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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,980 2,189 4,393
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.74% 16.94% 14.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.95% 35.77% 31.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,289 1,620 3,855
10th Percentile £46,150 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.07% -4.83%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £112,500
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 6,397 6,119 13,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.93% 47.35% 44.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,315 4,711 11,955
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -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 26 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 72 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.41%) Apache
4 22 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.81%) CMS
6 12 (0.61%) Confluence
6 12 (0.61%) nginx
6 12 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.45%) WordPress
8 6 (0.30%) Drupal
8 6 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.30%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
9 5 (0.25%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
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
1 111 (5.61%) 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 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.051%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.051%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.051%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.051%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (0.61%) Shopify
2 10 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.10%) Magento
5 2 (0.10%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.051%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.051%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 852 (43.03%) Azure
2 536 (27.07%) GCP
3 277 (13.99%) Serverless
4 251 (12.68%) SaaS
5 195 (9.85%) GitHub
6 185 (9.34%) AWS Lambda
7 183 (9.24%) Amazon S3
8 165 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
9 138 (6.97%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 95 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
12 83 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
13 81 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
15 70 (3.54%) Entra ID
16 67 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 54 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
18 51 (2.58%) dbt
19 44 (2.22%) Snowflake
20 40 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 125 (6.31%) Firewall
2 89 (4.49%) Broadband
3 59 (2.98%) VPN
4 57 (2.88%) WAN
5 50 (2.53%) DNS
5 50 (2.53%) LAN
5 50 (2.53%) TCP/IP
6 47 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
7 44 (2.22%) Network Security
8 28 (1.41%) SD-WAN
9 27 (1.36%) DHCP
10 26 (1.31%) VXLAN
11 25 (1.26%) Cisco ASA
12 22 (1.11%) VLAN
13 21 (1.06%) BGP
14 20 (1.01%) Cisco Firepower
14 20 (1.01%) SSL
15 19 (0.96%) HTTP
16 18 (0.91%) NGFW
17 16 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (6.31%) NoSQL
3 101 (5.10%) MongoDB
3 101 (5.10%) SQL Server
4 83 (4.19%) MySQL
5 76 (3.84%) Amazon RDS
6 60 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 53 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (2.68%) DynamoDB
8 48 (2.42%) Metadata
9 45 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
10 43 (2.17%) BigQuery
11 41 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
12 33 (1.67%) Tableau
13 32 (1.62%) Data Lake
14 28 (1.41%) Redis
15 26 (1.31%) Apache Iceberg
16 22 (1.11%) RDBMS
17 21 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 122 (6.16%) Git
2 104 (5.25%) Jenkins
3 79 (3.99%) GitLab
4 61 (3.08%) TeamCity
5 44 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 34 (1.72%) JIRA
7 21 (1.06%) Selenium
8 19 (0.96%) Jaeger
9 15 (0.76%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.71%) JMeter
11 13 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 13 (0.66%) MLflow
11 13 (0.66%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.51%) JUnit
12 10 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
13 9 (0.45%) Crashlytics
13 9 (0.45%) Subversion
13 9 (0.45%) XCTest
14 8 (0.40%) Burp Suite
General
1 604 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 435 (21.97%) Finance
3 218 (11.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 184 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 182 (9.19%) Banking
6 164 (8.28%) Law
7 163 (8.23%) Retail
8 128 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
9 92 (4.65%) French Language
10 71 (3.59%) Financial Institution
11 61 (3.08%) Back Office
12 57 (2.88%) Front Office
13 56 (2.83%) Telecoms
14 55 (2.78%) Swedish Language
15 52 (2.63%) Legal
16 50 (2.53%) Games
17 44 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
18 34 (1.72%) Marketing
19 33 (1.67%) Tech for Good
20 30 (1.52%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 454 (22.93%) Senior
2 382 (19.29%) Developer
3 314 (15.86%) Software Engineer
4 272 (13.74%) Lead
5 203 (10.25%) Architect
6 131 (6.62%) Analyst
7 123 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
8 116 (5.86%) AWS Engineer
9 98 (4.95%) Lead Developer
9 98 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
10 94 (4.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 92 (4.65%) Service Analyst
11 92 (4.65%) Service Desk Analyst
12 89 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
13 87 (4.39%) Java Engineer
14 85 (4.29%) Data Engineer
15 78 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
16 72 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 71 (3.59%) Java Software Engineer
18 69 (3.48%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (17.93%) React
2 234 (11.82%) Node.js
3 150 (7.58%) .NET
4 144 (7.27%) Kafka
5 127 (6.41%) RESTful
6 106 (5.35%) REST
6 106 (5.35%) Spring
7 100 (5.05%) CSS
8 94 (4.75%) Spring Boot
9 82 (4.14%) HTML
10 72 (3.64%) Vue
11 67 (3.38%) AngularJS
12 63 (3.18%) gRPC
13 61 (3.08%) Django
14 54 (2.73%) Redux
15 49 (2.47%) .NET Core
16 46 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
17 40 (2.02%) GraphQL
18 39 (1.97%) JSON
19 35 (1.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 304 (15.35%) Cloud Native
2 142 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 116 (5.86%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.54%) Public Cloud
5 62 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 61 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 60 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 56 (2.83%) Blog
9 51 (2.58%) Fixed Income
9 51 (2.58%) Security Posture
10 45 (2.27%) Video\Live Streaming
11 43 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
12 42 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
13 39 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
14 37 (1.87%) Mobile App
15 36 (1.82%) Over-the-Top Content
16 35 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
17 34 (1.72%) PKI
18 33 (1.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 204 (10.30%) Linux
2 106 (5.35%) Windows
3 72 (3.64%) Unix
4 53 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.47%) Android
6 48 (2.42%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.31%) Windows 10
8 21 (1.06%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.51%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.35%) CentOS
14 3 (0.15%) 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
1 680 (34.34%) CI/CD
2 582 (29.39%) Agile
3 542 (27.37%) Software Engineering
4 533 (26.92%) DevOps
5 444 (22.42%) Mentoring
6 365 (18.43%) Microservices
7 347 (17.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 346 (17.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 339 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
10 312 (15.76%) AI
11 311 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 291 (14.70%) Containerisation
13 240 (12.12%) Test Automation
14 237 (11.97%) Coaching
15 229 (11.57%) Roadmaps
16 198 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
17 179 (9.04%) Clean Code
18 172 (8.69%) ITIL
19 170 (8.59%) Computer Science
20 169 (8.54%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 614 (31.01%) Python
2 491 (24.80%) Java
3 308 (15.56%) JavaScript
4 300 (15.15%) TypeScript
5 290 (14.65%) SQL
6 201 (10.15%) Go
7 199 (10.05%) C#
8 126 (6.36%) Bash
9 76 (3.84%) PHP
10 62 (3.13%) Scala
11 53 (2.68%) C++
11 53 (2.68%) PowerShell
12 29 (1.46%) Kotlin
13 28 (1.41%) Ruby
14 21 (1.06%) Rust
15 17 (0.86%) Bicep
16 15 (0.76%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.51%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.45%) Swift
19 8 (0.40%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 348 (17.58%) Degree
2 234 (11.82%) AWS Certification
3 225 (11.36%) Security Cleared
4 192 (9.70%) SC Cleared
5 148 (7.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 120 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 114 (5.76%) MCSE
8 70 (3.54%) Azure Certification
9 52 (2.63%) CISSP
10 42 (2.12%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 34 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 34 (1.72%) CREST Certified
14 29 (1.46%) CISM
15 24 (1.21%) Master's Degree
16 23 (1.16%) DBS Check
17 22 (1.11%) CCNP
17 22 (1.11%) OSCP
18 21 (1.06%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (9.55%) QA
2 92 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (2.93%) GDPR
4 57 (2.88%) NIST
5 51 (2.58%) PCI DSS
6 42 (2.12%) Data Quality
7 38 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 33 (1.67%) GRC
9 32 (1.62%) SOC 2
10 29 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (1.31%) SLA
12 16 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 16 (0.81%) NCSC
13 14 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.66%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.51%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 7 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
17 7 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 6 (0.30%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 399 (20.15%) Docker
2 79 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 31 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.71%) vSphere
7 7 (0.35%) Firmware
8 6 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.051%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.051%) KVM
11 1 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 401 (20.25%) Terraform
2 368 (18.59%) Kubernetes
3 152 (7.68%) Ansible
4 136 (6.87%) Grafana
5 76 (3.84%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.22%) Argo
7 30 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
8 29 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.96%) Kustomize
10 18 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.40%) Istio
11 8 (0.40%) Nmap
11 8 (0.40%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.30%) Kibana
12 6 (0.30%) Podman
12 6 (0.30%) Puppet
13 5 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.25%) Packer
13 5 (0.25%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 282 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.87%) Google
3 110 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 62 (3.13%) Cisco
5 59 (2.98%) VMware
6 57 (2.88%) Oracle
7 36 (1.82%) Typelevel
8 33 (1.67%) Databricks
9 31 (1.57%) Red Hat
10 30 (1.52%) Apple
11 28 (1.41%) Splunk
12 25 (1.26%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.26%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.26%) Salesforce
13 24 (1.21%) SAP
14 21 (1.06%) SolarWinds
15 20 (1.01%) Adobe
16 19 (0.96%) Okta
17 18 (0.91%) Dell
17 18 (0.91%) IBM