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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,901 2,404 4,390
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.48% 17.11% 14.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.85% 36.03% 32.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,268 1,681 3,843
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £51,250
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 £117,500 £118,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,932 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.16% +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 6,162 6,673 13,566
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.22% 47.48% 45.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,183 4,785 11,796
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 9 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 (4.16%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 34 (1.79%) Apache
4 26 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.79%) CMS
5 15 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Confluence
7 11 (0.58%) nginx
8 9 (0.47%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.47%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.47%) 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 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.053%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.053%) Notion
Business Applications
1 16 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (0.58%) Shopify
3 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.11%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.053%) Magento
6 1 (0.053%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.053%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.053%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 815 (42.87%) Azure
2 507 (26.67%) GCP
3 266 (13.99%) Serverless
4 247 (12.99%) SaaS
5 189 (9.94%) GitHub
6 181 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
7 180 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
8 171 (9.00%) Amazon S3
9 133 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
10 106 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 89 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
12 81 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
13 76 (4.00%) Entra ID
14 74 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (3.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 67 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
17 59 (3.10%) dbt
18 51 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
19 48 (2.52%) Snowflake
20 43 (2.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 117 (6.15%) Firewall
2 62 (3.26%) Broadband
3 60 (3.16%) VPN
4 53 (2.79%) WAN
5 47 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
6 46 (2.42%) TCP/IP
7 43 (2.26%) LAN
8 41 (2.16%) DNS
8 41 (2.16%) Network Security
9 27 (1.42%) SD-WAN
10 26 (1.37%) VXLAN
11 25 (1.32%) DHCP
12 22 (1.16%) VLAN
13 21 (1.10%) BGP
13 21 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
13 21 (1.10%) SSL
14 18 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
14 18 (0.95%) NGFW
15 17 (0.89%) HTTP
16 16 (0.84%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (5.84%) NoSQL
3 97 (5.10%) SQL Server
4 84 (4.42%) MongoDB
5 82 (4.31%) MySQL
6 70 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.21%) Relational Database
8 55 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
9 48 (2.52%) DynamoDB
9 48 (2.52%) Metadata
10 44 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 44 (2.31%) BigQuery
11 42 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
12 40 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
13 37 (1.95%) Data Lake
14 36 (1.89%) Tableau
15 34 (1.79%) Apache Iceberg
16 28 (1.47%) Redis
17 24 (1.26%) Power BI
18 23 (1.21%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 115 (6.05%) Git
2 114 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 74 (3.89%) GitLab
4 58 (3.05%) TeamCity
5 34 (1.79%) Cypress.io
6 28 (1.47%) JIRA
7 19 (1.00%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.00%) Selenium
8 16 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
9 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.74%) 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
1 590 (31.04%) Social Skills
2 430 (22.62%) Finance
3 206 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 175 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 174 (9.15%) Banking
6 156 (8.21%) Retail
7 152 (8.00%) Law
8 117 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
9 104 (5.47%) French Language
10 73 (3.84%) Financial Institution
10 73 (3.84%) Swedish Language
11 63 (3.31%) Front Office
12 58 (3.05%) Back Office
13 53 (2.79%) Telecoms
14 48 (2.52%) Legal
15 46 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
16 45 (2.37%) Games
17 35 (1.84%) Tech for Good
18 32 (1.68%) Marketing
19 30 (1.58%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 443 (23.30%) Senior
2 359 (18.88%) Developer
3 305 (16.04%) Software Engineer
4 261 (13.73%) Lead
5 192 (10.10%) Architect
6 146 (7.68%) Analyst
7 114 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
8 111 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
9 104 (5.47%) Service Analyst
9 104 (5.47%) Service Desk Analyst
10 100 (5.26%) Lead Developer
11 95 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
12 90 (4.73%) Java Engineer
13 89 (4.68%) Data Engineer
13 89 (4.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 85 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
15 82 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
16 74 (3.89%) Java Software Engineer
17 69 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 66 (3.47%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (18.25%) React
2 216 (11.36%) Node.js
3 152 (8.00%) .NET
4 150 (7.89%) Kafka
5 133 (7.00%) RESTful
6 111 (5.84%) Spring
7 100 (5.26%) Spring Boot
8 88 (4.63%) REST
9 85 (4.47%) CSS
10 74 (3.89%) HTML
11 72 (3.79%) AngularJS
12 70 (3.68%) Vue
13 57 (3.00%) Django
14 55 (2.89%) gRPC
15 54 (2.84%) Redux
16 48 (2.52%) .NET Core
17 46 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
18 43 (2.26%) GraphQL
19 40 (2.10%) JSON
20 35 (1.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 301 (15.83%) Cloud Native
2 136 (7.15%) Distributed Systems
3 98 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
4 69 (3.63%) Public Cloud
5 61 (3.21%) Data Centre
6 59 (3.10%) Management Information System
7 57 (3.00%) Fixed Income
8 54 (2.84%) Onboarding
9 48 (2.52%) Blog
10 45 (2.37%) Security Posture
11 41 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
12 36 (1.89%) PKI
13 34 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
13 34 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
14 33 (1.74%) Data Structures
15 32 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
16 30 (1.58%) Video\Live Streaming
17 28 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
18 27 (1.42%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 191 (10.05%) Linux
2 100 (5.26%) Windows
3 74 (3.89%) Unix
4 51 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.58%) Android
6 43 (2.26%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.32%) Windows 10
8 20 (1.05%) Mac OS
9 19 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
12 15 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.53%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.37%) CentOS
15 5 (0.26%) VMS
16 1 (0.053%) Debian
16 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.053%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.053%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (33.93%) CI/CD
2 553 (29.09%) Agile
3 524 (27.56%) DevOps
4 508 (26.72%) Software Engineering
5 437 (22.99%) Mentoring
6 342 (17.99%) Microservices
7 325 (17.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 325 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
8 315 (16.57%) Full-Stack Development
9 293 (15.41%) AI
10 280 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 257 (13.52%) Containerisation
12 228 (11.99%) Coaching
13 210 (11.05%) Roadmaps
14 203 (10.68%) Test Automation
15 185 (9.73%) ITIL
15 185 (9.73%) Technical Leadership
16 167 (8.78%) Observability
17 164 (8.63%) Computer Science
18 153 (8.05%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 591 (31.09%) Python
2 489 (25.72%) Java
3 313 (16.47%) JavaScript
4 310 (16.31%) TypeScript
5 288 (15.15%) SQL
6 189 (9.94%) C#
7 178 (9.36%) Go
8 126 (6.63%) Bash
9 70 (3.68%) PHP
10 60 (3.16%) PowerShell
11 51 (2.68%) Scala
12 41 (2.16%) C++
13 23 (1.21%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.16%) Ruby
15 21 (1.10%) Shell Script
16 19 (1.00%) Rust
17 17 (0.89%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.79%) Bicep
19 8 (0.42%) Delphi
20 7 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 356 (18.73%) Degree
2 258 (13.57%) AWS Certification
3 216 (11.36%) Security Cleared
4 183 (9.63%) SC Cleared
5 162 (8.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 124 (6.52%) MCSE
7 115 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 72 (3.79%) Azure Certification
9 50 (2.63%) CISSP
10 39 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 36 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 35 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
13 30 (1.58%) DV Cleared
14 28 (1.47%) CREST Certified
15 27 (1.42%) CISM
16 25 (1.32%) Master's Degree
17 23 (1.21%) DBS Check
18 21 (1.10%) OSCP
19 19 (1.00%) CCNA
19 19 (1.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (9.84%) QA
2 88 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 61 (3.21%) GDPR
4 55 (2.89%) NIST
5 46 (2.42%) PCI DSS
6 44 (2.31%) Data Quality
7 34 (1.79%) SOC 2
8 31 (1.63%) Accessibility
9 30 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 29 (1.53%) GRC
11 28 (1.47%) SLA
12 18 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 15 (0.79%) NCSC
14 13 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.58%) JSP 440
16 10 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 9 (0.47%) ISO 9001
18 6 (0.32%) EU AI Act
19 4 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
19 4 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 367 (19.31%) Docker
2 80 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.84%) Hyper-V
4 30 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.63%) vSphere
6 6 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) Firmware
8 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.053%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.053%) KVM
9 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 390 (20.52%) Terraform
2 357 (18.78%) Kubernetes
3 154 (8.10%) Ansible
4 139 (7.31%) Grafana
5 78 (4.10%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.37%) Argo
7 36 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (1.00%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.53%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.42%) Nmap
13 7 (0.37%) 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%) Nessus
15 4 (0.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 279 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 124 (6.52%) ServiceNow
3 122 (6.42%) Google
4 62 (3.26%) Oracle
5 57 (3.00%) VMware
6 54 (2.84%) Cisco
7 36 (1.89%) Databricks
8 30 (1.58%) Apple
8 30 (1.58%) Red Hat
9 27 (1.42%) Typelevel
10 24 (1.26%) Okta
10 24 (1.26%) Salesforce
11 23 (1.21%) IBM
11 23 (1.21%) SAP
11 23 (1.21%) Splunk
12 19 (1.00%) Adobe
12 19 (1.00%) Fortinet
12 19 (1.00%) SolarWinds
13 18 (0.95%) Palo Alto
14 16 (0.84%) Dell