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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,300 2,145 4,875
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.52% 13.97% 14.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.54% 36.52% 33.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,460 1,347 4,101
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,521 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +3.57% -5.08%
75th Percentile £90,000 £104,375 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £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 7,530 5,874 14,578
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.72% 38.26% 42.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,265 4,270 12,120
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,103
25th Percentile £45,748 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +2.50% -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% -9.45%

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 17 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 65 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.26%) Apache
4 23 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.65%) CMS
5 15 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.39%) Confluence
7 8 (0.35%) IIS
8 7 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.30%) nginx
9 6 (0.26%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.17%) WordPress
11 3 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.13%) Mule
12 2 (0.087%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.087%) Camunda
12 2 (0.087%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.087%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 78 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.22%) DaVinci Resolve
6 3 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.087%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.043%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.043%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.04%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.22%) Shopify
3 4 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.087%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.043%) Magento
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.043%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 966 (42.00%) Azure
2 587 (25.52%) GCP
3 262 (11.39%) Serverless
4 226 (9.83%) SaaS
5 180 (7.83%) GitHub
6 173 (7.52%) Amazon S3
7 171 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
8 138 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
9 116 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
10 101 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 99 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
12 90 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
13 81 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
14 73 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
15 57 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 56 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
17 49 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 46 (2.00%) Entra ID
19 44 (1.91%) Snowflake
20 42 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 141 (6.13%) Broadband
2 136 (5.91%) Firewall
3 74 (3.22%) WAN
4 72 (3.13%) VPN
5 64 (2.78%) LAN
6 63 (2.74%) DNS
7 52 (2.26%) Network Security
8 48 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
9 41 (1.78%) TCP/IP
10 38 (1.65%) HTTP
11 37 (1.61%) DHCP
12 36 (1.57%) SD-WAN
13 31 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
14 30 (1.30%) VXLAN
15 27 (1.17%) Cisco Firepower
16 22 (0.96%) VLAN
17 20 (0.87%) BGP
18 18 (0.78%) MPLS
19 17 (0.74%) NGFW
20 16 (0.70%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
2 205 (8.91%) MongoDB
3 129 (5.61%) NoSQL
4 89 (3.87%) SQL Server
5 87 (3.78%) MySQL
6 77 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
7 65 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 64 (2.78%) DynamoDB
9 63 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
10 57 (2.48%) Metadata
11 45 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
12 44 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
13 40 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
15 34 (1.48%) Redis
16 32 (1.39%) BigQuery
17 28 (1.22%) Tableau
18 26 (1.13%) Data Lake
19 25 (1.09%) RDBMS
20 21 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 125 (5.43%) Git
2 84 (3.65%) GitLab
3 78 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.52%) TeamCity
5 52 (2.26%) Cypress.io
6 41 (1.78%) JIRA
7 22 (0.96%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.78%) Jaeger
9 15 (0.65%) CircleCI
9 15 (0.65%) JUnit
9 15 (0.65%) Maven
9 15 (0.65%) Selenium
10 14 (0.61%) Crashlytics
10 14 (0.61%) JMeter
10 14 (0.61%) XCTest
11 10 (0.43%) MLflow
11 10 (0.43%) Postman
12 9 (0.39%) Mockito
13 7 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 548 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 494 (21.48%) Finance
3 252 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 240 (10.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 211 (9.17%) Banking
6 174 (7.57%) Law
7 138 (6.00%) Retail
8 129 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
9 62 (2.70%) Legal
10 50 (2.17%) Back Office
11 49 (2.13%) Financial Institution
11 49 (2.13%) Games
12 44 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (1.83%) Front Office
14 41 (1.78%) French Language
15 27 (1.17%) Marketing
15 27 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
16 24 (1.04%) Swedish Language
17 23 (1.00%) Telecoms
18 21 (0.91%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 540 (23.48%) Senior
2 490 (21.30%) Developer
3 404 (17.57%) Software Engineer
4 316 (13.74%) Lead
5 255 (11.09%) Architect
6 157 (6.83%) AWS Engineer
7 142 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 119 (5.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 113 (4.91%) Senior Software Engineer
10 108 (4.70%) Analyst
11 102 (4.43%) Lead Software Engineer
12 99 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
13 95 (4.13%) Lead Developer
14 94 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
15 93 (4.04%) Software Developer
16 92 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
17 89 (3.87%) Data Engineer
18 87 (3.78%) Senior Developer
19 86 (3.74%) Consultant
19 86 (3.74%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (17.65%) React
2 326 (14.17%) Node.js
3 183 (7.96%) .NET
4 144 (6.26%) REST
5 124 (5.39%) Spring
6 123 (5.35%) RESTful
7 121 (5.26%) Kafka
8 112 (4.87%) CSS
9 100 (4.35%) Vue
10 89 (3.87%) AngularJS
10 89 (3.87%) Spring Boot
11 76 (3.30%) HTML
12 72 (3.13%) .NET Core
13 61 (2.65%) ASP.NET
14 53 (2.30%) ASP.NET Core
15 51 (2.22%) Redux
15 51 (2.22%) Ruby on Rails
16 49 (2.13%) gRPC
17 42 (1.83%) GraphQL
18 41 (1.78%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 382 (16.61%) Cloud Native
2 189 (8.22%) Product Ownership
3 173 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
4 93 (4.04%) Public Cloud
5 79 (3.43%) Video\Live Streaming
6 76 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
7 61 (2.65%) Data Centre
8 57 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 57 (2.48%) Security Posture
9 52 (2.26%) Blog
10 49 (2.13%) Management Information System
11 46 (2.00%) Over-the-Top Content
12 45 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
12 45 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (1.87%) Fixed Income
14 41 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
14 41 (1.78%) Mobile App
14 41 (1.78%) PKI
15 36 (1.57%) Low-Code
16 34 (1.48%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 192 (8.35%) Linux
2 114 (4.96%) Windows
3 51 (2.22%) Unix
3 51 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 42 (1.83%) Apple iOS
5 29 (1.26%) Android
6 17 (0.74%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.30%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.13%) CentOS
13 2 (0.087%) Debian
14 1 (0.043%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.043%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.043%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.043%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (34.70%) CI/CD
2 714 (31.04%) Agile
3 706 (30.70%) Software Engineering
4 523 (22.74%) Mentoring
5 517 (22.48%) DevOps
6 475 (20.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 447 (19.43%) Microservices
8 425 (18.48%) AI
9 422 (18.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 396 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 383 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
12 338 (14.70%) Containerisation
13 336 (14.61%) Test Automation
14 315 (13.70%) Technical Leadership
15 300 (13.04%) Roadmaps
16 267 (11.61%) Coaching
17 244 (10.61%) Clean Code
18 230 (10.00%) Machine Learning
19 223 (9.70%) Observability
20 202 (8.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 645 (28.04%) Python
2 535 (23.26%) Java
3 378 (16.43%) TypeScript
4 360 (15.65%) JavaScript
5 323 (14.04%) SQL
6 235 (10.22%) C#
7 212 (9.22%) Go
8 119 (5.17%) Bash
9 76 (3.30%) Scala
10 71 (3.09%) C++
11 67 (2.91%) PHP
12 59 (2.57%) Ruby
13 47 (2.04%) PowerShell
14 34 (1.48%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.22%) Rust
16 14 (0.61%) Bicep
16 14 (0.61%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.61%) Swift
17 9 (0.39%) Groovy
18 7 (0.30%) C
Qualifications
1 311 (13.52%) Security Cleared
2 277 (12.04%) Degree
3 262 (11.39%) SC Cleared
4 187 (8.13%) AWS Certification
5 88 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 72 (3.13%) MCSE
8 60 (2.61%) CISSP
9 56 (2.43%) Azure Certification
10 47 (2.04%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.65%) CISM
12 36 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 31 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (1.17%) DBS Check
15 24 (1.04%) CREST Certified
16 20 (0.87%) CCNP
17 19 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
18 18 (0.78%) OSCP
19 17 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
20 15 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (7.35%) QA
2 90 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 65 (2.83%) NIST
4 59 (2.57%) Data Quality
5 53 (2.30%) Accessibility
6 42 (1.83%) GDPR
7 39 (1.70%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.22%) NCSC
9 26 (1.13%) GRC
10 17 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 17 (0.74%) SOC 2
11 14 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.57%) JSP 440
13 11 (0.48%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.39%) SLA
15 8 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.35%) WCAG
16 7 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 418 (18.17%) Docker
2 61 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 37 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.78%) vSphere
7 6 (0.26%) Firmware
7 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.22%) KVM
9 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.043%) iptables
11 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.043%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 412 (17.91%) Terraform
2 368 (16.00%) Kubernetes
3 138 (6.00%) Ansible
4 117 (5.09%) Grafana
5 63 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.83%) Argo
7 22 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.78%) Kustomize
9 15 (0.65%) Proxmox
10 14 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (0.57%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.52%) Istio
12 12 (0.52%) Podman
13 10 (0.43%) Puppet
14 9 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
14 9 (0.39%) Packer
15 6 (0.26%) Avamar
15 6 (0.26%) Dell DRAC
15 6 (0.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 345 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 111 (4.83%) Google
3 101 (4.39%) ServiceNow
4 68 (2.96%) Cisco
5 64 (2.78%) VMware
6 49 (2.13%) Oracle
7 45 (1.96%) Typelevel
8 40 (1.74%) Apple
9 36 (1.57%) Databricks
10 35 (1.52%) Adobe
11 34 (1.48%) Fortinet
12 33 (1.43%) Palo Alto
12 33 (1.43%) Splunk
13 31 (1.35%) SolarWinds
14 23 (1.00%) Salesforce
15 22 (0.96%) SAP
16 20 (0.87%) Aruba
17 18 (0.78%) CheckPoint
18 17 (0.74%) Dell
18 17 (0.74%) Dynatrace