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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,943 2,499 4,366
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.59% 16.94% 14.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.01% 35.81% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,296 1,696 3,817
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £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% -4.80%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,966 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.12% +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 6,266 6,978 13,329
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.39% 47.30% 45.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,284 4,822 11,615
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 £103,750 £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 7 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 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 35 (1.80%) Apache
4 26 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.77%) CMS
5 15 (0.77%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.67%) Confluence
7 11 (0.57%) nginx
8 9 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.46%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
9 8 (0.41%) WordPress
10 6 (0.31%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.26%) Drupal
12 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
12 4 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 139 (7.15%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.051%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.051%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.051%) Notion
Business Applications
1 16 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (0.57%) Shopify
3 8 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.10%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.051%) Magento
6 1 (0.051%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.051%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.051%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 841 (43.28%) Azure
2 516 (26.56%) GCP
3 269 (13.84%) Serverless
4 252 (12.97%) SaaS
5 197 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
6 189 (9.73%) GitHub
7 180 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
8 172 (8.85%) Amazon S3
9 133 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
10 106 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 89 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
12 82 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (3.96%) Entra ID
14 74 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
15 73 (3.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 67 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
17 61 (3.14%) dbt
18 52 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
19 48 (2.47%) Snowflake
20 47 (2.42%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 118 (6.07%) Firewall
2 62 (3.19%) Broadband
3 61 (3.14%) VPN
4 54 (2.78%) WAN
5 48 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
6 46 (2.37%) TCP/IP
7 44 (2.26%) LAN
8 42 (2.16%) Network Security
9 41 (2.11%) DNS
10 28 (1.44%) SD-WAN
11 26 (1.34%) VXLAN
12 25 (1.29%) DHCP
13 22 (1.13%) VLAN
14 21 (1.08%) BGP
14 21 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
14 21 (1.08%) SSL
15 18 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
15 18 (0.93%) NGFW
16 17 (0.87%) HTTP
16 17 (0.87%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (5.76%) NoSQL
3 97 (4.99%) SQL Server
4 88 (4.53%) MongoDB
5 82 (4.22%) MySQL
6 70 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.14%) Relational Database
8 56 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
9 49 (2.52%) Metadata
10 48 (2.47%) DynamoDB
11 45 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 44 (2.26%) BigQuery
13 40 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
14 38 (1.96%) Data Lake
15 36 (1.85%) Tableau
16 34 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
17 28 (1.44%) Redis
18 24 (1.24%) Power BI
19 23 (1.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 115 (5.92%) Git
2 114 (5.87%) Jenkins
3 74 (3.81%) GitLab
4 58 (2.99%) TeamCity
5 34 (1.75%) Cypress.io
6 29 (1.49%) JIRA
7 19 (0.98%) Jaeger
7 19 (0.98%) Selenium
8 16 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
9 14 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.72%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.67%) JMeter
10 13 (0.67%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.62%) MLflow
12 11 (0.57%) JUnit
13 9 (0.46%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.46%) Subversion
14 8 (0.41%) Burp Suite
14 8 (0.41%) Metasploit
15 7 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 615 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 441 (22.70%) Finance
3 205 (10.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 178 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 175 (9.01%) Banking
6 157 (8.08%) Retail
7 150 (7.72%) Law
8 120 (6.18%) French Language
9 118 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
10 91 (4.68%) Swedish Language
11 73 (3.76%) Financial Institution
12 63 (3.24%) Front Office
13 58 (2.99%) Back Office
14 54 (2.78%) Telecoms
15 49 (2.52%) Games
16 48 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
16 48 (2.47%) Legal
17 35 (1.80%) Tech for Good
18 31 (1.60%) Marketing
19 30 (1.54%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 446 (22.95%) Senior
2 372 (19.15%) Developer
3 306 (15.75%) Software Engineer
4 261 (13.43%) Lead
5 200 (10.29%) Architect
6 162 (8.34%) Analyst
7 120 (6.18%) Service Analyst
7 120 (6.18%) Service Desk Analyst
8 113 (5.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 112 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
10 100 (5.15%) Lead Developer
11 95 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
12 90 (4.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 90 (4.63%) Java Engineer
13 88 (4.53%) Data Engineer
14 85 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
15 81 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
16 74 (3.81%) Java Software Engineer
17 71 (3.65%) Software Developer
18 69 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (18.22%) React
2 220 (11.32%) Node.js
3 163 (8.39%) .NET
4 154 (7.93%) Kafka
5 134 (6.90%) RESTful
6 113 (5.82%) Spring
7 102 (5.25%) Spring Boot
8 89 (4.58%) REST
9 85 (4.37%) CSS
10 76 (3.91%) AngularJS
11 74 (3.81%) HTML
11 74 (3.81%) Vue
12 57 (2.93%) Django
13 55 (2.83%) gRPC
14 54 (2.78%) Redux
15 52 (2.68%) .NET Core
16 46 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
17 44 (2.26%) GraphQL
18 39 (2.01%) JSON
19 35 (1.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 307 (15.80%) Cloud Native
2 138 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
3 98 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 69 (3.55%) Public Cloud
6 61 (3.14%) Data Centre
7 58 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 57 (2.93%) Fixed Income
9 53 (2.73%) Onboarding
10 48 (2.47%) Blog
11 46 (2.37%) Security Posture
12 42 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
13 37 (1.90%) PKI
14 35 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
15 33 (1.70%) Data Structures
15 33 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
16 32 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
17 30 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
18 28 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
19 27 (1.39%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 191 (9.83%) Linux
2 100 (5.15%) Windows
3 74 (3.81%) Unix
4 51 (2.62%) Android
4 51 (2.62%) Windows Server
5 45 (2.32%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.29%) Windows 10
7 20 (1.03%) Mac OS
8 19 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.51%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.36%) CentOS
14 5 (0.26%) VMS
15 1 (0.051%) Debian
15 1 (0.051%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.051%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.051%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (33.61%) CI/CD
2 568 (29.23%) Agile
3 529 (27.23%) DevOps
4 520 (26.76%) Software Engineering
5 442 (22.75%) Mentoring
6 353 (18.17%) Microservices
7 327 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
8 326 (16.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 323 (16.62%) Full-Stack Development
10 303 (15.59%) AI
11 279 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 260 (13.38%) Containerisation
13 232 (11.94%) Coaching
14 218 (11.22%) Roadmaps
15 204 (10.50%) ITIL
16 203 (10.45%) Test Automation
17 185 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
18 169 (8.70%) Computer Science
19 168 (8.65%) Observability
20 157 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 595 (30.62%) Python
2 496 (25.53%) Java
3 325 (16.73%) JavaScript
4 324 (16.68%) TypeScript
5 291 (14.98%) SQL
6 198 (10.19%) C#
7 179 (9.21%) Go
8 126 (6.48%) Bash
9 71 (3.65%) PHP
10 60 (3.09%) PowerShell
11 52 (2.68%) Scala
12 41 (2.11%) C++
13 24 (1.24%) Kotlin
14 21 (1.08%) Shell Script
15 20 (1.03%) Ruby
15 20 (1.03%) Rust
16 17 (0.87%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.77%) Bicep
18 8 (0.41%) Delphi
18 8 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 375 (19.30%) Degree
2 280 (14.41%) AWS Certification
3 220 (11.32%) Security Cleared
4 187 (9.62%) SC Cleared
5 180 (9.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 140 (7.21%) MCSE
7 118 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 77 (3.96%) Azure Certification
9 50 (2.57%) CISSP
10 42 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 38 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 36 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (1.60%) DV Cleared
14 28 (1.44%) CREST Certified
14 28 (1.44%) Master's Degree
15 27 (1.39%) CISM
16 23 (1.18%) DBS Check
17 21 (1.08%) OSCP
18 20 (1.03%) CCNP
19 19 (0.98%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (10.40%) QA
2 89 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (3.19%) GDPR
4 57 (2.93%) NIST
5 47 (2.42%) PCI DSS
6 45 (2.32%) Data Quality
7 34 (1.75%) SOC 2
8 30 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 29 (1.49%) Accessibility
9 29 (1.49%) GRC
10 28 (1.44%) SLA
11 18 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 16 (0.82%) NCSC
13 13 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.62%) JSP 440
15 11 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 9 (0.46%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.31%) EU AI Act
18 4 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
18 4 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 370 (19.04%) Docker
2 80 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 30 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.62%) vSphere
6 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.15%) Firmware
8 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.051%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.051%) KVM
9 1 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 390 (20.07%) Terraform
2 360 (18.53%) Kubernetes
3 154 (7.93%) Ansible
4 139 (7.15%) Grafana
5 78 (4.01%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.32%) Argo
7 36 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.98%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.51%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.41%) 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%) Nessus
15 4 (0.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 304 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 140 (7.21%) ServiceNow
3 123 (6.33%) Google
4 66 (3.40%) Oracle
5 57 (2.93%) VMware
6 54 (2.78%) Cisco
7 38 (1.96%) Databricks
8 30 (1.54%) Apple
8 30 (1.54%) Red Hat
9 27 (1.39%) Typelevel
10 25 (1.29%) SAP
11 24 (1.24%) Okta
12 23 (1.18%) IBM
12 23 (1.18%) Salesforce
12 23 (1.18%) Splunk
13 19 (0.98%) Adobe
13 19 (0.98%) Fortinet
13 19 (0.98%) SolarWinds
14 18 (0.93%) Palo Alto
15 16 (0.82%) Informatica