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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,902 2,616 4,216
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.61% 17.06% 15.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.93% 36.54% 33.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 1,691 3,691
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -4.80%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.04%

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 6,150 7,160 12,750
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.54% 46.70% 45.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,207 4,724 11,166
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -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 22 February 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 85 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 37 (1.95%) Apache
4 24 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.74%) CMS
6 14 (0.74%) Confluence
7 11 (0.58%) nginx
7 11 (0.58%) Tomcat
7 11 (0.58%) WebSphere
7 11 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
8 8 (0.42%) WordPress
9 7 (0.37%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.26%) Drupal
11 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
11 4 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 137 (7.20%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.053%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.053%) Notion
Business Applications
1 18 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.53%) Shopify
3 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.32%) 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
1 850 (44.69%) Azure
2 508 (26.71%) GCP
3 255 (13.41%) Serverless
4 254 (13.35%) SaaS
5 194 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
6 189 (9.94%) GitHub
7 171 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
8 165 (8.68%) Amazon S3
9 137 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
10 113 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 90 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
12 80 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
13 78 (4.10%) Entra ID
14 75 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (3.42%) dbt
17 64 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
18 58 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
19 52 (2.73%) Snowflake
20 50 (2.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 115 (6.05%) Firewall
2 61 (3.21%) VPN
3 54 (2.84%) Broadband
4 52 (2.73%) WAN
5 48 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
6 44 (2.31%) Network Security
7 42 (2.21%) DNS
7 42 (2.21%) TCP/IP
8 41 (2.16%) LAN
9 30 (1.58%) SD-WAN
10 26 (1.37%) DHCP
10 26 (1.37%) VXLAN
11 22 (1.16%) SSL
12 21 (1.10%) BGP
13 20 (1.05%) VLAN
14 18 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
14 18 (0.95%) NGFW
15 17 (0.89%) HTTP
16 16 (0.84%) MPLS
16 16 (0.84%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (5.63%) NoSQL
3 92 (4.84%) SQL Server
4 83 (4.36%) MongoDB
5 82 (4.31%) MySQL
6 66 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
7 61 (3.21%) Relational Database
8 50 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
9 48 (2.52%) Metadata
10 47 (2.47%) DynamoDB
11 45 (2.37%) BigQuery
12 43 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 43 (2.26%) Data Lake
13 42 (2.21%) Apache Iceberg
14 41 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
15 37 (1.95%) Tableau
16 27 (1.42%) Power BI
16 27 (1.42%) Redis
17 23 (1.21%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 121 (6.36%) Jenkins
2 112 (5.89%) Git
3 72 (3.79%) GitLab
4 59 (3.10%) TeamCity
5 33 (1.74%) Cypress.io
6 31 (1.63%) JIRA
7 19 (1.00%) Jaeger
7 19 (1.00%) Selenium
8 18 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
9 14 (0.74%) SonarQube
10 13 (0.68%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.63%) MLflow
12 11 (0.58%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.58%) JUnit
13 10 (0.53%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.53%) JMeter
14 9 (0.47%) Burp Suite
14 9 (0.47%) Metasploit
14 9 (0.47%) Subversion
15 7 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 612 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 431 (22.66%) Finance
3 198 (10.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 174 (9.15%) Banking
5 172 (9.04%) Public Sector
6 155 (8.15%) Retail
7 145 (7.62%) Law
8 120 (6.31%) French Language
9 114 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
10 91 (4.78%) Swedish Language
11 74 (3.89%) Financial Institution
12 58 (3.05%) Back Office
13 53 (2.79%) Telecoms
14 52 (2.73%) Front Office
15 49 (2.58%) Legal
16 48 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
17 47 (2.47%) Games
18 36 (1.89%) Tech for Good
19 29 (1.52%) Health Technology
20 28 (1.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 433 (22.77%) Senior
2 356 (18.72%) Developer
3 284 (14.93%) Software Engineer
4 240 (12.62%) Lead
5 196 (10.30%) Architect
6 163 (8.57%) Analyst
7 120 (6.31%) Service Analyst
7 120 (6.31%) Service Desk Analyst
8 112 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
9 104 (5.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 95 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 92 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
12 87 (4.57%) Data Engineer
13 86 (4.52%) Lead Developer
14 85 (4.47%) Java Engineer
15 83 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
16 80 (4.21%) Software Developer
17 78 (4.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 69 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 69 (3.63%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (17.93%) React
2 199 (10.46%) Node.js
3 173 (9.10%) .NET
4 135 (7.10%) Kafka
5 132 (6.94%) RESTful
6 110 (5.78%) Spring
7 98 (5.15%) Spring Boot
8 83 (4.36%) REST
9 78 (4.10%) AngularJS
10 76 (4.00%) CSS
11 74 (3.89%) Vue
12 68 (3.58%) HTML
13 55 (2.89%) Django
14 49 (2.58%) .NET Core
15 47 (2.47%) gRPC
16 46 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
17 40 (2.10%) JSON
18 36 (1.89%) XML
19 35 (1.84%) Redux
20 32 (1.68%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 297 (15.62%) Cloud Native
2 131 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 71 (3.73%) Public Cloud
5 70 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
6 65 (3.42%) Data Centre
7 56 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 49 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 48 (2.52%) Blog
10 46 (2.42%) Fixed Income
11 45 (2.37%) Security Posture
12 41 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
13 37 (1.95%) PKI
14 36 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
15 33 (1.74%) Data Structures
16 31 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
17 30 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
18 27 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
19 24 (1.26%) Equities
20 22 (1.16%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 205 (10.78%) Linux
2 106 (5.57%) Windows
3 76 (4.00%) Unix
4 50 (2.63%) Android
5 46 (2.42%) Windows Server
6 44 (2.31%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (1.21%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.95%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (0.58%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.47%) CentOS
14 5 (0.26%) VMS
15 4 (0.21%) Debian
16 1 (0.053%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.053%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (33.54%) CI/CD
2 550 (28.92%) Agile
3 524 (27.55%) DevOps
4 499 (26.24%) Software Engineering
5 438 (23.03%) Mentoring
6 340 (17.88%) Microservices
7 326 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 320 (16.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 305 (16.04%) AI
10 296 (15.56%) Full-Stack Development
11 271 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 241 (12.67%) Containerisation
13 232 (12.20%) Roadmaps
14 225 (11.83%) Coaching
15 206 (10.83%) ITIL
16 193 (10.15%) Test Automation
17 175 (9.20%) Technical Leadership
18 170 (8.94%) Computer Science
19 161 (8.46%) Observability
20 156 (8.20%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 578 (30.39%) Python
2 476 (25.03%) Java
3 318 (16.72%) JavaScript
4 314 (16.51%) TypeScript
5 284 (14.93%) SQL
6 193 (10.15%) C#
7 152 (7.99%) Go
8 132 (6.94%) Bash
9 67 (3.52%) PHP
10 65 (3.42%) PowerShell
11 45 (2.37%) Scala
12 38 (2.00%) C++
13 23 (1.21%) Kotlin
13 23 (1.21%) Shell Script
14 20 (1.05%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.00%) Rust
16 18 (0.95%) Bicep
17 17 (0.89%) Ruby
18 10 (0.53%) R
19 8 (0.42%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 372 (19.56%) Degree
2 294 (15.46%) AWS Certification
3 222 (11.67%) Security Cleared
4 187 (9.83%) SC Cleared
5 181 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 139 (7.31%) MCSE
7 119 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 80 (4.21%) Azure Certification
9 49 (2.58%) CISSP
10 47 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 39 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
12 36 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
13 33 (1.74%) DV Cleared
14 30 (1.58%) Master's Degree
15 28 (1.47%) CREST Certified
16 26 (1.37%) CISM
17 22 (1.16%) DBS Check
18 21 (1.10%) OSCP
19 20 (1.05%) CCNP
20 18 (0.95%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (10.09%) QA
2 91 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 65 (3.42%) GDPR
4 57 (3.00%) NIST
5 49 (2.58%) PCI DSS
6 43 (2.26%) Data Quality
7 36 (1.89%) SOC 2
8 31 (1.63%) SLA
9 30 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 28 (1.47%) GRC
11 22 (1.16%) Accessibility
12 18 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 16 (0.84%) NCSC
14 13 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.63%) JSP 440
16 11 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 7 (0.37%) 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
1 346 (18.19%) Docker
2 84 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.74%) Hyper-V
4 29 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.58%) vSphere
6 6 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.053%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.053%) HDFS
10 1 (0.053%) KVM
10 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 396 (20.82%) Terraform
2 364 (19.14%) Kubernetes
3 161 (8.46%) Ansible
4 136 (7.15%) Grafana
5 77 (4.05%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.37%) Argo
7 38 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (1.00%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.47%) Nmap
11 9 (0.47%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.37%) Kibana
13 5 (0.26%) Autotask
13 5 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.26%) Cilium
13 5 (0.26%) Packer
13 5 (0.26%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.21%) HP Fortify
14 4 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 303 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 141 (7.41%) ServiceNow
3 124 (6.52%) Google
4 70 (3.68%) Oracle
5 54 (2.84%) VMware
6 51 (2.68%) Cisco
7 36 (1.89%) Red Hat
8 35 (1.84%) Databricks
9 30 (1.58%) Apple
10 26 (1.37%) Okta
11 25 (1.31%) IBM
12 24 (1.26%) SAP
13 22 (1.16%) Salesforce
14 21 (1.10%) Splunk
15 20 (1.05%) SolarWinds
16 19 (1.00%) Adobe
17 18 (0.95%) Typelevel
18 17 (0.89%) Fortinet
19 16 (0.84%) Informatica
20 15 (0.79%) Dell