48%) Splunk
10 34 (1.44%) Apple
10 34 (1.44%) Fortinet
10 34 (1.44%) Palo Alto
11 33 (1.40%) SolarWinds
12 29 (1.23%) Adobe
13 25 (1.06%) Salesforce
14 24 (1.02%) SAP
15 21 (0.89%) Aruba
16 20 (0.85%) OpenAI
17 18 (0.76%) Dell
17 18 (0.76%) Dynatrace