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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,969 2,257 4,380
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.64% 16.89% 14.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.10% 35.63% 32.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,276 1,619 3,857
10th Percentile £45,375 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.84% -5.52%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £118,750 £111,250
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 6,331 6,335 13,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.43% 47.41% 45.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,272 4,700 11,867
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,173 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% +7.92% -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 20 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 73 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 27 (1.37%) Apache
4 23 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.81%) CMS
6 11 (0.56%) Confluence
6 11 (0.56%) nginx
6 11 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.41%) WordPress
8 7 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.36%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
9 5 (0.25%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.25%) Drupal
9 5 (0.25%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Spatial
10 4 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 120 (6.09%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.051%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.051%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.051%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
1 12 (0.61%) Shopify
2 8 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.10%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.051%) Magento
5 1 (0.051%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.051%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.051%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 842 (42.76%) Azure
2 531 (26.97%) GCP
3 275 (13.97%) Serverless
4 244 (12.39%) SaaS
5 195 (9.90%) GitHub
6 183 (9.29%) AWS Lambda
7 178 (9.04%) Amazon S3
8 174 (8.84%) Microsoft 365
9 137 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
10 106 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 94 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
12 81 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
13 79 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
15 71 (3.61%) Entra ID
16 66 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 52 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
17 52 (2.64%) dbt
18 44 (2.23%) Snowflake
19 40 (2.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 124 (6.30%) Firewall
2 89 (4.52%) Broadband
3 61 (3.10%) VPN
4 57 (2.89%) WAN
5 50 (2.54%) TCP/IP
6 48 (2.44%) LAN
6 48 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
7 47 (2.39%) DNS
8 44 (2.23%) Network Security
9 29 (1.47%) SD-WAN
10 26 (1.32%) DHCP
10 26 (1.32%) VXLAN
11 25 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
12 22 (1.12%) BGP
12 22 (1.12%) VLAN
13 21 (1.07%) SSL
14 20 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
15 18 (0.91%) HTTP
15 18 (0.91%) NGFW
16 16 (0.81%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (9.34%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 101 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 100 (5.08%) MongoDB
5 84 (4.27%) MySQL
6 74 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 53 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
9 50 (2.54%) DynamoDB
10 47 (2.39%) Metadata
11 44 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
12 43 (2.18%) BigQuery
13 41 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 34 (1.73%) Tableau
15 33 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
16 32 (1.63%) Data Lake
17 28 (1.42%) Redis
18 27 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
19 22 (1.12%) Power BI
19 22 (1.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 120 (6.09%) Git
2 104 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 76 (3.86%) GitLab
4 59 (3.00%) TeamCity
5 44 (2.23%) Cypress.io
6 32 (1.63%) JIRA
7 20 (1.02%) Selenium
8 19 (0.96%) Jaeger
9 15 (0.76%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.71%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.71%) JMeter
11 13 (0.66%) MLflow
11 13 (0.66%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
13 11 (0.56%) JUnit
14 9 (0.46%) Crashlytics
14 9 (0.46%) Subversion
14 9 (0.46%) XCTest
15 8 (0.41%) Burp Suite
General
1 609 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 433 (21.99%) Finance
3 216 (10.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 182 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 181 (9.19%) Banking
6 163 (8.28%) Retail
7 159 (8.08%) Law
8 129 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
9 101 (5.13%) French Language
10 70 (3.56%) Financial Institution
11 64 (3.25%) Swedish Language
12 60 (3.05%) Back Office
13 57 (2.89%) Front Office
14 55 (2.79%) Telecoms
15 51 (2.59%) Legal
16 50 (2.54%) Games
17 45 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
18 35 (1.78%) Marketing
19 33 (1.68%) Tech for Good
20 30 (1.52%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 450 (22.85%) Senior
2 375 (19.05%) Developer
3 309 (15.69%) Software Engineer
4 271 (13.76%) Lead
5 199 (10.11%) Architect
6 140 (7.11%) Analyst
7 117 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 113 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
9 101 (5.13%) Service Analyst
9 101 (5.13%) Service Desk Analyst
10 100 (5.08%) Lead Developer
11 97 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
12 94 (4.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 88 (4.47%) Java Engineer
14 85 (4.32%) Data Engineer
14 85 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
15 78 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
16 71 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 71 (3.61%) Java Software Engineer
17 69 (3.50%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (17.98%) React
2 231 (11.73%) Node.js
3 148 (7.52%) Kafka
4 145 (7.36%) .NET
5 131 (6.65%) RESTful
6 106 (5.38%) Spring
7 105 (5.33%) REST
8 97 (4.93%) CSS
9 94 (4.77%) Spring Boot
10 79 (4.01%) HTML
11 65 (3.30%) AngularJS
11 65 (3.30%) Vue
12 63 (3.20%) gRPC
13 61 (3.10%) Django
14 55 (2.79%) Redux
15 49 (2.49%) .NET Core
16 46 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
17 41 (2.08%) GraphQL
17 41 (2.08%) JSON
18 35 (1.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 301 (15.29%) Cloud Native
2 141 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
3 111 (5.64%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.50%) Public Cloud
5 62 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
6 60 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 60 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 59 (3.00%) Onboarding
8 54 (2.74%) Blog
9 51 (2.59%) Fixed Income
10 49 (2.49%) Security Posture
11 45 (2.29%) Video\Live Streaming
12 43 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
14 40 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
15 36 (1.83%) Mobile App
15 36 (1.83%) Over-the-Top Content
16 35 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
16 35 (1.78%) PKI
17 34 (1.73%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 198 (10.06%) Linux
2 102 (5.18%) Windows
3 73 (3.71%) Unix
4 51 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.49%) Android
6 48 (2.44%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.32%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.07%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.51%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.36%) CentOS
14 4 (0.20%) 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 Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 674 (34.23%) CI/CD
2 582 (29.56%) Agile
3 533 (27.07%) Software Engineering
4 528 (26.82%) DevOps
5 447 (22.70%) Mentoring
6 358 (18.18%) Microservices
7 341 (17.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 340 (17.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 337 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
10 307 (15.59%) AI
11 301 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 290 (14.73%) Containerisation
13 238 (12.09%) Test Automation
14 237 (12.04%) Coaching
15 222 (11.27%) Roadmaps
16 191 (9.70%) Technical Leadership
17 180 (9.14%) Clean Code
17 180 (9.14%) ITIL
18 170 (8.63%) Computer Science
19 168 (8.53%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 617 (31.34%) Python
2 491 (24.94%) Java
3 310 (15.74%) JavaScript
4 304 (15.44%) TypeScript
5 292 (14.83%) SQL
6 201 (10.21%) Go
7 195 (9.90%) C#
8 125 (6.35%) Bash
9 76 (3.86%) PHP
10 61 (3.10%) Scala
11 54 (2.74%) PowerShell
12 51 (2.59%) C++
13 28 (1.42%) Kotlin
14 27 (1.37%) Ruby
15 21 (1.07%) Rust
16 17 (0.86%) Shell Script
17 16 (0.81%) Bicep
18 13 (0.66%) PL/SQL
19 9 (0.46%) Swift
20 8 (0.41%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 357 (18.13%) Degree
2 244 (12.39%) AWS Certification
3 218 (11.07%) Security Cleared
4 187 (9.50%) SC Cleared
5 155 (7.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 122 (6.20%) MCSE
7 120 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 69 (3.50%) Azure Certification
9 50 (2.54%) CISSP
10 39 (1.98%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
13 33 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (1.68%) CREST Certified
14 28 (1.42%) CISM
15 24 (1.22%) Master's Degree
16 23 (1.17%) DBS Check
17 22 (1.12%) CCNP
17 22 (1.12%) OSCP
18 20 (1.02%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (10.01%) QA
2 91 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.89%) GDPR
4 55 (2.79%) NIST
5 51 (2.59%) PCI DSS
6 43 (2.18%) Data Quality
7 36 (1.83%) Accessibility
8 32 (1.63%) GRC
8 32 (1.63%) SOC 2
9 28 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 27 (1.37%) SLA
11 16 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 15 (0.76%) NCSC
13 14 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.61%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.51%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 6 (0.30%) EU AI Act
17 6 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 393 (19.96%) Docker
2 78 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.83%) Hyper-V
4 31 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.71%) vSphere
7 6 (0.30%) Firmware
7 6 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.051%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.051%) KVM
10 1 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 397 (20.16%) Terraform
2 363 (18.44%) Kubernetes
3 149 (7.57%) Ansible
4 137 (6.96%) Grafana
5 76 (3.86%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.23%) Argo
7 32 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
8 29 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.96%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.41%) Istio
11 8 (0.41%) Nmap
11 8 (0.41%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.30%) Kibana
12 6 (0.30%) Podman
13 5 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.20%) Autotask
14 4 (0.20%) Cilium
14 4 (0.20%) HP Fortify
14 4 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 287 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 133 (6.75%) Google
3 120 (6.09%) ServiceNow
4 60 (3.05%) Cisco
5 59 (3.00%) Oracle
6 58 (2.95%) VMware
7 36 (1.83%) Typelevel
8 33 (1.68%) Databricks
9 30 (1.52%) Apple
9 30 (1.52%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 26 (1.32%) Splunk
11 24 (1.22%) Palo Alto
11 24 (1.22%) SAP
12 23 (1.17%) Fortinet
13 20 (1.02%) Okta
13 20 (1.02%) SolarWinds
14 19 (0.96%) Adobe
14 19 (0.96%) IBM
15 17 (0.86%) Dell